Advanced sensing: psychic sensing, energy sensing(advanced), ability sensing(potentikinesis), emotion sensing, heart beat sensing, thought sensing, and much more!

its night Rn(right now) for me so ill add later.

## Scanning

**How to Scan**

Where you start depends on where you are so I’m going to give a bunch of different exercises that may be helpful. I have organized them in the order that I would recommend to a complete beginner, but some of the exercises have advice for specific issues as well so feel free to skip ahead, mix and match, and come up with your own. What is important is that you practice scanning every chance that you get and aim all of your practice toward being able to scan more clearly and accurately. If you get stuff wrong at first that’s perfectly fine. It’s better to get things wrong and work toward getting it right than to fudge your way through and pretend. Otherwise you’ll never get better.

***1. Sensing Energy***

The first step is to get an idea of how your mind perceives energy in general. Some people experienced this when making their first psiball–the energy often feels warm, cool, tingling, or like a slight magnetic repulsion. There’s a few problems with this though: first, it’s possible to make your body change the temperature in your hands without it having anything to do with energy (consciously controlling subconscious processes is called **Biofeedback**); second, you’re not always going to be able to touch what you’re scanning with your hands. While interacting with energy physically is a good place to start, it’s important to also be able to scan without physical aids since so much practice in the OEC is done over the internet.

*Charged Card Shuffle:* For this exercise, get three objects that are identical on one side and can be marked on the other (playing cards, for example). Charge one of them with energy–you can either attach a psiball to it, or just put as much energy as you can into it (it may help to visualize the card becoming very bright and glowy with energy). Make a note of which card you charged then shuffle it in with the other non-charged cards and deal them out face down on the table in front of you (without looking of course). Now, see if you can sense which one is different. In the beginning you might try using your hands, but try to get to the point where you can mentally look at them and *know* which card was charged. Pay attention to how your mind shows it to you. Does the card look “brighter” somehow? Does it feel more intense in a way? Are you drawn to it or does it catch your attention? When you’ve made your choice, check your results. Be sure to keep notes to track your progress.

Variations: To increase the difficulty, add more cards. If you have someone to practice with, you might try having them charge the card for you to sense. Or each of you charge a card and mix them in with several others and try to sense which cards were charged and by whom. This will help you start to recognize psi signatures (see #3: Remote Scanning). This can also be practiced if your partner is online: just set the card you want them to charge off by itself a bit, tell them where it is or give them a photograph of it and ask them to send a lot of energy into it. Then shuffle the cards together and practice sensing like normal.

*Note: If you find you’re having trouble with the cards that were charged in the previous sessions staying charged when they’re not supposed to be, you may need to clean them. Just use your favorite grounding technique or visualize taking all the extra energy out of the cards and sending it into the ground.*

***2. Scanning Constructs***

Once you can sense the presence of energy, the next step is to learn to sense details about the energy. This is most easily done with constructs. For example, being able to sense the form/shape of a construct, the color, the texture, or a basic action that the construct is made to do is all helpful.

*Construct Shuffle:* Start with very basic constructs at first and don’t pack in too many details, geometric solids work well. Make three different constructs (like a sphere, a cube, and a pyramid) and attach each to one of the playing cards (make a note of which is which). Then shuffle and practice figuring out which is which. In the beginning you may use your hands to “feel” the shape of each, but try to get to the point where you can sense it without touching. Try adding in other traits as well, like attaching different colored psiballs to the cards or using different textures. The more senses you can involve, the more your mind will have to work with in the future, so try attaching a taste or a smell–experiment and challenge yourself. Take notes on what you find works or doesn’t and track your progress.

Variations: To increase the difficulty, add more cards or more complex objects.

*Pass the Construct:* Another way to practice scanning constructs is the game Pass the Construct. If it’s just you and a partner, each make a construct (lay down some guidelines like basic shapes, fruit, etc.) and send it to the other, then write down what you think the construct is. When you’re both done compare your notes to what the person actually made. If you’re playing in a group, you can play the same way, just set up a system for who passes to whom (for example, everyone passes to their right, or to the next person down on the chatroom list). This gives lots of practice in not only sensing, but also making clearly defined constructs. The more clearly you can make the construct, the easier it will be for the person to sense. (It can help to have an experienced scanner act as a referee.)

*Note: Remember, this is energy scanning practice, not telepathy practice, so don’t try to telepathically project at the scanner so they’ll get it right. Ideally, whenever two or more people practice scanning together whoever makes the construct should not think about the construct while the other person is scanning it–this will help to reduce telepathic interference (whether conscious or subconscious).*

***3. Remote Scanning***

Once you’re used to sensing energy and constructs that are in the same room as you, it’s time to move on to scanning things remotely. Psi isn’t dependent on time or space, so it doesn’t matter whether you’re practicing with someone who’s in the next room or across the globe from you.

You will need a basic familiarity with psi signatures. A **Psi Signature** is a person’s unique pattern of energy that allows you to psychically “locate” them. If you aren’t comfortable with what signatures are, how to find one, and how to use them then check out a few of the articles that have been written on them specifically.

Once you have a signature, there are several ways of scanning. One way is to focus on the signature and mentally “go” to wherever it is (this is called **Remote Presence**). A handy visualization is picturing yourself in your mind and then going through a door or a tunnel that leads to where the other person is. Once you’re there, look at the other person or look around the room a bit and make note of what you see.

