Constructs for Newbies

Lesenthe
September 14, 2009

Contents
1 What is a Construct? 2

2 Subtle Energy 3

3 Why Make Constructs? 5

4 What Can Constructs Do? 5

5 On Sentience 6

6 Planning and Programming 7

7 Energy Manipulation 9
7.1 Visualisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.2 Tactile/Spatial Awareness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.3 The Tentacle Analogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.4 Mental Discipline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

8 Focal Point 12

9 The Blank Mind 13

10 Visualisation 15

11 Tactile/Spatial 16

12 Exercises in Basic Energetics 16

12.1 Gathering Internal Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
12.2 Externalising Internal Energy (Basic) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
12.3 Externalising Internal Energy (Slightly Less Basic) . . . . . . . . 18
12.4 Gathering Ambient Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

13 Creating Constructs 19

14 The Method 19

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15 Further Information 21
15.1 Energy Types and Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
15.2 Ambient Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
15.3 Ley Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
15.4 The Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
15.5 Energetic Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

16 The Question of Shelling 23

17 Thoughtforms — Accidental Constructs 26

18 Sample Construct Types 26

18.1 Shields and Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
18.2 Practical Shield Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
18.3 Energetic Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
18.4 Mundane Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
18.5 Input Shields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
18.6 Fields/Wards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
18.7 “Guardian” and ”Watcher” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
18.8 The Cop-Attractor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

19 Final Notes 31

Despite its length, this article is a very basic “for dummies”–style guide written
with the newbie in mind. If you’ve been working with energetics for a year or
more, you can probably afford to give it a miss. The purpose is to explain a
little about how constructs work and how to effectively make, use and maintain
them. I’ll be writing from a functional, rather than academic, standpoint here.
The reason for this is twofold. One, you need not know the precise mechanics
of how this works in order to do it. A functional understanding will suffice.
Two, everybody has their own pet theory on precisely what energy is, how we
are able to manipulate it, and its relationship with the more familiar physical
world. I am not a scientist. I am an active psion, and the terminology I use could
be termed pseudo-scientific at best. The definitions and descriptions herein will
cover the how (or the how-to), and some of the why, and will provide you with an
understanding of the subject matter sufficient to allow you to effectively create
and use constructs. If you are looking for an article to prove that constructs
exist, you will be disappointed. This is for those who can be bothered putting
in the effort to prove it for themselves.
All examples, unless otherwise noted, are from my own personal experience.
The use of “he”, “his”, etc to describe the practitioner is for ease of reading
(not to mention writing).

1 What is a Construct?
A construct is an object which is “constructed” (hence the name) from subtle
energy, the object being created by the practitioner and remaining functionally
independent of him. I say functionally independent because constructs maintain

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a connection with their creator, but to all intents and purposes (at least for the
purposes of this article) they are separate. You may be more familiar with
the term “thoughtform”, which is similar, but quite different. Thoughtforms
are created unconsciously, whereas the term construct is only used to describe
something which is intentionally created. Thoughtforms will be covered further,
though not in a great deal more detail, in a later section. The term “servitor” is
used in some circles to describe a construct, often sentient, and most commonly
created using ritual techniques. The emphasis of ritual here is only because the
term is often used by ritualists, not because it is in any way different.
A construct can take any form the practitioner decides upon, and will possess
any attributes the practitioner wishes to impose upon it. Constructs range from
the very simple, such as a featureless orb of energy which carries out basic tasks
autonomously, to the very complex. The most complex of constructs can possess
“intelligence”, and even (seeming) sentience, and are capable of virtually any
feat the practitioner himself is capable of, and perhaps some that he is not.
Constructs are both composed of, and “powered” by, subtle energy. If you’re
anything like me, that statement may not make a great deal of sense until you
actually start working with energy. After all, how can you make something out
of energy? Much smarter people than I have made fools of themselves trying to
explain subtle energy, so I’ll give you a brief, simple explanation that you can
use while working with the stuff, until you come across, or work out, something
better for yourself.

2 Subtle Energy
Energy is easier to describe than it is to define, and it is a lot easier to use than
it is to explain the mechanisms by which we use it. That being said, I’ll give it
my best shot.
Subtle energy is best defined by its attributes. Its most useful attribute to
us is that it responds to thought. Any thought, no matter how idle, can and
will have an effect, albeit a minor one. This is why psionic and magic training
often starts with exercises to discipline the practitioner’s mind. The clearer the
thought, the better the result. If you can manipulate this stuff while sitting in
front of the television, you can manipulate it far more effectively with a clear
mind and sharp focus. It’s a case of garbage in, garbage out; weak efforts will
produce weak results. The type of directed thought used to manipulate energy
is generally called “intent”.
The second most useful attribute of subtle energy is that it is abundant.
While this is not something that defines subtle energy as such, it is a good
thing to know. The stuff is everywhere, quite literally. It composes our subtle
bodies (more on this later) and emanates from us. It also emanates from all
other forms of life, including plants. Physical objects have energetic “bodies” as
well, though of a far less active nature. It collects in ley lines and emanates from
the Earth itself. Stars exude a massive amount of energy. Energy is present,
in some form, virtually everywhere. It is theorised by some that subtle energy
forms the “framework” upon which everything physical is composed.
The third attribute of use to us here is that energy can be programmed. It
has already been established that energy is mentally manipulable. As long as
you maintain your focus on the energy, it will do as directed. Once you stop

