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tyciol, then you must like friends who have absolutely nothing in common with you.

lol... Wise butt...

Knucklebrain, the north and south of the Earth have nothing to do with the north and south of a magnet... Except that they're both poles. The Earth is just a much larger magnet in this respect. When working with magnets, it's best to pay no heed to the Earth's north and south. Use the compass technique to find which way is north, they can be bought at drug stores, usually. Don't buy an expensive one, the test will mess it up.[/code]

I do my best not to think about all the suffering in the world. Not because it makes it go away, and not because I don't care about it. The exact opposite is true; should I concern myself with what the rest of the world is doing, I would never have any time for my own spiritual quest. Add in the fact that most people could care less about their immortal soul, that pesky "freewill" thing, and differing views on the exact definitions of "good," "evil," and "culturally proper," and you've got a recipe for a big mess you can't do a damn thing about. Just because you send love doesn't mean the person will receive it with open arms, as we see all too often in reality.

Concern yourself with raising your own consciousness, and the consciousness of those who will listen to wisdom. This does not mean that you must ignore the suffering in the world around you; you simply must accept that if you concern yourself with the problems of The World, you will be consumed, because you cannot possibly hope to take the weight of the world on your shoulders.

Bite off only what you know you can chew, and accept that the universe will go on.

What happens when you seek revenge? In all likelihood, the other person will want to reciprocate. Then it goes on and on into infinity, back and forth. Through the ages, this has been the sad story of humanity. It leads to nothing but destruction and chaos.

The act of revenge and the act of self defence are often remarkably similar. If someone attacks you, should you go up to them and give them a hug? They will finish the job at that point, if they're out to get you. Revenge is also based in self defence. Get them before they get you. By trying to take your freedom from your life, they've given up their right to their own freedom. Destroy them before they destroy you. This is not a statement based in hatred; it's a statement based on common sense. It can't be usurped by cushy ideals.

If you're looking for PK, which you (obviously) are, it's not up to any of us to tell you whether you're ready or not. It's not a series of switches you flip in the right order (psiball, shield, pk) in order to produce a result. You must EXERCISE your psi-muscles. Do this by raising energy and learning the trance state. Both of these things can be found at

http://www.astraldynamics.com/tutorials/?BoardID=6

PK requires a comparatively ENORMOUS amount of energy, as opposed to making a simple psi-ball or shield. Raise energy while in the trance state to increase your energy yield. However, it is not something that you will pick up in a matter of weeks. Perhaps months.

Psi becomes visible when present in enough force. You must have done a lot of energy raising... I've seen psi as chi power, when two martial artist friends of mine fight. It looks like heat waves eminating from the point of contact when they punch and kick.

That's about as lucid an explanation of what happens concerning filling the centres as I've seen... As for the sores, I'd consider laying off the energy raising for a few days, let them heal up. When you start practicing again, they most likely won't show up.

If I had some, I'd share for sure -.-

As for the energy... It's most likely not going to be harmful to you personally, but from what I've seen, people you hang around with will be quite uncomfortable, especially those more naturally sensitive to energy.

Ok... Well... A good exercise for drawing energy from the ground is as follows... It uses the NEW system, and since you're reading Robert Bruce's forums, I'll assume you've read about it on his site or in his books. If you haven't, you can see it here:

http://www.astraldynamics.com/tutorials/?BoardID=6

I just call this a standing meditation. I don't see a need for a fancy name, and I've never heard any other name for it, but was taught to me by a friend who has practiced martial arts his entire life and has a very "intuitive" approach to chi. I changed his visualization to the NEW system. It is NOT for those of you looking for an easy way to raise energy, and it will be painful the first few times you try it, most likely. But it is EXTREMELY effective.

Stand with your feet about shoulder length apart. Make sure your knees are slightly bent. To a certain degree, the more bent your legs are, the more energy you can raise... I'd go with a slight bend, but don't lock your knees up. Keep your back straight, eyes forward (not at the ground). Tuck your elbows into your sides, arms out in front of you, with your index fingers pointing towards each other... Sort of like you're holding a barrel or something in your arms. Curvature of the arms in this stance doesn't have a bearing.

Pre-stimulate if you feel like it. Begin raising energy from the ground, but instead of shooting it straight into your sub-navel center (which you could do, if you want... It's powerful enough in its own right, but..), curve it around into your left arm, shoot it out your left fingers, into your right fingers, and bring the flow from your right hand up to the shoulder, and then down into your sub-navel storage center. This will form a rotational effect within the energy, as well as working much of your energy body. Rotational effect is somewhat important, especially if you're raising the energy to affect physical objects, like telekinesis or something.

