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rofl....sort of.
The "we" usually refers to my mentor and his other students, as well as a few additional psi friends, most of whom are local.
My mentor designs and builds radionics devices, and I've tried my hand at designing a few as well.  The initial concept for the spirit cage was his, some of the tweaking of the design was mine, if I remember correctly.  As for capturing critters...well, we just have a soft spot for some folks when they ask for help, and do our best to oblige.  What do you do with a hostile spirit critter?  You could destroy it, sure....if you send it "somewhere else", there's no guarantee it won't cause problems "there", or find its way back.  You obviously just can't let it go....
I figure it's more useful to keep them, so we can study them at leisure.  They don't seem the worse for wear being caged, the majority go dormant after a short time.

The Psion Guild is one of the projects I've been working on for a long time now, and the more unique information we collect, the more we'll have to offer folks.  I think my interest in psi, and my desire to improve my own ability, is primarily fueled by fundamental curiousity.  Most of my abilities are not of the "useful" variety--energy manipulation and sensing, and constructs, are my primaries.  I can use a few mental abilities....nervous system sensing, and very minor conceptual telepathy, and I've done a bit of remote viewing, but not precognition or retrocognition.
So, I'm reasonably skilled at psychic combat (or highly skilled, depending on your criteria), and equipped to deal with spirit critters--fortunately, this is what I'm most interested in doing.

One of my wishes has been to find others who are similarly interested in spirit entities, but who have some different skills to bring to bear on it--I'm mostly output oriented, so it's easier for me to affect things than it is for me to discern a lot of detail about them.  My frustration is that I can capture them, but I have a lot of trouble learning much about them beyond very basic things.  Finding someone with this interest who's wired the opposite way would make us both very happy.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Guilty as charged--I'm well ahead in areas of language and some sciences, but noticeably behind in mathematics (which limits my ability to apply physics and chemistry, but has much less impact on my understanding of biology and ecology).

The common sense issue is fairly significant, IMO.  Here's an example--a friend of my mother's in high school, a fellow rated at genius level intelligence, and slated to go to college at age 14, was asked by his teacher to place a decal on that teacher's car for him.

This exceptionally bright person did so.  He applied the decal to the outside of the windshield, squarely in the center.

My mate's IQ is between 10 and 20 points higher than mine, and sometimes he amazes me....and I don't mean with his brilliance.

I believe personally that persons who have exceptionally high IQs of this nature are extremely valuable members of society, but also extremely specialized ones.  I'm not entirely sure how well they would do if they were forced to try to survive on their own!


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Both are possible.  When "astrally projecting", I create an "empty" construct--it's programmed only to respond to my will and relay information around it to me.  I use this as a sort of virtual reality robot.  The result is that wherever I "go", I am not actually there--and I'm in far less danger of taking any sort of damage of any kind, but I have just as much perception and ability to affect my surroundings at that location.  When I'm through, I simply reabsorb the energy, or destroy it and cut the line.

A construct can be as simple as a mere shape that stays that way when you leave, or as complex as a fully sentient, self-willed spirit entity with psi abilities of its own.  It is possible for someone with the input function of the ability that allows one to make constructs to sense whether or not a spirit is a construct, and if so to sense what its programming is.  A construct will also carry the signature of its maker, allowing one to trace it back to that person.
Most house shields are simple constructs.  Some other traditions have other names for constructs, primarily for the mobile ones--"artificial elemental", "golem", or "egregor".

By the way, if you're thinking of experimenting with this, I strongly urge you to program in a failsafe destruct mechanism--something that will allow you to destroy the construct quickly and easily if its programming becomes corrupted.  Constructs can be affected by other people, and also by spirit entities.  Some bizarre things have come about as a result of spirits choosing to merge with constructs.  Self-willed constructs may turn on their creator either due to a flaw in their programming or outside influence, ala Frankenstein.  Better to be safe than sorry.

Ethical implications I leave up to others.



--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

I suppose I'm just stubborn--I agreed with the reasoning behind the new spelling, so I use it.  It can help a person to determine if what they are reading is real or a work of fiction, and that can be quite valuable with some more outlandish things.  Since this is the age of information, and the written word is what we encounter so much more often than the spoken word, the distinction is usually apparent.

As for my personal feelings....I am no longer a magickian.  I don't use it at all, ever, and therefore I have no really intense feelings on the matter.  Yes, Tir, it was the pagan community that decided to adopt the K because they wanted to distinguish stage and fictional magic from real magick.  Let's face it, most magickians these days are pagans.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

I'm not sure what you're asking.  What I do?  For a living?  In terms of psi ability?  What?