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focusing upon the energy, your control ends and it will naturally return to its
natural state, which is to say it will disperse, as it is not in the nature of energy
to simply hold a shape by itself. Patterns can and will maintain existence in
the energy, but not with any degree of permanence. If you direct the energy
to continue doing what you want it to, however - to maintain a cohesive mass
in a specific shape, for instance - after you have stopped focusing upon it, you
are programming it. You are imposing your intent upon it in a lasting way. It
is programming that turns a blob of energy into a construct and maintains its
existence. It also gives the construct the ability to carry out its tasks, if any,
and to possess whatever attributes you desire.
There are two popular opinions on just how this happens. The most popular
idea is that the practitioner’s intent becomes imprinted upon the energy, and this
is why the programming continues to work after you have stopped focusing on it.
The fact that programming can be independently viewed and even deciphered
by another practitioner seems to support this. The programming can even be
disrupted or destroyed by another, as I described in an old article, entitled
Beneath the Construct.
The other opinion, which I personally embrace, is that the practitioner main-
tains a subconscious connection with the construct and that, because the practi-
tioner is still focusing upon it, albeit subconsciously, the programming continues
to function with seeming independence. There is a lot to recommend this notion,
however unlikely it may appear at first glance. Firstly, the connection between
practitioner and construct is an observable phenomenon. If that connection is
disrupted, the programming ceases to exist and the energy which makes up the
construct will dissipate. I’ve had some fun illustrating this fact without always
telling the other person what it was that I was doing.
“Hey, Les, wanna’ test out my new shield?”
“Sure.” *pop!*
“Awwww!”
Secondly, there is anecdotal evidence in the form of accounts of practitioners
creating more and more constructs until they have hit their limit and can create
and maintain no more. This suggests that the mind of the practitioner is so
busy focusing on maintaining so many constructs that it simply cannot focus
on any more without releasing a few of the existing ones. I have not tested
this theory myself, for the obvious reason that it requires the creation of many,
many constructs, and I’m strapped for time at the best of times.
I suspect that the truth may be a mix of the two, with programming existing
within the energy, maintained by the practitioner’s subconscious mind. Really,
it doesn’t matter which standpoint you take, or whether you believe something
else entirely. Either way, you will be able to create constructs. I invite you to
seek your own answer once you’ve learned the basics.
All of this is well and good, but it doesn’t cover what energy actually is.
The honest answer is that I’m not too sure. Every once in awhile somebody will
come up with their grand unified theory of energetics which covers absolutely
everything, but until I see some conclusive proof I’ll stick with my own flawed
ideas. The simple fact is that it works for me, and that is all that matters at
this point in my life.
My functional theory is this: Energy is. It’s useful, it’s plentiful, and if you
follow a few basic concepts you’ll be just fine. It is mentally manipulable, exists
virtually everywhere and can be programmed. There are a variety of different

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“types” of energy, but they are all manipulated by the same basic methods. I’ll
cover a few different energy types later.

3 Why Make Constructs?

Anything you can do, your construct can do; within reason. As the construct
can act independently of your conscious mind, it can do things for you without
your needing to oversee the process. In this way a construct is a labour-saving
device, leaving you free to practise remote viewing (I’m sure you can come up
with some interesting uses for that discipline) while your construct terrorises
the locals on your behalf.
The construct is free to act 24/7, whereas you may be too busy to do some-
thing yourself. Having a pre-existing construct ready and waiting is like having
an energetic servant on-call to do your bidding while you get on with your busy
life. It also means that there will be a constant focus upon your desired goal.
I can’t hold my conscious focus for a solid week, but my constructs certainly
can. Some operations require more time than others. A properly maintained
construct will keep going until the job is done.

4 What Can Constructs Do?

I’ve noticed a slight trend in some circles to create constructs which only affect
things within the arena of energetics. I say, why limit yourself to the energetic
world when there are countless things you can influence in mundane life?
My favourite construct of all time was a creation which helped me at work by
maximising revenue results. It possessed a semblance of sentience, and worked
by influencing people and circumstances, bringing things together which resulted
in some seriously impressive results. By influencing seemingly random events,
it created favourable outcomes. This is a good example of construct use in the
mundane world. It is also one of the occasions when a serious investment of
time is required. It takes time to influence the mundane. In this case my poor,
overworked construct had to deal with connecting me with the right people and
the right accounts at the right time, as well as handling a few other factors that
I’ll not discuss here. This is an ongoing process, as well as a time-consuming
one, and because my construct had only one main task in its life, it was never
distracted. After a short teething period, it helped me attain five monthly
targets in a six month period, before reaching the end of its pre-determined
lifespan. It also goes to show that planning is a key consideration. As I’d given
it a limited lifespan, it simply ceased to exist at the end of the six month period,
which I had forgotten about by the time it reached the end of its life.
The shields you’ve heard so much talk about are constructs whose purpose
is to block something energetic. I’ll save further discussion of these for the
appropriate section, but they are a good example of constructs whose purpose
lies solely in the energetic arena. There are other types of shields which function
in a more mundane capacity, which will also be discussed.
I could pad out this article by a few thousand words by citing many more
examples of construct use, but it’s far simpler to say that a construct can do
or assist in almost anything you can think of, and cover the specifics of the

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different types under their own sections. In brief, there are defensive constructs
and offensive constructs, healing constructs and event manipulation constructs,
sentient constructs to serve as guardians and early warning systems, sentient
pets, et al.

5 On Sentience
There is a warning to give on the subject of creating sentient constructs. Some-
times the warning is accompanied by the story of the Golem, which was an
artificial being made to serve a purpose, who ran amok once he’d completed his
task and had nothing left to do. The story is a nice little parable, illustrating
the fact that if you create a sentient being and don’t give it clear instructions
on what to do when it runs out of work to do, it could end up doing whatever
it wants to do. Because folks rarely program a conscience into their creations,
what it wants to do might be to eat other constructs, or vampirise somebody
for extra energy. It might want to simply follow you around, making puppy
eyes at you (you are its maker, after all). It depends on the construct’s nature
- both that which you’ve programmed into it, and that which the construct
develops by itself over time. You can easily remedy this unwanted behaviour by
“commanding” your construct to return to you after it has completed its task
and then go inactive, awaiting further orders.
There is another, potentially more serious, problem with making sentient
constructs, and that is that the critter may decide it doesn’t want to be ordered
around anymore. This happened to me early in my psionic career with a pair
of guardian constructs I’d created in the shape of big, scary-looking doberman
dogs (I was a Resident Evil fan... sue me). Only just having learned that one
can connect a construct to an external source of energy (more on that later), I
hooked my hounds up to a pair of ley lines and left them alone for a few days.
The next time I checked on them I was in for a shock. My constructs, formerly
rather ephemeral and weak, were a great deal stronger. They were also a great
deal meaner, and in short order one of them attacked me. I destroyed it in a fit
of pique (cursing roundly all the while) and did away with the other one shortly
after. It was a long time before I made another sentient construct after that.
It was, of course, my own fault that this happened, and with a little fore-
warning from yours truly you’ll be able to easily avoid a similar debacle.
The problem lay in my expectations. By viewing my beasties as completely
independent, I opened myself up to the possibility that they could gain free will
independent of my own. With free will comes choice, and at least one of the
constructs made the choice to attack me (bad doggie). This is easily avoided by
remembering a few simple rules.
You made it, you own it. It’s yours, and is under your complete control at
all times. If you deny your construct the ability to develop a free will (or at
least a semblance of one), your construct will never develop one. It will desire
what you want it to desire, which is to do as it’s told at all times. Simpler yet if
you deny your construct sentience, and have it act as a programme or machine.
You get what you ask for, as well as what you expect. The topic of expec-
tation as a more passive form of intent is a big one (and one which I’ve devoted
an entire article to; Expectation, or Passive Intent in the Design of Energetic
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will happen, you will come to expect it. Even if you don’t consciously think
about it, the expectation that a construct follows specific rules will be enough
to ensure that the construct will follow those rules. We are dealing here with
a discipline that relies wholly upon your thoughts to get the job done. If you
expect success, you are far more likely to receive it. If you expect catastrophic
failure, or a construct that disobeys its daddy... well, you get the idea.

