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Every type of crystal has a unique form, the way its molecules are laid out.  Energy sent through a crystal will pick up this unique pattern.  The effect of that patterned energy is debateable, but some people certainly seem to have positive reactions to some, and negative reactions to others.  Quartz is highly unique.  Its piezoelectric qualities are the reason it's used in electronics, but that unique effect carries over to psychic energies as well--it's a superb amplifier and focuser.  (A diffuse energy beam sent through a crystal becomes more concentrated and narrower when it exits).  This is the least debateable effect of any of the crystals.


--Winged Wolf

Are you telling me people go around with the most psychically vulnerable part of their body--their head--unshielded?

No, of course it doesn't cause headaches.  I've never in my life heard of a shielding technique that excluded a person's head.  It would be virtually useless.


--Winged Wolf

Yeah, that's why I made the distinction--smokey quartz, the pale grey stuff, is much less likely to be artificial.
I'd REALLY have to wonder where they got it, if someone came up with some of that straight black quartz and claimed it was naturally occurring.
I don't think it'd be safe to gather!


--Winged Wolf

Hm, that's a tough one....it doesn't sound like a block to me, more like a hypersensitive reaction.  Psi can cause increased blood flow, and of course involves increased nervous system activity.
Pushing this one might be dangerous, but you might try moving SMALL quantities of energy into that area, and holding it there, waiting for your heart rate to decelerate again.  Done on a regular basis, this might desensitize you and reduce or eliminate the problem.

--Winged Wolf

Saying "well, then it wasn't Reiki!" just because someone claimed an experience with it that you didn't believe is possible isn't a very open-minded attitude.

I would never allow someone to use Reiki on me, because I don't want any other energy types going through my system.  I'm very specialized, and anything else WOULD cause discomfort, possibly even damage, no matter that it wouldn't necessarily do so to someone else.

By the way--I DO know how my car works.  And my computer.


--Winged Wolf

Solar plexus--I'm thinking "empathy", at this point.
Standard answer--if you feel that others are manipulating you psychically, or that your own abilities may make you vulnerable to manipulation, then learn shielding.


--Winged Wolf

While the vast majority of "poltergeists" are human psis having the equivalent of a psychic epileptic fit, there are a very few entities that have some psychokinetic ability, from all accounts I've heard.  It's just very uncommon.


--Winged Wolf

The entity could be anything from a pure-energy spirit or deity to a person astrally projecting.

Just remember--just because they're made of energy instead of energy and matter, doesn't mean they're necessarily any better than the rest of us, nor certainly any less fallible.

Maybe he got the wrong person?


--Winged Wolf

Can't see anything abnormal there--what you describe (the whole-body energy sensation) is what my school of thought uses as a prelude to learning effective shielding.  You charge your skin--all of it--then "solidify" that into a shield.  It's a lot better than those bubble shields (pop with a pin, or shake it til they rattle...).


--Winged Wolf

I just am not a faithful person.  I believe Reiki was probably set up originally just as you say--but it is mutating, and I couldn't trust that some unknown entities are watching every single point it's passed on to fix it.  I don't believe in universal concepts of good and evil.  I once watched someone use "pure white light" energy to overload someone to the point of pain (not to mention the harm it caused to their energy system)--too much of a good thing, indeed....

Just my personal opinion.


--Winged Wolf

Psychic phenomena can affect material things, although it takes a very high level of power and skill to do so.
That means that they can physically harm a person--but that things/people which can do this are very rare.

However, causing distress or pain is not so difficult, and these things can lead to harm (a blinding headache while driving could be a deadly distraction).

As well, persons who are sensitive are more easily affected--and additionally, they can be hurt or harmed by things which a non-sensitive person wouldn't notice.  A person who is blind will not react to a blinding light--but for a sighted person, it could be extraordinarily painful and damaging.

Only sensitives generally react to purely energetic effects.  But energy abilities can be used to stop abilities which could cause more generally harmful effects.  I doubt I could do more than give someone a headache--but I can stop them from doing worse to someone else.

This is not a game where everyone wakes up safe and sound at the end.  It CAN be genuinely dangerous, not only to mind, but to body as well.  So can a great many things in life....


--Winged Wolf

Ok, smokey quartz is quartz which has a greyish tinge to it.  This is caused by exposure to radiation!
Some folks have decided to capitalize on how cool this looks by taking clear quartz, and irradiating it.  The result are striking pure black crystals.
This stuff makes my teeth hurt personally, because I can feel the radiation they give off.  Minute amounts, yes, but they are marginally radioactive.  The natural smokey quartz is much less so.


--Winged Wolf

Yes, they've been busy little beavers in the past couple of years.  You can go to the HGP website to see what they've got so far.  The amount of information they've uncovered is staggering, and they can now use tests to determine whether a person is going to develop or is at risk for hundreds of genetic diseases.


--Winged Wolf

Oh, he had a DEVASTATING sense of humor, really--he used to write truly lovely hymns, and send them anonymously to churches.  Sometimes, the church would even use the hymn, for quite a long time, before someone noticed that the first letter of each line, if put together, spelled out an obscenity.....
He loved to play with words, acrostics, and such--mathematical arrangements of letters.  Most likely his extensive signature plots out a mathematical arrangement of letters.

As Sybil Leek said of him....he decided that if others were going to think the worst of him, why should he discourage them?  He actively encouraged people in their assumptions about him, and he sat back and laughed while they called him the devil.  
In reality, he simply wasn't as bad as they thought he was--not as bad as he implied he was.  (Not that he was any sort of a saint, and he did do some gross things, just nothing so terrible as people wanted to believe).

