12-17-2007, 12:00 AM
Here's a very practical application of secrecy.
Get a coin to flip or a deck of cards to turn over one at a time. Your job is to predict each outcome, and to keep track of your successes and failures.
You won't do much better than chance trying to predict what possibility will be next. It could be heads, tails, spades, hearts, whatever.
Now spend a day telling everyone you can, that you have no psychic powers. Be adamant. Get feedback. Feedback is important. Deny and suppress it.
Make sure you keep your purpose out of your mind do not think about it, as you go about denying it.
At best, you could get into an adamant argument about the existence of psychic phenomena.
Now try the test again.
This principle predicts that psychic ability will increase if it is denied. You should do exceptionally better than chance on the retest. There are many factors that might influence how successful you are, but nearly everyone will be able to score above chance after spending some time denying what they can do.
Who here remembers the two people who did better than chance on the public ESP test on SR?
That's right. GD and Jeremy. The two biggest skeptics and naysayers turned out to be the most psychic of anyone who participated in the test.
Now there needs to be an exception, or I couldn't tell anyone such things. In a while I'll post about how the exceptions have to happen in order not to drain off the magic.
It involves a physical gesture much like that found in the Order of the Golden Dawn, or so I've been told.
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The sorcerer has a secret garden within him where he uses the secret of secrecy to grow treasures.
We all have secrets. They can work for us or against us, by amplyfying the the secret, generally, if we are unpracticed or unfamiliar with it, having the opposite effect of what we might desire.
Perhaps you've told everyone at your workplace that you're five years younger than you actually are. Your secret becomes "how old you are". That secret will speed your aging process. Fortunately you probably didn't have to adamantly insist on your lie, and the effect will be slight.
On the other hand, if you told everyone you were five years older than you actually were, your secret becomes "how young you are", and just like in the experiment above, your youngness increases.
Denial makes things larger.
The act of naming things makes things shrink. To know the name of something, to use it in an act of naming, is to diminish it.
This odd convolution is tricky to deal with at first, but it's not a difficult idea. The dynamic is all around us constantly. As the human mind goes through life naming everything, as we do, it all diminishes.
The "quiet mind" technique of stopping the internal dialogue that Carlos wrote about will diminish the naming of the world, giving one an amplified sense of being.
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Inversion
Secrecy is one example of the desires of people working against them.
It is said that should a man wish to understand himself, he has to forget about himself, and seek to understand the world around him.
That being said, should a man wish to understand the world around him, he must forget about the world around him, and look within himself for answers.
This too is an application of the secret of secrecy. This effect of inversion of your desire is can be responsible for a lot of confusion in life.
As one names the world around them, it is the self that diminishes. The convolutions never end. The power of silence, or secrecy, as it's sometimes been called, flips everything.
That's the secret of naming.
Get a coin to flip or a deck of cards to turn over one at a time. Your job is to predict each outcome, and to keep track of your successes and failures.
You won't do much better than chance trying to predict what possibility will be next. It could be heads, tails, spades, hearts, whatever.
Now spend a day telling everyone you can, that you have no psychic powers. Be adamant. Get feedback. Feedback is important. Deny and suppress it.
Make sure you keep your purpose out of your mind do not think about it, as you go about denying it.
At best, you could get into an adamant argument about the existence of psychic phenomena.
Now try the test again.
This principle predicts that psychic ability will increase if it is denied. You should do exceptionally better than chance on the retest. There are many factors that might influence how successful you are, but nearly everyone will be able to score above chance after spending some time denying what they can do.
Who here remembers the two people who did better than chance on the public ESP test on SR?
That's right. GD and Jeremy. The two biggest skeptics and naysayers turned out to be the most psychic of anyone who participated in the test.
Now there needs to be an exception, or I couldn't tell anyone such things. In a while I'll post about how the exceptions have to happen in order not to drain off the magic.
It involves a physical gesture much like that found in the Order of the Golden Dawn, or so I've been told.
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The sorcerer has a secret garden within him where he uses the secret of secrecy to grow treasures.
We all have secrets. They can work for us or against us, by amplyfying the the secret, generally, if we are unpracticed or unfamiliar with it, having the opposite effect of what we might desire.
Perhaps you've told everyone at your workplace that you're five years younger than you actually are. Your secret becomes "how old you are". That secret will speed your aging process. Fortunately you probably didn't have to adamantly insist on your lie, and the effect will be slight.
On the other hand, if you told everyone you were five years older than you actually were, your secret becomes "how young you are", and just like in the experiment above, your youngness increases.
Denial makes things larger.
The act of naming things makes things shrink. To know the name of something, to use it in an act of naming, is to diminish it.
This odd convolution is tricky to deal with at first, but it's not a difficult idea. The dynamic is all around us constantly. As the human mind goes through life naming everything, as we do, it all diminishes.
The "quiet mind" technique of stopping the internal dialogue that Carlos wrote about will diminish the naming of the world, giving one an amplified sense of being.
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Inversion
Secrecy is one example of the desires of people working against them.
It is said that should a man wish to understand himself, he has to forget about himself, and seek to understand the world around him.
That being said, should a man wish to understand the world around him, he must forget about the world around him, and look within himself for answers.
This too is an application of the secret of secrecy. This effect of inversion of your desire is can be responsible for a lot of confusion in life.
As one names the world around them, it is the self that diminishes. The convolutions never end. The power of silence, or secrecy, as it's sometimes been called, flips everything.
That's the secret of naming.