6 Planning and Programming

I’m going to depart from convention a little here and start by teaching pro-
gramming before energetics. I believe that programming is by far the more
important skill, especially in the method of construct-creation described here.
Energy manipulation is relatively easy, but of little use if you can’t programme
the energy you’ve gathered. Contrary to what some may think, you can learn to
programme before you learn to manipulate energy, which will leave you better
prepared to make good use of the energy you’ve gathered.
The trick when programming a construct using this method is to gather all
of the construct’s attributes into a single, cohesive whole prior to creation. I find
it messy to gather energy, then make the construct bit by bit, adding attributes
(duration of life, abilities, etc), then giving it its tasks, then adding more and
more info one piece at a time. It’s less complicated to spend a little time
planning first, and then execute everything as a single step, rather than adding
a half-dozen afterthoughts as you go. You can certainly add the afterthoughts
later, if you so desire, and we’ll cover that a little later.
As an example, I’ll run through the planning of a simple construct, whose
purpose it is to manipulate traffic lights. We start with what it will do, which is
to make lights turn green as you approach, or at least to speed up the transition
from red to green. Is there anything else it should do? What if the light is
already green? In that case, it should cause it to remain green until after you’ve
passed it. How about things the construct should not do? I’m not sure there
are any really dangerous ways of doing the above, but to be on the safe side,
let’s add that it must do so without harming anybody. It might cause a bit of
consternation to other drivers, whose turn waiting at the intersection has been
extended, but that’s to be expected. Stick with the basic idea of not causing
anybody any physical harm and you should be fine.
We now reach the all-important how. If you make your construct go about
its task in a specific fashion, you are limiting its options. That works if you
know precisely how you want something to be done, but in this case I’ve frankly
no idea how traffic lights work. If you approach the problem with the attitude
that your construct will be able to do it, then it will find the most expedient
way of getting it done itself. Within reason, of course. A little experience will
soon let you know what is and is not possible when working with constructs.
You should add, however, that the construct must not hinder or delay you in
any way.
Next, come up with a name. Lots of people skip this step, or at least they
avoid adding a really creative name. If only for the purposes of reference, you’ll
likely end up calling your construct the traffic manip construct or something
similar. Just to illustrate the point, we’ll name this one Traffic Light Construct.
Next it’s good to give it a form. It is perfectly acceptable to stick with the

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orb-shaped psi-ball configuration that’s become famous in psionic circles, but
you shouldn’t feel restricted to that form simply because you’re new to this.
Selecting a form that follows its function is a way of mentally reinforcing that
function (Bauhaus psionics!). How about a floating green light? If another
form takes your fancy, say a little flying traffic cop, a green traffic light fairy, or
something equally fitting, then feel free to use it. What is important is that you
make sure the form is firmly associated with the idea of the construct named
Traffic Light Construct.
The point here is to get all of the different things together as a single idea.
To give you an idea of what I mean, let’s take a look at the humble alarm clock.
Just thinking the words “alarm clock” will bring up the concept of an object
with a fairly predictable form, with the following attributes:

• Displays the time

• Emits a sound at a pre-arranged time
• Stops the sound at the push of a button

If you wanted to create a construct alarm clock, you’d have the “schematics”
already in your mind. Because we’re working with thought alone, all you need
is to have what you want clearly defined in your mind beforehand. All of the
concepts come together to form a sort of package of thought. From there, you
simply externalise that package in an energetic form. Let’s return to our Traffic
Light Construct.
Don’t forget to specify how long your construct will exist. Setting an expiry
date is a good way of ensuring a construct won’t hang around after you no
longer have a use for it. You can specify that its life will end after its task is
complete, but it’s a good idea to also give a time limit in case it fails in its task.
For long-term constructs, such as the one we’re creating now, you might like to
give it a life of one year, and recreate the construct after that limit has expired.
Don’t forget to add the date to your calendar, however, or you may suddenly
find yourself wondering why the traffic lights are no longer changing.
You must form a package of thought, a series of related ideas that fall under
the heading of Traffic Light Construct, and define it as a whole. Giving it a
name helps tie it all together. Giving it a form also gives us a focus. The easiest
thing to do when starting out is to put this all on paper, or type it into a word
processor. Here’s what you’d write for the Traffic Light Construct:

Name Traffic Light Construct

Intent Cause all traffic lights to be green as I approach, and to remain green
until I have passed them, without causing anybody physical harm. Active
only when I am driving, or a passenger in a car.
Form Floating green light
Power Ambient (We’ll get to this later)
Duration One year

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 Once you have it all down, you need to mentally tie it all together. The idea
is to link all the concepts together as a single idea, a single package of thought.
Remember the alarm clock? That kind of instantaneous recall is what we’re
aiming for. The easiest way of doing this is to run over it in your mind a few
times, until the name brings up a mental image of its form, and the intent is
clear in your mind. Obviously this is more difficult to do with more complex
constructs. With practise, you’ll find it gets a lot easier to pack it all in there.
Sounds too easy, doesn’t it? I’m aware that this is very different to other
methods of programming you may have read about. It’s also the simplest and
easiest way of creating the programming from scratch. Using this method
doesn’t prevent you from altering the construct after the fact, and we’ll get
to that in a later section.