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Schizophrenia in its extreme manifestations is truly terrible to witness.  These people truly DO suffer, and it is FAR beyond merely hearing voices or seeing things.  They are coming closer and closer now to understand what is going wrong in the brain of a schizophrenic, and some of the new drugs are far better at controlling the symptoms without leaving the person walking around in a state of "barely there".  It has to do with the way neurons transmit information.  Too much of the chemicals that allow neurons to fire will cause them to fire and pass on information that they shouldn't be passing on.  This occurs in the areas of the brain that control the senses, among other places, and this is why schizophrenics hallucinate.  As a double-whammy, it also happens in the part of the brain responsible for emotional responses--this means that not only does the person hear a voice, but that voice causes an overwhealming emotional response in them, making it far harder to disbelieve it.  They simply MUST listen, and take what they hear VERY deeply to heart.
This is not like having a spirit entity talk to you--when that happens, your emotional responses are your own (or should be!  Another good reason for shielding...).  They are not exaggerated.

What's more, chemical and electrical activity in the part of the brain that allows a person to question their perceptions is reduced below that of a normal person, making it doubley difficult for them to do a reality check.

I'm sure that there are a fair number of schizophrenics who have psi ability, and among the imaginary beings they see, there may be some real ones.  
All things considered, though...I don't think that really matters.  The vast majority of the time, drugs which control schizophrenia also suppress psi ability.  And just as well, for how could they ever know if it was a real ghost, or a hallucination?
Psychic schizophrenics see both.....


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

I can look back on history too, and here's what I see:  geniuses may have very high intelligence in some areas, but this is usually not present in ALL areas.  In fact, in other areas, most geniuses have some deep flaw.  For example, Einstein was a brilliant man, but socially?  The guy never bathed, he used bar soap on his hair, and he never did memorize his address (felt there was no point, since he could look it up).
Many geniuses have distinct trouble in other areas, most often social intelligence and common sense (application of knowledge in everyday situations).  We have a tendency to feel that someone who has extreme intelligence in the realm of logic and facts, math and science, creativity and art, is the epitomy of genius--but we don't apply this to those who have extreme intelligence socially, for some reason.

I don't believe in a higher intelligence, as it were, but if I did, most of our geniuses wouldn't be people I'd think were "resonating" with them.  Not unless higher intelligence itself is deeply flawed in some ways.....

Occasionally also I think "genius" is applied to people who really aren't geniuses at all.  Buckminster Fuller, for example, was a highly influentual person, but his intelligence level was not at genius level.  However, he thought outside the box--he created new ideas and concepts which have been invaluable in our understanding of a great many things.
(For those unfamiliar, this is the man who invented the geodesic dome house, among other things).
So is genius truly a thing to be lauded above others?  I personally place a very high value on intelligence, and I think it can be a fair trade to lose some social intelligence in trade for higher learning rate and capacity in other areas.....but there MUST be others who don't have that social handicap, or we'll be in even more trouble as a species.
Ironically, the IQ average in born-psis (using several hundred as a sample) is a good 10 or more points above the general population's average.  But it must certainly be admitted that the pattern is kept, and born-psis tend to have lower social intelligence and related skills.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

I'd have to disagree.  From my experience, and that of the other psis I know personally, about 10% of the population have innate psi at some level.  (This means they have active abilities without having learned them).  PK, while uncommon, is among these.  I would go so far as to say that PK is very difficult to learn at all, if you don't have it innately, and if you do, it's very difficult to learn to control it.  Random PK effects are very common for those who are trying to learn control of PK, and for those who succeed in learning it if they don't have it innately.

It is not at all uncommon for someone who DOES have active PK which is activating out of control to believe that there must be some spirit causing it.  And because psis can create spirit entities, such people can relatively often create a construct due to there belief that something is there.  So, there will be an entity associated with the activity, yet it still will not be responsible for the activity, and in fact will be another manifestation of uncontrolled ability, just of a different kind.

Again--entities which actually have PK ability seem to be extremely uncommon, and the folks I know have encountered such (positively identified as entities, and not constructs or astral forms), only on a couple of occasions, far less than they have encountered persons with this ability, controlled or uncontrolled.  It's definitely possible to trace a psi manifestation to its source to be sure of what is causing it, if you know how to do so.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

I vaguely remember the original discussions taking place about using the magick with a K spelling....
It has been VERY widely adopted now, because people felt there was a need to differentiate between real magick and stage magic.  It also provides a way to tell if someone is actually talking about real magick or about a work of fiction--if they know to use the K, they are usually at least somewhat familiar with real magick.
Yes, it did originate with Crowley.  Bit of trivia--it's pronounced Crow lee, with the first part being just like the bird....  


