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I usually only see a shimmering "heat-wave over pavement" effect, unless I'm doing distance work.  Concentrate on what your other senses are telling you about it--don't be bogged down by "seeing" auras.  You can't really see them anyhow--your brain is creating that image to help you try to understand the real input you're getting.


--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...."

My Guardian's not an angel, anyhow.
I tend not to have things around me unless I know them well....him, I do know well.  I'm fond of him, so he can have a tidbit in return for the favor.



--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...."

There is a certain type of sea-slug that mates by the male violently stabbing a large needle into the body cavity of the female.  She does not, of course, cooperate with this procedure.
Is this evil?  Certainly doesn't look nice to us.  This is how evolution has shaped these animals.

In praying mantids, the female will often eat the male DURING intercourse...this in fact has been shown to raise the fertility of the mating, though of course the male would much prefer it not happen (it doesn't, always).  Evil?

Male sea lions often crush pups to death during their beachmaster battles, they couldn't be bothered to watch where they were going.  Evil?

Male lions eat cubs when they take over a pride from another male.  This ensures the females will become fertile again faster, and the new cubs will be theirs and not the old male's.
Evil?

Chimpanzees have been known to launch raids against a neighboring tribe, and deliberately kill their infants.  Evil?

Bottlenose dolphins, those mainstays of newage loveliness, have been known to kill other species of dolphins, apparently for fun.  Evil?

If these things are not evil, why not?  Because it is the nature of the beast.  Why are these things then evil when humans do them?  Because we are not beasts?  Hah!  Of COURSE we are beasts!  We do those things because it is the nature of the beast.
Just as with any other beast.
Unpleasant?  Highly.  Undesireable?  Absolutely.  But evil?
Does not compute.

This human tendency to consider humans to be somehow apart from other animals--above them, below them, beside them, but APART....this is incredible arrogance!  Outside of religion (for which I have little respect), there is NOTHING to support a view that humans are somehow essentially different from any other animal on this world.

Unless you believe that Nature is capable of evil, then this makes evil a null concept.  If nature is capable of both good an evil, then exactly who is it that's keeping score?  Who is it that says one is better than the other?  Who's judging which is which?

If you believe it's wrong that a baby should be killed if its parents die, then I agree with you.  But that is MY value system.  In another part of the world, they may believe that it's better the baby die than suffer without parents, and be a burden on the rest of the tribe.  To them, killing the baby would be GOOD.  Not evil.  To us, it is evil.
Who is right?  They came by their morals because they were conducive to their survival.  We come by ours because we have that luxury.  Who is right?  Which is evil?

This is why I do not believe in the objective existence of evil.  Things do what survival demands.  Survival is the god of reality--all things seek to survive.  Those that do not....they are quickly gone, and more quickly still forgotten.  All those without the drive to survive not only perish, but so do the traits that made them lack that drive.  This is the way the universe operates, both "above" in the world of spirit and "below" in the material world.

Survival is "god", and survival demands both what we see as good, and what we see as evil, and it doesn't care which is chosen, so long as the end result is itself--survival.
So who does care?  Only us....which make it purely subjective.


--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...."

Ok, here's what it's MOST LIKELY you're seeing, based on all you've said.

Sometimes an illness, or trauma of some kind, or even some random cellular event, can cause blood to leak into the interior of the eye--or, cells from the inside to slough off and float around.

Dead cells, floating around inside your eye, are not going to be easy for an optician to detect, but YOU will certainly see them--as dots in your field of vision, of course, much larger because they are so very close.  This is not TOO uncommon, I'm surprised no one else has suggested it before.
Does this fit what you're seeing?


--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...."

Absolutely I wouldn't say that one is better than the other.  Psi is better for some applications, magick (of various types) for others.  I would say that, in the end, they are equal however.  I just think a person should PICK one, and stick with it.  Otherwise, they're not going to be any good at ANY of them, because they won't have time to learn to use any one of them effectively.
Magick IMO gives more impressive results, more quickly, but it's less reliable.  Psi takes longer to give impressive results, but it's highly reliable once you achieve them.

Example of mentality--ask a mage to change a traffic light from red to green.  He's most likely going to visualize the light being green, and aim that visualization at the light, to try to make reality conform with his inner view of it.
Ask a psi to change a traffic light, and he'll attempt to use psychokinesis or electrokinesis to manipulate the switch by aiming at the box on the corner, not the light.
Do you see the difference in mentality?
The above are the ideals, the mentalities which function best for magick or for psi, although not all persons may have the right mentality for what they're trying to do.  A lot of teaching psi has to do with teaching people how to think about it--especially if they come into it out of some other system--they have a lot to unlearn.


--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...."