7 Energy Manipulation
You cannot manipulate what you cannot sense, so we begin learning to manip-
ulate energy by learning to perceive energy.
Just how does one go about sensing something they have experienced their
entire life, but never noticed? After all, you have always had an energetic body,
and it has always interacted with your environment and with others in that
environment. The first thing to make clear is that you will be using senses
other than your five mundane ones. People rarely physically see subtle energy,
except under fairly rare circumstances. You may often hear of people who feel
energy. This is usually for one of two reasons. It is certainly possible to feel
the effects that energy has on your physical body. An excess of energy passing
through the energetic body will affect the physical body, sometimes resulting
in an increase in temperature. The other way of feeling energy is by focusing
on the energetic body, and feeling the effects energy has upon it. There have
been times where I’d swear that my temperature had risen dramatically due
to energy work, and checked my temperature only to find that it was perfectly
normal. Changes to the energetic body can be felt readily, once the practitioner
has learned to place their focus there. The resulting sensations can feel a lot
like something is occurring within the physical.
Until the subtler senses are identified and trained it is easy to mistake input
of an energetic nature for something else, so don’t be alarmed if you feel some
pretty weird things. Sensations can range from hot and cold to buzzing, tingling
and even crawling, and the sensations can occur anywhere in your body. Use
common sense here and seek medical attention if you feel unwell.

7.1 Visualisation
This is the most commonly taught method, both in terms of sensing energy
and manipulating energy. The practitioner often forms a picture in his mind’s
eye, directing the energy to take on the visualised shape or pattern. After a
time the practitioner will find that he can use visualisation to perceive what
is occurring visually. This is useful, but to do so is to run the risk of mixing
fantasy with reality. It is exceedingly easy to come up with a mental picture
of what you want to see - or what you may dread seeing - rather than what
is really there. Subtle input is interpreted by your mind, and the images you

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visualise will often be symbolic rather than literal. For example, it’s common
to associate heat with the colour red, or illness with the colour black. These are
not literal in an energetic sense, but your mind’s way of displaying an attribute.

7.2 Tactile/Spatial Awareness

This is a little harder to describe. Imagine that you are running your fingers
through somebody’s hair. Imagine the soft feel of it against the skin of your
fingers. The individual hairs separating as you let the locks pass through your
hand. This is an example of tactile memory. At many times in your life you have
run your fingers through your own, or somebody else’s, hair. You have touched
many different surfaces and textures, and as a result it is a simple thing to
imagine what most things would feel like to the touch.
Spatial awareness is simply the awareness of where something lies, either in
relation to yourself, or to its surroundings. Imagine that a ping pong ball is
resting in your hand. You know where that is without looking, as your hand is
a part of you and you are aware of where your various parts are at all times.
Now imagine that the ball is hovering a small distance above your hand. Now
imagine that the ball is hovering a few feet away from you, at eye level. Don’t
merely see the ball in your mind’s eye, but try to maintain an awareness of where
the space is that the imaginary ball would be occupying if it were real. Focus
upon the texture of the imaginary ball’s outer surface, where it hangs in the air
before you. Feel the seam that joins the two halves. Next try to feel both the
inner and outer surfaces of the ball, while maintaining your awareness of where
the ball would exist in relation to you. Then in relation to the floor. Then the
ceiling, the walls, and to the doorway. This is tactile and spatial imagination
at work.

7.3 The Tentacle Analogy

You’ll no doubt have noticed that both of these methods of perception and
manipulation use the practitioner’s imagination. There is a good reason for
this, though it’s not always explained. My favourite way of explaining it is with
this analogy.
Imagine that you woke up one morning with an extra limb. Not something
as mundane as an additional hand or a third leg, you’ve somehow sprouted a
long, sinuous tentacle. You decide to keep your new appendage, rather than
sawing it off, and set about learning to use it. Here’s where you hit the wall.
You’ve no idea how. You ask it politely to move, but it remains stubbornly still,
curled up next to you on the bed like a flesh-coloured snake.
Now consider this: if you lie down and imagine yourself running, really
imagine your legs pumping, the road under your feet, your toes springing off the
asphault and your calves stretching into the next stride, your legs will eventually
begin to twitch. You are, by imagining your legs moving, giving a rather vague
instruction to your mind. Of course you’re not operating every tendon and
muscle as you do when actually running, but you will find that your body will
respond to this sort of instruction.
With this in mind you return to the task of moving your tentacle. You close
your eyes, calm your mind, and focus on your awareness - however as yet unclear
- of your tentacle. You imagine it writhing and uncurling, with the intent that

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this be so. You feel the unfamiliar skin and muscle moving toward its purpose.
You focus completely on the feel, the image, the imagined awareness of your
tentacle moving. Lo and behold, the tentacle gives a little twitch. As you
continue you gain familiarity with how your tentacle feels, you will eventually
gain an awareness of position the same as you already possess with your existing
parts. With time and practise, you learn to use your tentacle.
A fun and silly analogy, but I hope an illustrative one. When we use imag-
ination in psionic training, we are signalling to our minds what we wish to do.
By maintaining focus upon the desired result, we use imagination as a tool to
get that first twitch of the tentacle, so to speak, and learn to consciously use
those faculties which have remained dormant or unused for so long. Unlike your
more physical parts, you will continue to use imagination as a way of communi-
cating specific things to your mind. The shape of your construct, for example.
Your mind will also, if you so desire, provide information to you using this same
medium. Always bear in mind that your imagination is a tool to be used.