Another way is to imagine a room in your mind where you see whatever it is that you’re trying to scan. The person isn’t actually in your mind of course, but your mind can show everything to you there. Sort of like a Holodeck if you’re familiar with Star Trek, or the Construct in the Matrix where they would go before a training program was loaded. Just point your mind toward the person’s signature and ask your mind to show it to you there. This method can be a lot less invasive than using remote presence. People who are sensitive are often able to feel it very clearly when they are being scanned and if the scanner uses remote presence it can feel like they are hovering right next to them.

Keep in mind that when I say “see” I mean seeing something in your mind’s eye, not actually seeing it with your physical eyes in front of you. It can be similar to imagining or visualizing, but there is a subtle difference that marks it as more “real” somehow. A good way of testing this so that you can get a handle on the difference is imagine something like an apple. Not a particular apple, just your mental concept of one. Try to imagine it in as much detail as possible and mentally walk around and look at it. Now, imagine seeing your practice partner in your mind, but instead of filling in all the details you think should be there, give your mind a nudge and point it at their signature. Your mind should fill in the details on its own and you may notice some attributes that you didn’t expect, like an odd color or feeling. If you do this several times, you should notice a difference between when you’re just imagining and when your mind is actually looking at someone.

*Colored Shields:* For this exercise you’ll need a partner. Talk to each other a bit until you both have a good feel for the other’s signature. You may want to start by taking turns scanning each other to get an idea for what the person “looks” like normally. Then each of you make a basic bubble shield around yourself that is a particular color (bright, primary colors work well), and take turns scanning each other. Take notes on what colors you see and what color the person made their shield to track your progress. *Note: some people see other people’s energy fields as particular colors. If this color is getting in the way of seeing the color of the shield, ask the person to nudge the shield out so that it’s past the edge of their field so none of their field sticks out past it.*

Variations: Try other attributes like textures as well as colors. Also try programming different kinds of shields and trying to sense what the shield is made to do. To increase the difficulty, have your partner layer several shields on themselves and see if you can tell how many there are and what the attributes of each shield are.

*Remote Construct Scanning:* It’s helpful to be able to find things that are in the same general area as another person (like in the same room or house). To practice this use an exercise similar to the Pass the Construct game, except instead of sending the constructs to each other, the person who makes the construct should set it down near them and point the scanner to it. Directions like “it’s to my left” or “it’s on my keyboard” are helpful in the beginning or the person who made the construct can also highlight it. **Highlighting** is mostly a mental technique that makes something more obvious–it doesn’t actually change the construct, it just acts as a small mental beacon that says “oh hey, here I am! Look at me!” To highlight a construct, simply think of it and visualize it getting glowy, bright, and more obvious compared to all the background info. Their mind will pick up on this signal as they scan. Subtle energy can be used in some cases to aid in the highlighting, or be used by itself for those less likely to pick up on a mental flag. You should get to the point where you can simply zero in on the person then look around in their general area and find the construct that they made without additional help.

*Note: Some people don’t keep their rooms energetically clean anymore than they do physically. If you run into a lot of random, half-dissolving constructs that are interfering with being able to find the real construct, ask them to clean up a bit (don’t just ground their room yourself, that’s rude–there may be things they want to keep). You can also ask your mind to show you only the construct that was just made or the constructs made within a certain timeframe.*

***4. Coordinate Scanning***

Not everything that you scan will be in the physical vicinity of the person you are talking to. There are times when you need to scan a person that you do not know, or an object that is somewhere else (physically or even on a different plane). For this, it is helpful to be able to scan **Coordinates**: a code associated with an object that the mind can use to find it.

To make a set of coordinates, pick a random string of characters that is at least seven digits long (this decreases the chance that you’ve used any given string before). Feel free to use letters, numbers, and even symbols, though symbols can be more difficult to type since some computers render them as strings of boxes. Mentally associate this string with what you want the other person to scan; if you want to visualize tying the label to the object, that might work, or I usually just think of the object clearly as I type in the characters–whatever will signal your mind “this set of coordinates refers to that object/person/etc.”. Then, instead of focusing on a name or signature when they begin scanning, they will focus on the coordinate string. A short-term, quick-and-dirty version of this is telling the person something like: “scan \*this\*” or “look \*here\*”, where you’ve mentally linked the word “\*this\*” or “\*here\*” to whatever it is you want them to scan.

*Coordinate Scanning:* To practice using coordinates, have your partner pick something that is not near them but is still verifiable (the moon is not nearby, but it is difficult to verify what you scanned was correct). For example, your partner may make a construct and send it to a different location–the tip of the empire state building, for instance–then they will give you a set of coordinates for the construct. If you describe the construct correctly, then you found the construct successfully.

Variations: If you are practicing in a group, have one person make a set of coordinates that is associated to one of the other people practicing, then have everyone scan it and see both how well they match and if they can identify who it is. (Getting people to scan themselves without realizing it is always amusing–they end up noticing things about themselves that they wouldn’t normally).

***5. Dealing with Analytic Overlay***

**Analytic Overlay** (AOL) is when the mind “fills in the blanks” with details based on what it analyzes would be logical to perceive rather than what is actually there. For example, if you perceive something “long” and “yellow”, your mind may jump to the conclusion that it is a banana and start showing you banana-like details, when in fact the object was a long yellow pencil. This happens because your mind likes to organize sensory input into familiar patterns, rather than accepting seemingly random attributes that don’t immediately make sense.

One of the biggest causes of AOL is **Frontloading**: telling or hinting at what a person should expect to perceive. For example, asking a question such as: “I tried to make a blue psiball, could you scan it to see if I made it right?” would be frontloading–the scanner is more likely to see a blue psiball, even if it is not there or is made incorrectly.

