By Charles W. Cosimano

1 By Charles W. Cosimano PREFACE. This is a redoing of Psionics 101, which lasted one edition and then was reissued as Psychic Power by Llewellyn. What most folks who read my stuff forget is that the material in the original book is now almost 20 years old and so a whole bunch of it became obsolete with time. In 1981, Fate Magazine published an article by Joseph Goodavage entitled The Conspiracy Against Psionics which implied that the powers that be had worked to suppress the study of this stuff and when I read that article the proverbial light bulb went off and I started to work in earnest on a project that had been sort of sitting in my office, a book on basic radionics and psionics, something I had been working with for several years.

2 It took a few more years to get the book done because no sooner would I write a chapter then I would come with something new and the chapter had to be thrown out, which was a real pain considering I was writing it on a manual typewriter (no word processors in them days! Even if you had one, the printers that were available weren't very good and publishers would not accept manuscripts done on them). Finally, in 1984, I sat down and wrote and finished the manuscript in what was pretty much its final form in early 1985. At that time I expected Parker Publishing to be the target for selling the book so it had lots of cutesy little stuff in it that Parker and its readers seemed to like but then I got surprised.

3 Llewellyn had decided to come out with its Psi-Tech series and in their advertising mentioned radionics. I figured if they had material coming out similar to mine I had better cover my ass so they could not accuse me of violating copyrights and so I sent a querly letter off, not expecting anything to come of it. I was wrong again! A couple of months later I got a letter asking for the manuscript, so I wrapped it in swaddling clothes, put it in a nice, reed basket and left it to the river of the postal service. And then waited, and waited and waited! Finally, in March of 1986 I wrote Llewellyn in some exasperation that if I did not hear from them by April 14 I would have to seek another publisher, after all, almost a year is a long time to wait for a publisher to make up its mind!

4 On the morning of April 13 I got a phone call saying they wanted the book and a contract would be on its way! I was about to enter the ranks of the immortals! Psionics 101 hit the streets in January of 1987, almost 7 years after I typed the first pages. So you see what I mean about time lag! But time has not been kind to the book. Many of the techniques and ideas of that first edition are hopelessly dated and frankly, it no longer reflects my view of the world very much. I am no longer a young man and with the darkening of my eye there has been a correspondent darkening of my vision. The cheerful prankster with just a touch of amorality has been replaced by an international terrorist (at least according to some folks) and I'm certain that those who were shocked by my little drill joke now look upon my work with maximal disfavor.

5 Once jokingly called Darth Vader by my friends, I have become the Emperor, an old, little man who longs for his comfy chair and the pleasures of the Dark Side of the Force. In many ways doing this has been a bittersweet experience for me because it has forced me to remember a happier time and a world that might have been. So this volume is going to be a bit shorter than the first edition, because I have removed a lot of the cutesy stuff that the publishing world of that time expected(oh, I left a few things in because they are still funny) and distilled certain techniques down and simplified them because I've learned how simple they really are.

6 Not only that, but this book is no longer the only game in town as far as teaching tech is concerned so there is no longer the need for the extreme details of the first edition. But here it is and I hope you will enjoy it. Introduction In the beginning was the thought, and thought created a form, and from that came the word "thoughtform.". Ok, I couldn't resist having my little joke, but it is true that everything begins with a thought of some sort. Goethe has his Faust come to that conclusion and he was right, for it is the action of consciousness that gets everything going. This book is about thought.

7 It is about taking the power of human thought and making it do things for you, not for humanity, but for you. There will be no idealism in this book, no do-gooderness. I am not that type of person. What I. am going to do here, in this work, is continue what I started years ago, break the monopoly on psionics that existed for so many years and make it available to the general public. And, maybe, break the back of society at large as well. Now, as all of you who have followed my writing over the years know, I do not waste my time and yours with stories of people who do psychic things and then have something totally impossible happen, like win the lottery because they happened to find a million-dollar ticket in the street.

8 A fifty-dollar ticket, that happens. In fact it happened to someone I know and did nothing psychic at all, he just stepped on a piece of gum and then the gum catching the ticket, but a million-dollars, I'll believe it when I see it. But psionics does sometimes cause the nearly impossible to happen. In fact it has saved my neck on more than one occasion. I have a rule, coincidence does occur, but some coincidences are just too impossible to be that. So what am I going to do for you in this book? This is going to be a very basic text. It is going to teach you how to do basic psychic stuff, like visualization, thoughtform building, psychic transmission and reception, dowsing with a pendulum and how to make and use different machines to help you accomplish these things.

9 So I want you to consider some things. The first thing is that there is nothing miraculous or even very mysterious about these powers. Everyone in the world has them and can develop them if they will only take the time. The second thing is that once you have these powers you can use them for any reason you want. I will place no limits on you. You are absolutely free to make your own decisions with regard to this material and how you will use it. You are your own judge and no one in this world or any other has the right to tell you how you will use your abilities. So what goodies are you going to get from this book?

10 First, the one thing that has at times eluded me, prosperity. Now I know that sounds really stupid, but my money troubles are the result of personal decisions that had nothing to do with psionics and a lot to do with being a terrible procrastinator. And it's always been the psionics that has pulled my rear out of the fire. So I'm going to give you all the information you need so that if you should get into the same sort of messes I get into, you too will escape with a whole skin. Otherwise, as one critic of mine once told me "If you burn your ass, you have to sit on the blisters!". I'm going to teach you how to make and use the psionic components, machines and thoughtforms in combination, that will bring you the things you need, and the people you need, like my wife!