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[Doctor Psi]

I will use this log as a place to express theories and any ideas I have, in addition to training updates.

So far, I have not moved past sensing. I refuse to move onto anything else until I can feel psi more than an inch off my skin >.<

For how that is going ^, so far I can get a sensation on my hands easy, and my legs are no problem. The torso is a no psi zone for some reason. For me, psi is feeling like bits of static like needles on my hands and legs. It is almost "turbulent", and is actually quite pleasant. I can't really direct all the psi to one area yet. I plan on increasing my sensitivity for a few weeks before moving on. I want to be able to actually feel my constructs this time.

[Doctor Psi]

I have recently been able to call up the psi feeling on demand, but still on my skin only. I am still a bit confused as to what it will feel like to sense psi outside of my body. I mean that as in will I feel the psi on my skin as if I was in the spot I am sensing, or if I will just "feel" it in my mind, and by feel in my mind I mean I won't physically feel a sensation but my mind will tell me what it feels. It is still the big question I am facing and has stopped me from going further.

I have decided to move to precognition if I can. It all depends on if it is possible to use on demand.

[Doctor Psi]

I began reading IIH, Initiation Into Hermetics by Franz Bardon. It is very interesting and well worth the read, even if it is a bit wordy and hard to understand at times. I haven't began anything yet, since I am still reading the first parts about theory. I plan on developing a higher level of clairvoyance and sensitivity as I have been.

EDIT: Actually I will be reading the first part of theory twice lol

[issacweirdo]

I began reading IIH, Initiation Into Hermetics by Franz Bardon. It is very interesting and well worth the read, even if it is a bit wordy and hard to understand at times. I haven't began anything yet, since I am still reading the first parts about theory. I plan on developing a higher level of clairvoyance and sensitivity as I have been.

EDIT: Actually I will be reading the first part of theory twice lol

Nice! I just got recommended to the same document, so I will also be reading it.

[Doctor Psi]

I have a feeling step one is going to take a couple weeks. But it should be well worth it.

I have come to a basic understanding of what Bardon calls the tetrapolar magnet. Since the element of "fire" (not literal fire) possesses the qualities of heat and dry, and water has cold and wet, then air has wet and hot. This also applies to earth, which has dry and cold. Each element is only analogous to the literal material version of the word. He also refers to the electric and magnetic fluid. The electric fluid is in the fire element, which has the quality of expansiveness, and the magnetic fluid is in the water element, which has the quality of shrinkage. Together in the quadripolar magnet they form the electromagnetic fluid. I may be wrong, but I think it serves as a sort of channel for the elements. The air element has electromagnetic fluid, as it is the mediator between water and fire, the element in between that allows each to exist together. Earth kind of forms the solidified shape of each of the three.

The IIH is a very confusing book that I had to reread to understand -.-

I am performing a couple daily routines that will help accumulate or increase awareness of certain occult energies. Those being the impregnation of food and water with desires like health and whatnot. I am also going to start pranayama exercises for my personal benefit. Mainly Sukha Purvaka, or cleansing the nadis system. All of this can be found in vsociety for anyone who actually reads these things and wishes to know wth I am talking about

[issacweirdo]

I am performing a couple daily routines that will help accumulate or increase awareness of certain occult energies. Those being the impregnation of food and water with desires like health and whatnot. I am also going to start pranayama exercises for my personal benefit. Mainly Sukha Purvaka, or cleansing the nadis system. All of this can be found in vsociety for anyone who actually reads these things and wishes to know wth I am talking about

Is the vsociety the Veritas Society or something like that? I find your log interesting, so I just want to get a general idea of what exercises you are doing, ha ha ha.

[Doctor Psi]

I am performing a couple daily routines that will help accumulate or increase awareness of certain occult energies. Those being the impregnation of food and water with desires like health and whatnot. I am also going to start pranayama exercises for my personal benefit. Mainly Sukha Purvaka, or cleansing the nadis system. All of this can be found in vsociety for anyone who actually reads these things and wishes to know wth I am talking about

Is the vsociety the Veritas Society or something like that? I find your log interesting, so I just want to get a general idea of what exercises you are doing, ha ha ha.

Yep. This is interesting? I suppose even if you don't believe in psi/magic or whatever, you should at least find the idea compelling.

