PCP: The Blog

I’ll share my perspective as I’m sure Ashlee will add hers later.

I left Texas on Saturday, October 31 (Samhain) taking Northwest Airlines arriving in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AVP) at around 7pm. Taking a limo is cheaper than taking a taxi to my mom’s place so I just took a limo. I love my mom, she had a nice home cooked meal ready for me.

The following day my mother and I attended what can best be described as a Catholic Samhain ritual. The hospital where my father died was holding a remembrance service to help move beyond the deaths of the past year. I’m familiar with the Catholic Day of the Dead, and I have to say this felt basically like a Catholic-ized version of Samhain to me. I’m very thankful to the hospital for putting on this service. Seeing as my parents are Catholic, I really had no issue with attending a Catholic service. I actually found it to be better fitting than a Samhain ritual I was hoping to do, as it better reflected the beliefs of the deceased rather than me feeling like I’m imposing my beliefs upon a situation. I feel very deeply that death rituals should reflect the person who died rather than the people they’re for – which is really the living survivors.

I spent some quality time with my mother on Monday. I told her to make a list of stuff for me to do so I would get it done. I also managed to fix my mother’s craptacular internet connection as best I could tell… yay for that. While driving her around, we came across some wild turkeys:

Rented me a Honda Civic from my favorite rental agency (I’m definitely a frequent renter there ). Got a good deal thanks to the Entertainment book… which is now sold at Borders (one more reason Borders is awesome).

Tuesday, just drove around bored… typical fucking Pennsylvania, nothing to do. I was going to go to the shooting range but passing by it… well, let’s just say I know where the firing ranges are in Texas and the ones in Texas portray themselves better with regards to safety. Then I came up to the top of a hill and had this scenic view:

I had to pull off and take some pics.

Wednesday, Ashlee and I went to visit Qwertos. Since I was driving the 600 miles round-trip, Ashlee was the one with most of the pictures of the trip. Remember everyone, fill up with gas BEFORE you leave PA when going to NY. Man, gas is expensive in NY.

As we get to our meeting spot, Ashlee spots this scene:

Seriously, how is anyone going to reach up there to get those fire extinguishers in the event of fire?

Kudos for Facebook, for we were able to find Qwertos’ phone number when we realized we didn’t have it and couldn’t find Qwertos.

After eating some pizza near some middle schoolers having bizarre conversations, we raided a Barnes and Noble. Ashlee went to the music section, where we just followed her because our mindset was “buy… music? Who would do that?”

We spent a good 30 minutes in the New Age section making fun of books. I stumbled upon Spiral Dance. Not that I particularly agree with Starhawk… ever, but I do want to be informed about where people get their source material for random crap they spew on forums etc. So I bought the 20th anniversary edition of that.

The Barnes and Noble in Rochester also had a used book section. Nothing terribly interesting there, but I did pick up a book on Nazis and the Occult since I’m doing research into the small religion that Hitler allegedly (according to the History Channel’s show: Nostradamus Effect) perverted into the Nazi party. At the time, I had no clue this was a Jewish neighborhood. I’m not comfortable with Nazi stuff and this poor cashier is having a hell of a time getting a price off the Nazi book. It was two steps away from “price check on the Nazi Occult book” but all was good. But I hate it when stores ask me for my email, so I might as well make them uncomfortable, so I give my ImBleedingProfusely.com address – which always arouses interesting reactions from cashiers.

On the way out of Barnes and Noble, we find this hippie-mobile:

The trip was uneventful on the way home. While at a rest area on the thruway, I did buy a nifty keepsake glass that I’ll have to take a picture of when I get home.

As with my tradition of trips to Rochester, I coasted across the PA border basically on E, avoiding the high gas prices of NY.

The following day I was supposed to go see my friend Kimberly, but she never contacted me with when/where to meet her so Ashlee and I made alternative plans.

W00t, at this point the trip had turned from vacation to pilgrimage. Ashlee’s… friend with benefits shall we say… guided us to Columcille. This was much better than Ashlee’s directions of “It’s on the mountain.” Those directions are not useful when you’re among hundreds of hills!

Columcille was awesome, I have a bunch of pics on the PCP photo stream of Columcille!

http://www.flickr.com/groups/pcppodcast/pool/

We then kept with tradition and did a Chinese Buffet. Orgasm in the Mouth buffet had closed, so we went up to Dickson City. The guy spent 10 minutes meandering trying to fill up my Pepsi. Karma got back though, Ashlee had some crab meat and when pulling on it, slipped and knocked over a full glass of Pepsi! Ha, retribution!

After realizing Ashlee has no wi-fi, we meandered to the nearest free Wi-Fi which Borders now offers. Ashlee has already discussed that at:

http://imbleedingprofusely.com/forum/topic/pcp-the-trip-borders

We were most productive, finally hammering out an ad for PCP. We followed up the following day with similar productivity before I left for Texas on Saturday morning.

I’ll probably remember more later, when I’ll add more commentary.

Ya ever have a piece of advice or a message repeated so often in so many unrelated media that one can’t help but to either be completely oblivious or curious why it comes from so many sources, even sources that don’t know you or are inanimate?

It reminds me of the phrase “Bad Wolf” from Doctor Who for which I’ve included a few YouTube videos to illustrate the concept.

Video explaining the Bad Wolf phenomenon in this sci-fi series:

Video of the most recent occurrence of Bad Wolf with a retrocausality reference thrown in for fun:

Video tying it all together:

Yeah, this is something going on in my life – but I really wanted to make a post about Doctor Who that tied into metaphysics too

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.