The Psion’s Handbook: Overview of Psionics

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Introduction The word “Psion” is most well known in the Role-Playing world, but the term was originally coined while researching psychic abilities. In this context, it refers to a person who actively practices and uses these psychic abilities. In an attempt to separate ourselves from the “New Age Psychic,” and “Witch, Warlock, and Wiccan” realms, we use the term Psionics to describe our studies. The main difference being – we don’t want to cast spells, invoke demons, talk to spirit guides, and basically change our whole religion just to learn psychic skills. While each Psion usually has their own religious understanding of the world, collectively we do not force our religious beliefs on one another. There are Christian Psions, Buddhist Psions, Atheist Psions, and all that other stuff in between. Our basic beliefs are that psychic abilities are real, and that we should study them with an open mind, without religious overtones, much like an objective scientist. That’s not to say religion and Psionics are completely separate – a lot of us derive our beliefs from things we’ve experienced. But we realize that the best way to learn the truth is to openly investigate, avoiding the “this is the way things should be because that’s what my religion tells me” mentality. I personally started practicing psychic abilities in February of 1999. I had seen a commercial for a movie with someone who could move objects with their mind (a skill known as Psychokinesis). Out of boredom I did a search on the Internet for information, and was surprised when I found that some people 7actually performed Psychokinesis. At the time, I was overly skeptical, and claimed they were all delusional and suggested they see a psychiatrist. Eventually curiosity got the best of me, and I started practicing to see if I could get results. Prior to my first practice sessions, I had very minimal experience with psychic abilities; I was not born with any strange abilities, and I was pretty “normal” up until that point. After training various skills for a little over a year, in May of 2000 I created an online organization called PsiPog (located at www.psipog.net ). PsiPog stands for Psychic Students In Pursuit Of Guidance, and is currently my outlet for sharing experiences and training exercises with other Psions. I’m not the only one – we have many skilled authors sharing their ideas and techniques with the community. At the time of writing this, there are over 7,000 registered users, and we average over 900 unique hits a day. On PsiPog, an author writes an article about a specific topic, and we post it online so everyone can access it. The main advantage of this system is that authors can focus on one topic in their article, and be very thorough. Over the years, we’ve accumulated a lot of articles on a wide range of psychic abilities. The purpose of this document is to bring it all together. Articles are great for exploring one specific topic, but it’s hard to get the big picture without reading all the articles, and fitting the pieces together. At first this wasn’t hard, but now with over 60 articles, it’s become overwhelming for people new to Psionics. The following pages should be read straight through the first time. After you have a general understanding of each skill, then go through again and skip to the parts that interest you. Table of Contents Introduction 7 Philosophy of Psionics 9 What is Psi? 12 Introducing Psi 15 The Infamous Psi Ball 19 Constructs 22 Shields 25 Intermission 27 Empathy 29 Telepathy 33 Psychokinesis 37 Construct Flaring 41 Out of Body Experiences 43 Until Next Time 48 Further Reading 50 Definition of Terms 52