[issacweirdo]

I find every idea that involves the mind compelling, ha ha ha. I have looked into the Veritas society, but I am planning to look more deeply into its history and the articles that surround it. I will then track some members and find out if they are all talk or the "real deal", in the sense they truly believe in what they do and are not a bunch of cons. Whether it is real or not what they claim to do is not important to me; I just want to know more about their experiences with the whole thing. It seems to me, at least on respectable forums like Veritas Society, that the majority of members are serious into their studies of psi/magick/meditation. Have not had enough time to look into the whole thing though, so I won't be able to talk some more on the forum about Veritas. It will be interesting to hear your further feedback on the forum though, ha ha ha.

[Doctor Psi]

Well, a lot of people follow Franz Bardon's Initiation into Hermetics. If they actually care, then they must be devoted, because devoted is the only way to go about that book lol

[issacweirdo]

Well, a lot of people follow Franz Bardon's Initiation into Hermetics. If they actually care, then they must be devoted, because devoted is the only way to go about that book lol

Aye. I still don't have enough time to read through the whole thing, but when I checked it for a quick glimpse there are a lot of steps, ha ha ha. Like you said, the guy definitely has to be devoted.
EDIT
Well, since I don't really do anything I might as well take a look at it...
I'll take a couple of virtual notes just in case, ha ha ha.

[stolide]

At the very least, Prophecy does what he says he does.

[Notagh]

I took chunks from the book to try to summarize the steps so I could print without having to print the whole book, which is rather long.  Here's my summary of step 1:
P. 44: Summary of Exercises of Step I:
 Step I ~ Magic Mental Training
  1. Thought control,  (001a)
  2. Discipline of thoughts (1b)
  3. Subordination of thoughts (1c)
    a. Control of thoughts twice a day from 1-10 minutes
    b. Suppression of certain thoughts. Holding onto a chosen thought. Provoking vacancy of
mind.   (1d)
    c. Magical diarizing. Self criticism. Planning of thought-trains for the day or the week ahead.  

 Step I ~ Magic Psychic Training  
  1. Introspection of Self-Knowledge  (1e)
  2. Making of the (Black & White) Mirrors of the Soul with respect to the elements, in three
spheres of activity.   (1f)

