"Steal This Book of Shadows" - (ESP) Perception 3

"Steal This Book of Shadows" ver 2.0
(What's Really Happening in the Mind of a Wizard)
An Occult Tutorial
by Azzerac
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E.S.P. or Perception
Part 3

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The Sight, Part 2

Now that you've been working with the orange sheet experiment, we're going to learn how to use it, hone it, perfect it, and (most importantly) Trust It!

The hardest part of any psychic discipline is getting it to work reliably & consistently. There is a world of things that can affect your abilities, and many of them are unique to you. The very ways we are wired differently ensure that we’re programmed differently. Anything that affects either aspect will cause our abilities to suffer. Let’s do what we can to make sure they work to the best degree we can perfect them.

If you’ve worked the “Orange Sheet Demonstration” at least three times in one month, then all I should have to tell you is “Think of the Color Orange”. The association to that color of orange should be enough to send you right into that “Head-Space” for aura sight. This association becomes a trigger that even you can use. You now know it by rote, if you’ve been practicing. These little “Rotes” are the micro-spells or disciplines that any Gamer is familiar with (…and how many of us Didn’t start out as gamers, eh? Your ranks are very high in this field of study, so you may as well get the advantages of terminology for all the grief you gotten for you GURPS & D&D Backgrounds).

As you progress in your studies & exercises, little micro-spells & techniques will form as you find them useful to your daily practice. I didn’t say “rehearsal”. That would infer that you were preparing for something. Nope! This is a lifestyle, not a hobby, so you need to be living these little exercises, everyday, in the waking world, away from your home, to gain the full benefit and use, or you’re just “Dabbling”.

“…But I Digress”

“Think of the color orange”

(Are you there yet, “Daniel-san?”)

What I want you to do is stand in the area you’re in, and (this is better if you’re alone) start blinking your eyes, holding them open for a second or two, and then closed for a second or two. With the Sight ability “On” you should start seeing more than the simple after-image of retina stimulation, but an actual sense of density, energy, etc… The presence of the object is our target, and not so much as the shape of it. Be ware of it’s dimensions, as your eyes are closed.

To improve our location perception, we’re going to rotate & sway as we practice, so we can get a feel for it’s location, mass, and vibration without the use of our eyes.

Remember: the human brain passes information with the brain differently than it processes information through the central nervous system. There’s no hypothalamus bridge through the Corpus Callosum. We need to work & shift easily between the two states to be able to function as true witches.

As you continue this exercise, incorporate other aspects of your own internal models, as they apply to the objects and obstacles around you.

1) Time: The world-next-door that you’re viewing into has no “temporal anchor” to The Now. You can empathically read the history of each object if you’re visually oriented in your Psychometric Ability. (See “Synethstesia” to better cultivate this aspect).

2) “Moths”: They are the real reason we’re undergoing this exercise- To see the little energy forms that surround us daily (If I warned you in advance, you might have gotten a case of the ‘willies’, and not done this exercise)

3) Navigation: Stock & Trade of the witch is the ability to work in any environment. That includes the Dark. A helpful side effect of the Sight is actually Seeing. (“A witch sees what’s really there”. ~Terry Pratchette )

4) Cross-Experimentation: As you perform this exercise, spend longer with your eyes closed, and venture to add to it “Fill The Room”, and note how your area of perception, your horizon expands. Try other aspects of the lessons given. After your done, go back through the lists of exercises, and see what you can add to the exercises, to increase abilities.

5) Self-Discovery: The way your mind works is different than mine. Maybe not dramatically so, but perhaps subtly. Take advantage of that difference, and explore your own subtle perceptions, and find your own strengths within that difference