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

It's supposed to be a universal catalyst--for example, put the lead in with the stone, and you can use some process to transform the lead into gold--without the stone, the same process wouldn't work.  There may be some symbolic or metaphoric meaning to it as well, as most alchemical formulas sound like an orgy at the mythology bar.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Increasing energy in an area can cause nerve spasms, which in turn can cause muscles to twitch....  Nerve spasms are another common side-effect of the development process which goes away after your system becomes accustomed to higher energy levels.  That electric shock feeling where your whole body twitches suddenly is a nerve spasm going through a major area--amusing or annoying, but generally not painful.


--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

I would use the term "see" very loosely, beause I only occasionally get visuals, usually when I'm working at a distance.  In such cases, I generally see the person's field, and a blob/sphere (whatever shape the thing is) of energy which is of a different pattern attached to or within a portion of their field.  This can come across as being a different color from their field.  I usually get a sense of how large it is in comparison with their field, and also it's relative density (these two things can help me determine how strong it's likely to be).  If it's got tendrils or connections, I see those as well once I check for them.

Depending on what I'm looking for, I'm used to seeing just that on a simplified level--it makes it easier to deal with it.  (If I were looking for injuries, I'd see them as darkened places in the field--if I'm looking for entities, I'm less likely to pick up on the injuries unless they are extreme--that sort of thing).  Some of the information is unfiltered, so I "just know" additional things about what's going on, rather than seeing it or feeling it or whatnot.



--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

Yeah, the one big nasty we have has a similar history--guy who had it said he'd tried to have it exorcised in several different countries, and in one down in Africa they actually sacrificed an animal to the @#$# thing...he was pretty fed up by the time he ran across out site, as you can imagine.

The "cages" are psi-shielded as well as electromagnetic in nature (the em maintains the psi shield), and even the critters which are not entirely made of electromagnetic-like energies don't seem to be able to get out of them.  

What information did you want on them?  The primary composition is steel with copper-wire wrapped magnets.  If your critter can teleport, that's the only way I can see something getting out of one of these....I'm not sure if it would inhibit that ability or not, that's definitely something we'll have to find a way to test one of these days.  I suspect the only way to test that is to try putting something that's a confirmed teleporter into one of the cages.  Things that can do that are a lot harder to catch, you have to block their ability before they can use it--I'm not entirely sure I'm up to that one personally.  Not many things can do that, fortunately.

I realize this may seem like an odd question, considering the high-powered nature of the entity you guys are dealing with, but have you actually tried to outright destroy it?  Once there isn't anything left of the base pattern, it can't regenerate again.  I realize that's a hefty proposition with something like that, but if it doesn't stop trying, and the binding isn't working well, it's something to consider.  I could bring in some big guns to give it a try, if need be.
At the very least, it could be subdued to the point where binding it would be easier.  It may be very big and strong, but remember Gulliver's Travels.



--Winged Wolf
"I will stare at the sun until its light doesn't blind me, and I will walk into the fire, 'til its heat doesn't burn me, and I will feed the fire...."

The found crystals probably originated from one of the two sources I mentioned, originally--break up gravel and hit geodes, and some crystals will end up in the mix, for example.  It takes a very specific environment to produce crystals, though, and they are fairly fragile as well.

Crystals other than quartz...hmm...Well, no other crystal has the properties that quartz has on an energetic level (the piezoelectric effect).  Stones like amethyst are just colored varieties of quartz.

I'm not sure about diamonds--their composition and structure is quite different.  But due to DeBeers evil monopoly (I don't think I'm exaggerating there...), diamonds are very expensive.  Because quartz is so effective, I've never felt much urge to experiment with diamonds.
Oh, a VERY interesting stone was produced by--according to what I've read--electrolyzing quartz with gold.  The stone is a lovely clear sky-blue color (similar to the background of this site, , and is sold as "aqua aura".  It has a nifty feel to it, quite pleasant.

Many crystals have a nice feel to them, and are pleasant to have around, but I haven't come across, nor heard of, anything as USEFUL as quartz.


--Winged Wolf

No, Steppen, it's not a shield--but it's very easy to turn it into one, which is exactly what I teach my students to do (as I was taught).


--Winged Wolf

Hmm....I'm no expert in this technique you're using, but if it were me, I'd work on control for a bit--continue to progress, but slower, and focus on making this do what you want it to.  Good foundation makes for a sturdier building and all that.


--Winged Wolf

I operate a bit differently--I'd need a pattern sample on the thing in order to "find" it to help with something like this.  A pattern-lock helps ensure I've got the right target, and I don't like to work without one--heard of far too many mistakes.  (translation--a sample of energy that is identifiable as coming from the critter).