If you like to aid your energy raising with breath awareness, raise energy to the left hand with the inhale, shoot it out and into the sub-navel on the exhale.

I recommend starting with about 5 or 10 minutes a day. It's hard work, but if you practice daily, it becomes easier. That will probably be about a week. Doing it for longer will (obviously) raise more energy, but don't go out of control with it unless you're prepared for the consequences of having too much energy on your hand. If you get uncomfortable, or have too much energy afterwards... Refer to the NEW text, as it will generally be nothing that hasn't already been addressed there.

I personally find this technique to be great. I'd like to hear if anyone else has success with it.

I have the "Chi Power Plus" set... A friend gave me old booklets and tapes he ordered from a magazine years ago. To be honest, the stuff in there isn't much of a revelation. If you have questions about what they say on their website and what they actually deliver, feel free to PM me. As for Alex Chiu, I don't know what to make of him yet.

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Here is a really great resource for anyone interested in hypnosis or self-hypnosis. It's all free and written by people of intellect.

http://www.bcx.net/hypnosis/

I don't usually post a thread just for a new site, but this one is really worth it to check out.

You know... I kind of hate to do it, but...

I have to refer you to my signature's banner. I don't know if these rings make you live forever, but they killed my girlfriend's backache immediately. You might try them if you're willing to try magnet therapy.

This dude's site is a mess... But the upshot is, the rings are only something like $19. I personally build my own with the instructions he gives. Later I might post a tutorial to the ones I make on here.

Feel well!

Pyrokinesis = telekinesis.

Fire is really hot gasses. Though I'll admit it's possible that fire has metaphysical characteristics all its own, it's also necessary to take into account the fact that you moved some gasses around. You moved air, just really hot air. Moving air is moving matter, and moving matter falls under the heading of telekinesis. These are two opposing viewpoints that present themselves.

I would like to know for myself whether or not pyrokinesis translates to telekinesis 100%. So if you can will a fire to flare, but you can't "gust" some air into a piece of tissue paper hanging from a string, I guess pyrokinesis would prove itself in its own right. But I think the argument for the two being the same thing is strong.

Dream journaling is a fantastic technique and besides being enlightening in its own right, strengthens your mind, simply through exercising its recall functions.

To strip away subconscious programming, I recommend hypnosis, as I do for most things. I do this because I have experienced the power of hypnosis first hand. If you PM me, I will give you some documents about autohypnosis and selfhypnosis, and would be happy to guide you in using these powerful mind tools effectively.[/quote]

Thoughts can be detrimental as well. This is why R.B. teaches his mind clearing techniques! When transferring energy, sub-vocalization (your mind talking to itself) can get in the way. Even if it feels as though your affirmations are helpful, it much more often gets in the way of letting the energy flow of its own accord.

NickJW - I see your posts around the forum. It's easy to tell you're interested in learning how to manipulate chi. I have some revelations here I'll share with you from personal experience.

One of the best ways to gain chi is through martial arts. Arts like aikido, hung gar, tai chi, and xing yi are all good ways to begin cultivating your chi. The NEW system DOES gain your chi; but having the chi is not the same as being able to use it, as many of us know!

In order to use your chi in the most effecient manner (read: almost at all), you must also harmonize your body with it. You do this by going through the choreographed motions and forms of martial arts. The forms are like a dance; even the most basic require muscular control that is above the average person's. To get to know your body, you do not sit down with it and ask it questions; you move it, and through refinement, learn how to use it gracefully and fully.

The NEW techniques are very valuable when working with martial arts; they provide a more effective method of meditation (which is half of the above-mentioned arts) than traditional methods, and in this way NEW will help you increase your chi.

Remember the balance of chi, that you must take equally the dark and powerful chi, and the light and balancing chi. In the Astral Dynamics book, this would translate to dark chi being raised through the foot chakras, and light chi raised through the hand chakras. Take dark energy from the earth, and light energy through the sky. Do both in equal measure daily and you will begin to feel your chi harmonizing your system.

I hope this helps you in your quest for powers.

Well, I don't know if showers necessarily lead to spontaneous projection, but it is an interesting line of thought to follow...

If you're interested in taking energy during winter, I recommend taking energy from the ground. A dark, "hearty" energy, it will empower you during the day to move and get things done.  This is a pretty good thing to do if it's cloudy all the time, like in Massachusetts (I live in CT, so I feel your pain). When it's sunny, take your energy while you can, but it's a good idea to absorb the sun energy through your hand chakras, instead of your feet. In Astral Dynamics, Robert Bruce talks about how energy absorbed through feet and hands is different, and through experimentation, I've found this to be true. In fact, it corresponds quite well with the chinese martial arts' view on chi.

