(WIP) The Psychic Self-Defense Personal Training Manual

The Psychic Self Defense Personal Training Manual by Maricia L Pickands

Part 1: How Not To Sprain Your Aura

“Like it or not, you must recognize the world you live in is not always safe, physically or spiritually.”

Tread carefully dear reader, the cloak of Lady Night hides all manor of danger. We cannot know the extent of the world beyond, but fear not! For every sword, there is a shield, for every Goliath, there is a David, for every monster, there is a hunter. In this case, that hunter is a mom from Maine named Maricia.

The Psychic Self Defense Personal Training Manual is a humble little thing.. Maricia L. Pickands is not here to waste our time with rambling essays on higher mysteries. Her prose is terse, effective, purposeful. She is here to teach us how to stay safe.

The preface of the text begins by laying out the metaphysics we are working with. Credit where credit is due: this section is a strong start.. Maricia begins by laying a foundation upon which the text shall be laid. We’ve got all our standard new-age building blocks: The Aura, The Third Eye, and The Platonic Elements.

We open the door to chapter 1, immediately faced with an “Aura Stretching Exercise.” Delightful. Why not? From an occult perspective, this is actually a solid opening. Magic is a skill like anything else, it must be practiced for a proper understanding, so why not ground the ideas in the language of, say, a martial arts class? The exercise itself is, surprisingly enough, consistent with the metaphysics laid out earlier. It involves a pair of partners using gestures and mental chanting to practice forming and severing a connection between auras. A second form of the exercise practices a sort of basic blocking technique with similar gestures and chanting.

“But C.T!” I hear you cry, “Why would I need to block psychic attacks? Who will be raining blows upon my supple aura, intent on stealing my precious life energy?”

Why gentle reader, who else but psychic vampires? “Im sure you know someone who can make you tired simply by being around and talking at you for more than five minutes. We all have this type of acquaintance or relative in our lives. Knowingly or not, this variety of individual is a psychic vampire!”

Now dear reader, you may be surprised to learn, but annoying people are not actively sapping your life energy and you do not need to learn how to psychic Street Fighter parry them.

Chapter 2 begins with a description of how ones psychic abilities develop. The author draws a portrait of an initiate six months into daily practice. Minor shifts in their mental state cause noticeable differences in physical strength, auras are more apparent and easy to manipulate due to constant visualization, they have increased ability to manipulate others, but due to a raw an untrained psychic ability, can also be more easily manipulated by others. This marks the point where the initiate is ready for additional exercises. Now, I am calling them exercises, because that is what the author calls them, but lets not kid ourselves here. These are spells.

We add some new spells to the initiates kit:

• Aura Siphon: Temporarily steal a chunk of an opponent's aura to use the energy against them.
• Grounding: Stationary breathing meditation to regenerate and repair the aura.
• Heavy Aura Shield: A strong but slow spell to defend against serious attacks
• Instant Aura Shield: A fast but low-energy spell-parry.
• Dispel: Cleanse the aura of negative energy it may have accumulated.

Finally, we have a spell invented by the occultist Israel Regardie. Regardie was born to an Orthodox Jewish family, but did not share his families religious devotion. He was an odd addition to the ranks of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and perhaps the worst possible choice to serve as personal secretary to Aliester Crowley. He became disillusioned with occultism after being forced to deal with Crowley for a decade, later calling him a “contemptible bitch.” All this to say, I doubt this is a ritual anyone should be performing.

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Preface

• Basic Metaphysics

Chapter 1: An Aura Stretching Exercise

• Psychic Vampires

Chapter 2: The Basics of Self Defense

• Aura Displacement
• Tanith’s Exercise
• Centering: Basic meditation
• Grounding:
• Developing Your Psychic Shield
• Instant Psychic Shield
• Cleansing
• Israel Regardie and Alan Richardson
• Middle Pillar

Chapter 3: Spiritual Survival Training vs Phsychic Self Defense

• Basically, dont try hard shit until you’ve practiced the easy shit
• “Most Spiritual traditions have two things in common: The First is a belief in a supreme being who is the source of creation, and the second is a stern warning to anyone who would dare establish a true relationship with that divinity.”
• “Western Inner Tradition” G. Grey, the Rite of Light
• P 27
• Positing a direct relationship with god
• Separating the secular and religious aspects of your life “The Razors Edge”
• Two Dangers: Lack of Preparation, Distraction
• How to Humbly prepare for the Sacred Journey - This is actually pretty solid

Chapter 4: Signs of Psychic Disturbance and Psychic First Aid

• Dion Fortune, Signs of psychic injury that are just stress reactions
• Sign of the Cosmic Cross
• Some Basic Cleansing Recipies
• Actually, Solid and responsible tactic here
• Garnets do not neutralize the effects of tobacco
• Basic Gastroalchemy

Chapter 5: The Best Defense is a good Offense

• Annoyingly Binary
• Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram: Its Kabbalah Knock that Shit Off - Samuel Weiser The Tree of Evil
• Gaining the Sword W.M. Grey

Chapter 6: Applied Self Defense in Everyday Situations

• Psychic Self-defense against salesmen
• “I have owned several businesses”
• TWO WHOLE PAGES OF DEFENDING SALESPEOPLE AND CITING AYN RAND
• The Unbendable Arm
• Color THeory

Chapter 7: THE BATTLE ARCANE

• Wm Grey, Israel Regardie, Donald Tyson, Denning and Phillips, Alan Richardson
• Expanded Middle Pillar
• Ranks