Invisibility
  
 psy_worm: if one was adept at psychic abilities could such a person bend your perception to make himself appear invisible?
 dracy: psy: well, according to book of abremelin the mage
 yes it sposible
 EvonneT.Story: i never thought of it as bending someone else's perception worm
 dracy: but like it aint easy
 EvonneT.Story: but one of the siddhis is invisibility
 Anima: the reduction of one's form to one atom. Invisibility
 dracy: i thought :P
 btw, you missed your chance worm
 Corvus: *lol* invisibility, or the art of blending in?
 dracy: the ritual of abramelin is to be started on easter
 EvonneT.Story: i read a master who states that it is a meditation technique
 psy_worm: im considering k's story about his master and the machete- you recall evonne?
 EvonneT.Story: i am not sure i recall that one worm
 Corvus: hm, apparently Bellanger's vampire ritual book is now on Sacred Texts....awsome
 dracy: vampires have rituals?
 EvonneT.Story: and great clothes
 Corvus: Some do
 psy_worm: he was called for a late night one on one where his master attacked him with a machete and k side stepped and passed one another and when he turned around he wasnt there
 Corvus: *lol*
 psy_worm: the machete Was real
 EvonneT.Story: oh yes
 psy_worm: the janitor or somebody said nobody had been in all night 
 and so forth
 EvonneT.Story: the master was never physically there
 but made himself appear to be there was the way i recall it
 psy_worm: yea, but k also said he never and still hasnt figured it out
 EvonneT.Story: "becoming one with an object," an advanced meditation technique for invidibility. 
 psy_worm: at least at the writing of that story
 dracy: whats the story you're talking baout?
 EvonneT.Story: Kellog's story somewhere on SLC
 Corvus: Bellanger is Michelle Belllanger, one of the foundational members of House Kheperu, a vampire order. They have their own beliefs and theories, ideas and doctrines, as well as a generalized working ritual system....
 dracy: what do vamps worship?
 Corvus: depends on the vamp
 EvonneT.Story: bigger vampires
 :D
 psy_worm: and im just wondering, he could of been there, to weild the machete, but selectively choose when and to whom to be appearent
 Corvus: *lol*
 Corvus: there's atheists, christians, pagans....you name it, they got it.....
 dracy: well who does thana balanger worship?
 Corvus: to be honest, i do not know who she worships, other than the divine within and the divine without
 Corvus: she has a definite egyptian slant, but that has a lot to do with the house itself, and her recollected apast life memories
 EvonneT.Story: he could worm
 but i think it is better the other way around
 psy_worm: more likely or better story?
 EvonneT.Story: either way, a great feat
 psy_worm: oh most definately
 EvonneT.Story: but i thought it better to never actually go, but appear to be there
 EvonneT.Story: and then disappear just as fast
 i recall another story of someone walking on the water
 he said he never left his spot but only made himself appear to be walking on the water
 psy_worm: would still seem like a psychic influence than an actual dematerialisation
 EvonneT.Story: so people watch the appearance
 psy_worm: but hell ya neve rknow
 EvonneT.Story: that is true worm
 it would be nice to really know
 dracy: psy: what about making someone forget he has seen you?
 same effect
 but done easier
 EvonneT.Story: true drac
 psy_worm: essentially what im saying
 ever seen the movie predator
 psy_worm: how he bends light for camoflage
 i would think its like that- only bending your minds perception of light
 EvonneT.Story: so you think the memory is modified?
 EvonneT.Story: in the schools, learning to appear and not really being there is commonly done...for some reason if you cannot call
 to send messages
 psy_worm: really?
 EvonneT.Story: you start to learn it in the lower grades
 psy_worm: what schools ya refeering to?
 EvonneT.Story: the witchy ones
 Corvus: Sendings
 psy_worm: oh
 Corvus: *lol*
 Corvus: The rituals of the vampire community have grown into a unique tradition all their own. Often separate from rituals invoking gods or goddesses, 
 Corvus: the rituals of the vampire community are typically focused on reaffirming the bonds of that community and evoking the power of the individual.
 Corvus: and the book follows through; the rituals are largely designed to evoke and emphasize the individual, rather than a specific deity
 EvonneT.Story: but like the Aboriginese say
 i just call
 lol
 psy_worm: how about manipulating physical objects? telekinesis combined with appearing?