Dark energy comes to us from the earth, empowering and strengthening us. Light energy comes from the sky, enlightening and balancing us. This comes from the ancient Chinese philosophy that the Earth is the darkest thing ever created, and the sky is the lightest.

Er... As I was saying...  If the sun isn't shining much, or only weakly, try also drawing in energy through your hands, outside, from moonlight. I find the airy and "slippery" energy to be a good change from the standard energy raising practices found in Astral Dynamics.

I was sixteen when I started using the NEW system. I guess I was lucky, as I felt many sensations that were very strong. It was these sensations that, in one night, cemented the quality of the NEW system in my mind. My friend Justin, whom I introduced to NEW recently, could not feel things from the beginning, but quickly began feeling the tingles himself, within a matter of days. Don't worry, it will happen eventually!

This is so stupid, I have to see if it works. I'm going to make some neodymium magnets as per the instructions on his website. I happen to have a few from some zappers I built a little while back, so we'll see how that works out.

I should be doing physics homework right now. That said...

    I've wondered and debated with myself for a long time about hypnosis and how it could be use to help one's spiritual development. Originally, the question that led to this topic was whether or not one could use hypnosis to help astrally project. Then, the question was extended to include many aspects of energy work, and even psychic phenomena. These are the conclusions I've come to based on logic and (what I consider to be) sound thinking.

    First off, it should be established that hypnosis CAN be used to help a person's energetic development. For that matter, it can be used to help a person with many problems through which they may be suffering, many of which can be quite detrimental to energetic development in their own right. However, it should be made quite clear exactly how hypnosis helps. Hypnosis helps by removing obstacles. It cannot change you per se, it cannot make you raise more energy or activate chakras any faster than you could normally. What it can do is take away limiting, self-imposed factors to your own development.

    Use hypnosis to help you focus your resolve or will power during energy-raising sessions. Use it to help quiet surface thoughts and place your concentration where it belongs. Use it to block out chatter, and to loosen your astral double, when that time comes.

    However, you will find hypnosis ineffective for strengthening will power, which can only come through practice and knowledge. You cannot use hypnosis to automatically project-on-command if your energy body is not significantly advanced and/or the condition of your physical body is not conducive to the effort, i.e. completely relaxed. Hypnosis can't be used to unmake objective limits on psychic phenomena. It can only help you remove the limits your subconscious contains.

    You must still practice dilligently if you long for psychic powers. You must raise all appropriate energy while still not overtaxing yourself. However, if you find your mind wanders often during energy raising, or that you can't really seem to find time during they day, despite having plenty of time to browse these message boards, perhaps hypnosis can help remove subconscious obstacles to your spiritual development. It seems counterproductive that our minds create these, but your subconscious doesn't have the advantage of reason that our conscious mind does. I don't know any psychology, but this is how the facts appear to me through experience

    As always, any and all comments are welcome, nay, encouraged.

Actually, I saw that book many years ago and was interested in it. It seems you have it or have read it, can you or anyone vouch for the book's validity? I'd just buy a copy and see but I haven't enough money, even just fifteen dollars to experiment.

That's methane....?

Methane is highly flammable and used as a fuel source in some places.

I don't have much experience with the BWGen. I assume it would be a good tool if someone has the skills necessary to create the correct frequencies. I don't know if I am going to actually make the game if only a few people are interested, I was extremely tired that night and was being very optimistic at the time. In any case, I still believe the hypnotism and crystal ideas are very plausible.

Hey everyone. I just thought I'd post a few thoughts that have been rattling around in my head, here.

Specifically on the difference between the subtle energies raised in NEW and the chi force. I've been pretty curious for quite some time now on exactly how chi fits in with the NEW system. For example, is chi the same as these subtle energies? Is it made of the same, let's say, vibrational material? This was something that I had trouble with when I first started NEW... I was familiar with the concept of chi from some martial artist friends of mine, so I naturally wondered if NEW could be the same thing.

After some deliberation I decided that it could not be. Why not? Well, for one thing, chi is fairly physical. By that I mean it can be stimulated and strengthened by physical exercises far more than other subtle energies. Also, I have never seen a discharge of subtle energies with my eyes alone... However, I have seen chi discharges when two of my friends are sparring each other... It looks like heat waves coming off of body parts. I saw this before I started NEW, and my third eye was far from developed then, so this, too, I take as evidence.

