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"Steal This Book of Shadows"
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Mind Reading #3
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I've been told that my descriptive of the terrain has been "wan" for lack of a better word ("Short-Of-The-Mark" was the nicest way it's been put), so I felt I should describe the effect before going any further.
We don't all process or even delegate information-importance the same way. It's boggling how one person's trash is another's treasure, when it comes to personal experiences. We don't even have the same operating-system, between the ears. It's like everyone is using a differing one, and we don't have a common ground system on which to function. How can any two minds correlate between each other?
To drop the computer analogy, we must go back to the "Building" model. NOTHING is in the same place where you store it in your "home". They may look alike, from the outside, the lights my switch on & off the same, but when it gets to the actual interior, the rooms are totally different.
Enough with either analogy!
Imagine waking up in a completely different body. None of the nerve endings are the same. If everything were identical to your body, it would all flow the same way, but it isn't. Imagine being blind, numb, deaf, and paralyzed. Imagine in this darkness, there is a faint whisper of a voice. Imagine in this numbness, there are spontaneous and overpowering emotions, each one sweeps you up with them. Imagine a maelstrom of chaotic, random thoughts, or fragments of thoughts, flashing-out with their accompanying (and seemingly unrelated) emotional-associations, and then vanishing again.
The sensations, you realize soon, aren't directed the same way you would & do in your own skin. A dizzying sense of motion, then nothing....floating,...then Motion again, as you try to understand why your "seeing" pressure with every footfall, as you're carried along. You hear an oddly sweet yet slightly dry sound, until you realize it's what this person is smelling: Their Rosewater perfume (Be thankful it wasn't patchouli!) The senses get more blurred than that.
...and then you find out you're "in" their lap-dog! (Don't smirk! It happened to me once!)
Our own personalities can get in our way, as we each have different methods of thinking, some self-defeatist. They can re-direct us into the failures we inflict upon ourselves. The trick is to keep trying. But where to start? How can you tell you're doing it right, faster? How do you get a tighter lock? What are the short-cuts to patching-in to peoples way of thinking? How do you see through their eyes, and not their sense of smell?
Synethstesia: I gave it to you as an exercise in "Knowing your self", and I called it simply "Exercise Two: ESP Calisthenics". It seemed low on the totem-pole of exercises, with that description, but here is where it's of paramount import! By knowing your own associations, and applying them to what you know of your target's circumstances, you can better fine-tune the experience. If you find yourself hearing through the wrong sense, you correlate. If you find yourself tapping a person's body-image, and reading it through your sense of sight, you adjust!
How can you read another's experiences & thoughts if you don't know your own mind?
Sometimes the only way to know, is to know the difference.
"Character is what you are in the dark". These words were a throw-away joke in an old movie called "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Across the Eighth Dimension", but it's true. You are only truly You when you're alone.
At night, when you go to bed, with the light out, and you're waiting for sleep to come, reflect upon yourself, and what it means to be you. No distractions, just comfortable relaxation. Learn to be okay with yourself. Learn to like who you are and take a more positive interest in yourself, your thoughts, and your emotional responses. I know how feel-good new-ager it sounds, but "If you can't love yourself, who can?" (Ac-ism #15). If you don't take the time to seriously get to know yourself, let alone like yourself, how can you hope to know the difference in the thoughts & feelings of another person? It just ends-up as more background noise, like the constant hum of your own mind (Chattering Monkey).
Okay: Enough from that angle. If you want an easier, passive form, here's another technique.
You've heard me prattle occasionally about the collective-unconscious. It's that part where all thoughts, from everyone, flow out like countless voices over an olde-school telephone party-line. Everyone is thinking at once, and rather than face the constant chatter, we just tune everyone out. There was another option that no one told you about , when you first shut it out. (It wasn't easy to tell you as an infant, so why not now?)
You have people's "Phone Numbers" now. That "Pinging" exercise two pages ago? We call that their "Phone Number". They transmit at that frequency, regularly. It's just a mater of isolating that level of the chatter, and tuning in only to it.
This isn't "Mind-Reading", it's....
Exercise of The Day: "Thought HEARING"
Like the Alpha-Level ghosts, we learned about in Astral Projection, People put off "Vapors" all the time. They have texture, sounds, images, and more, as you pass through these misty thoughts & musings. They also have a frequency. Rather than actually crawl-around through the minds & emotions of other people, you can pick up their knee-jerk thoughts, simply by tuning-in to the right frequency. The visceral model that we use for that "freq", is how we feel about them, when their around.
Perform the "Pinging"" exercise, but without the visualization aspect. Just feel their presence, and "Know" that they are right in front of you, or beside you if you like: How ever you prefer. "Know" that their presence carries a sound, and it's a sound you've learned to block-out. In this form, it's about your processing. Reach-out, and enfold the image with Fill-The-Room Auric Enveloping. Hear through your temporal lobes, as they are linked into your "Filled" aura.
You're just out to filter the information down to an audio impression.
It's sporadic, fades in & out, and is often embarrassing if you only get parts of the data.
This technique IS better, in ways, than "Being" the target. I once spent the worst night of my life, the night of my 27th birthday, because one person was "Locked In" with me, constantly. "Thought-Hearing" is much safer, and can help you keep from seeing the things you DON'T want to see!
If you get too accustomed to any one technique for any magical effect, you'll soon discover some very striking Down-Sides to it. Make sure to keep broadening your pallet of techniques!!!
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