7.4 Mental Discipline

A great many books on practical energetics and magic in general start with
exercises to discipline the mind. As discussed earlier, we are dealing with a
predominantly mental subject. We manipulate subtle energy with controlled
thought, so the longer you can maintain focus on your work, the better. You
will also need to be able to keep your focus exclusively upon what you are doing,
without allowing your mind to wander. These are actually fairly difficult things
to accomplish. If you don’t believe me, test yourself. Start counting mentally,
from zero, and see how far you can get without any other thoughts intruding.
If you’re honest with yourself you’re likely to find that you reach a fairly low
number. If you have undertaken mental training before then you have a head
start, but most of us come to psionics with a fairly low level of mental discipline.
Think of the times in your life when you have been totally absorbed with
something. Perhaps you were reading a good book or watching a movie. Many
gamers find themselves completely immersed in their video games, to the point
where they are so absorbed that they completely lose track of their surroundings.
These are examples of being focused, but they aren’t quite the level of discipline
we are looking for, for the simple reason that it’s easy to become absorbed in
something that is interesting. It would be ideal to develop your focus to the
point where you can completely still your mind to the exclusion of all extraneous
thought, and shut out all external stimuli, so that your thoughts are focused
on your work alone, regardless of whether that work is interesting or mind-
numbingly boring. Obviously this is no easy task, and that level of discipline is
not absolutely necessary. You will find that it gets easier with practise, and that
your efforts in all fields of the mind will improve as you develop your mental
discipline. You will notice that the exercises that follow are pretty boring. This
is for a reason! There will almost always be something more interesting to think
about than your construct. Your mind may want to wander to thoughts of
the girl or guy you’re interested in, or worries about money, or any one of a
multitude of concerns.
If you sit around waiting for a time when there’s nothing of interest to oc-
cupy your mind, you’ll be waiting a long time. You need to be able to clear your
mind of all the day’s clutter before you start working. To gain and maintain

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a state of blank mind is to begin your work with a blank slate. You also need
to be capable of maintaining a sharp focus on your work, to the exclusion of
all else, as previously discussed. If you cannot do this, your mind will return
to the thoughts you just emptied your mind of, or you’ll find another, equally
disruptive, mental distraction. Accurate and reliable imaginative ability, espe-
cially in the areas of visualisation, tactile, and spatial awareness, is also a must.
The ability to maintain focus will come as a matter of course when practising
the other exercises listed below, for the obvious reason that you will practising
it in an effort to maintain the results of the exercises. That being said, I’ll start
with this ability anyway as it is of the utmost importance, and possessing it will
make the exercises that follow easier.

8 Focal Point
This is the most boring of the four exercises. It is best to begin in a place that
is quiet, where you will not be disturbed. As you gain in ability, try doing it
with some controlled distractions, such as music or a television playing quietly
in the background. When you feel ready, practise in a crowded place. You may
be surprised how quickly you reach a level where you can shut out enough of
the noise to adequately focus.
I find that the best place to begin is in bed, either before sleep or before
rising for the day. Depending on the time of day the house is likely to be quiet,
and you are in a place which is usually associated with quiet and rest. Lie in bed
and choose a spot on the ceiling at about eye level, or slightly above, and make a
mental note of its position. Get up (I hope you didn’t get too comfortable), and
mark the place with a small spot sticker, easily obtainable at any office-supply
store.
Lie down again and close your eyes. Breathing exercises are a classic in
the literature, and with good reason. They work. At first, simply be aware of
your breathing. Don’t force it or attempt to control it at this stage. Simply be
aware of the gentle rhythm of your breath. After a little while you will notice
that the rate has slowed a little and can move to the next stage. Rather than
breathing deeply, which will wake you up, maintain the slow, shallow rhythm.
Don’t over-breathe, but certainly don’t under-breathe either. Begin to mentally
count out the duration of each inhalation and exhalation. The duration is not
important, as long as it is regular. With each inhalation, focus on breathing
into the bottom of your lungs, rather than the top. To ensure you are doing
this correctly, place one hand on your chest and the other on your diaphragm.
The hand on your diaphragm should move before - and higher than - the one on
your chest. Continue inhaling for the normal count, and pausing for an equal
or slightly lesser count, before exhaling. Make the exhalation a sigh for the
first few breaths, going for a little longer than the inhalation. A slightly longer
exhalation will increase your body’s level of carbon dioxide. This is not a bad
thing, in fact it is a very good thing as it will naturally calm you. Your body will
tell you if you’re doing this wrong, and the only way to do it wrong is to force
your breathing into a weird, unnatural pattern. As long as you are comfortable,
you are doing it correctly.
Maintain focus on your breathing until it falls into an automatic rhythm,
without your needing to count it out. Once you have reached this stage, open

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your eyes.
Rest your gaze upon the dot on the ceiling. Don’t strain your eyes or glare
at the dot. The aim is to simply rest your eyes there, with an emphasis on the
word rest. It is simply a place to let your eyes come to rest, a place for them to
sit without effort. Become aware of the sounds in your immediate environment.
There are always sounds to be heard, and you will notice more of them when
the house is quiet and you’re paying attention. Perhaps the whir of a computer
fan, or that near-audible whine of a television in another room. The creak of
the house settling, and the wind outside. One by one, allow yourself to notice
these sounds and acknowledge them. Accept that they are there, and mentally
affirm that they are not very interesting. These unimportant background noises
will, in fact, help you to relax and maintain focus upon the dot on the ceiling.
Don’t try to block them out, as that will only draw attention to them. Simply
acknowledge that they are there, and let them go.
Return your attention to the dot. You may find that your eyes have wan-
dered. That’s normal. Simply bring your gaze back to rest upon the dot. Notice
its colour, and the round shape. You’ll notice that the patch of ceiling around
the dot is not very interesting, and you can mentally tell yourself this. Maintain
your focus on the dot. Try to avoid the trap of focusing on the act of focusing.
Should this occur, simply return your attention to the dot. If a thought arises,
allow it to arrive and acknowledge that it exists before returning your attention
to the dot. If your eyes become uncomfortable, you can blink normally. You will
find that if you close your eyes halfway, then re-open them, you can maintain
your gaze without needing to blink as often. Let this happen without really
thinking about it, and keep your attention on the dot.
As stated, this method is boring, but it is also very relaxing. You may
even find yourself looking forward to each night’s practise before sleep. Don’t
worry too much about the actual length of time spent focusing on the dot. As
long as you practise diligently and continue returning your attention to the dot
each time you are distracted, you will quickly improve. The important thing
to remember here is not to struggle, and not to focus on focusing. The rule of
thumb is to return your attention to the dot anytime something intrudes.

