03 January, 2007
Card test
Well I decided to have a quick go at the card test again and scored a measly 5 out of 10, not sure what happened there. I am going to practise my visualisation excersises and keep plugging away.
Visualisation
Every book I have read so far (not many, a handful at most) has mentioned visualisation in one from or another, I'm beginning to draw a connection here between visualising something in your mind and receving it, theres a little more to it than that and I would advise reading a little about it before imagining any old thing..
The visualisation in my mind tends to work opposite to how people describe it in books, with my eyes open I can picture things in my mind very easily, with my eye closed everything becomes murky and fuzzy, worse still sometimes the things I am visualising bugger off and do their own thing.. for example I was trying to move some coloured balls around in my mind, just along aline left to right, however all they wanted to do was to spin down into a hole I could not see, as if they were being caught up in a whirlpool, I had to do the exercise over and over until I finally got them under control..
Anyway, it seems that persistant visualisation will help develop psychic ability from virtually nothing by telling your subconcious that you are serious about developing it. A word of warning, in the last two books I have read both advise developing a barrier or shield, probably to to protect you from yourself more than anything, but if you are interested in learning any of this I'd advise following the guides in the books..
The visualisation in my mind tends to work opposite to how people describe it in books, with my eyes open I can picture things in my mind very easily, with my eye closed everything becomes murky and fuzzy, worse still sometimes the things I am visualising bugger off and do their own thing.. for example I was trying to move some coloured balls around in my mind, just along aline left to right, however all they wanted to do was to spin down into a hole I could not see, as if they were being caught up in a whirlpool, I had to do the exercise over and over until I finally got them under control..
Anyway, it seems that persistant visualisation will help develop psychic ability from virtually nothing by telling your subconcious that you are serious about developing it. A word of warning, in the last two books I have read both advise developing a barrier or shield, probably to to protect you from yourself more than anything, but if you are interested in learning any of this I'd advise following the guides in the books..
New book
My latest book arrived in the post today, 'Psychic Development for Beginners' an apt title, for a very straightforward book.
I'd just finished reading it through before I did todays card test. It's a very easy read, the author emphasises the need to be careful about what you are doing, remarking on aspects of positive and negative karma, I'd not really considered any of this before, here I am doing parlour card tricks, the author.
It has a few simple visualisation exercises, which I have carried out to the best of my ability, perhaps that contributed to my higher card test score today. Although the excercises are simple they have an important message and meaning behind them and I will try to do them every day until I am able to carry them out spontaneously as the author does.
I'd just finished reading it through before I did todays card test. It's a very easy read, the author emphasises the need to be careful about what you are doing, remarking on aspects of positive and negative karma, I'd not really considered any of this before, here I am doing parlour card tricks, the author.
It has a few simple visualisation exercises, which I have carried out to the best of my ability, perhaps that contributed to my higher card test score today. Although the excercises are simple they have an important message and meaning behind them and I will try to do them every day until I am able to carry them out spontaneously as the author does.
Card test
Well tonight I figured a less intrusive method of marking my cards. I sit in the middle of my sofa with the pack of cards in front of me. I pick up the next card from the pack and asked myself the same question as before, 'Is this card black or red?' I listened to the words black or red as I said them and chose according to which word stood out most. The black cards I put in a pile to my left and the red to my right, just my personal preference.
I was quite pleased with the first result, I guessed 7 out of 10, when I started speeding up in my mind and not asking the question first that's when I seemed to get most wrong. My second test I couldn't quite believe, I picked up the red card pile and turned them over, every single card was red, five in all, I felt excited, I couldn't quite believe it! I turned over the black pile expecting to see a few reds, however there were only two, a score of 8 out of 10! During the later half of the second test I carried out an excersize outlined in a book I've been reading, it is very similar to putting yourself into a hypnotic state. I wish I could be more imperical or organised about this, it seems there are many ways to get in touch and receive signals, I guess you just have to try it to fingure it out.
I was quite pleased with the first result, I guessed 7 out of 10, when I started speeding up in my mind and not asking the question first that's when I seemed to get most wrong. My second test I couldn't quite believe, I picked up the red card pile and turned them over, every single card was red, five in all, I felt excited, I couldn't quite believe it! I turned over the black pile expecting to see a few reds, however there were only two, a score of 8 out of 10! During the later half of the second test I carried out an excersize outlined in a book I've been reading, it is very similar to putting yourself into a hypnotic state. I wish I could be more imperical or organised about this, it seems there are many ways to get in touch and receive signals, I guess you just have to try it to fingure it out.
02 January, 2007
First card test
Using the Bruce's Play Your Cards Right giant cards I received for Christmas I administered a couple of tests on myself. This is easier to imagine than to do, primarily because there is an interruption of thought as one scores oneself. However I persevered with two tests, the first sat on the sofa in the lounge, where I scored 6 out of 9, during the test I was mainly choosing red or black at speed with no real regard for my thoughts or feelings.