When you’re learning to scan, it’s important to avoid frontloading where possible (even if it is tempting to ask leading questions so that you have less of a chance of being completely wrong). If someone agrees to let you scan something, ask them to give you as little information as possible. For example, “scan the area around me” or “scan my right hand” is better than “scan the blue psiball in my right hand.”

However, it is not always possible to avoid frontloading and it’s important to learn to scan accurately in spite of it. The trick is to learn to recognize the subtle differences between seeing something that you expect to be there and seeing something that is actually there. There are a couple ways to go about this:

*Purposeful Frontloading:* When I had been scanning for about a year, one of my friends (who often modified his energy system and had me scan for changes) got frustrated with how nervous I was about frontloading and AOL. He asked me to scan his head and look for a pyramid shaped structure inside. I had trouble seeing it, but he asked “are you sure you don’t see it?” and went on to describe some other things that I should see attached to the structure. I finally managed to see what he was talking about and described some of the other details I saw about the odd shapes as well. When I was done, he told me that there were no such things in his energy system and he’d been completely frontloading me. I was more than a little embarrassed, but he immediately asked me to think back about how it had *felt* to see the things he had told me to look for and to compare it to how it felt to scan things normally. He was right, there was a subtle difference in the feeling (besides the initial difficulty that I had in seeing what he was talking about). This turned out to be one of the most valuable scanning exercises I ever did.

The downside of trying to replicate this exercise is that it doesn’t work if you’re expecting it. You’ll need a partner who thoroughly understands the point of the exercise and preferably one that can B.S. convincingly (not something I normally recommend, but if it’s obvious when they’re frontloading you, the exercise won’t work either). If they have trouble making things up, have them keep what they say to a minimum, for example, “okay, the next construct is ready; it’s on my mousepad.”

Have them make up at least five different (but similar and equally probable) scenarios. For three of them, they will actually make the construct that they ask you to scan; for the other two, there will be no construct at all. Have them randomly select ahead of time which scenarios will be which. An example series might be: blue sphere, no construct, yellow pyramid, green sphere, no construct. As you scan each one, make detailed notes about what you see and how it feels. Don’t have your partner confirm or deny anything as you are scanning, wait until the very end and then have them list what each scenario actually was, then compare it to your notes. *Note: make sure that the area is completely cleared in between each scenario so you don’t have bits of constructs floating around that might interfere.*

Variations: Instead of having your partner not make any construct for the frontloaded scenarios, have them tell you what each construct should be before you scan, but for several of them, have the construct be entirely different. An example series might be: blue sphere (actually made), red cube (actually a yellow cylinder), yellow pyramid (actually made), green cube (actually made), black sphere (actually a bright pink pyramid).

*Reverse Frontloading:* This trick works best once you have some practice with recognizing the difference between the feeling of AOL and scanning something that’s actually there. In essence, if you feel like what you’re seeing is AOL, frontload yourself into not seeing it that way, and the two suggestions may help to balance each other out and let you see what is actually going on. **NOTE: this is no guarantee for overcoming frontloading. It’s a mental trick, and it requires a lot of practice and self-knowledge to use it correctly.**

An example of this would be when I’m scanning someone’s energy system and something just doesn’t feel right or seems very unlikely, I’ll stop scanning for a moment and clear my mind, telling myself “no, that’s wrong, they look totally normal and there’s nothing wrong.” Then I’ll look again and start with the assumption that they look totally normal. Some of the time, everything settles down and I’m able to see what’s going on or what might be causing the problem the person is describing. Other times, however, no matter how much I try not to see whatever the weirdness was, it will keep popping up. Usually this ends up meaning that there really is something very odd going on that needs to be looked into further. However, if you’re just having trouble getting your mind to slow down and give clear information, you may want to take a break and try again later. If you’re still not sure, use the next technique:

*Get a Second Opinion:* Even the best scanners I know will ask others (without frontloading them of course) to scan things and give their opinion. When several good scanners all come up with the same things independently, it’s a pretty good bet that is what’s actually going on.

***6. Free Practice***

As you are learning to scan, even before you get the above exercises down, practice on everything. There are usually plenty of people in the OEC who would like various things scanned. When I was first starting, I would tell people “hey, I’m new at this so no guarantees about accuracy, but if you’d like I’ll give it a shot.” After I told them what I could see about it, I would usually include the disclaimer, “that’s what I see, but I could be wrong.” Besides reminding them not to take my scans as absolute fact, it also helped my mind to stay open to new possibilities about whatever it was that I was scanning rather than locking down and settling on just one interpretation of it.

Using that approach, I got the opportunity to scan a very wide variety of things–some things that I wasn’t even sure if I could scan, or that I had to come up with creative ways to conceptualize so that I could get useful information about them. But it challenged me, and as I practiced I found little mental techniques that helped and I gradually got better. I’m including several of those techniques I found helpful here:

*The “Show Me…” Technique:* This works best if you are able to communicate decently well with your mind/sub-conscious/inner/etc. Essentially, clear your mind, decide what you want to see, ask, and see what shows up. For example, one of the main “organs” in a person’s energy system is their core (it’s in their abdomen, if you want to look for yourself). If I’m scanning someone and I want to see their core in detail, then I’d say to my mind, “show me their core,” or I could even go one step further and specify a particular level or area of their core that I wanted to examine. Feel free to be as detailed in your instructions as you find is helpful. For the most part, as long as you have a decently clear concept of what you’re asking to see, your mind will oblige and show it to you. However, it’s still up to you to interpret what your mind shows you.

