A Flaring Guide

Ever since man made his first psiball, there has been the desire to actually see it. Normally when one makes a construct, there is no visual aspect of it. Many times all you will be able to get are pushes, pulls, or temperature variations. Only if you are very lucky will a construct flare on its own, and even then, the process is highly uncontrolled and doesn’t last very long. My first unintentional flare lasted only a split second, and what whitish in color.

But there are methods out there that will allow you to control this phenomenon. Although I’m only mentioning one of them here, feel free to experiment and be playful, perhaps you’ll find one that works better for you. So what exactly is a flare? Simply put, flaring is the process in which a construct becomes visible to the average person, either with programming or visualization. Flares can usually be programmed to come in an unlimited range of colors and textures. There are some good examples in our media section of some psiballs that I recently flared.

There is still some argument as to whether or not constructs reflect or give off light. The small amount of reliable photos that have been taken do not always give the best photographic angle to research on, but seeing as many of them are shown in the dark (or poorly lit) conditions, the assumption has been made that constructs give off light when they are flared. Using the method described below, you can do your own research, and make up your own mind on the mechanics.

Begin by creating your average, run of the mill psiball. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, it just needs to be solid and dense. Density is important when flaring, if you don’t have the right amount of psi, your results may not turn out. A rule of thumb: denser is always better. Visualization is going to be key in construct flaring. You may use either Visual or Tactical, it doesn’t really matter, but you must be very experienced with your preferred method, or you won’t be able to pull off the flare. I personally use a visual method, so that’s what I’ll be describing here.

Once you have your psiball nice and dense, picture the outer layer beginning to swirl around, similar to Cirrus clouds. Begin to move that outer layer faster, but do so at a regular pace. Do this with each “layer” (I usually have about 10 or so) of the psiball, until you get close to the “core”. Do not spin this core. Instead, have the core glow the color you wish to flare the ball as. Let’s make it green in this example. The core should be brighter than the rest of the ball, and you may feel a small bit of warmth if the visualization is vivid. Now, start to slowly condense the layers into the core of the ball, and remember to keep them spinning. Once you have condensed the ball to about one-half its original size, condense it the rest of the way using one quick motion. You may want to picture a “snap” effect, where the layers cling tight to the core, and meld as one. As soon as these layers “snap” on, visualize your construct igniting and erupting to the color of the glow, but this time add more intensity. If the flare hasn’t started yet, picture the ball erupting into a bright flash, and even expanding rapidly.

Although this method has worked very well for me, it took me a while to get it just how I wanted it. Each person is different, and your mind will take everything a different way. Be playful and loose with this method, and keep chipping at it until you get the results that you want. I’m going to assure you, you probably will not get it the first, nor the second, nor the third time. Flaring is a difficult skill to learn, especially for newbies. Do not try more than two of these in one sitting, as it should take a very large amount of energy to accomplish. If you get any flares on film, feel free to e-mail them to me by clicking on the “Contact” button on the sidebar. Good luck, and keep practicing!

Body Position Triggering

Triggering, in my personal definition, is: tying a psionic action to a physical action so that the psionic action may be performed with little or no psionic concentration. That may be slightly confusing and perhaps a little off, but that is basically it. Let my try to explain: has anyone ever called your name and you suddenly jumped and looked around for however called it, without even thinking about it? This is similar to triggering. Your subconscious is programmed so that whenever it hears your name, it tells you to look around for whoever called you. Some of you may be able to already perform some minor triggering without even knowing it if you’ve been making psiballs for a while. Let me give you a real example of triggering:

Lets say Johny has a position that he always puts his hands in when he makes a psiball, right? Lets say it’s the cupping hands position. Johny has been making psiballs for about two months now. So Johny, for whatever reason, decides to put his hands in this cupping hands position (but he doesn’t try to make a psiball). All of a sudden in a few seconds he starts to feel a psiball in his hands!

Why did this psiball form, you ask me? Because after making a psiball, whenever Johny puts his hands in that position. When he put his hands in that position; without even thinking about making a psiball, his subconscious assumed he wanted a psiball made. What does the lovely subconscious do? It begins creating a psiball. That is a rudimentary example of basic triggering

This might seem a little redundant at first, but when you think about it, it can come in handy. Maybe whenever you make a telepathic link you could put your hands in a certain position or do some sort of motion when facing the screen name or person you want to link with. Then maybe if you’re having trouble concentrating, if you do this motion while facing the person (or person’s name, etc.) while you try to link, it will help you link to the person a little easier. This sort of thing can be useful when you get into more advanced programming as well.

You can use triggering for anything (taking down shields, linking, drawing energy, etc.). Just make sure that your hand or body motions/positions are different from each other. You don’t want your shield disabling position to be one hand cupped. Then if you decide to make a psiball with one hand, you’ll find yourself defenseless ;-). Just try to use common sense with this method.

Also, make sure that your motions make sense to you. If somebody recommends putting your hands out in a defensive position every time you shield (to trigger shielding), but to you instead of meaning “defense” it means “scaredy-cat”, then don’t do it! Use stuff that makes sense to you. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a hand position. It can be a body position too, it can be any position.

This isn’t really a required skill. I know most psions don’t really use triggering at all, but it can come in handy. It all depends on whether you want to or not, that’s all.

Remember, you’re training your subconscious to automatically do a task. Teach it wisely.