9 The Blank Mind

Traditional exercises for gaining a blank-mind state usually involve the practi-
tioner meditating upon a mental image of blackness, or nothingness. I’ll admit
to having had considerable difficulty with this method, though I did eventually
gain the ability to enter the state at will. It wasn’t until years later that I was
referred to Wayne Dyer’s work and found a far easier method.
In his book, Getting in the Gap, Dr. Wayne Dyer describes a method of
achieving a blank-mind state that I’ve found to be very useful. The “gap”
described in the book’s title is the gap between thoughts. This is a clever way of
causing the mind to come to rest. Rest is the objective word here. If you attempt
to shut down your thoughts by fighting them, you’re fighting a losing battle.
Your thoughts are yours to control. Dyer’s method consisted of reciting the
first ten words of the Lord’s Prayer, ”Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed
be Thy Name,” and pausing between each word. The practitioner begins by
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Then they pause, and rest in the “gap” between the two words, then saying
(or vibrating, to use the traditional term) the name of God. They then return
focus the word “Father” and move to ”who”, and move backward to the gap
and vibrate the name of God. In this fashion, the practitioner moves through
the sequence, ending with the word “Name”. The exercise is obviously of a
spiritual nature. Once the trappings of religion are dispensed with, we are left
with a very useful tool for inducing a blank-mind state. By placing the focus
on the space after one thought ends, and before the next begins, we are placing
the mind in a state of waiting, a state of rest where the next thought is yet to
be realised and the mind is silent. This takes some effort, but you’ll find it is
surprisingly easy. There is no attempt made to block thought. The pracititioner
already knows what the next thought will be. With practice, the gap between
thoughts becomes longer and longer, and eventually the entire exercise can be
dispensed with. As you will have noticed with the focal exercise, such states
are easily induced once you have become accustomed to entering them. If you
ever find yourself unable to enter the state at will, you have an exercise which
has been used successfully in the past, which you can rely on to guarantee the
necessary state. If you have practiced the focal exercise diligently, you will find
this exercise will pose no difficulties at all.
Begin, as with the focal exercise, by finding a quiet place for practice where
you will not be disturbed. Perform the basic breathing exercise in its entirety,
starting by closing your eyes and focusing on your breathing, and continuing
until you have the rhythm of breath flowing without thought or effort. You
may prefer to keep your eyes closed, or you can perform the exercise with them
open. Acclimatise yourself to the sounds around you, acknowledging them and
allowing them to deepen your focus.
Rather than the Lord’s prayer, we will use the phrase, ”I am the silence of the
mind at perfect rest”. Any phrase will do, so feel free to substitute something
with a more personal meaning if you prefer.
Mentally say the phrase, “I am the silence of the mind at perfect rest.”
Mentally say the word, “I”. See it in your mind’s eye, as though projected
onto a screen. Take your time doing this, and make it clear.
Deliberately move your attention from the word “I” to the word ”am”. Focus
on the word “am”, seeing it in your mind’s eye. Again, spend some time on the
word before moving on.
Pause, and move back in your mind from the word “am” to the space in
between ”I” and “am”. As with all things, there is a trick to it. Do so without
effort, without strain and without attempting to force your mind. Simply allow
your mind to come to rest. Your mind should be in a state of waiting, ready
for the next thought, but not yet there. Hold this until your hold on the state
begins to slip, and then move your attention back to the word “am”.
Focus once more on “am”, saying it again mentally and holding the image
in your mind. Move then to the word “the”. As before, hold the word ”the” for
a few moments, then slip back into the gap between the words, the gap between
thoughts. Come to rest on the space, or the gap, between “am” and ”the”.
Continue the exercise until you have completed the entire sentence.
The aim of this exercise is to introduce the practitioner to the state of mental
silence which occurs when no active thought is taking place. Once identified, the
state is easy to slip into, though it can be difficult at times to maintain it. The
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of leading from one period of mental silence to the next. Try to maintain the
blank-mind state for a longer period with each word in the sentence, and with
each repetition of the exercise. With practice you will be able to induce the
blank-mind state without effort, and after a time you’ll find you can maintain
it for a longer period of time.

10 Visualisation
I am yet to meet a person with absolutely no ability to hold a mental picture,
however vague that picture may be at first attempt. Teenage boys tend to have
reasonably good ability in this area, for obvious reasons, but there is still work
to be done. Your average fantasy does not have much by way of fine detail. To
perform this exercise you will need an analogue clock or watch.
Begin by completing the breathing exercise. By now, you should be able to
do this start to finish very quickly. You should next attain the blank-mind state,
either by performing that exercise in its entirety or by simply shifting to that
state if you are able to do so. By now you should find that simply beginning the
breathing exercise will get you on the right track, and you will be mentally calm
and ready to begin the exercise. This sort of practise turns a short breathing
exercise into a quick preparation for work that lasts only a few moments, but
which prepares you adequately for mental work.
Pick up the clock and take a really good look at it. Notice the format
the numbers are in. Are they in our standard hindu-arabic style, or are they
roman numerals? Are the spaces between the numbers incremented, or are they
simply blank? What do the hands look like? Does the second hand move once
per second, or does it make a continuous, slow progression around the clock
face? Really focus on all the details, paying specific attention to each feature
you notice. When you feel you are ready, put the clock down and close your
eyes.
Create a mental image of the clock. This is very easy, until you attempt to
fill in all the fine details. You may find that you can get a good overall image,
but the details are a bit vague. Perhaps you can create detail in one area, but
at the loss of the remainder of the image. It is quite common to be able to
fill in details only if you are focusing on one area only, as though you are in a
“close-up” view. This is normal. I’ve found that while it may be difficult to
visualise something complex, I search my memory for the image and find that
it is there. You may find it helpful to imagine the clock as you were holding
it. Try to let your mind fill in the blanks rather than struggling to hold it all
at once and push further detail in. You may have noticed that each exercise
places emphasis on allowing things to happen, to guiding one’s mind rather than
forcing it. This holds true with all mental pusuits. You’ll find that your mind
is a willing accomplice in all endeavours, so long as you approach the issue with
the right attitude. See how much detail you can put into the image, and then
open your eyes and look at the clock again. Did you miss anything? Was there
anything that wasn’t quite right? How much did you get right the first time?
It’s surprising how many small details are in an object as simple as a wall-clock.
Once you’ve reviewed to your satisfaction, close your eyes and return to the
mental image.
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alise the clock, then add the element of movement. Start by having the second
hand move, and see if you can make one complete revolution without breaking
focus. Once you can do that, complete multiple revolutions, ensuring you don’t
forget to have the minute hand move with each revolution.