*Note: this technique works with any type of clairvoyance, not just when scanning subtle energy. It’s a good way to start learning to perceive physical things, in fact. When practicing with a partner, for example, you could try “show me their hair color.” Or if they hide a picture of a random object in a closed envelope (like the military used to do during remote viewing trials) “show me what’s in the envelope.” This works by removing the need to conceptualize how the information is gathered and just focusing on the information itself.*

*Mental Computer Simulation:* Remember that your mind communicates in metaphor. What you see when you’re scanning isn’t necessarily what is literally there, but you can take advantage of this. When you scan, imagine that what you’re seeing is basically a three dimensional computer simulation that you can manipulate at will without actually affecting what you’re scanning. So if you can only see the top layer but you want to look underneath, ask your mind to hide that top layer from view. The possibilities here are endless: rotate it, explode the image so you can see each piece individually all at once, view it by layer, type, date, creator, or simulate what might happen if a particular construct is triggered. Play around with it, it’s very useful.

*Color Coding:* Another thing that comes in handy is asking your mind to highlight things for you. For a while a lot of people were asking me to check out energy system modifications that they had done. I had a hard time remembering what was new from the last time I had scanned them, so I would scan them and ask my mind to highlight anything that was different from the last time (because my sub-conscious remembers a great deal more than I do). While I see things in various colors that my mind chooses for various reasons, I’ve also found asking my mind to temporarily color code things for me to be very helpful. For example, highlight all the mods someone has added to their system, but color code them by energy/activity level. Perhaps I set green to mean acting normally, yellow to mean it’s waiting for some stimulus, and red means that it’s deactivated entirely. Some things may show up in other colors if they don’t really fit into your color coding schema, but then you can experiment to figure out exactly your mind is trying to tell you about them.

*Graphs:* There are some things that are difficult to conceptualize purely visually. For example, if you wanted to see a system’s energy level over time, you could scan them and try to compare energy levels from one time frame to another, but this gets unwieldy. If you want to compare things, it’s most helpful to ask your mind to make you a graph. Basically draw up the x and y axis in your mind, decide what each will be (like x is a given time frame and y is energy level of a particular person’s system, or maybe several bars denoting how well several different systems are functioning) and then ask your mind to graph it. Anything that you want to compare, if you can design a graph that would make sense for you, your mind will fill in the data for you as far as it knows. Some healers even set it up in their minds so that the graphs are interactive–if they adjust a point on the graph, the corresponding things get adjusted in the person’s system (though to do this properly so that it will work in the long-term, your mind has to actually know the best way of bringing that change about. Healing is not as easy as just adjusting a bar graph).

***. Retroscanning***

Not only does psi not appear to be limited by space, it also doesn’t seem to be limited by time. An example of this is precognition, where people sense what is going to happen in the future. It is also possible to look back in time to see what happened–this is called retrocognition. **Retroscanning** simply refers to scanning back in time to see what happened. It’s very useful when someone would like a second opinion on something that happened to them or that they did or perceived earlier (*Note: when doing a retroscan, ask the person to only give you the time at first, rather than frontloading you with their description of what they think happened*).

The easiest way I’ve found is to scan the person/construct/area/etc. and specifically ask your mind to show you as it is right now. Then ask your mind to back the image up to when you want to scan–here is where you can specify a particular date/time and have your mind jump directly there. Then play the image forward and watch (in real time, faster, slower, or in a loop–whatever shows you what you want to see). If I don’t know what time something happened, but I know some sort of change occurred that I want to examine, then I visualize a timeline or a slider bar (like they have on youtube videos) and I ask my mind to mark on it when the changes occurred. Then I can zero in on that to just before and allow it to play through so I can see it in the process of occurring.

*Construct Retroscanning:* To practice retroscanning, ask a partner to make and destroy a series of simple constructs, and to write down the exact date and time (include the timezone) they did each one. An example series might be: makes green sphere (12:00) and then destroys it (12:02), makes red cube (12:03) and then destroys it (12:05), makes yellow pyramid (12:06) and then destroys it (12:08), makes blue cube (12:09) and then destroys it (12:11), makes black pyramid (12:12) and then destroys it (12:14). Have them give you a list of just the date and times, and then scan and take notes on what you see. Compare your notes to theirs and see how close you got.

Variations: To increase difficulty, have them only tell you the time that they started the whole exercise, and nothing else about what they made (including how many constructs or how long they let each construct sit before destroying it). Then scan and see if you can tell what they made. As a bonus, come up with a way for your mind to show you when each thing was made and destroyed as well (possible visualizations might be little labeled markers along a timeline for each construct, or a little digital clock that counts off in one corner of your “vision” as you scan).

*Extra-credit for the curious: In case you were wondering, it’s also possible to scan into the future, though it’s generally considered rude to scan someone else’s future without permission. If you want a general idea of the ways things might go for a person or object, try visualizing its **Timeline**–basically the general path that things could take that branches at various decision points. The future is always changing, but you may be able to see some things as being more probable than others.*

### Part 2 scanning

Scanning is the ability to gather information from any source. The information depends on what is being scanned.  For a construct, programming is checked to see if it matches what the creator intended it to do.  This is called confirmation and is an important step in energy manipulation and construct creation.  When a person is being scanned, their energy body is looked at for any damage as well as their shielding and any constructs around them.  Usually the person will request for a shield or their energy body to be scanned.  If it is not stated what needs to be scanned, proceed assuming anything is there.  When scanning an entity, it is the same as scanning a person.

It is a common misconception that you have to be next or near someone to scan them.  Energy is not limited by distance, so you are able to scan someone across the world.

When scanning, a link is not necessary but may aid in the process.

