For the beginners... Options

If you are beginning in working with Psionics I'd suggest going to www.psipog.net as it has good articles to start you out. Plus I suggest trying out psi balls to start you out so you can get used to manipulating energy than you can go to other areas but this is only a suggestion you don't HAVE to start out with psi balls*. It may take you awhile or just a few seconds to get psi balls as it all depends with each and every person's own ability.

Well good luck to you on your journey in Psionics! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

*Zahaqiel's interruption: KI balls! Ki! Not psi! Psipog has this nasty habit of taking something old, and making it "brand-spanking new" and all their own. "Psi" in this usage, corresponds to ki (or chi or prana), as does all energy manipulation - hence why it is also advisable to look into some of the soft-form Japanese martial arts if you really want to get good with ki.

Shikes ... I never thought of it like that .... yes !!!

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Excellent debate ... or excellent verbal slathering .... !!!

TY-TY... Curtsey, Curtsey.

The sketch is Isis, Goddess, Priestess, Woman. To me there isnt much of a difference.

First then you have to have belief ... then you must play the part with absolute conviction ... as if you were really that being ... yes ...

Yes and no. First you have to believe... Then you dont play the part, you are the part.

How many religions of the world tell us that we are gods? The bible does, amongst many others. I beleive (here comes the belief twist that connotates doubt) that the phrase is "oh, ye of little faith. Do ye realize that we are all Gods? Made in his image AND likeness." Its really been too long since Ive read it for me to be quoting it. But you get the jist of what I am saying.

And hopefully now you can see how belief can lead to doubt. And when you doubt your own magick you are sending energies out into the cosmos that can sabotage your magick. YOU MUST KNOW. Knowing comes with time however...

A good example are the gifts you have. You KNOW you have them. If you said you believed you had them, it becomes a double edged sword.

1. belief in this sense denotes uncertainty and could lead to doubt.
2. it would mean that you werent sure of their existence, hence another form of doubt.

In a body with a name .... the body has a personality all of its own ....

We then are made to BELIEVE that is it ... that is all we are ....

then we all play it with absolute authority 'cos we believe in the part implicitly ...

Here again, we dont play the part. We BECOME the part. Through knowing. And its not what we believe as far as having a body with a name. Its what we KNOW. We KNOW we are body and personality. But you failed to list where that personality comes from... The personality is the only internal part of our minds and spirits that shine through to the outside worlds...

Since these things are ours, we KNOW them intrinsically. For they are part of us. We dont believe we have a personality, we KNOW we have a personality.

As far as all people taking part in a ritual, yes all do to a point. The ritual of life. Some of us expound on that and take it to then next level is all.