11 Tactile/Spatial
We’ve already had an exercise in tactile/spatial imagination in the explanation
for that section on imagination. Instead of a simple ping pong ball, use a ball
with a more complex design. A cricket ball would be ideal, or a baseball for
American readers. Failing either of those two, there are few people who don’t
have a golf ball or two lying around the house. As always, begin with the
breathing exercise, followed by acclimatising yourself to those stimuli around
you which may prove distracting. Attain the blank-mind state, and you’re
ready to begin.
As with the visualisation exercise, start by thoroughly examining the ball.
Cricket- and baseballs have rather complex patterns of stitches, and golfballs
have equally complex dimple patterns. Observe with both eyes and fingers, and
set the ball aside. With your experience in using the preceding exercises, this
will be much easier than your initial attempt with the ping pong ball. Once you
can imagine the ball in your hand, imagine it as floating above your hand, and
move on to other parts of the room, and then the house.

12 Exercises in Basic Energetics

As stated, you’ll need to be able to perceive subtle energy in order to manipulate
it. There are two schools of thought on how to proceed. The first is to stick
with perception before you start manipulating, in order to ensure you’re up to
the task before trying your hand at actual construct creation. The second, and
my personal preference, is to learn as you go. Yes, you will make mistakes.
Chances are you’ll make a lot of them, as most of us have, and do. You’ll also
gain experience in both perception and manipulation at the same time, and this
is something you really can’t buy. Experience is gained only through practise.
So let’s start practising!
In order to practise perceiving energy you’ll need a quantity of it at hand to
play with. Luckily, you have a whole body that’s made of the stuff. Without
giving too much away before the appropriate section, the energetic or subtle
body is the part of you which is composed of subtle energy. While you are
inhabiting a physical body on the physical “plane” or ”level”, you are also
inhabiting an energetic body on the energetic level. The senses we use to interact
with the physical level - sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell - are physical
senses. The senses you use to interact with the energetic level are energetic
senses. I believe - and not everybody agrees on this point - that these senses
are completely separate from the five physical senses. You cannot see energy,
nor can you hear it, taste it, touch it or smell it. You can, however, use your
physical senses as reference points. I believe that people who train themselves
to “see” energy with their physical eyes are using a form of visualisation. My
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parallel between the physical sense of touch and the energetic sense of touch,
so I hope you get the idea. Touch is probably the most reliable sense we can
use with energy, especially when beginning practise. Once you get the knack of
feeling it, you’ll be able to rely on it. Unlike the physical sense, you can feel
energy at a distance, also, as you’ll see soon enough.
The exercises below are simple and fairly brief. If these are your first steps
in energetic practise, remember to take your time. Be sure to complete each
one fully before moving to the next, otherwise you’ll gain little benefit from
them. No matter how determined you are to master everything in the next five
minutes, try to remember that all complex skills come with time. Consider how
long it took you to learn to read and write. Some results may come immediately,
but others will take time, patience and, most importantly, practise.

12.1 Gathering Internal Energy

In order to manipulate energy, we must create some sort of mental reference for
it. This is where visualisation comes in. Imagining energy as a sort of fluid light
is traditional, and I see no reason to depart from that tradition unless you have
a particular mental image that is more meaningful to you. Begin with the usual
exercises, and imagine your body as it is in its current position. Imagine that it
is filled with energy (which it is), and spend some time paying attention to the
energy flowing through you. Don’t expect a vastly detailed representation at this
early stage. In all likelihood what you’re seeing will be purely a visualisation,
and will bear no resemblance to what is actually there. That’s fine at this point.
As you visualise, try to feel the energy as it moves through you. Don’t focus too
hard on the details, just let the energy move in whatever manner it seems to
move naturally. Try to focus on how the energy feels. After you’ve spent some
time doing this, visualise the energy moving to your hand and concentrating
there. See it glow, see it really burn as it concentrates in your palm and fingers.
Try to move the sensations and pay attention to how your hand feels as this
happens. Do you sense anything at all? Does it feel different to how it felt when
you were imagining the energy simply flowing normally? The purpose here is
to get that first twitch of the tentacle, so be ready to sense something, but try
not to feel too disappointed if you don’t get anything at first. The simple act of
using a mental place-holder - the fluid light - coupled with the intent of moving
your body’s energy should have a result. If you are paying attention, that result
should be noticeable. If it’s not noticeable immediately, it will be noticeable
eventually. Keep at it until you can sense the energy’s movement and do so
reliably before going on to moving the energy to other parts of your body. Be
sensible here. If you start to feel sick, or have any unpleasant sensations, stop
immediately and give it a day or so before picking up where you left off. If the
unpleasantness continues, discontinue practise until it stops.
Repeat the exercise daily at your normal practise time, and as many more
times per day as you feel is reasonable. Once you can sense the movment of
energy to any part of your body reliably, move to the next exercise.

12.2 Externalising Internal Energy (Basic)

By now you will have an idea of how energy feels when it moves. In the absence
of a practise partner who is able to sense energy, this is your most reliable

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indicator of whether anything is happening or not. The reason for repeating
the first exercise over and over is to fix firmly in your mind the sensation of
energetic movement, and you will need a sense you can rely on from the get-go.
Visualisation is too prone to fantasy to ever trust completely. If you have a
perfectly visualised result but feel nothing, trust the feel.
The next step in manipulating energy is manipulating energy outside of
yourself. To do this, concentrate energy in the palm of one of your hands. Keep
the energy flowing until you feel a strong response, then hold your (hopefully)
energised palm a few centimetres from your other palm. What do you feel?
Does your visualisation change in any way? Try to make the energy flow from
your palm to your other hand, and again focus on the result. Pay attention both
to how it feels, and how it impacts your visualisation. If you sense nothing, be
honest with yourself. It’s far better to have no results now than to talk yourself
into a false positive and have to re-learn everything from scratch later. Slow
learning beats fantasy any day of the week.
Repeat this exercise daily until you can reliably project energy from one
hand to the other before moving on to the next exercise.