Energetic or telepathic links can be compared to dialing a phone number. Pick a phone number that you know. You “call it” by making the link, and the other person picks up the “phone”. Links can also consist of more than one person. Additionally, links can be made without the other person “picking up the other line”, but this is frowned upon and should not be attempted without prior permission.

We will apply this concept of linking. First, let’s start with a person.

1. Find a friend who will allow you to establish a link with them. This person should be someone who knows what being linked to feels like. It is generally frowned upon to establish a link with someone who does not consent and can result in a hostile retaliation.

2. Concentrate on their name. When linking, it does not matter if it is an alias or a real name. It is the person who you are trying to link to that is important, not the name. The name provides a focus point.

3. Visualize a line connecting you and the other person. This line will be made out of energy and its purpose (conceptual-based programming) is to create a link between you and the other person.

4. Test the link by sensing the other person. Have them sense you. You can scan them or have them scan you, or send energy through the link.

5. After you are finished with the link, simply “sever” the link by destroying or dissipating the link between you and that person. If you forget to get rid of the link, they generally disappear after a while.

We will begin with scanning a construct. This will require you have a friend who has made a construct. Recall that distance does not matter with energy, so however far away your friend is does not matter. Let’s begin:

1. Close your eyes and focus on your friend’s construct.

2. For this technique of scanning, we will establish a link. Concentrate on the construct as you did before with establishing a link (refer to “Links” if you need a refresher).

3. Begin to sense the object like you did with your friend when you established a link with them. Feel for the construct. Ask yourself: What does it feel like? Does it have a purpose other than existing? Is there a color?

4. Put yourself in a third-person view of the construct. Take what you feel, and try and put it into words. Does it feel round, or square? Is it pointy? How many sides does it have? Ask these questions to yourself. This may not be an actual physical view, but it should give you an idea of what it is shaped like.

5. What is its purpose? Try to look at the construct like you would computer code. Get a feel for what it’s supposed to do. Does it feel like it’s making something or does it’s moving something? Does it feel like it’s doing nothing? Is it storing something? There are so many questions that you could ask yourself.

6. Type all of this up. If you wish, go through the steps of sensing, feeling, and detecting the programming again. Refine what you have typed.

7. Report the results to your friend. See if what you have scanned matches up to what they have created.

8. If the results have matched up, have a second scanner scan the construct without telling them the details. If the scans match up, great! Regardless of your result, have a second scanner look at the construct. If the results match up with the construct creator, try again with a different construct. Practice is the key.

Scanning should be practiced daily. Scanning is a skill that will be required throughout the rest of psionics. It is ranked the most important skill next to energy manipulation. What you create with energy manipulation is useless if you cannot confirm it through scanning. In addition, those who you have asked for scans you should help them by scanning for them. It becomes a mutually beneficial friendship with energy workers.

Having another person scan your constructs is very important. It eliminates personal bias, prevents analytic overlay, or AOL for short. This is when you are scanning and while you have went through the process correctly, you have analyzed it to be something that it is not. Essentially, you have put your own thoughts over what is really there. For instance, say you created a mirror shield and saw it worked perfectly. In reality, the shield did look like a mirror shield but did not function properly.

If you wanted to scan a person, the method is not any different. Instead of linking to a construct, you would link to the person. It is rude to scan someone without their permission, and doing so may result in a hostile response. Experienced energy workers can tell when they are being scanned and can often trace the scan back to the person who scanned them and may retaliate. Remember to always ask before you scan. Once you have consistently solid results with scanning basic things, you can start scanning more complex things. Scanning will soon become second nature as did making links.

Making a link is not necessary for scanning, but in the beginning it helps. In order to circumvent this, you concentrate on the person or construct that you wish to scan and carry out the process like normal. I suggest that after you are comfortable scanning with a link, stop using the link.

## Part 3

### ATTENTION

whenever I say "visualize, and Feel"(I'm talking about "Feel". Or, "mentally feel" or "mentally visualize", or "see without looking; look without seeing." I mean use your "Attention" but here.

Today we will learn how to increase our sensitivity to psychic energies. Many a times, I see complaints about not being able to sense energy being vented around PsiPog. Since it is quite a fundamental step to known how to handle the fabric of your creations in a successful manner, I thought I would step up to the plate and add my two cents worth.

There are numerous ways to increase a persons' sensitivity. Simply being in the working field on a day-to-day basis is a sure way to up it at least half a notch. But seeing as how a generally outlaid routine might not work for everyone, and added to the fact that a lot of you are far too lazy to stick with the program to see if it eventually will bear fruit, I'll spoon feed you this time.

There are naturally other reasons why one might solely focus on increasing sensitivity without necessarily being lazy. One could just be more interested in a specific field of practice that demands a certain degree of sensitivity, such as telepathy. One could also have developed a personal quirk that makes them head blind, but otherwise quite capable of manipulating energy.

My method is simple, but does not magically raise your sensitivity in one stroke nor is it the be-all-end-all to the matter. It's a routine I found successful but as of yet has not been tested by anyone else, so there is no guarantee it will work for you. That said, let's start small.

**The first steps**

Have you ever noticed the subtle, but definite change in you when another person enters an otherwise empty room? It's hard to pinpoint and describe, but it is relatively easy to relate to as it happens to everyone. Let us for simplicity's sake call that your "awareness" picking up on their "awareness" to save us getting too technical. This is in my very humble opinion, a defence mechanism to alert us when possible friends and foes are heading in our direction. You could attribute this to hearing very faint sounds made from the approaching person, but when you increased your sensitivity, you will understand how hard it is to hear very faint sounds in a kilometer radius. I brought this up since I wanted to talk about your awareness of your immediate surroundings and yourself, our aim is to increase both the actual range of what this field can reach and amplifying it's ability to make these signals picked up known to us. That is what we will work with.

