INTRODUCTION
One of the most important things for any practitioner to be able to do is
to be able to detect the myriad visitors that are attracted to them because
of their very nature. Most will just rely on their passive senses to notify
them of guests. However,as useful as that particular method is it does not
allow them to sense everything that shows up. In fact it would be my opinion
that at most they’re detecting 50% of the total number of visitors. The
reason for this falls into three main reasons.
Cloaked individuals
Many of those who choose to visit and observe a practitioner
will use a variety of methods to specifically avoid detection which fall
under the group category of Cloaks. The reason for this, while it can be
nefarious, tends to more be because either they wish to see how the person
behaves when they don’t know they’re being observed or because
the visitor does not wish to become target practice. After all, people occasionally
have this bad habit of shooting first and asking questions later when it
comes to unknown visitors.
Visitor has low energy level
Occasionally what happens is that those who visit have such
low energy levels that they just don’t register to senses.
Practitioner error
By far the most common reason visitors aren’t detected.
The errors can be a variety of kinds, from overestimating how good their
senses are, to simply ignoring the data their senses are providing.
While the only thing that can help the third reason is experience, practice
and brutal honesty with oneself, there are things we can do to counter the
first two. This document will show one such method of countering this problem.
WHY ARE ALL THESE VISITORS SHOWING UP, ANYWAY?
For the most part it’s usually curiosity,after all, you did attract
their attention. More often than not what will happen is that the visitors
will show up, watch you for a few days if they find you interesting, then
leave.*grins* Though of course there are the occasional few who are wondering
how you’d taste...
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I ATTRACTED THEIR ATTENTION?
Remember that circle you did a few days ago, or that showing off with energy
you were doing recently? Well,guess what, that simple thing let everything
within several miles know exactly where you are.
What happens is that when one uses a lot of energy, especially a circle,
it sends up a huge neon sign in the planes saying "Here I am and I’m
doing something interesting." Can you really blame things for wanting
to check out what you’re doing with such an obvious invitation? After
all, you must have wanted the attention if you were that loud. Which if you’re
doing like most people do, you did the equivalent of screaming at the top
of your lungs.
Note that groups of talented individuals can also send up such beacons or
ripples that can be traced back simply by being together in one room.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN SOME WONDER HOW I'D TASTE?! EVERYONE
KNOWS THERE'S NO BAD ENTITIES IN THE PLANES.
Uh huh...you just keep on believing that. Besides, I never said they were
bad. You would likely consider them bad since they’re contemplating snacking
on your energy, but I’d be pretty certain that the cow who’s parts
you had for dinner last night thinks the same thing about You.
It has nothing to do with good/evil or Light/Dark. It’s simple survival.
Many of the species that exist in the universe, including humans, feed on
or exchange energy. Don’t believe me? Pay attention next time you’re
around someone who’s very sick and see how drained you feel when you
leave.
OH, WELL, I HAVE MY SHIELDS, THEY CAN PROTECT ME FROM
ANYTHING!
Uh huh..you just keep on believing that, too. Have you perchance forgotten
that those nice shields you’re so proud of are made of energy? Now what
was it I said that various creatures feed on....?
OK, SO HOW DO I GO ABOUT KNOWING WHEN THINGS ARE AROUND?
There are several ways you can use to do that. The one I’m going to
show you here I call establishing a base line.
The way it works is that you’re doing similar to marking water level
of a river so you can measure when the water rises and falls. In this case
you’re establishing what the normal level of energy in your home is and
"marking" it. When a visitor shows up, their natural energy levels,
or the energy emanations from their cloak will cause a spike in that "base
line" you set thereby alerting you to their presence. Note that there
are ways to counter this technique, but the odds are very high that
if that happens, you have far bigger problems than your early warning system
not working.
Setting up the base line:
- Spend the next week or so paying close attention to the energy levels
in your house. If you have guides etc. I suggest asking them to spend that
time with you so that you can establish the base level so that it includes
their levels in the base line. Doing this will also allow you to have a
better idea of when your guides are present, since if they’re not the
energy levels in the house will be below the base line you established.
- Now, when the week is up you should have a very good idea of what the
normal energy level in your home is. If you’re still not sure, spend
some more time working on it until you are.
- Calm your mind as always.
- Now open your senses to your home and make sure that the levels are roughly
what you’ve noticed for the last week, if they’re not, try and
discover why and correct it, or wait and do this later when they are at
normal levels.
- Now, memorize this base level you’ve established in your home. If
you visualize, try seeing the energy as water and mark a line just above
the water level on the wall.
- Finish as normal.
USING THE BASE LINE
Now that we’ve got the base line established,using it is very simple.
Simply open your senses up to the energy level in the house and go about your
normal routine. Spend some time learning to keep a mental eye on the level
while doing other things. Might help if you have friends who are good at projection
work on this with you,helping you to learn what it feels like when the base
line spikes.
When you feel it spike check the base line to see how much the base line
has jumped,if it’s just a minor level,you can pretty much feel free to
ignore it if you wish. If on the other hand it spikes a lot I suggest kicking
your shields up to full power and then go about finding out if your visitor
is hostile or not.
CONCLUSION
This method isn’t fool proof, there’s no such thing. It does however
act to help you detect a lot more than is normally possible and also has the
side benefit that it helps you become far more aware of energy. The one thing
I caution against is treating all visitors as hostile, most of them are simply
curious about you and will leave on their own when their curiosity is appeased.
Always confirm the intentions of a visitor before you attack, because I guarantee,
if you attack them without provocation, if they weren’t hostile before,
they will be after you attack.
~WolfKin (C) 2002
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