PSIONIC - Uncle Chuckie's General Store

1 PSIONIC POWER BY CHARLES W. COSIMANO copyright Charles Cosimano 2004 PREFACE When this book was first written in the summer of 1987, the world was a much different place and I was a much different person. My first book, then called Psionics 101, was out and receiving much critical acclaim, except from some absolutely horrified new agers and wiccans who were terrified of someone who could use their ideas and reject their philosophy. It was great fun. Not a lot of money, but great fun. I was rapidly making a name for myself as the enfant terrible of the new age, even though by then I was certainly no longer an infant.

2 I was showing the signs of being the scary person I have become, but not quite. It was, in fact, a personally dreadful time for me. My grandparents had just died and my mother was dying. By Xmas of that year my family would consist of me and the cats. And, no doubt, some of that came through in the writing of this book but I have not quite been able to find where it did. And I was mad. I was mad at the new agers and the wiccans because they were trying to censor me and anyone who knows me knows that nothing will send me into a blind rage faster. I would cheerfully have blown their stinking brains out.

3 Well, anyone who knows me also knows that I react to critics in a ways far different than the critics want. I take what they don t like and jam it down their throats. I have always said, If you don t like this, wait until you see what is coming next. And the last chapter of this book reflected that (and I ve totally changed that chapter in this edition because it was hardly nasty enough. I can assure you, the new one will make your blood run cold. It is Uncle Chuckie at his most evil.). The world was different too. The Cold War was ending. I had spent the 80s dueling with Soviet psychics and usually winning (we really were psychic terrorists in those days).

4 I m even told that I killed at least two of them but there is no way proving that, thank badness. The psychic battle field was changing in ways we could not imagine. And I did not know it at the time, but I had broken the back of the radionic/ PSIONIC monopoly. Now it is relatively easy for anyone to get a good radionic device but back then they were damned rare and incredibly expensive. In that I succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. So, here it is, the second book of my canon. It was written to fill in the gaps left by the first one and has needed considerable updating but I ve managed to leave most of it intact.

5 And for those of you who have original, you will find the page count much shorter. That is due to font size and spacing which is much different in electronic format than in print format. Have fun. WELCOME BACK For those of you who many years ago were fortunate enough to have read my Psionics 101 (before it went through all its name changes), not to be confused with the Room 101 of George Orwell fame, I feel an obligation to explain that this work is going to be a bit different. Yes, it will have the same biting wit and fascinating repartee, but this book is going to be just a bit harder to understand, because, while in my first volume I was primarily concerned with teaching my readers how to make such useful things as thoughtforms, pendulums, and radionic boxes, this book will explain in some detail greater than in that book why the methods introduced in the first volume work, and will introduce a few more advanced techniques.

6 In addition, I will try to dive into waters in which most researchers fear to swim by commenting on research methods and even the ethics (or the non-ethics) thereof. When I wrote those words seventeen years ago I never dreamt of what I was ultimately going to get into. But enough of this merriment, as the inquisitor said to his victim. Let us begin with a consideration of one of the most difficult problems facing any student in the field of the psychic, that is to say, language. For no matter how important what we have to say is, it will not matter one bit if no one can understand what we are talking about.

7 This fact should be obvious to everyone with the possible exception of social scientists and bureaucrats. Old Montague Summers, that most credulous and hostile chronicler of things occult and arcane, once began a work by quoting some advice given by a well-known (at least to his students) tutor at Oxford. That worthy gentleman never missed an opportunity to remind his students to define your terms. I will set aside my prejudices against all things British and foreign and follow that adage by trying to make some sense out of the words used to describe our study. Some of the words under which the material I will cover are clearly inappropriate.

8 Occult and supernatural are the most Occult means hidden and if it is available to the public on the internet it is most certainly NOT that; and supernatural is impossible. There is no such thing as the supernatural, there is only that part of nature that we do not understand. For example, to the most knowledgeable person in the fifteenth century, television would have been supernatural. Now it is merely annoying and stupid. Or, to give a more modern example, the flight of the bumblebee is impossible according to the classical theories of aerodynamics. All this means, however, is that there was an error in the theory somewhere and the specialist in that field did will to discover it before he got stung.

9 Finding things with a rod or a pendulum used to be commonly called divining, and it still is in some quarters. That term has gone out of fashion because of a number of factors. For one thing, we do not know believe that the art is the result of divine intervention. The other reason is that the word divine has been stolen to describe the more bizarre manifestations of the entertainment industry and thus can longer be taken seriously by anyone with more than half a brain. It has been popularly replaced by dowsing, which is as good a word as any, provided you are not near a swimming pool at the time.

10 Its meaning is limited to finding information by psychic means with the aid of some instrument. The godless French, with their ridiculous, unpronounceable language and love of making the simple complex, coined the term radiesthesia, which, in addition to being a pain to remember how to spell, literally means distant sensing. This word has two strikes against it. First, it only refers to gathering information which is only half of what we are doing and dowsing works ever so much better for that. Second, and this is a personal prejudice born out of too much time spent ill, is that the word itself sounds like something you would hear under less than comfortable circumstances.