Psychic
Path in Psi:
General
Content Type:
Article & Practical
Posted On:
2012-05-29
Edited On:
0000-00-00
Appendix - Playful Psychic
by Skywind
Appendix A: Summaries and Worksheets
Skill Summaries
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Grounding Let go of old energy and tension Anchor to the ground Balance your energy
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Shutdown Ground and Center Relax, focus on something fun
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Astral Projection Choose a location. Daydream about the location to get there. Explore and receive. Practice changing things. Explore others' areas. Return to the physical world.
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Centering Ground your energy. Recognize yourself and your thoughts Recognize thoughts imposed by others Focus on yourself
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Shielding Ground and Center. Choose the shield’s purpose. Draw energy. Swirl it around you until stable. Let go.
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Aura Vision Relax. Look gently or feel with your mind. Shift your focus to looking psychically. Watch the movements and details of the aura.
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Drawing Energy Ground and Center Choose a source Pull in energy Balance yourself
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Empathy Create a connection to the target Strengthen the connection Receive and navigate Disconnect cleanly
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Psychokinesis Fix your beliefs so that disbelief will no longer interfere. Choose the goal you want. Visualize that goal very strongly. Pick the event. Check the outcome. Practice, practice, practice. And did I mention, practice?
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Creating Psiballs Ground and Center Draw energy Shape the energy Notice any sensations
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Telepathy Create and strengthen a link. Receive or send through the link with detailed images. Close the link gently.
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Worksheet: Past Experiences
Yes or No
- Have you had a psychic experience?
- Have you participated in psychic ability experiments?
- Have you read case studies of psychic people, or experiment results?
- Have you read any other books describing psychic experiences?
- Do you believe psychic abilities exist?
What is your overall feeling toward psychic abilities?
- Good: they would be very fun to play with.
- Good: I already use them a lot; they’re a normal part of life.
- I’m not sure.
- You didn’t list my opinion.
- Bad: they are weird and a little scary.
- Bad: I might hurt someone if I lose control.
- Bad: I have them and I don’t want them.
- Bad: they’re scary.
Worksheet: Religion and Beliefs
Yes or No
- Are psychic abilities are related to religion or spirituality?
- Are the ethics an important topic to you?
- Is your religion's view of psy important to you?
What is your religion's view on psychic abilities?
- They don't exist.
- They exist, but only special religious officials have them.
- They're evil/satanic/demonic/dangerous.
- Neutral - it doesn't say anything about them.
- They exist in some special people.
- They exist in everyone.
- Everyone can and should develop them.
What is your religion?
Worksheet: Patience
What kinds of results do you want?
- Proof of psychic abilities existing, or of my own psychic abilities
- Understanding of what psychic abilities are
- Understanding of a specific experience I had
- Gaining skill in particular abilities
- Gaining understanding of life and this world
- Better understanding of humanity and spirituality
- Other
How long are you willing to wait for those results?
- A day
- A few weeks
- A month or two
- As long as it takes
Look through the table of contents. What skill do you want to learn first? Why?
Worksheet: Fears
Mark each sentence that describes your thoughts.
- Psychic abilities don't really exist. People can't really do that.
- Even if psychic abilities did exist, only a few people have them. I'm not special. I can't possibly do it.
- Psychic abilities are just too weird. I can't think about that.
- If psychic abilities existed, I would have to change my beliefs about the world, and my stability would fall apart.
- If I try to gain psychic abilities, I might lose control of them and hurt someone.
- I don't like who I would be if I could use psychic abilities.
- Psychic abilities are scary.
- Meditating and the feelings I get using the abilities are too deep; I’m scared I might lose control of myself.
- I’m not worried; I’ll learn some abilities and use them calmly.
Do you believe that you personally can learn psychic abilities? ___ Yes ___ No
Worksheet: Summary
Why do you want to learn psi?
What skills are you going to start with?
How long will you practice? I promise to spend ____ practicing a skill before I quit.