 Step I ~ Magic Physical Training
  1. Habituation to normal or reasonable mode of life.   (1g)
  2. Conscious Breathing   (1h)
  3. Conscious reception of Food (1i)
  4. Magic of Water (1j)
1a) Relax the whole body, close your eyes and observe the train of your thoughts for five minutes, trying to retain it. At first, you will find that there are rushing up to you thoughts concerning everyday affairs, professional worries, and the like. Take the behavior of a silent observer toward these trains of thoughts, freely and independently. The main point is not to forget yourself, not to lose the train of thoughts, but to pursue it attentively. This exercise of controlling thoughts has to be undertaken in the morning and at night. It is to be extended each day by one minute to allow the train of thoughts to be pursued and controlled without the slightest digression for a time of 10 minutes at least after a week’s training.
1b) The next exercise will consist in not giving way in our mind to thoughts obtruding themselves on our mind, unwanted and obstinate. For instance, we must be able not to occupy ourselves any longer with the tasks and worries of our profession when we come home from work and return the family circle and privacy. All thoughts not belonging to our privacy must be set aside, and we ought to manage to become quite a different personality instantly. And just the other way round: in our job, all thoughts have to be concentrated in it exclusively, and we must not allow them to digress or wander home, to private affairs, or elsewhere. This has to be practiced time and again until it has developed into a habit. Above all, one ought to accustom oneself to achieve whatever one does with full consciousness.
1c) The purpose will now be to hold onto a single thought or idea for a longer while, and to suppress any other thoughts associating and obtruding with force on the mind. Choose for this purpose any train of thoughts or ideation or a suitable presentation according to your personal taste. Hold onto his presentation with all your strength. Vigorously refuse all the other thoughts that have nothing to do with the thoughts being exercised. You must manage to concentrate on one single thought and follow it for 10 minutes at least.
1d) Lie down and relax your whole body. Close your eyes. Energetically dismiss any thought coming upon you. Nothing at all is allowed to happen in your mind; an absolute vacancy of mind must reign. Now hold on to this stage of vacancy without digressing or forgetting. The purpose of the exercise will be attained if you succeed in remaining in this state for a full 10 minutes without losing your self-control or even falling asleep.  
1e) In the first days of psychic training, let us deal with the practical part of introspection or self-knowledge. Arrange for a magic diary and enter all the bad sides of your soul into it. It represents the so-called control book for you. In the self-control of your failures, habits, passions, instincts and other ugly character traits, you have to observe a hard and severe attitude towards yourself. Be merciless towards yourself and do not embellish any of your failures and
deficiencies. Think about yourself in quiet meditation, put yourself back into different situations of your past and remember how you behaved then and what mistakes or failures occurred in the various situations. Make notes of all your weaknesses, down to the finest nuances and variations. The more you are discovering, all the better for you. Nothing must remain hidden, nothing unrevealed, however insignificant or great your faults or frailties may be. Wash your soul perfectly clean; sweep all the dust out of it.  This self-analysis is one of the most important magic preliminaries.  You ought to devote some minutes’ time to self-criticism in the morning and at night. Whenever you happen to find out any deficiency, do not delay to note it immediately.
1f) Now by intensive thinking, try to assign each fault to one of the four elements. Appoint a rubric in your diary to each element and enter your faults into it. You will not feel sure of which elements some of the faults are to be assigned. Record them under the heading of “indifferent”. For instance, you will ascribe jealousy, hatred, vindictiveness, irascibility, and anger to the fiery element; frivolity, self-presumption, boating, squandering, and gossiping to the element of air; indifference, laziness, frigidity, compliance, negligence, shyness, insolence, and instability to the watery element; laziness, lack of conscience, melancholy, irregularity, anomaly and dullness to the element of earth. In the following week you will meditate on each single rubric, dividing it into three groups. In the first group you will enter the biggest failures, especially those that influence you strongest or happen at the slightest opportunity. The second group will embrace faults occurring less frequently and in slighter degree. In the last group you are recording those faults that happen only now and again. Go on doing so with the indifferent faults, too. Work conscientiously at all times; it is worth while! Repeat the whole procedure with your good psychical qualities, entering them into the respective categories of the elements. Do not forget the three columns here as well. For example, you will assign activity, enthusiasm firmness, courage, and daring to the fiery element, diligence, joy, dexterity, kindness, lust, and optimism to the air element, modesty, abstemiousness, fervency, compassion, tranquility, tenderness, and forgiveness to the watery element, and respect, endurance, conscientiousness, thoroughness, sobriety, punctuality, and responsibility to the earth element.
1g)  Washing with cold water, rubbing the body from head to toe, athletic exercises in the morning.
1h) Sit down comfortably, relax the whole body, and breathe in through the nose. Imagine that with the inhaled air, health, tranquility, peace, success, or everything you are aiming at, will pass into your body through the lungs and the blood. The eidetic image of your idea must be so intense that the air you are inspiring is so strongly impregnated with your desire that it has already become reality. You should not allow the slightest doubt about this fact. To avoid weakening, it will be enough to start with seven inhalations in the morning as well as at night. Increase the number of breaths gradually to one more in the morning and at night.  You should not proceed to the imagination of another different desire before the first chosen one has been completely accomplished.
1i) Now sit down in front of your dish of food that you are going to eat, and with the most intense imagination possible, concentrate on your desire being embodies in the food and as effective as if indeed it had already been realized. If you happen to be alone, undisturbed and not watched by anyone, hold your hands in blessing manner above your food. Not having this opportunity, at least impress your desire upon the food you are taking in, or close your eyes. Then eat your food slowly but consciously with the intrinsic conviction that, together with your food, your desire actually is passing into your whole body, down to the finest nerves. It is most advantageous to foster the same desire in breathing as well as in eating to avoid any opposite vibration or emanations in your body.
1j) Every time you are washing your hands, think intensely that by washing, not only do you wipe the dirt off your body, but also the uncleanliness from your soul.  Think of failure, trouble, dissatisfaction, illness and the like being washed off and turned over to the water. If possible, wash yourself under the tap so that the dirty water can run off immediately, and at this moment think that your weaknesses are flowing off with the water. If you have nothing but a washbowl at your disposal, do not forget to throw away the used water immediately, so nobody else can contact it afterwards.
*) Carefully enter your success, failure, duration of your exercises and eventual disturbances into a magic notebook.  Prepare a working schedule for the coming day or week, and most of all, indulge in self-criticism.