All brilliant folks have flaws that often match the depth of their brilliance.  Crowley could surely be counted one of these.


--Winged Wolf

Different people see different colors depending on what those colors mean to them individually--the colors are not actually in the aura, only in the mind of the person--a tool to help them decipher what their senses are trying to tell them.

When a person begins doing psychic work, their aura develops an "active tone" that identifies them as an active psychic.  This tone can be weak or strong, depending on how active they are.
Additionally, improving energy generation and capacity increases the amount of energy in a person's field, so that their field extends further from them, and is denser--this is also noticeable.
From there, the amount of "order" in a person's field, their shields if any, and so on, reveal more clues about how skilled they are as a psychic.


--Winged Wolf

Actually, we know a LOT more than 3% now.  Do a search on the Human Genome Project.
We're making very substantial progress in mapping out the entire human genome, and identifying what each gene does.
There are, however, some genes the purpose of which we might not be able to identify, at least not for quite some time.  In all normal pesons, these genes are not active--they're "junk DNA", leftover code from our evolution which is permanently switched off now.  Who knows what might be hiding in there?


--Winged Wolf

I just don't trust Reiki--the people who use it don't know how it works, no matter what level they're at.  Different people who've been attuned by different masters often use completely different types of energy from one another--some use more than one type, and none of them have a clue what they're doing, or how.
Reiki attunement looks exactly like a "program"--that is, a set of instructions implanted into a person's brain/nervous system via a psychic process.  The problem is, the ability to implant the program is passed on from person to person without ANY of them having the knowledge of how to examine the actual program or edit it.  And it's clearly mutating on its own as it passes.

No thanks!


--Winged Wolf

From what I've seen, sex can deplete a person's life energy, which would make using that more difficult, possibly--or briefly it might make it easier, hence sex magick, as it liberates a lot of that energy.  (Wasted, if a new life isn't formed or something isn't done with it).

On the other hand, psi seems to be generated by nervous system activity, so sex increases psi energy levels.


--Winged Wolf

Try a smaller step--jump energy from one of your hands to the other.  When you can feel that, and are confident with it, move on to jumping energy from your hand to another part of your body, then to inanimate objects, etc.
Next, jump the energy from one hand to the other, but make it stop before it enters your other hand....when you can do this, you'll probably be able to start using the "awareness hands".


--Winged Wolf

I've looked at NEW quite closely, and it IS a rather GOOD psychic development training program.  Sorry.
It's designed to increase your energy levels and your ability to sense psi energy.  When you do this, invariably any other abilities you have will also be increased, and new ones may even emerge spontaneously.
The similarities between NEW and the system I was trained in are quite noteable.


--Winged Wolf

You can also charge up your hands, reach out and grab a person's field right over their nose, and--without touching them--twist.

Ok, it's juvenile, but funny to watch them scrub their face with their hands for 5 minutes.

--Winged Wolf

"Like attracts like"...it's a pretty phrase, the basis of many newage religions.  One little problem with it...

"Opposites attract".  Equally true, and equally proven out.  Which is to say....

Not really.  Neither one of those is a REAL tendency in nature--sure, negative and positive poles of a magnet attract, and members of the same species tend to flock together--at least among social animals...but....  The truth is far more complex than that.  Put aside those kind of simplistic, black and white ideas and watch the world around you.  What attracts a predator?  Fear?  No.  Vulnerability attracts a predator.  All the better if there is no fear, because those who aren't fearful also aren't wary.

Confidence is fine....so long as you can back it up.  False confidence is no protection at all.  While fear can be "blood in the water" for the sharks, lack of fear doesn't guarantee the sharks won't hear you thrashing about clumsily, no matter how confident you are.
So you'd better carry a harpoon gun, and you'd better learn how to swim well.

Most of the time, you'll get away without attracting predators, no matter how clumsy, fearful, or whatnot, you are.  Occasionally, you won't--no matter how confident you are.


--Winged Wolf

Yeah, migraines aren't serious unless they're frequent.  They can lay you out for a day, though.
I get them rarely--perhaps 5 times a year, or so.  Usually the trigger is the weather--sudden changes in barometric pressure.  The best way to treat a migraine is to lock yourself into a dark, quiet room at the first signs, and try to sleep it off.
The dark and quiet will help alleviate some of the pain and nausea.
Different people may find they have different triggers--some odors, some foods, weather, elevation, etc.


--Winged Wolf

I've always associated that sensation you describe with someone trying to scan me.  I've been proven right often enough on it....
In particular a marauding telepath can feel like someone poking around in your head with their fingers.


--Winged Wolf

Congratulations on your first migraine headache.  That's what it was, and all that it was.  I doubt you damaged yourself in any way.
Migraines are frequently accompanied by distorted vision and nausea.  You may very well have triggered it by doing the exercises.  As far as I know, there's no way to prevent that, either--developing psi seems to increase the incidence of migraines.  You're asking your brain and nervous system to do things they aren't used to doing, and nerves and neurons will fire in new patterns and sometimes spasm.
The good news is, they do subside again once you get past a certain point in training.  
The sore spot on the top of your head, you might have fired off energy in a pattern that caused some minor literal burning of your skin, most likely it was a random event.  I've heard of this happening before, but never very severely.

Consider that you got a sort of cramp on an energetic level.  Unpleasant, I know.


--Winged Wolf