This is a technique I felt the need to share with ya’ll. This is a technique I developed as a result of my failed experiments at PK.

During these experiments, I would try to reach out to the object and touch it, but not physically. I started by doing this astrally. As soon as I remembered at how horrible my accuracy at astral projection was, I decided to try something else.

The technique originally involved me visualizing an energy field around my body. I would feel anything that passed through this energy. Obviously, the physical feedback of mundane nerves in one’s mundane body is how the body will initially register these sensations. However, I tried to expand this energy to start sensing things without them actually touching me. I started with touch because… well, it made the most sense to me as being the easiest sense to work with. After all, I had previously felt the sensation of people’s energy entering my own while being several inches away from my body, so there wasn’t much of a mental leap of faith to be made here.

I practiced with this technique for a while, expanding my energy, contorting it into different oblong shapes etc. Eventually I came up with the idea of having a protruding beam of energy. This would be like a metaphysical walking stick, except that instead of just whacking things to *something* was there, I’d be getting useful sensory input to determine *what* being detected by this energy.

I would experiment with sitting on one side of a room, and “touching” objects on the other side of the room - trying to feel them with just my energy. Of course, you can argue one’s previous sensory input can affect the results - but at this point in the learning process, I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing, just a likely rational explanation.

From here I made a leap. I thought about sensing everything in a room rather than just 1 thing at a time. From that I developed a technique I call The Sensory Net. I have what are like ropes of energy coming from my physical body forming a pattern of a stereotypical rope net (with 90 degree intersections). I’m not sure if the cross-sections are truly needed, but it works for me so I don’t plan on changing any time soon.

As I became more efficient at this technique, I started to experiment with larger and larger sensory nets. Now, the interesting thing is to have a sensory net that isn’t attached to you. I have used this technique to sense when someone entered an area that I couldn’t physically sense (e.g. being at the dead end of a frequently path and sensing approaching individuals).

My current use of this technique has replaced sensing physical objects with sensing the energy of my surroundings. I can just use more traditional methods (sense using receiving hand), but I feel this technique offers a better degree of security by obscurity and this technique doesn’t drain me nearly as much.

Just throwing that out there. Feel welcome to modify as you desire.