The second test I took standing up in the kitchen, I did a preliminary test where I scored 2 out of 10, then I gathered my thoughts took a handful of cards and started guessing red or black, this time I touched the top card and mentally asked the question 'Is this card red or black?', then checked my feelings and listened for the answer. Sometimes I didn't seem to get an answer, but focusing on the words red and black as I asked the question, almost every time I repeated the question more than once whilst waiting for the answer, as I focused on the words one would feel stronger or more emphasised than the other, when I felt strongly about this the guess would be correct, sometimes the feeling was not that strong and I would get it wrong. At other times I would receive the word red or black. However during this test, I did not note what I had based my decision on, it would be easier to have a scoring system setup for tests like these.
As I was asking the question I tried to visualise the answer coming from my higher self by doing an exercise from a book I have started reading regarding connecting to your higher self. While doing this exercise it is difficult to tell where the answer is coming from, if indeed it is the 'answer' as sceptics would assert, as the concious mind has a habit of popping words into your head on a seemingly non-stop basis, I think that is one of the principle reasons for meditation exercises, to learn to recognise and filter out the 'noise' in the signal. Every time I was correct I mentally said 'Thank you' for the answer.
After a while I wasn't sure how many cards I had count tried so I counted all the cards, I had scored 8 out of 10 which is considered statistically significant when repeated a number of times. I only had five cards left so I thought I'd just finish these off, I rattled them off, not visualising as I had before and got three wrong and two right, statistically insignificant I think, but I felt I was guessing, so that brought the total score to 10 out of 15. So whilst I was thrilled with the 8 out of 10 I think that interrupted my frame of mind enough to knock my concentration a little. This connection does seem a little hit and miss, I am sure that will improve with effort and practise.
The second test I took standing up in the kitchen, I did a preliminary test where I scored 2 out of 10, then I gathered my thoughts took a handful of cards and started guessing red or black, this time I touched the top card and mentally asked the question 'Is this card red or black?', then checked my feelings and listened for the answer. Sometimes I didn't seem to get an answer, but focusing on the words red and black as I asked the question, almost every time I repeated the question more than once whilst waiting for the answer, as I focused on the words one would feel stronger or more emphasised than the other, when I felt strongly about this the guess would be correct, sometimes the feeling was not that strong and I would get it wrong. At other times I would receive the word red or black. However during this test, I did not note what I had based my decision on, it would be easier to have a scoring system setup for tests like these.
As I was asking the question I tried to visualise the answer coming from my higher self by doing an exercise from a book I have started reading regarding connecting to your higher self. While doing this exercise it is difficult to tell where the answer is coming from, if indeed it is the 'answer' as sceptics would assert, as the concious mind has a habit of popping words into your head on a seemingly non-stop basis, I think that is one of the principle reasons for meditation exercises, to learn to recognise and filter out the 'noise' in the signal. Every time I was correct I mentally said 'Thank you' for the answer.
After a while I wasn't sure how many cards I had count tried so I counted all the cards, I had scored 8 out of 10 which is considered statistically significant when repeated a number of times. I only had five cards left so I thought I'd just finish these off, I rattled them off, not visualising as I had before and got three wrong and two right, statistically insignificant I think, but I felt I was guessing, so that brought the total score to 10 out of 15. So whilst I was thrilled with the 8 out of 10 I think that interrupted my frame of mind enough to knock my concentration a little. This connection does seem a little hit and miss, I am sure that will improve with effort and practise.
A note on tests
From what I have gathered about tests in these situations the results would look like the standard bell curve on a graph, so most people would get around half the cards right as essentially its a 50/50 chance. So a score of 50% would be considered the least significant score as this is what most statisticians would consider the outcome of simply guessing the cards colour or choosing heads/tails.
Anything less than that shows signs of negative ESP and anything more than that positive ESP. Negative ESP would mean that you are conciously choosing to ignore or subvert your feeling. One explanation for this I have heard is that a person who experiences negative ESP is fearful of this ability.
Anyway back to the results, any score of more than 70% is considered to be statistically significant, now I am no mathematician but obviously the more you get right the better. Obviously one test carried out on it's own could just be a fluke, therefore the more tests that are carried out the more significant the results become, so I will endeavor to try a card test every few days or so to test my progress and will post the results here.
Anything less than that shows signs of negative ESP and anything more than that positive ESP. Negative ESP would mean that you are conciously choosing to ignore or subvert your feeling. One explanation for this I have heard is that a person who experiences negative ESP is fearful of this ability.
Anyway back to the results, any score of more than 70% is considered to be statistically significant, now I am no mathematician but obviously the more you get right the better. Obviously one test carried out on it's own could just be a fluke, therefore the more tests that are carried out the more significant the results become, so I will endeavor to try a card test every few days or so to test my progress and will post the results here.
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