But if chi is not the same energies as Mr. Bruce writes of, then what is it? Well, after a few months of casual attention, I decided that chi is the force that we manifest in order to manipulate subtle energies inside ourselves. What I mean is, your "awareness hands" are actually "chi hands." So that would mean that our mind manipulates the chi, which manipulates the higher-vibrational energies. After running this by my friends, we concluded that it was likely true.

Now, it's not like we performed tests under laboratory circumstances and followed scientific procedures. I don't believe in pantheism (the religion of science) and I think the proper laboratory for studies of these sorts would be either in the combat ring (where chi manifests often) or in the meditation chamber (where subtler energies abound). Of course the reason I posted here is to hear your thoughts on the subject, and to find out if anyone else was confused in this matter.

One last interesting thing to note, however... Chi seems to be an electromagnetic force. I had a friend hold both leads of a small electronic multimeter and raise light chi to one hand and dark chi to another, and as he did so the voltage needle jumped around but slowly rose to about 6 volts, where it sort of hovered. I suppose with more chi power one could raise it higher, but I have no idea of amperage or anything and we didn't take it any farther than that. Besides, the resistance of the human body is probably too high to reveal relevant figures with my toy-like apparatus. I have never been able to perform such a feat by charging my own hands with subtle energies. But, if chi truly is an electromagnetic force, can it be generated with electromagnetic fields, and does it have anything to do with orgone, which some claim can be raised in an electronic matter...?

Your thoughts, please.

Here's a neat trick to try if you've got a good handle on your psi powers... It's the illusion of invisibility.

Of course I don't mean you actually make light go through you, but if you've ever read the Hitchhiker's guide, it works something like the S.E.P. (someone else's problem) field. It's not that you don't appear to be where you are, it's that other people don't notice you, so I don't mean you'll fool, you know, cameras and stuff. Also, if you do something to get someone's attention, like talk to them or touch them, it won't work. I've done it though, I learned it from a very good friend of mine, the same who introduced me into this wonderful world of psi. Some people might consider it magic, me, I think it's just a fundamental manipulation of energies. Sorry for all this longwindedness, on to the technique:

First thing to do, create a shield about yourself; by create, I mean visualize. It's a shield of light, and for anyone who's done practical application, you'll probably be familiar with it. Just visualize the light around you, not only surrounding, but penetrating you. As you do so, begin to blur the shield in your mind's eye; make the shield become hazy and distort you. Continue to make the shield hazier and hazier as you gradually fade into your surroundings, until you finally seem to be a part of whatever's around you. At this point usually it takes only minimal effort to keep the shield in place, and you should be able to move around without being noticed.

The effectiveness of this technique probably lies in equal parts psi and behavior; you shouldn't do anything to stand out, and the shield should take care of the rest. It doesn't take much energy as it is only an illusion. Some sort of energetic inertia will keep the shield in place for a short amount of time, probably maximum of a minute depending on your energetic properties, should you decide to not pay attention or should something draw attention away from you. In that time the shield will gradually fail, so if you really have something you need your whole mind for you can usually catch the shield before it fades entirely. Also, it won't work if you've already got someone's attention and want to escape it (such as boorish party guests) or if someone is actively looking for you. But, give it a shot on the bus and see if someone tries to sit down in your seat (while you're in it!).

This technique works really well for me and I'd like to hear of anyone else's successes/failures should you try it. The better you get at it, the more attention you're likely to escape.

In the NEW Energy Guide, Mr. Bruce wrote, "The energy body also exchanges and draws energies into itself through the hands, from a variety of different sources. Rather than over-complicating matters here, it is best to think of these energies as being simply atmospheric subtle energies. Atmospheric energies have different qualities from the more earthly energies which flow into the feet and legs."

What I'm wondering, what exactly ARE the different properties of atmospheric energies as opposed to earthly energies? I notice that when I draw earthy energies through my feet and legs, it is sluggish but much more powerful than what I draw through my hands. When I draw through my hands, it would be correct to say that it is atmospheric, almost like a wind, quick and light. However, these don't seem to be the qualities Mr. Bruce was talking about; rather, these are the symptoms of those qualities. Is either type of energy better for stimulating certain chakras, or for performing different practical energy works?

I am an earthy person, with the sign and characteristics of a Taurus. I have been told that I am a veritable well of energy, although I cannot "refine" it very well. I'm just wondering how the atmospheric energies differ from the earthly energies, aside from feeling different when I draw them in.