NEW appears similar to energy development systems I'm familiar with....
I'd say that using NEW will very, very slightly increase your need for calorie intake, NOT decrease it.  This energy doesn't come from nowhere, and it doesn't come from outside of you.  Your nervous system generates it, and that means you need fuel.
The higher the energy production, the higher the metabolism, in the psis I've seen, though this is mitigated by genetics and bodily hormones.  (I've seen some amazing displays of eating without weight gain. ).


--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...."

Some of the healthiest peoples in the world eat lots of soy...however, that could be genetics, too.
Soy is probably just fine in moderation, and it has some health benefits.  But buy organic, because non-organic soy has one of the highest pesticide loads of any crop.
Soy also contains phytoestrogens--estrogen-mimic chemicals.  This is fine, and probably beneficial if you're a menopausal female.  If you're male, on the other hand, you might want to think about it.  And for children?  Hmmm....



--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...."

There's a limited number of colors TO see, so of course some people will see the same colors.  And, some colors have archetypal associations that make it more likely that a person will assign a certain meaning to them.  For example, red is usually going to mean anger, sexuality, or danger.  But not always--that's my main point.
Not everyone WILL see the same colors, even if some do.

To make it even more challenging, psi-active persons can deliberately project a color in their aura, so that everyone WILL see that color...but the meaning will be whatever that person thinks it means, not what the viewers think it means.  For this reason, my aura is almost ALWAYS blue (my version of octarine) or flame-colored (the phoenix association), or blue-green (my favorite color).
I've yet to hear anyone describe it otherwise.  That's simply my self-image, and the blue color means....nothing!  It means energy.

If you're viewing an aura of a person who's nearby to you, simply because you can see it without trying, then most likely you're using passive scanning.  If that person turns and looks at you, or appears uncomfortable, this is a warning that you're actively scanning people in an uncontrolled fashion, and you need to train that ability and gain control of it!



--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...."

Cut them with a "knife" made of energy.
My favored method has always been following them back to beat up whatever's at the other end, though.


--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...."

Yes, I practice co-sleeping as well, and of course breastfeeding, which also reduces the risk of SIDS by a substantial margin.

I pity the critter that even tries to come near this child....my mentor nearly popped my grandmother's ghost a good one before he recognized her, when she showed up near the baby.


--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 don't know...I can't see that it necessarily matters much.  What if the new soul is more clever?  What if it has a more thorough interface with the mind and body than the old soul?  The age of the soul doesn't strike me as making a whole lot of difference when you're dealing with living people.
Where do souls come from?  It once struck my fancy to consider that they might reproduce the way other spirits do--by combining their energy to create a new one, or budding, or whatnot.
Hey, does a newly budded soul have all the memories of its parent?  That would REALLY negate the old/new soul thing.

Should I even go into good and evil?  I don't believe it exists objectively.  From what I can see, it's just a convenient label people stick on things to denote whether they like them and find them beneficial or not.  And that can change drastically from person to person.
Certainly there's nothing in the world outside our own heads that would suggest some cosmic concept of good and evil.



--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 only gets worse.  The deeper you delve, the weirder it gets, trust me on that.  It's easy to assign limits.  "Ok, this person has a point, that's really spectacular, but possible...but that person over there's a kook, that can't possibly happen".
Then you witness it happening, and all your assumptions shift to the right....That can be traumatic.
After this happens a couple of times, you start to realize it's going to keep happening, and you sort of get used to it.  You may still assign the "kook" label, but you're no longer shocked speechless when you're proven wrong.

As for therianthropy?  *shrug*  Maybe it's all in our head.  Is it so odd to think that people might feel that they're not human?  Whether they actually are or not, now....who knows?  Probably doesn't really matter, does it?
One thing, though....over 80% of all Otherkin are born-psi.  I found that VERY interesting.


--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...."

Hm, no....I don't think AP is dependent on diet insofar as that is concerned.
I know psis who run the range from near-carnivory to veganism, and they're still fine psis.  This just doesn't seem to have a real effect on abilities.  It may for individual people, of course--eat what seems to agree with your body, and trust your instincts on that.

Interestingly, in a discussion on one of the lists regarding diet and psi, someone theorized that a diet high in salt may contribute to ease in using psi.  It'd be interesting to do a real study on that some day.  It's not healthy, but it might make psi work better.


--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...."

Whether you personally think that scanning a person is offensive, simply be aware that many psis DO find it offensive--and their response may be anything from a "slap" to something more severe.  Some consider an active scan without permission to be an attack.  The skill level of the person doing the scanning probably contributes to forming this opinion.  
So if you figure it's fine to do this, and go around doing it, don't be surprised when some old-school psi teaches you your manners.  You were warned.