When you feel someone else's awareness you usually reach out a little, unconsciously or not, and try to "guess" who it is. If you do not know how to reach out to someone else's awareness you should practice doing so, and for all to keep with the program I might as well go over that too. To learn how to reach out you must first realize your own sphere of awareness, easy enough as you are always aware of it - it is the part that you define as "you" and sometimes slightly outside this core. This is as simple as I can put it to you so if you can't get it; you've flunked as three-year olds are able to recognize their own awareness. Now to push out, you just biofeedback your awareness outside your body, a few feet forward or half across the globe, but beginners should just stick to a few feet. Just feel a few feet forward similar to when you make a psiball but this time, you put your awareness in the place where the psiball would be. Don't bother about "projecting" any physical part of your body, that blobbed mass of awareness is well enough. If this sounds too hard to accomplish I think you are making a chicken out of a feather. It's not a real projection as you would in Remote Presence for example, but you simply pull some of your attention out of your head and put it the spot you see fit.

When I first started experimenting with this I found it easiest to feel my awareness like a fog that floats out to the desired spot. Now, I say "feel" because I prefer tactile visualization/guiding instead of the more visual visualization -- especially when working on areas that involve reaching out and working with your awareness, such as in telepathy. But you decide for yourself which method makes sense and produces a satisfactory result. Practice floating your concentration and part of your "feel" to a spot in front of you until you can do so in a matter of seconds.

Now you can move on to making your practice sessions a little more flexible since you can do them "on the spot" so to speak. Feel your way through your house, bend it around corners, put your awareness in one room and walk out of the room in question. Go upstairs or outside and feel the line that connects you to the room you put your awareness in. This is all easy children's play, but sometimes we forget how to do it. Again, this is not a full on projection to the specific spot, so don't expect any data to come to you as of yet, you are just getting used to leaving a little "beacon" of you behind. This in itself is an easy way to add to your overall sensitivity. Why is that? Well, seeing how I have not thoroughly tested it scientifically, and I doubt it's even worth the trouble, my humble theory is this: When you extend your awareness that usually is situated in your body outwards, your body adopts accordingly. At first you might not get much out of it, but with enough time spent sensing things outside your body instead of inside, your mind invents ways to cope with this "new" state of being and hence you grow more sensitive to psychic energies. You might start hearing incoming telepathic signals; you might awaken to precognitive bursts or develop a psychokinetic geisting. While the latter is not the most popular, I believe it is a direct manifestation of your mind/body learning how to navigate in unfamiliar territory.

This is in a nutshell, a good solid way to increase your sensitivity, by tricking your mind into adopting in a new environment.

**Daily exercises**

So, how do you integrate this into your daily schedule? I've listed a few easy exercises, which I also will go over, because I'm a nice guy, and filled with sugar.

* Taking a walk-around in your house
* Feeling the presence of people long before they arrive at your house
* Getting peoples psychic signature
* Finding your friends in large crowds
* Scanning people
* Easy telepathic exercises, pinging being one

The first one needs no explanation and is really just the same thing you did under your rudimentary training, but it keeps you from getting rusty and as it only takes a few seconds, you can do it wherever you are, so it fits an everyday exercise. The second one is also a no-brainer, it's the same thing that occurs naturally when you feel people entering the area where you are, but this time you will probably be more aware of them and if you let your awareness expand, you can catch them quite some distance from where you are. The opposite, shrinking your awareness, is a good counter-measure along with shielding if the situation becomes stressful. More on this later.

Now, the third exercise would require some basic telepathy skills, and some explanation on my part. First of, if you do not know how to retrieve a person's energy "id-print" there are lots of excellent articles on PsiPog that explains them or at least gives you a good general idea on how to obtain them. But in short, it's that unique feeling you get about other people when coming in contact with them. If you have multiple friends, I bet that they do not "feel" exacly the same, now do they? If you take away your personal opinions about the person in question, and just try to feel them as a concept, you end up with their signature.

With your now flexible awareness, this is even easier. When you stretch out to someone you get their awareness, as well as their signature, their "sig". Now it is easy to confuse the two, and at first they appear to be one and the same and can be used as such, but with practice you notice that there is a difference between their "here I am"-awareness and their individual "glow". The reason why I brought up this exercise is because if you are familiar with your friends' signatures, and have a good idea on what their presence feels like, finding them in a crowd is a lot easier.

Scanning is a very useful ability, and it is just as easy as aquiring a sig, but it helps if you know how to aquire the aformentioned. Get the sig, stretch out to the target and feel your away around them. Float over their feel and touch it gently. With some practice, you should be able to gather a lot of useful information about your target. With your awareness you can see what the target is up to, what shields he/she has active and what psi activity is going on. You can also read the target's own field which sometimes carry over surface thoughts, emotions, intentions, etc. Allthough you might find it hard to make sense of the blob of information on your first try, rest assure that it will become increasingly easy to sort that out.

