Energy Manipulation

The Lesson

Welcome the chronicler's course in basic energy manipulation (very basic) I thought there might be some who are interested who are just beginning to learn magic and would need this, and I get tired of repeating it to everyone who wants to learn.

Understand that this is my interpretation of energy manipulation, and by no means the only way to do it, or even the only way to define it.

Energy manipulation is the basic practice from which most magic arises, it is the medium through which we influence our surroundings. Forgive me if anyone out there has seen Star Wars and has flashbacks to Yoda, but that description was disturbingly accurate.

The energy which we are manipulating (called psi, chi, ki, mana, and too many other things to list) fits what Star Wars called 'the force' (minus the midichlorians ) it is an energy which flows through all life and all matter, and which a force of will can manipulate into a wide variety of effects, such as healing, protective shields, and even curses (the last of which I will never teach, don't ask).

((There will be a written test))

How do we do this? The first step is to select a source of energy, a lot of people prefer the sun or moon, I happen to have a fetish for forests. It's all a matter of personal preference. It is possible to use yourself as the source, but it tends to make one tired and hungry, so I don't recommend it.

Now the actual practice, you have your source? Good. Close your eyes and picture this energy source, it helps me to visualize its location in relation to myself. Now feel the energy, and pull it to yourself as a single stream of light.

The exact way you visualize this, again personal preference, it could be a white ray like a flashlight, or a red tendril of energy, or anything at all. See and feel this energy flowing into yourself, possibly to your chest, but that also is only my suggestion.

You should be able to feel this energy as a heat, or a tingling, or something, but if you don't just practice until you do.

You've got it, what do you do with it? Well for practice purposes what we are going to do is see and feel this energy flowing down our arms into our hands. You place your hands together and pour it into the space between them. You can either hold them close together and make this 'psi ball' dense, or spread your hands as it grows, and then physically push it tight. You may be able to feel a measurable change in the air temperature between your hands (no this is not because of your bodyheat, I've made them almost a foot across and gotten the same heat)

For now you can just let this energy fade away, but with practice you will be able to move it and shape it and eventually turn it into a good spell. Congratulations! Everyone passed! Now go practice.... Oh yes, I promised a test didn't I? (I see you sighing in disappointment in the back row Ann, don't worry I'll give it)

Here is the test, and no cheating! :What... Is your favorite color?

As usual, anything I forgot, am wrong about, left unclear, please tell me so I can correct it.

Correcting myself, I left out grounding. Always do this before energy work, it protects from various negative effects, including having your energy pulled away and negative backlash from whatever you are doing.

Visualize white light washing over you from above, and it is washing away negative energy. The second part is to visualize vines curling up from the ground around your legs, absorbing the energy and channeling it harmlessly into the earth.
This is also one of the shielding techniques, but it is what I use for grounding.

Pretty much anything you can think of can be used a source. I know someone that lives by a busy highway and will actually draw upon motor vehicle traffic as a source of energy...Weird, but it works...Use your imagination, open your mind, and look. You'll find something that will work for you.

If you can figure out how an object might contain energy, you can use it as an energy source. All matter contains energy, the problem is just in getting to it.

All matter generates energy, the scientific term I believe is harmonic resonance. Energy is all the same thing, heat, light, motion, anything that generates these is an energy source, and anything that has absorbed energy from something is an energy source.

For example, I walk with a cane, by being with me at all times it absorbs energy from me, which makes it an energy source for someone else. Or I have a statue of an owl on my desk which someone spent hours carving and painting, their attention put energy into it, so it is an energy source.

Different sources are inclined to different effects if you think they are, but they can be used for anything, it all depends on what works for you. In the wiccan tradition different phases of the moon have different energy.

Alternative Method

I have learned not to visualize the energy when working with it, but to feel its movement. It's similar to the induced visualization, but with a different sense basically. It has worked for me very well and I would like to suggest it.

Simply, instead of visualizing light or water, or whatever, you feel a tingly, heating sensation moving to where it is needed. If it needs to move away from your body, just feel it get fainter as it moves away, but never really losing the sensation.

In Practice

Yesterday I tried Energy Manipulation. It was very intense and unlike anything I have experienced before. The grounding was uneventful, but once I started to draw on the energy from my source I could feel it flowing throughout my body, it was almost a cold sensation, it was an uplifting spiritual feeling, it was a feeling that stayed inside me for hours and hours afterwards. I did not however really do anything with the energy; I just kind of let it dissipate. As a new dabbler in Wiccan and pagan ritual I did not want to use the energy until I learn more. For now I will keep practicing energy manipulation.

Congratulations on that. Very few people have that kind of success on their first attempt. I know I didn't. But if i may ask where did you raise your energy from? You described feeling a cold sensation and that doesn't sound quite right. I would be very interested in knowing.

A lake next to where I live. Maybe I did it wrong Wasn't it a full moon that night, would that have any effect on my experince? In anycase I need more practice to get comfortable with it

I've been really, really tired lately. why are you tired? practicing energy manipulation and grounding? Cuz that'd defiantly do it.

A lake...that sounds strange, normally drawing energy from anything ESPECIALLY when you're drawing from natural resources you would get the opposite effect. So the only thing that I can figure is that:

1. You're grounding more energy than you're pulling. Which is good because it will reduce the amount of backlash that you might otherwise get hit with for actually casting any spell. Provided of course that the spell works at all due to the possibility that you didn't raise enough energy to begin with.

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2. There's something supernatural about the lake itself. Possibly something malicious. It's not particularly likely but definatly not outside the realm of possibility either. If people have been killed in that lake or had their bodies dumped into the water there could be not necissarily malicious entities that you might also accidently be drawing energy from but at the very least disturbed ones. But being that you're there, you're the only one that will be able to determine this. Try finding out about the lakes history and in the mean time (if you decide to keep drawing from it) then start focusing on being able to actually see the energy as it flows to you. Try and trace the lines of energy back to the lake itself and see the variations in color that are produced. Try to determine which lines come from the lake and which come from within it.

Sorry if it's not enough but it's the best I've got. Once you're at the point where you can determine these things it will be easy enough to focus drawing your energy from the lake and not anything else within it.

Good luck.

I've also been angry a lot since I started this and I am not an angry person. I think I will stop using the lake and try something else.

Yeah that's probably a really good idea. There's obviously something amiss about that lake that you in all likelihood aren't prepared to deal with. Keep us posted on your progress and good luck in your continued efforts.