Shielding--a shielding is an interference pattern that you run through your aura, or a constructed barrier containing an interference pattern that you place around you.
Many people try to selectively program their shield to let in only "positive energy"....I wasn't taught to do that, nor do I believe in doing it.
The reason is, many persons and entities are clever enough to exploit the loopholes you've left in your shield, and fool them into letting them pass.  So, allowing ANY patterned energy through your shield makes you more vulnerable.
I recommend not programming shields to be specific at all--in fact, make them as broad-spectrum as possible.  The more variations they block, the more protected you will be.  (And no, there are no negative effects to using this type of shield).


--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...."

Hm, well, an airplane, a car, and a boat are all methods of travel, and can usually get you where you need to go, sometimes by similar routes.

But that doesn't mean they are the same!
Magick is different from psi in the mentality that it functions best with, in the types of energies used, and the way the energies are applied.  Yes, the end result can quite often be the same, but that does not make the methods the same, nor interchangeable.


--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...."

Now there's an interesting and creepy notion.  But I'm not entirely sure that born-psi infants that are high-psi stand out very much more than weaker born-psis.  That is to say, until abilities awaken, a child's field is lower-energy, and doesn't have that "active" tone that seems to draw entities flocking in.
This is something I intend to try to investigate, however--I'll certainly keep it in mind.

On the other hand, many of the born-psis who are high-psi awaken at around age 5, sometimes even a year or two younger.  And that DOES draw entities en masse.  A 4 or 5 year old is still extraordinarily vulnerable, and although they may not fall prey to SIDS, they all too often develop blocking due to trauma, and thus never reach their full psi potential.
A person who's suffered a serious trauma in childhood is much more likely to have emotional problems later in life, some of which can lead to suicide.
In addition, those psis who awaken later, in their teens, if they also happen to be high-psi, they may also suffer serious trauma which can lead to suicide--or worse, fall prey to the intensity of their own untrained, uncontrolled abilities, and be driven to it.

There's plenty to explain the absence of trained adults who are high-psi without bringing in spirit entities that commit infanticide.


--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...."

Yes, in a lot of cases when you find things like that in gaming systems, it means the authors have done a lot of research, not that they made astonishing parallels with their creativity.


--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...."

My own take on the whole thing--it's a diamond-dense compressed bundle of energy which contains all of your experiences and is, in fact, your "self", apart from your physical body.  This is what leaves your body when you die, and goes elsewhere....to where?  No one I know has ever had the presence of mind to follow one, as witnessing a death tends to be pretty traumatic.


--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't help but notice that the vast majority of crop circles are formed on nice, warm, comfortable nights of the year.


--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...."

Some actual crop circles--circles, whirls, very simple fractal patterns--may be legitimate phenomena.  I'd surmize something like an electromagnetic whirlwind could do something like that.

All of the very complex patterns, such as the one you show, and others which are all full of symbols and prettiness....no.
I'd say it probably took a bunch of guys quite a few hours and a whole case of bud to build that one.

Truth is, it's not that difficult to make crop circles, and all of the VERY complex ones, they look all too human in origin.  You can practically smell it on them.  The type of order involved in the patterns, the way they are arranged--it's human aesthetics.
The original crop circles were CIRCLES.  These complex things, they're all after the phenomena became more popularized.  Once people realize that others are paying attention to these things, or they hear about them, they want to make pretty art in the wheat too.

The aliens are not communicating with us by drawing in the wheat, and neither are spirit entities.  That would be an absurd way to go about it.


--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...."

Hey, I married one, and I don't understand them either.

 "We're not like...other people...."
                --Oz, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

--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...."

Enya, Metallica, Loreena McKennitt, Maire`, Sisters Of Mercy....in general, anything that you love to sing along with, and that resonates with you, is going to be good.  That'll be different for different people.


--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 a therianthrope, yes, but I too have some problems with the memory claims of some of the Otherkin.  Nonetheless, we might all simply have a mental peculiarity, and none of what any of us remember about our past lives may be real.  There's just no way to know.

When you add in the possibility of other quantum realities, the issue becomes more, rather than less, clouded.  Who's to say any past life memory is real at all?  And if some are, and some aren't, how do you tell which is which?  *shrug*
Does it matter?


--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 used to do magick, but gave it up in favor of psi.  (I don't believe the two are compatible, for various reasons).  Then to, I'm not really interested in enlightenment.  No one I've ever met who claimed it seemed all that enlightened to me, and none of those I've met who seemed enlightened were trying for it.
I enjoy learning, and that, for me, is the reason I am here.  I'm not into trying to figure out what I already know...I want to learn new things.


--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...."

Garlic was said to be good for warding off all evil spirits, and of course vampires were thought to be spirits (hungry ghosts).  The truth is most likely this:  
Illnesses were generally blamed on evil spirits.  If you eat lots of garlic, you get ill less often, and you recover from illnesses faster.  Hence, garlic wards off illness/evil spirits, see?

As for actual vampires, the living variety I'm familiar with generally LOVE garlic.


--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...."