Usually, the storage aspect happens just outside the etheric body at the point of contact. The energy simply builds up into a swirling ball, at least for me it does. That's another interesting thing with working with energies... much of it can become habitual and/or automatic. As for transforming energies, that's rather difficult to explain. It's like adding pigment to paint, even if the paint has pigment in it you can still change the color with a different pigment. Something you might want to try, as it work rather well for myself. Instead of a sphere around you, try making a ring and spinning it till it looks like a sphere. Once it's in motion it take very little energy to keep it that way. Personally I use both dark and light energies when making this shield, two rings spinning at different rates (due to the nature of the energies). Interestingly, my usage of this technique makes for some interesting experiences. Entities of darker natures tend to see the dark part of the shield and perceive me as one of their own, same goes for light beings. Though, it's not always the case and I'm sure you know what happens then... I've also tried making it using a pentacle of energy as well, but that takes more energy to make and can be harder to keep contained. I'd only recommend it for those whom understand such things as http://www.thelemapedia.org/index.php/Greater_Ritual_of_the_Pentagram [disclaimer; I prescribe to no single religion] ---------------- Now playing: Tipper - Folie A Deux
lol that's awesome! isn't visualization fun. I try to be as gentle as possible just because of my own experiences with intense energy and some of the reactions I've experienced. honestly the thing that's worked best for me is connecting directly to source and simply being me. I feel the rush of energy as if I'm waking from a dream or being poured into my body and I'm me looking around and all I feel is pure love and all of the combative energies simply vanish... they're just not there. it can be hard to get to that place though as sometimes I just want to experience what I'm in at the moment. *shrug*
All this talk about cool tricks with energy have been eye-opening for me. So you folks are just visualizing/intending these energy manipulations? I really haven't tried doing much with energy. The only time I've ever even "seen" energy was one time when I was in a Reiki class. The instructor had received an impulse to do an energy manipulation on one of the other students. She had the student sit on a table with her legs dangling at the knee, and then she leaned over the table behind the student with the top of her head touching the back of the student's neck. At one point during this procedure my awareness split for a few moments, so my eyes were seeing the "normal" visual impressions, while my spiritual sight superimposed a thick cocoon of energy enveloping both women. The energy flowed from the ground under the teacher's feet, up around her body, and down through the student's body. This surprised me, since the teacher had told us that Reiki energy came from above. But after completing the procedure, the teacher explained that she had been channeling earth energy, not Reiki energy. Oh, and the procedure strongly affected the student. She started crying partway through, and afterward she kept looking around like she was seeing everything for the first time, and she said, "Now I see..." If energy can do stuff like that, maybe I should learn to use it too.
That like what I see. In many different colors, forms and from many different directions. It's crazy how many different things can be done with these energies. It's not just visualization... for others whom are aware can see it as well. If I were to visualize an orange in my hand only I would know about it, but if I were to create a sphere of energy in my hand many could see it. ---------------- Now playing: AmmonContact - Juno What I Mean
My vision of the energy cocoon seemed almost without color - just shades of gray, like a black-and-white TV. This is the only time, as I've said, that I've ever "seen" energy. Obviously I'm a long way from doing what you do - or maybe not so obviously. How can I develop the ability to see and manipulate energy the way you do?
You can do what I did... Play around with it all. Though I started playing with this stuff(metaphysics) around the age of 8 (32 now), so it may take some time. I know that there are books that try to teach this stuff as well, but I've only read a couple and that was around 10 or 11. I can't stand to read that kind of stuff anymore because it's all like elementary school to me. I hear many people recommend third eye meditations to be able to see energies better. Maybe someone else here can give better pointers for I just kinda' do it... for some people it's just an innate ability. ---------------- Now playing: The Nivekian Konsolate - Better Than Nothing
When you say "playing with this stuff," can you be more specific? What kinds of things did you do when you started playing with it? When I asked the question I had a strong suspicion that you have an innate ability, but still...I obviously have the ability to see energy, but apparently not well developed, so maybe if I try to follow your path it will help. I've been thinking more about this today, and what I find interesting is that my most dramatic psychic experiences have involved what I can only describe as a split in myself. Its as if part of me continues to perceive as a "normal" human being does, while another part of me that is usually dormant sees, hears, or knows something that is part of "ordinary" reality, yet somehow separate from it, maybe through a difference in perceptive modes or something...it reminds me of some experiences Carlos Castaneda described. It seems to me that this splitting of myself is a major key to unlocking all kinds of potential. But it has never happened to me as a result of conscious intent - it's always spontaneous and surprising when it happens.
