How About The Terror Shout?, Have a look at this. Options

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxYYzCw8qAM

I wonder if anyone knows more about the real thing, i.e. the Terror Shout that is little known but legendary in several ancient cultures.

I've had an odd ability to frighten and unnerve my enemies with my shout since I was a child. Perhaps it's a recalled ability from a previous life, I don't know- something in my guts has always told me I'm best not to know, so I've never tried investigating my previous lives. Seriously dangerous thugs and bullies have been disorientated and put temporarily at my mercy by it, which is often enough for me to gain advantage.

there's a point within the shout where I feel it link in to my inner spirit, and something is released; I feel in that microsecond it happens, and that it then connects to them and ravages their psychic bodies/auras.

If I could discover the method, or at least have a starting point to work from, I think I could develop it to reach its' potential.

Anyone have any info?

Thanks very much ES.

That's a bit more to go on. I'll see what I can find on it.

Can I ask what book or source you get that from?


Of course, Crossley's behavior in the story is quite reprehensible, and he does get his Karmic punishment at the end - I think I'd be more sensible with such a weapon. He's quite reckless with his powers, but then that's what makes the story I guess! From what I can glean from the film, he learned the basic shout/scream from another magician, but spent years developing it further himself, until it became deadly. Unfortunately, it's also indiscriminate- everything that hears it close by and without protection dies. I wonder if intent combined with emotion and visualisation could focus it on those one means it for, and not unduly affect innocent bystanders and animals, etc.

That's what I'd prefer, but I realise when non-occultists witness a magical event, it can possibly displace their Kia, and their placement in time and space, which can result in their illness, insanity or death through the spiritual disorientation. It may not be something whose effects I could be selective with, therefore.

This post has been edited by redbreast: Aug 11 2008, 10:45 AM

IN as much as anything psychological is inherently mystical, and visa versa, the shout - particularly the ability to stun people with a 'terror shout' (i'll try to find the japanese term for it, it is mentioned in ninjitsu as a paralyzing technique) - is basic psychology universal to human nature. The scream is a warning sign of danger, meant to both stun the dangerous animal attacking, and to warn others of the species that there is danger near. If you scream unexpectedly at even a terribly dangerous animal - even the ones which cannot hear, as they feel the vibrations in the air and ground - it will stop dead in its tracks and either run, or at least be stunned for a moment. The same goes with people. It is very, very difficult to maintain your concentration and focus on the task at hand if you were to, say, attack someone who suddenly released a very piercing shout. This is simply because your brain is wired to respond to it. Like a mother who hears a baby crying. It 'pulls on her heart' - because she's wired to respond to it. A father simply doesn't experience that for the same reason; he's not wired for it. He may feel hurt, or compassion, or wish he could do something, but a man cannot ever know what a mother feels when she hears that sound, because our brains simply don't allow for it. We have a different function.

Matter and energy are, of course, completely interchangeable. But, the only 'mystical' secret to the shout, in terms of it being obscure (it is mostly only obscure to 'civilized' white people, honestly) is it's execution, which must be done with complete commitment and release. You cannot be 'nervous' about yelling, you have to invest yourself into it totally. And yes, sometimes people will pass out. Can someone die? Maybe, if you startled them so intensely that they have a heart attack, aneurysm, or something similar. Unlikely in the case of a healthy person though.

In the end, all things are mystical; in the end, nothing is mystical.

peace
V