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Worksheet: Comfort with Encounters |
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Perceptions |
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Feeling ghosts are nearby but not seeing them? |
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Seeing ghosts? |
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Feeling auras touch you? |
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Seeing auras? |
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Knowing what happened in a room? |
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Getting visions of an object's past by holding it? |
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Knowing what might happen tomorrow? |
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Being directed to do things? |
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Being talked to by spirits or other creatures? |
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Alterations |
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Changing how a plant grows by feeling kind or unkind to it? |
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Causing dice to roll differently? |
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Accidentally causing electrical equipment to break or behave strangely? |
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Causing lights to flicker? |
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Causing time to slow down or speed up slightly? |
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Accidentally or purposely, making small objects levitate? |
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Accidentally or purposely, making large objects levitate? |
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Accidentally or purposely, causing scorches or small fires? |
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People |
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Feeling other people's emotions? |
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Hearing other people's thoughts in your mind? |
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Knowing personal information about a stranger? |
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Causing other people to feel your moods and hear your thoughts? |
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Knowing someone dislikes you, although they are polite? |
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Knowing someone is lying to you, although they aren't showing it? |
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Feeling the presence of every person and animal in the room? |
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Knowing when someone is about to get hurt? |
Worksheet: Personality
How easily frustrated are you?
- If I can't do it the first time, it's not worth the effort.
- I'll try a few times.
- I sometimes get frustrated, but I keep trying. I'll figure it out eventually.
- Things worth learning are worth practicing. When I want to learn something, I don't care how long it takes. I keep trying.
How much guidance do you want?
- I want a lot of instruction and guidance.
- I like to do things by myself.
How much do you want to control what you do?
- It'll happen on its own
- I'd like to be able to guide it a little
- I'd like control of some of my abilities, so I can use them when I need them.
- I'd eventually like to control all my abilities, but they can still happen on their own.
- My abilities should only happen when I specifically try to make them happen.
- I want to understand every detail and control everything about it happening.
What do you want from a teacher or book?
- General information
- Things to try
- Advice on difficulties
- Advice on how to learn
- Someone to understand me
- Someone to explain my experiences to
- Someone to help me understand my experiences
Worksheet: Paranormal Event Record
Yes or No
Does the event always occur near the same person?
Does the event always occur near the same place?
Does the event always occur near the same time?
Where/when did it happen?
Who did it involve?
How important is it?
Is the event good, bad, or neither?
Explain what happened.
Appendix B: Z-SCORE and Probability
There are four important statistics regarding the experiments described in this book. They are arithemetic mean, standard deviation, z-score, and probability. This section discusses each in detail, including how to calculate them.
Arithmetic Mean
Arithemetic mean, or average, is (in this situation) the number of hits expected by chance alone.
Mean = (Total trials) * (Chance expressed as a fraction)
For instance, if there are 30 total trials, and there are 5 cards, then chance is 1/5. The mean is 30 * (1/5) = 30/5 = 6. If there are 78 trials, and 5 cards, the mean is 78 * (1/5) = (78 / 5) = 15.6.
Standard Deviation
Standard deviation describes the amount that scores would vary by naturally. It is directly based on the chance value for the situation. The formula here is used only when chance is a known value, such as 1/4, or 1/5, or some other fraction.
Standard Deviation = square root ( mean / 2 )
For example, if there are 30 trials, and 1/5 is chance, the mean is 6. To calculate the standard deviation, take the mean divided by two = 6/2 = 3, and find the square root of that. The square root of 3 is 1.73. Therefore, one standard deviation is 1.73.
If there are 78 trials, and 1/5 is chance, the mean is 15.6. That divided by two = 15.6 / 2 = 7.8. The square root of 7.8 is 2.79. Therefore, one standard deviation is 2.79.
Z-Score
Z-Score describes how far a score is away from the mean, measured in standard deviations. For the score line below, assume 30 trials, chance 1/5, mean 6. Each section marked SD measure the distance of 1 standard deviation.
If you actually got 1 hit, instead of the expected 6 hits, your score would be about 3 standard deviations away. That would mean your z-score was 3. The z-score can be a decimal value, rather than just an integer (for the score of 4 hits, as an example). The formula for calculating it exactly is as follows.
Z-score = (Actual hits obtained - Expected Mean) / (standard deviation)
So in this case, z-score = (1 - 6) / 1.73 = -5 / 1.73 = -2.89. The negative sign indicates that you got fewer hits than expected; you psi-missed instead of psi-hit. The value of the z-score is more important than the direction.
The z-score becomes a more accurate measure as the number of trials gets large. It's best used when the mean is at least 10, and all the better if the mean is in the thousands (such as with computerized random number generators). Since the amount of effect that PK has been studied to have is somewhere between 1 in 100 bits, to 1 in 1000 bits, it's best if you can do several hundred trials with a random number generator, in order to measure your effect.