This 'split' as you call it, I know it as something else, the astral plane. There is a part of each of us that is always there, always awake, always aware, even when we are not conscious of it. A question for you... Do you meditate? If not you should. If you do, do it more. Every action, every step, every breath and every thought should be meditative. Such a constant awareness of yourself and your surroundings will allow for even more awareness. Where to begin... I guess with dreams. I've had lucid/astral travel dreams since I can remember which led to a near daily deja`vu. I didn't have many friends as a child, most of my time was spent playing around the house with ghosts and talking with angels and animals. As such, much of my interactions were on the astral planes through which I learned a lot, but didn't know how to relate it with anyone else but my mom... not sure if she ever believed or understood me, except for the ghosts, she knew they were there. What else...? I don't know, I don't know if anything I've typed thus far is of any use. Most of the techniques I use in manipulating energy just came to me. I did study the 'dark arts' for a time which taught me a lot as well. My only other suggestion at this point is to keep reading these threads and practice/try things. ---------------- Now playing: Four Tet - The Butterfly Effect
zengizmo, if you're looking at a visceral connection to the energy you can just play with your hands holding them apart and closer. you should begin to feel a buildup over time. try and relax as much as possible when you do this stuff as energy... or really just you, will flow much better when you're having fun and relaxed. you can also mess with different areas of energy. before I really knew what was going on I'd sit in class with a pencil and push it in front of my third eye. I just remember thinking that it felt weird. In highschool is when I really started to experiment with it. I did a mirror exercise in a theater class. you stand about six inches apart from somebody and then keeping steady eye contact mirror their every movement. start with one person and then move to the other. then once you get comfortable with that bring in a third person or video tape yourselves and go blindfolded. I think you'll be amazed at what can happen. for me I could feel every aspect of their being vibrating in sync with mine. it was pretty cool! read fiction, like fantasy or sci-fi. pretty much anything with magic in it or anything that helps you visualize or create with your mind will help. hope this helps.
hey guys! corks work great. it's so simple so easy. the same thing happened as what jrnyman was speaking of. more and more tubes or tendrils. corked 'em all. wish you guys could've been there. she stopped talking looked a little confused and kept saying um...um...I had a very difficult time keeping the smile off my face. I felt like throwing me hands in the air dancing around and laughing with glee LOL.........
Well sunuvagun, that is really cool and amazing, Windy. So happy for your success! I'm really getting intrigued by this energy stuff...
Not very much these days - yes, more would definitely be better. That was how I learned telepathy, and it led to some fairly profound experiences...but my dark side got too scary. It seems like what happened was that the meditation amplified my creative powers, but I couldn't control my fears, so my fears started to manifest in my life very strongly. It scared me, and I had to back off from that level of awareness. I don't know if I'm much better off now...it's good to talk about this - I haven't thought about that experience in a long time. I'm thinking that this is an urgent and unavoidable reason to get better control of my moods. But I digress... So you started out with a fairly profound gift, and you kind of followed your natural inclinations. Hmmm...I've made tremendous progress from much more modest gifts - I suppose it's conceivable I could make even more progress in the time left to me. The "dark arts," huh? I've been drawn lately to some dark and coldly powerful entities with which I had a brief encounter while exploring the source of someone's fearful experiences...don't know if this is a good thing or not...it's tempting. Yes, I will definitely keep reading these threads, and I'm starting to develop a vision for where I might go with all this. I've been frequenting this forum for almost a year and a half, and this thread is the first one that has intrigued me to the point where I feel like trying some new things. I have a feeling that energy work like what you folks have been talking about could help me make some new breakthroughs. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, jrnyman. I realized while reading your note that I have a book on energy work. I bought it on Old Crone's recommendation, and when it arrived I scanned it and then tossed it on a pile. I might just fish it out of the pile and try some of the exercises. I did an exercise like this with a theater group - about 35 years ago. Didn't try it blindfolded, though. Unfortunately I was in a very bad state of mind at the time, and unable to appreciate the experience. A lot has changed in 35 years - it would be interesting to try that again. My whole life is a fantasy, jrnyman. At least, according to my wife it is...
