Building Your Own Symbol Set

Your goal as a psionic practitioner is to create a symbol (or symbols) which effectively communicate your intention.    You will work to build your own understanding of what common tasks within psionics “mean to you”.  Most psionics tasks involve conveying an intention to an object or situation. You need to decide what this means.

Exercise #1: Decide what “Conveying an Intention to an Object” Means

Sit in a quiet room and meditate for a period of about 15 minutes on what is required(in your mind) to convey an intention to an object.  People have been known to effectively be able to convey an intention using thought or action(such as arts, plays, or listening to certain music). This is expanded upon further in the psionics introductory guide.  When you are finished with the exercise, carefully note all of the thoughts and considerations in your journal.  If you don’t have any thoughts or considerations, keep trying the exercise for a few days.  What you want here is a laundry list of items.

Exercise #2: Decide what “Conveying an Intention Concerning a Situation” Means

Sit in a quiet room and meditate for a period of about 15 minutes about what is required to convey an intention concerning the outcome of a situation.  Remember from the psionics introduction guide that this is possible in many ways (using certain thoughts, or actions such as arts or plays).  When you have completed this exercise, note all details of your experience carefully in your journal.  Like exercise #1, what you want here is a laundry list of items.

Commentary

The purpose of this exercise is to help you build up your own  effective symbolic system for the purpose of practicing psionics.  You will strengthen the symbols as mentioned in your laundry list of items from exercises #1 and #2 through the use of meditation techniques.

Building Up Your Symbols

This is where having experience in visualization is useful. If you haven’t done so already,  complete at least a good portion of the Visualization Primer before continuing. It is very important to your practice to work on your visualization (and related) skills.

Exercise #3: Daily Meditation on Symbol System

This exercise should take a month+.  Daily, choose an item from your laundry list of items, and spend 15 minutes meditating upon it and its significance.  You should do this until you have spent a significant amount of time on each item in the lists from exercise #1 and exercise #2. You can use the symbols  you created as an effective means of communicating your will and intention to objects and situations (for example, moving an object telekinetically).  It is acceptable to pair this practice with some other practice (of course). Record your results daily in your journal.

This should be an exercise that you repeat if after a period of time of not practicing you desire to continue practicing psionics again.

Common Choices for Relaying Intention

I am going to briefly discuss the most prevalent choices for these exercises so that you understand where various authors are coming from when you read their articles and courses. Absolutely do not modify your choices made during exercise #1 and exercise #2 after reading about the common choices.  If you didn’t make any of these choices, that is definitely fine.

Common choices for conveying intention :

1. The use of the concept of “energy”
2.  The idea of a “link” in order to convey a connection between yourself and the event/object.
3.  An idea of transferring “energy” from yourself to the object which means the thing you wish to convey.

Analysis of Existing Psionic Symbol System

Energy

Traditionally, psionics has used a concrete, static symbol system based on the concept of using thought to relay intent. Psi was traditionally represented as a form of actual “energy”.  Within the context of traditional psionics, people used certain thoughts and states of mind to “program” “energy” to do things on behalf of the operator(yourself).
We could have just as easily chose a different system; that is, something else could have been used to relay intent.  You created this system yourself in exercise #1 and exercise #2. 

Connection Using Links

In traditional Psionics, it is common to visualize and/or create a link using “energy”, whose purpose is to symbolize the fact that two different objects or individuals are connected. This is particularly popular in telepathic and telekinetic-type applications.

However, the psionic practitioner could have just as easily chosen to visualize and will that he/she is one with the object or person, rather than actually trying to form a “concrete” connection.

The point here is that you could have chosen anything for your technique that means “I can communicate with this object/person effectively” ,and with practice and daily meditation(as mentioned in exercise #3), it’d work just fine.

Transference of Intention

People tend to choose a few different things to represent “transference of intention” in the world of Psionics.  The common ones are as follows(in no particular order):

1. Programming the “energy” to mean something you want to happen.  A common example for beginners is creating a “hot” psiball, or programming “energy” with the idea of “movement” when you are practicing telekinesis.

2. Simply visualizing (sometimes using multiple senses) that the object or situation is doing what you want, with the will that it will work.

3. Attempting to move an object like a limb(popular in telekinesis applications).

Again, the point here is that you could have chosen anything that means “transference of intention”, and as long as you meditate on the significance of it meaning “transference of intention”, it’d probably work just the same.

How to Create Your Own Techniques

You can create your own techniques by repeating what was done in exercises #1,#2, and #3, and then applying the technique in your own practice.

Exercise #4: Create Your Own Technique

Choose a field of psionics which you want to practice.  Create a technique using concepts from exercises #1, #2, and #3. Proceed to use this technique in your practice for at least two weeks, while daily noting how the practice went in your journal.  At the end of the two weeks, compare it with how successful your previous practices were using a method that you did not create. If you did not engage in any practices previously, practice for 2 weeks with a method that you did not create and then compare.  

You should stop practice if at any time you get a headache or feel dizzy. You should get medical attention if this is necessary.

Conclusion

Psionics, as a field, is particularly malleable. If some method does not work for you, feel free to try out a different one.  You can even experiment with using actions to mean certain things, or maybe by using certain music.  Be creative and have fun!