[issacweirdo]

I took chunks from the book to try to summarize the steps so I could print without having to print the whole book, which is rather long.  Here's my summary of step 1:
P. 44: Summary of Exercises of Step I:
 Step I ~ Magic Mental Training
  1. Thought control,  (001a)
  2. Discipline of thoughts (1b)
  3. Subordination of thoughts (1c)
    a. Control of thoughts twice a day from 1-10 minutes
    b. Suppression of certain thoughts. Holding onto a chosen thought. Provoking vacancy of
mind.   (1d)
    c. Magical diarizing. Self criticism. Planning of thought-trains for the day or the week ahead.  

 Step I ~ Magic Psychic Training  
  1. Introspection of Self-Knowledge  (1e)
  2. Making of the (Black & White) Mirrors of the Soul with respect to the elements, in three
spheres of activity.   (1f)

 Step I ~ Magic Physical Training
  1. Habituation to normal or reasonable mode of life.   (1g)
  2. Conscious Breathing   (1h)
  3. Conscious reception of Food (1i)
  4. Magic of Water (1j)
[...]
*) Carefully enter your success, failure, duration of your exercises and eventual disturbances into a magic notebook.  Prepare a working schedule for the coming day or week, and most of all, indulge in self-criticism.

Argh! How dare you! I was planning to give the first overview...Well, it seems someone beat me to the punch. So far it looks good, the whole rundown and what not.

[Notagh]

I took chunks from the book to try to summarize the steps so I could print without having to print the whole book, which is rather long.  Here's my summary of step 1:
P. 44: Summary of Exercises of Step I:
 Step I ~ Magic Mental Training
  1. Thought control,  (001a)
  2. Discipline of thoughts (1b)
  3. Subordination of thoughts (1c)
    a. Control of thoughts twice a day from 1-10 minutes
    b. Suppression of certain thoughts. Holding onto a chosen thought. Provoking vacancy of
mind.   (1d)
    c. Magical diarizing. Self criticism. Planning of thought-trains for the day or the week ahead.  

 Step I ~ Magic Psychic Training  
  1. Introspection of Self-Knowledge  (1e)
  2. Making of the (Black & White) Mirrors of the Soul with respect to the elements, in three
spheres of activity.   (1f)

 Step I ~ Magic Physical Training
  1. Habituation to normal or reasonable mode of life.   (1g)
  2. Conscious Breathing   (1h)
  3. Conscious reception of Food (1i)
  4. Magic of Water (1j)
[...]
*) Carefully enter your success, failure, duration of your exercises and eventual disturbances into a magic notebook.  Prepare a working schedule for the coming day or week, and most of all, indulge in self-criticism.

Argh! How dare you! I was planning to give the first overview...Well, it seems someone beat me to the punch. So far it looks good, the whole rundown and what not.

Did a couple more steps, I'll do the whole book when I have time.

[Doctor Psi]

Step one should take a week at the least. But it also says that it shouldn't be rushed.

[Doctor Psi]

I did a lot of meditation periodically today and a "full" session before bed. I had to stop because my back was going to make my head explode if I went through any more pain. I did manage to block some of the pain in the meditation. The actual meditation I did was the Sukha Purvaka exercise. I got really hot, almost sweating. I felt a bit lighter too, just around my head. I hear these feelings shouldn't be experienced until later, but I guess minor experiences could vary. Of course, I didn't get as much out of it as I would have liked because of back pain, and the fact that I couldn't get much air through my right nostril >.<

[stolide]

Argh! How dare you! I was planning to give the first overview...Well, it seems someone beat me to the punch. So far it looks good, the whole rundown and what not.

There have been many, many, over views and reviews of the book. Some range from a few pages to being over a couple hundred pages longl.

[issacweirdo]

Argh! How dare you! I was planning to give the first overview...Well, it seems someone beat me to the punch. So far it looks good, the whole rundown and what not.

There have been many, many, over views and reviews of the book. Some range from a few pages to being over a couple hundred pages longl.

I figured, but I wanted to be the FIRST guy to give Dr. P the first rundown, ha ha ha. Yeah, childish, I know.

[Doctor Psi]

Lol. I've read up to step two. Dr. P = Dr. Pib lol

[issacweirdo]

Lol. I've read up to step two. Dr. P = Dr. Pib lol

Well, it's faster for me to write Dr. P then Doctor Psi, no offense.