دانلود کتاب The Psion’s Handbook: Overview of Psionics

Introduction
The word “Psion” is most well known in the
Role-Playing world, but the term was originally coined
while researching psychic abilities. In this context, it
refers to a person who actively practices and uses these
psychic abilities.
In an attempt to separate ourselves from the
“New Age Psychic,” and “Witch, Warlock, and
Wiccan” realms, we use the term Psionics to describe
our studies. The main difference being – we don’t
want to cast spells, invoke demons, talk to spirit
guides, and basically change our whole religion just to
learn psychic skills. While each Psion usually has their
own religious understanding of the world, collectively
we do not force our religious beliefs on one another.
There are Christian Psions, Buddhist Psions, Atheist
Psions, and all that other stuff in between.
Our basic beliefs are that psychic abilities are
real, and that we should study them with an open
mind, without religious overtones, much like an
objective scientist. That’s not to say religion and
Psionics are completely separate – a lot of us derive our
beliefs from things we’ve experienced. But we realize
that the best way to learn the truth is to openly
investigate, avoiding the “this is the way things should
be because that’s what my religion tells me” mentality.
I personally started practicing psychic abilities
in February of 1999. I had seen a commercial for a
movie with someone who could move objects with
their mind (a skill known as Psychokinesis). Out of
boredom I did a search on the Internet for information,
and was surprised when I found that some people
7actually performed Psychokinesis. At the time, I was
overly skeptical, and claimed they were all delusional
and suggested they see a psychiatrist. Eventually
curiosity got the best of me, and I started practicing to
see if I could get results. Prior to my first practice
sessions, I had very minimal experience with psychic
abilities; I was not born with any strange abilities, and I
was pretty “normal” up until that point.
After training various skills for a little over a
year, in May of 2000 I created an online organization
called PsiPog (located at www.psipog.net ). PsiPog
stands for Psychic Students In Pursuit Of Guidance,
and is currently my outlet for sharing experiences and
training exercises with other Psions. I’m not the only
one – we have many skilled authors sharing their ideas
and techniques with the community. At the time of
writing this, there are over 7,000 registered users, and
we average over 900 unique hits a day.
On PsiPog, an author writes an article about a
specific topic, and we post it online so everyone can
access it. The main advantage of this system is that
authors can focus on one topic in their article, and be
very thorough. Over the years, we’ve accumulated a
lot of articles on a wide range of psychic abilities.
The purpose of this document is to bring it all
together. Articles are great for exploring one specific
topic, but it’s hard to get the big picture without
reading all the articles, and fitting the pieces together.
At first this wasn’t hard, but now with over 60 articles,
it’s become overwhelming for people new to Psionics.
The following pages should be read straight
through the first time. After you have a general
understanding of each skill, then go through again and
skip to the parts that interest you.