Interesting Developments

I've doubled my practices over the last 2 days, and made considerable progress
After chatting with Float (guy from ppsociety/psipog) he insisted that I should stop with the straw, lest it hamper my progress. He suggested rolling soda cans and knocking over folded foil
I tried the foil, and got it to 'wiggle' but thats about it :(

However I've continued playing with the straw as part of my practice and seem to have made some sense of the sensations in my body when I do TK. I'll try to describe how I found them and where they are :

When I started with TK, I had pressure feelings in my forehead, similar to the throbbing pressure you get from a migraine (not painful by itself though). I was convinced that this sensation had a lot to do with TK. So I began to play with it over my practice sessions, keeping note of what works and what didn't.

What complicated things was that my mood and state of mind played a big part in my success. However I soon noted that the sensation was primarily in these areas:

• On my forehead 3cm above my eyes, on either side. Quite a large area, and indecisive.
• In the area of my temples. Also a fairly indecisively large area
• Tingling sensations in my fingers and sides of my hands
• Occasional sensations from my solar plexus/chest area - but different from the others. More like an adrenaline rush (something I've learnt to do consciously since I was young)

Those were very vague areas, and I could not tell for sure which ones were important, and for what. People from ppsociety will recall how vague my methods were, and how complicated - they incorporated all the other methods. However recently I've noticed that I have begun to localise and specialiase on those methods and the sensations. And this morning I localised the sensations quite well.

My observation so far -

• There are 4 spots are in my head, and they are symmetrical
• Place your finger in the middle of your left eyebrow. Behind that bone is more or less the one spot. This one seems fairly important, and is a lot sharper/more focussed than before. I didn't expect it to be here actually, the sensation seems to have lowered a lot - like 3cm :P
• The temple spot seems to have also sharpened a lot, and is now localised. Put your finger by the leftmost point of your left eye. Now move up until you find your eyebrow - there will be the sharp piece of bone that ends your eye socket. Now follow a diagonal path left and up for about 2 cm. This one is a lot harder to pinpoint when doing TK, and it is a dull, lighter pressure that feels deeper inside my head.
• Now mirror those 2 spots onto your right eye, and you have the 4 head spots I'm experiencing sensations in when doing TK.
• It seems to me that the hands, solar plexus, crown of head, base of spine - all those areas where people claim to have sensations, are all amplifiers. You'll notice that it generally corresponds to the chakra positions, and I believe chakras are simply those spots that are a sort of outlet for the energy itself (whatever it is)
• Of course these are just pressure and tingling sensations and are not able to cause logical choice of what you are doing. I believe that training of the subconscious/unconscious is the only way to develop control, and this is achieved with practice. By 'subconscious' I am simply talking about the same thing you feel when you move your arm. You don't control each muscle consciously, but you rely on your subconscious to fill in the details. It seems the same thing with TK, for me ;)

Other interesting news - 'bradybaker' on DreamViews has either been taken by aliens and replaced by a clone or he has also been practicing TK. For those of you who don't know DreamViews members, bradybaker is one of our biggest sceptics and is generally quite an argumentative guy.

Anyway, he's been practicing for a few weeks on toothpicks in water, and then suddenly seemed able to move it. He was totally blown away, and managed to do it again. He seems a bit confused at this stage of course.

Naturally, it might end up that he isn't doing true TK, but I doubt it - based on the fact that he had weeks of NOT fooling himself and the fact that he's the most sceptical guy on DreamViews.

I'm rooting for him, because naturally I appreciate sceptics for their lack of fluffiness, and generally good minds - good luck brady ;)