Probability of Z-Score
Probability of the Z-score is the percentage chance of that z-score being due to random chance alone, and not to your efforts. It is the measuring stick of proof for scientific experiments. You need a 5% probability or less that the results are due to chance, in order to have proven an effect. Some experiments have even more rigorous requirements; a probability of 1%, or of 0.1% as proof. You must get down at least to 5% to begin with.
The actual probability formula involves calculus and would be difficult to explain here. Instead, I've provided a table showing the important range of z-scores and probability values. Two important significance levels: a z-score of 1.65 or greater means the probability is 5% or less. A z-score of 2.33 or greater means the probability is 1% or less.
Formula Summary
Mean = (Total trials) * (Chance expressed as a fraction)
Standard Deviation = square root ( mean / 2 )
Z-score = (Actual hits obtained - Expected Mean) / (standard deviation)
Z-Score / Probability Lookup Table
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Probability |
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0.00 |
50% |
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0.25 |
40% |
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0.52 |
30% |
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0.84 |
20% |
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1.04 |
15% |
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1.28 |
10% |
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1.41 |
8% |
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1.65 |
5% |
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1.75 |
4% |
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1.88 |
3% |
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2.05 |
2% |
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2.33 |
1% |
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2.58 |
0.05% |
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3.09 |
0.01% |
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3.29 |
0.005% |
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3.72 |
0.001% |
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4.26 |
0.0001% |
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Above 4.26 |
Incredible |
Appendix C: Scientific Organizations
Many organizations have publications available to members at lower costs or for free. They also often provide library or research services of various sorts. The publications and services listed are, obviously, an incomplete list.. Typical yearly memberships are $30-$70 US, with discounts available for students, spouses, and senior citizens.
Contact the organization you're interested in for up to date membership and publication costs.
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American Society for Psychical Research, Inc. 5 West 73rd Street New York, New York 10023 USA Phone (212) 799-5050 / Fax (212) 496-2497 Web address: http://www.aspr.com/
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Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research ASPR Newsletter Information Service for hard-to-find resources Research Library and Archives Audio, Video & Book Sale Catalogue
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Consciousness Research Laboratory CA USA Web address: http://www.psiresearch.org/index.htm
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The Conscious Universe
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Global Consciousness Project Web address: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/ |
International Data Gathering and Analysis Results Online
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Institut für Grenzgebiete der Psychologie und Psychohygiene Wilhelmstr. 3a D-79098 Freiburg i.Br. Phone: 0761-20721-0; Fax 0761-20721-99 FREIBURG, GERMANY Web address: http://www.igpp.de/
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Research Papers and Abstracts German Language Information
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Japanese Society for Parapsychology 29-24-204 Sakuragaoka Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0031 JAPAN Phone Number: +81-3-3496-4353 Fax Number: +81-3-3496-4391 Web address: http://wwwsoc.nacsis.ac.jp/jspp2/index_e.htm
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Japanese Journal of Parapsychology Annual Convention, December in Tokyo Summer School Monthly Meetings E-mail Newsletter
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Koestler Parapsychology Unit Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh 7, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ United Kingdom. Telephone: +44 (0)131 650 3348 Web address: http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk/index.html
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European Journal of Parapsychology In-depth online articles, abstracts
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Parapsychological Association, Inc. PO BOX 797 Fairhaven, MA 02719 USA Web address: http://www.parapsych.org/
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Publication of Members' Articles Conventions Science Papers Online
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Parapsychology Foundation, Inc. 228 East 71st Street New York, NY 10021 USA Tel: 212-628-1550 Fax:212-628-1559 Web address: http://www.parapsychology.org/home.html |
Parapsychology Review: Official Journal Eileen J. Garrett Library Eileen J. Garrett: A Woman Who Made a Difference Scholarships and Grants Proceedings of International Conferences Parapsychological Monographs
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Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research C-131, Engineering Quadrangle Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 USA Phone: (609) 258-5950 Fax: (609) 258-1993 Web address: http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/
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Margins of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World Consciousness and Anomalous Physical Phenomena. Articles and Studies
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Rhine Research Center Institute for Parapsychology 402 N. Buchanan Blvd. Durham, NC 27701-1728 USA Tel. 919-688-8241 Fax 919-683-4338 Web address: http://www.rhine.org/
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Journal of Parapsychology Summer Study Program Library Online articles |
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Society for Psychical Research 49, MARLOES ROAD KENSINGTON LONDON W8 6LA TELEPHONE / FAX: 0171-937-8984 Web address: http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk/~spr/ |
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research Newsletter Many Books and Booklets Lectures Cassettes of Lectures Library
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