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I was wondering if anyone else has ever delved into topics related to parapsychology or psi. That means stuff like telekinesis or psychokinesis, telepathy, remote viewing, astral projection/out-of-body experiences...

Well, I made technically my second psi ball ever a couple nights ago, and then made more the next day and night. When I've made one, I can feel this repulsion between my hands that I don't ever feel when I just hold them palms facing each other without thinking about making a psi ball. I'm so excited about it, because it's made psi a personal thing with me instead of remaining an obscure topic to read about. And it was so easy! o_o

Edit: References
PsiPog.net
Parapsychology FAQs

I really like the college studies where they have a blindfolded person at the end of a room by a window and then a gathering of people on the other end, where the blindfolded person has to state when they think the group is starring at them.

I tend to know when people are looking at me and its hard not to turn around and stare back.

I tend to flip tails more than heads but I think that's just something to do with my flip.

I also like the idea of a role-play where you take a bunch of people into a haunted house that somehow ends up amplifying their extra sensory abilities and of course it turns up, that they can see and sense the ghosts! Buahahahahaha!

Ooh how about that test that Dr. Venkman pulls on the college students with the cards by testing if positive and negative reinforcement will enhance cognitive abilities. Now that was a hoot.

I do believe people can affect the world around them in an extra sensory way, especially through group settings. Like for example, focusing on wanting beads to fall to a certain path, or the healing powers of faith.

It’s just a matter of finding out how to make it instinctive in a way much like when a pro tennis player feels out an ace.

One of the mini games in Mario World 64 for the DS is a Psi game.
It shows you the back of these playing cards that sometimes have the outlines of what's actually on the card but most of the time you just need to guess for the card you want.

Your choices are between feather, mushroom, star, flower, and cloud. The game shows you each round which one you need to find.
I made it through 25 rounds, whoohoo!

I also think there is more than just a familiarity bond between siblings, especially twins. Though I do think that this link in nurtured by being raised together.

hmm... I totally like the "staring" test, I think I'll try that with my friends...or at least tell them about it. Most of the time, I can feel when soem one's staring at me, or like feel someone's presence. Like sometimes during class I look towards the door cuz it feels like some one's coming and some one either walks by or comes in to give the teacher some papers or something. It's sorta cool. So, now how do you do this "psi ball"?

animefreak: There're many ways, techniques, to make a psi ball. Basically, you think of an energy source (i.e. the sun, earth, people, food), imagine yourself receiving energy from the source somehow, and then condensing the energy into a ball between your hands. It's easier to make one if you are good at concentrating and imagining, and you have an open mind. Definitely don't doubt yourself. It's just a fun activity to do, and if nothing comes from your first try, don't be discouraged. You'll know you've made one if you feel your hands repelling each other as like magnets There are other signs.
If you want more stuff on psi balls, here's a reference. (: I'll add it to my first post too. Click.

Moleje: I know what you mean. I can hear the differences when our downstairs TV is on Video 1, muted and on a regular channel, or turned off. I'm not even sure if it's my sense of hearing that's picking it up. It's like an electrical buzzing/ringing in my head. o_O

I don't remember where I read this but it said that most para/psi happenings happen to children or around them. It said that it was because of their being more open to it and having more flexible minds then adults, like poltergiests are really teenaged girls going into/through puberty. Most of them late. Stephen King was right about that, I think.

Yeah, I think about that sometimes. and how like when I was younger I was probably more "in touch" with my surroundings than I am now.

I haven't noticed, or I haven't stared in the dark enough to notice, but I notice it when I stare at something in normal light. They could be like what Kagenoku's talking about, auras. I can see auras if I stare long enough, but I'm not experienced in changing or even seeing mine.

Auras are more felt than seen...
Very dark places hold your hand before your face about a foot away and move it, and see if you can see the motion or not. I think it is an extention of the feeling sense mentally.

It also helps to be half blind as I am to "see things", Scientifically it is the use of the other sences to compensate for the falability of the other senses, but there is the other sense that has not been proven which is the subject of this forum.