I gather from what you said that he shoved the thing through a hole back to where it came from (or wherever..).  Is he having trouble closing the hole?  Or is the thing capable of making its own?  If it is, then it might be wiser to try a different tactic, and capture and hold it rather than playing an eternal game of "patch the rupture".
We've got some radionic devices here that can do the trick with just about anything, if you need a place to put it.  (hums an ironic bar of the Ghostbusters theme).
We've got 5 things already (seperated, of course), ranging from "it's a cute little scrapper" up to "gee, I'm glad that's locked up", so it wouldn't be a problem.
One of the things in there is possibly just as dangerous as the demon you're talking about.


--Winged Wolf

I don't know, I've burned plenty of mugwort, and sage and cedar smudge sticks, and the sage and cedar were a great deal more effective at clearing patterns.
By the way, IF you can find a place that sells mugwort seeds, and you really like the stuff, it will grow nearly anywhere in the US.  In fact, it's a thriving weed--it gets like 4 or 5 feet tall at the speed of lightning, and blooms fast.  It'll come back year after year, self-seeding, but beware it may spread too of course.  You could have more mugwort than you could ever use...


--Winged Wolf

This actually makes it more typical.  Most of the critters I have seen attached to people attach to the back of the head.  All the better to tamper with your nervous system, right at the CPU, see?
But I've not found them that hard to remove, just a matter of containing them and pulling them away.  Just need to make sure that they're not hooked into anything delicate in there.  Some of 'em will hook into the pain center so trying to remove them causes pain.  Might have to track down and confine every "tendril" the thing has out, and clip them seperately to make sure.
The one I dealt with was simple, I just pulled it right off and no harm done, but the longer it's been there, the more time it's had to study your system.

The one removed from my heart area by a friend years ago had been there many years, and it hurt like you wouldn't believe--left scarring, too....maybe purely energetic, I'm not sure, but I get some pain still when too much energy goes through that area.


--Winged Wolf

That's odd....I'll double check the address in my profile.  My mail shouldn't bounce, I empty it daily, and it has a capacity of several hundred messages.  It would take a week to fill.


--Winged Wolf

I think we are as everything else is--living within chaos and order.  I do not think chaos and order are opposed, I think they exist within one another.  This is a paradox, but paradox may be the fuel for motion, and motion is what makes all of this possible....
I once had a....thought, insight, whimsy, whatever....of the universe as a paradox chasing its tail.  It is infinitely small, yet infinitely large, and this paradox going around and around like a computer stuck on resolution of a problem creates the motion that allows things to change.
Without change, nothing we know is possible, certainly not life.  Nothing moves, nothing grows, nothing thinks.  This is the ultimate of "order"--complete stagnation.  Its opposite is pure nothingness because without pattern nothing can exist, even briefly.  So much for chaos and order.  It takes both, one within the other, to make reality.

Perhaps paradox is at the foundation of everything....if so then when we come down to the basest level of something and find a paradox there, perhaps we really have found the truth, instead of made a mistake or missed a bit of information.....
or perhaps all paradoxes are resolved, only to reveal more paradoxes below them...and so on into infinity.....

Just something to think about.


--Winged Wolf

That's what most people are talking about, yes.
Some others will define it a bit differently, stating that the right hand path is about doing no harm, and the left-hand path has no such compunctions, but this doesn't always mean that someone using left-hand path work is evil.  (Killing a virus, for example, is doing harm).
My opinion is it's a rude term put forth by the self-righteous.  Rude, because the term's based on an old superstitious misconception that left-handed people were evil.  They used to try to force left-handed kids to learn to write with their right hands.
Folks who have certain religious beliefs about karma or the threefold law or whatever like to state that it's immuteable law that if you do something that harms another thing, you're going to get it in the teeth many times over, so anyone who does that sort of thing must naturally be insane and self-destructive.

Personally, I've seen nothing to indicate any of this.
I consider myself none of the above--I do what I feel is necessary for the situation.


--Winged Wolf

The tingling skin--could be she has high energy levels.
Your tunnel vision--it sounds exactly like you nearly fainted.


--Winged Wolf

Nowhere.  All of your nice, clear pointy crystals are mined from one-of-a-kind cave formations and extracted from geodes.
The newage movement hasn't been kind to some irreplaceable places of natural wonder....
If this bothers you, opt for man-made quartz crystals, if you can find 'em.


--Winged Wolf

Eh, I think too many people spend too much time dwelling on the whole good and evil question.
Good and evil are both in the mind of the beholder only.  They have no other existence.  I can make up a concept called dwoit, and say it's the opposite of fnord, but that's all in my head, see?

If something makes you happy, and benefits you and yours, you call it good--if something ticks you off and tries to hurt or harm you and yours, you call it evil.
To the deer, the wolf is evil--to the wolf, the human is evil.
But are any of them, REALLY?  I don't think so.


--Winged Wolf