The telepathic exercises. Now this will combine using signatures and the targets awareness. This calls for some abstract concepts so bear with me as I go through it. First you clear your mind and let your awareness stretch out a few feet around you; flex it some in case it is rusty. Take a few breaths and focus on your awareness and your conce ntration. Forget your body, as you won't need it right now. Now decide on a target, preferably your patient and trustworthy partner, and retrieve their sig, their individual feel. Now when you have that to "zoom in on" you try to recreate their awareness and place it in your room. Now this can be hard if you've never done it with this partner before, so if you do not feel their awareness you should work with their sig for a few sessions until it reveals the target's awareness. Sigs are good for a lot of things, one being that they can leak such information. However, for simplicity's sake let us say you know what their awareness feel like. If you met people that day, you know what another person's general awareness feels like. Or, if you have a close friend who you are used to feeling, you can base that as a blueprint for the target. So with this in mind you open yourself up a little further, and feel the target's awareness in your room, but try to keep them at an arm's length. It is very easy and tempting to let their awareness intermingle with yours, especially when you are already "connected" with them through their sig, but try not to. It can create a link, which can be hard to shake once the session is over and in all fairness is beyond the scope of this article. So just keep the target at an arm's length or more. Pinging comes naturally when you reach out at the target, and if they are the least bit sensitive, they will feel you, and hopefully reach back at you.

So why use this method when telepathizing? Well, for a practicing telepath I found it hard to juggle the target's sig and getting the message across. Most of the time I would drop their sig, the telephone line, while trying to project what I wanted to communicate, which resulted in a glitch and probably irritating experience in my target. But when I recreated the target's awareness, I found it much easier to relax. Their awareness was like a foggy nightstand where I could place the telephone, while scribbling down my message. It basically makes the session that much easier to handle since you manage the connection with you awareness instead of keeping it alive with a picture in your head. That is as easy as I can put it, but since we are talking about familiar concepts most can relate to; hopefully you will have no trouble getting the picture.

**Trancing**

This section delves a little deeper into the subject of expanded awareness, and as such might be over the top of some people's heads. Trances can be very powerful tools if you can operate them, and since you have a much greater control of your psi and your awareness from it, despite what the seemingly drugged physical exterior might show, they are very handy things indeed. I myself favour the overload trance for two reasons. One being that I feel I can operate in way that suits my current needs and second, because that is the trance I can do on the spot in a second or two. This is something I have always been able to do so I can't vouch for anyone else. And since I've always been able to do them, it's hard for me to explain exactly how to do it, but I'll give it a try.

Visualize through your mind's eye, an ant's perspective. Do not just picture it in your head but see it, without using your physical eyes of course. Insert a common object. I preferred a screw when I was a kid, and look at it from your miniature perspective. Each part of it is absolutely huge and you can feel its enormous mass. Use your awareness to feel the huge dimensions of it, each crack it has. Now make it bigger, and bigger and bigger until it is as big as a house, but maintain your sense of dimensions, it should be swindling. Now just keep on zooming out, until you have a bird's perspective, then zoom out even further, until you are outside of this planet. What you might feel now is your core, your awareness, spreading out in the room but not in the way you manually do. This is much stronger. Depending on how much you zoomed out you might start to pick up a lot of people's awareness's and feel waves of emotions that are not your own. You will feel very elevated, and have trouble forming that endless stream of thought that normally scurries around in your head. Now this might sound like a free trip to vegetable-state but it isn't. While in this state your normal state of being is not concentrated in your body/head like usual, but instead, the state you are in when you have projected your awareness outwards, is the default state.

So what you have here is a projected state of awareness times ten, and it's a no brainer that telepathy and energy work in general, is so much easier in this state. In fact, keeping stable connections in this state is very easy. It's not a question of connecting to a line here; it's being a mass of water and letting other puddles of water float into you. It might sound strange if you haven't experienced it, but that's as easy as I can put it. I'll direct you to Kmiller's article for further methods of inducing trance, but generally experimenting with projecting your awareness, makes it easier for you to fall into a self-induced trance as well as quickly switch from Beta to Alpha when you need it.

**Pros and Cons regarding sensitivity**

You thought getting sensitive was all good and ice cream? Well that's what most people think, merely because they are not sensitive and don't know any better. I myself was not very sensitive when I started out and like most was not fully aware of the consequences. But don't worry. There are repercussions and counter-measures.

First, when you grow more sensitive you might start hearing people's random thoughts. Now this might sound like a good thing, and it probably is if you can fully control the level of input, which I mostly cannot - if I am not shielded they come. Usually they are not full-blown thoughts unless the person in question projects it very clearly. It is often projected attitudes about you, their environment, and their family, whatever they are thinking. So stressful situations become even more stressful when you feel other people's stress. Also, if people in your environment are particularly interested in you, you can feel their thoughts like a red-hot needle jammed into your head, which you are not always up for. It's similar to being hugged when you really do not feel like it.

This is not limited to the immediate vicinity, I can no longer use chat programs without shielding first. I rarely get thoughts from random people, but I almost always feel the expressed intention when they write something, the intention being someone will read it and find it funny, interesting, rude, whatever. It's more concentrated when someone says something directed to me and can only be described as the feeling of missing an appointment you made, it's a feeling that yanks at you and if not shielded makes it impossible for me to concentrate on webpage reading. There are of course more full-blown results of being sensitive, such as hearing people's expressed thoughts, their pain, their anger, etc. You may even awaken geistings, which might manifest into very minor things or big tornados. I have personally only geisted in minor, albeit annoying ways, such as blowing out light bulbs, crashing computer programs, shutting down my computer, interfering with radio and speakers. The easiest way to counter-measure is to center your awareness back into you, and shield. A general shield is all right at first but sooner or later you will want to learn how to program them so they filter out some people, but not all.