 EvonneT.Story: when i nearly died
 and i was out of my body
 EvonneT.Story: i found it impossible to influence physical objects
 EvonneT.Story: in a panic i tried to turn on a light switch
 my hand passed right though it
 then my hand passed through it frantically about 50 times
 no luck
 EvonneT.Story: the light switch stayed on the off position
 dracy: lol, evonne, seems you need to pass abremelins ritual too :)
 EvonneT.Story: but if i can have the appearance of appearing
 and the feeling of appearing
 i can also have the appearance of having objects
 and the feeling of them
 other wise, i would have to go everywhere nude
 :)
 Corvus: *lol*
 psy_worm: so the riddle hinges apon the validity of wether the machete was real or "real" lol
 EvonneT.Story: i don't know
 dracy: where can i read that story?
 psy_worm: me neither
 EvonneT.Story: i know that physical objects can be seemingly manipulated by non-physical forces
 i.e. poltergeist
 i just think it is difficult as heck
 from my little experience
 psy_worm: oh yea
 dracy: and usually poltergeist needs a bridge
 something to link spiritual with a material
 a human
 thats why ghosts do crazy stuff when people are near
 EvonneT.Story: i imagine you can learn to appear and perhaps manipulate objects with your consciousness, but you would need so much energy to do that, it is amazing
 dracy: they are helpless without humans
 and when people come they just want to have fun
 EvonneT.Story: it is often thought that the person is actually the poltergeist
 but they do not have control or knowledge of their energy yet
 When Thomas died this weekend, i found some electronic equipment had been upset and unplugged during the night
 EvonneT.Story: not far from his spot
 where he would leap to the table
 and i can't turn on a darn light switch
 :p
 dracy: how then do huted houses work?
 EvonneT.Story: poltergeists and ghosts are different i think drac
 there are all sorts of reasons behind hauntings
 dracy: whats with the light switch?
 Corvus: *lol* you might be overthinking the problem ev
 dracy: i didnt understand that part
 EvonneT.Story: i was not thinking at all corv
 i was panicked
 i never saw myself before seemingly dead
 i thought i could use some help
 since i already experienced the collapse and sort of slowly fading to black
 Corvus: thomas just does it as it comes naturally, without thinking about it--ti doesn't matter if he's physical or not, it's not important to him, he doesn't think about it....but knowing, even on a minute level that you are not your physical self.....
 EvonneT.Story: and then jumping up
 to find out
 my body did not jump up
 just me
 dracy: what happened to light switch?
 EvonneT.Story: when my hand passed through the light switch the first time
 that is what made me look back
 seeing myself still in bed  [AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!]
 is what made me try to turn on the light switch about 50 times
 lol
 funny now...
 i heard voices
 dracy: oh
 EvonneT.Story: lots of them
 dracy: an astral travel?
 EvonneT.Story: like an auditorium full of people
 i was very sick drac
 the noise was coming from the door through my room
 i started walking towards the door
 dracy: like one of those clinical death stories?
 and?
 EvonneT.Story: and my "mother" came and blocked the doorway
 ZAP!
 i was back
 it turns out from the virus i got it affected my heart
 but i got better
 almost no one does when that happens
 but they said i had a good chance since i survived the fever
 dracy: wow
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 Missing Our Best Friends
 or
 What is Mary Jo?
  
 dracy: btw, why did thomas die?
 what happened to him?
 EvonneT.Story: they don't know what happend to my dear thomas
 they did everything to help him
 but he did not respond to antibiotics
 dracy: oh
 pity
 EvonneT.Story: i miss him very much
 EvonneT.Story: he was my constant companion
 dracy: i remember
 when my cat was dying
 dracy: long ago
 EvonneT.Story: awww drac. i know how sad that is.
 dracy: i took some church book of prayers
 EvonneT.Story: you must have been small
 dracy: which was said to have prayers that did miracle in their own time
 and was praying over him
 funny is that he started to feel better
 then i calmed down
 my sister came and took him to the vet
 there he died :(
 it was she
 still very young
 lived with me some half a yeae
 EvonneT.Story: awww
 dracy: year
 EvonneT.Story: really little
 EvonneT.Story: our pets have such short, beautiful little lives.
 dracy: well the cat was older
 it was some 3 months itsel when i got him
 i remember her sitting on my sisters newly solved puzzle of 1000 pieces
 dracy: and when we tried to gently take her of, she started to run, and sonn, there was no puzzle, but 1000 pieces were back
 EvonneT.Story: lol
 Corvus: heh
 dracy: but the cat was kind of hyper
 it would run through the room
 from one wall to another
 jumping at walls and running back
 EvonneT.Story: a greyhound among cats
 dracy: she did it for some 2 hours in a row
 noone had any idea why
 EvonneT.Story: hittin' the cat nippus
 dracy: the what?
 EvonneT.Story: cat nip
 the herbs
 the kitty bones
 the mary jo
 dracy: 0_o
 the mary jo?
 EvonneT.Story: mary jane ;)
 except cat nip
 Corvus: *lol*
 EvonneT.Story: Nepeta cataria 
 dracy: corv: will you explain what evonne is trying to say?
 Corvus: Janus is hyper until she has some nip....then she just rolls round and is happily stoned
 EvonneT.Story: alright
 goodnight everyone!
 Corvus: *lol*
 dracy: bye
 Corvus: goodnight ev
 EvonneT.Story: i will leave you two to explain mary jo.
 :D
 dracy: what is a cat nip?