the dark arts? huh..i been wondering about this too...to make a thoughtform, a kind of real life serverus snape...to scare me into giving up smoking...so he will freak me out in dreams when i have succumed once again to the power of nick o'teen, my worst friend. trouble is...he might eventually take on a life of his own...and decide he don't like my brand of coffee...or shoe taste...or even ...uh..i gottan idea..mmm liquidlight??..get your robes on me case immediatley, if u spy me having a ciggy after 8 o clock in the morning...you can give me what for...ok? i trust you wont let me down,
I think I remember reading a christian-pagan article about summoning an archangel, Michael I think it was(could be wrong on the name), to help people get 'over' their addictions... Glad to hear the corks worked Windy. ---------------- Now playing: Four Tet - Unspoken
hey eden...I used to do this meditation when I was trying to quit smoking. I would ask for a greater power to remove this addiction from my being. Eventually I could "see" the addiction leaving my body in grey smoky wisps through the top of my head. Not long after I got very ill. Sickest I've been. I never smoked again after that illness. I believe it was the addiction leaving my being. That was 11 yrs ago. I never craved it after that.
thanx windy....but all of my guides have left me. all the greater power has gone. i have asked archfucking angel tinselchops...and does he hear, does he fuck...they wont even give me my eye back....buck up they say....they wont let me see, or hear, i'm sick of their shite, and you know what, each and everyone of them loves me...yet they are cruel, and they know i'm writing this...and they sit back and watch..., they know my predicament...they pushed me to it...and now they leave, well fuck 'em i say, i'm going on 40 a day and i'm not arsed cos i'm not clinging too tightly to this plane anyhow. ok, cut
Hi eden The Spirits or Angels aren't doing anything to you. You aren't being punished. There is nothing cruel about the higher powers. God/Guides/Source/Higher Powers, don't move away from you. It is you that moves away from them. Your Source is always there...constant...hook up. Be kind to yourself eden...go easy on yourself...love yourself...
Aww edenfield don't lose heart. I read your post this morning but had to run out to work and i've been considering your words alot today. And i need to listen to my own words too When it comes to the crunch what stands in the way of love ...cigarettes!? Bah! That is all secondary to what is important ...the oneness of love. For what it's worth you seem like a really great person to me and if i can feel a fondness for you then god/goddess/the universe must really fucking love you!! Why do we find it so hard to accept that we are loved? Well i guess there's lots of reasons but mainly our conditioning ...so forget the conditioning and listen to the love that's there ... what's it saying? ...well unfortunately it doesn't 'say' anything because it's more of a feeling or attitude so we have to work it out by listening intently. Honestly i wanna knock the crown of that guys head and tell him to give you your eye back ... i mean, it's YOUR EYE...when is he gonna give it back .. TOMORROW?!! Tomorrow never comes. No way hose! It's a trick ... a trick you play on yourself to give you something to push against. Most often we need to be right up against it to force ourselves to surrender to what we KNOW and say "we are one so stop fucking around! Stop these games and be real and honest!" What's the worst that could happen? You could die? Ha! Thats a joke! It's a game of call my bluff. So if your beliefs are lying to you and keeping you separate from yourself ... the light that you are. ...then call their bluff. Other people may mirror your beliefs and say "Ooh you shouldn't be smoking" then forgive them while allowing them to mirror the voice of ego. Let love in. Love comes first and once you've found it you may find the issue of smoking not quite so important as it used to be. Like Eckhart says: "Outer perpose is always secondary to inner purpose ...awakening." Love first ... other stuff second because without love where are we and what can we do about anything? - Now i'm gonna have a cigarette in your honour ... because i can.
The woman who is in my head 24/7 was a smoker when I was with her, before I moved 1200 miles away...she is psychically and spiritually unbelievably amazing. She tried to quit a few times...it doesn't matter, Eden dear. Either way you want to go. And she's my spirit, and she was "cruel" to me...yet Eden, her "cruelty" gave me better vision than I ever had before I met her. And today in my mind, she telepathically told me slowly and deliberately, "We. Love. You." It must be the same with your spirits. But I know how dark the darkness is - I know very well. Hold on, dear, just ride this out.