Since I mentioned trancing, I might warn you that trancing, seeing as how they are much deeper than the projected awareness exercise, might make your mind adopt a lot quicker, with side effects you might not like. Personally, precognitive abilities blossom and die in a cycle that corresponds to how often I trance. If I start trancing on a daily basis for a set period of time, precognitive messages will come to me the next day and fade after half a week. This might sound neat but I do not care much for it. Commercials are tedious enough without knowing their specific order and a boring day turns even more dull if you already know what is going to happen well before it does. Also, trances are harder to shake off and it's not a pleasurable feeling to still be scattered across the room, unable to motivate yourself to form a thought for well over ten minutes.

Everything comes with a price, so be careful when treading on unknown grounds.

Practice all the time! There you go

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This is a suggestion for a very simplified form of scanning and is a good exercise for increasing general sensitivity. In its simplest form, these types of scans gather fairly basic information, however they can be useful and are easy to verify which is a good thing for practice reasons. So here goes. To be able to scan, you first need to be able to move your awareness. What is your awareness? It’s basically everything you are conscious of. When you move your awareness away from your body, it can be a similar feeling to when you daydream deeply. You forget about your body and become more aware instead of the place you have shifted your awareness to.

So how do you actually shift your awareness? In some ways it’s a matter of focus. To start off with close your eyes and concentrate all your attention only on your hand, ignore everything else. Just pay attention to the pressure you feel against your hand where it rests on the desk, the temperature of your skin, the feel of the air moving over your hand (etc). Move your awareness so that it is only inside your hand. Really feel like all of you has been moved to this one place so that in a way, you have become the hand. Done that? Congratulations, you’re now beginning to get a feel for what you’re looking for. Try focusing on different areas, you might want to try focusing on your knee, or a point on your arm. Experiment a bit and see how you go. When you feel ready you can move onto shifting your awareness away from your body.

First you can try a smaller step, we’re not going too far away yet . Think of your arm again. Become very aware of it in a similar way to the exercise above. You are now going to move your awareness of your arm away from your body. Visualization may help here. For example you may think of a ghost like image of your arm overlaying that of your real arm. Move your focus into the ghost like version of your arm and keep it there. Your awareness is now in the ghost arm and you can move it around away from your physical arm. Don’t move your real arm, this remains still and relaxed. Pretend your real arm can’t be moved any longer since you now the ghost arm. You use your mind to guide the ghost arm around, since that is now where your awareness is. As you do this, don’t be surprised if you pick up impressions or “feel” whatever you touch. Also don’t be concerned if you can still feel your physical arm while doing this exercise. You probably will, however generally you should be far less aware of it than usual.

Next, I’m going to explain how to scan for something away from your body. This is very similar to the previous exercise, however this time you are going to move the awareness of your entire body, not just the awareness of your arm. Pick a room or area which can’t be seen into from where you currently are. (Just a tip, especially when starting out it may help to pick an area close by (although don’t let yourself become too hung up distances). It’ll also help when you want to check the results of your scan). Now try to work out if there are any people present in the area you’ve chosen. Extend your awareness into the target area and “brush” it across the room with the intent of finding any people if they are there. Try not to over think this, its not difficult to do but can be hard to explain. In many ways this is done, really is similar to the previous exercises. One way you can think about it is this: normally you pay attention to the to the general area immediately surrounding you. Instead of this, try closing your eyes and focusing on a single point in front of you. Move this point of concentration forward until you reach the area you want to scan. You can now move this area of focus across the targeted area.

As you do this, pay particular attention to anything that seems to prevent you from moving your awareness smoothly over the area, (however pay close attention to any information you get back, no matter how small it may seem). You can either use a “just do it” kind of method (for those of you who use the “just do it” method for PK, yes it is similar,) where you stop thinking about it and simply move your awareness out and look, or its fine to use a visualization if it helps. Some visualization examples that might help could include something like looking at a radar screen and looking/feeling for any glitches or swinging a piece of rope in an arc around you and seeing if you can feel it catch or move over something. It’s possible you may get a different sensation back to what I’ve described or simply just know that someone is there.

So now you’ve made a decision about whether anyone is around or not. The next step is to go and check. You need to know how accurate you were to continue learning. It may take practice so don’t be discouraged if it doesn’t work first off. Keep positive and have fun, believe me it will work better in the long run if you do.

Once you get the hang of that you can try some extra things. How many people do you think there are? Try looking for a specific type of animal instead of people for a change (this one’s good for finding wildlife on a bush walk). There are lots of possibilities, experiment and see what you can come up with. One thing that is very useful to know how to do, is to recognise the sigs of the people you’re scanning. So what exactly is a sig? Frozen Flames explains this well in his Sig Alteration Manual:

> It is a psychic fingerprint. Everyone has a unique sig, and it is permanently in his or her psi constructs as well as in themselves. Nobody can completely remove their sig, even from their constructs. If I want to scan Joey’s shields, I must first locate them by using his sig. However, 99% of the time sig location is done, it is subconscious. Most people will simply think, “I wish to scan Joey,” so they do. However, if Joey masks his sig, it will become extremely difficult to accurately scan him. The same goes for sending constructs. Most will simply program, “Go to Joey,” into their constructs. The construct will then find them by using their sig, and then go to them. However, if their psychic fingerprint is masked, the result is obvious. So that is for what the sig is and does. But what does a sig feel like? That is extremely difficult to describe. Lets use some test subjects: Take a few people you barely know. Maybe look in your school Year Book. Now pick out about five random people. Look at the first person’s name, picture, or both. Concentrate on it, but stay relaxed. Think about their name. A feeling may come to you, something that is hard to put your finger on. Now do the same with the other four. All of them should have different “feelings”. Some may be similar, but like a fingerprint, all are different. This is their sig.
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