12.3 Externalising Internal Energy (Slightly Less Basic)

Hold your palms together, far enough apart that you cannot feel the body heat
from each hand. Start energy flowing into both palms, and let the energy flow
together, focusing it on forming a ball between your hands. Yes, this is a psi
ball. Most construct articles start at this point, and then focus on teaching you
to program the energy you’ve gathered. I’m not going to do that, though you
may of course feel free to give it a try if you’d like.
Continue to trickle energy into the ball. Focus on causing the energy to
maintain a cohesive mass between your hands. Once you think you have enough
energy, stop the flow, but continue focusing on the energy between your hands,
willing it to maintain its shape and position. This is a ball of energy. It is not
a construct. Remove your hands, but maintain focus on the ball. Focus on how
the ball feels without your hands. This is where tactile and spatial awareness
plays a big part. You may be surprised to notice that the sensation you felt in
your hands is hanging in the air in front of you. If not, don’t try to manufacture
it. Simply continue practising. Confirm that the ball still exists by moving your
hands around it. Once you are done practising, cease focus on the ball and let
it go. After a few seconds, pay attention again and see if it is still there. If
it is, has it changed in any way? Focus on the ball via touch, and see if you
can visualise it as it is now. Once again, trust your touch, rather than your
visualisation, and see what you find. If the ball remains, mentally cause the
energy to dissipate, confirming afterward by touch, of course.
Continue to practise this exercise until you can create, sense, and (if neces-
sary) dissipate the ball reliably. As you’ve no doubt guessed, a case of remaining
ball means that you’ve programmed the energy by focusing on making it main-
tain its shape. It’s quite an easy thing to do, but don’t stress if it doesn’t
happen. The focus of these exercises is improving the energetic senses.

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12.4 Gathering Ambient Energy
Ambient energy is energy that sort of floats around in a given area. There is
quite a bit of it around. The one thing you shouldn’t do with ambient energy is
internalise it. Energy retains programming for awhile, and it’s not a good idea
to draw strange programming into yourself. The energy is fine for construct
creation, because the act of programming pretty much rids it of the erroneous
bits of programming and assorted ick that’s in it.
Start the exercise in a place that’s likely to have a high concentration of
energy. Any place where there are a lot of people frequently gathering is a
good bet. The food court of your local mall will be just fine, but get a table
rather than just standing there with your eyes closed. It attracts less attention.
For the same reason, you should try to progress to the stage where you no
longer need your hands to feel energy. Focus on the ambient energy around
you by visualising it in the same way you normally visualise the energy within
yourself. You may notice that your visualisation shows different concentrations
and densities of energy in the area, or you may just see it as being a uniform
glow. Be sure that you’re focusing on ambient energy only, rather than the
energy in the auras or fields of the people around you. It is considered bad form
to suck energy from other people.
By visualisation and tactile and spatial imagery, draw energy from the area
into a ball in front of you. You can draw quite a bit from a populated area,
so keep pushing it into the ball until it gets very large, and then pack the ball
more densely before sucking more energy into it. Keep going until you have a
very dense ball that really seethes with energy, then let it go and start again.

13 Creating Constructs
And now, what you’ve all been waiting for. No doubt you’ve read up to this point
before delving too deeply into the exercises in the past sections. If you feel up to
the task, go ahead and follow the directions for creating your first construct. I do
recommend, however, that the reader revisit the exercises described above and
to continue practising them. As much as I love the sound of my own voice, they
were put here for a good reason. Your construct work, and any energetic work
you undertake, will be of far higher quality if you expend the effort and brush
up on the basics. That doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun first, of course,
and it certainly doesn’t mean you can’t continue making constructs while you
train.

14 The Method
Before you begin, perform the breathing and blank-mind exercises. With time,
simply beginning the breathing exercise will get you there, and you can spend
a few moments relaxing in the blank state before starting work. It’s definitely
a good habit to get into, so keep practising.
Begin with your intent. For your first construct, we’ll start with something
simple. The intent is for your construct to be highly noticeable. It will be as
“visible” as possible to your senses, so you can use it as a perception-building
tool. It will draw power from ambient energy to sustain itself, if required. It will

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be spherical in shape. It will exist for a duration of one hour, and will then cease
to exist, its programming dissolved and any remaining energy dissipating. To
add to the intent, visualise your construct as a very heavy, very hard, perfectly
spherical ball the size of a billiard ball. The ball glows with an inner light,
though its surface is very cleanly and clearly defined. It emits an electric sort of
hissing, buzzing sound. None of these are literal, of course, but serve to reinforce
the intent that the ball is very noticeable. We shall call it... Mini-Me! (Sorry,
couldn’t resist.) We’ll name the construct “Attention Getter”, as its sole task
is to be very obvious to your senses.

Name Attention Getter

Form Hard, glass-like sphere emitting a bright blue glow and a loud hissing
buzzy noise
Intent To be very easily and clearly detected by the psionic senses
Power Ambient
Duration One hour, unless destroyed earlier

Read the above table, and then re-read it. Get the specs for your construct
firmly in mind, its name, what it looks like, what it does. This may take an in-
stant, or it may take considerably longer. In putting the associated information
together, you are creating the construct’s blueprint. You are creating the pro-
gramming which will cause the construct to exist, and maintain its existence.
It may seem to take longer than you think it reasonably should to get it all
cemented together, and if that’s the case just relax and let things happen in
their own time. Things will speed up with practise, and it’s more important to
get it right than to do it quickly.
Once you’ve mulled over the design, visualise it in front of you. It may
help to visualise a vague, ghostly sort of outline of the construct’s form leaving
your body (or even your head, if that helps) and floating out in front of you.
Gather energy from the immediate area and push it into the blueprint, seeing
it become more concrete and solid, glowing with energy. Continue doing so
until you believe that the construct has sufficient energy, and then keep going
for a little longer for good measure. When making constructs, I usually have a
sense that it is complete when I’m done. Before that point, it feels unfinished.
If you dose the construct with a reasonable amount of energy, but it still feels
incomplete, keep going until it feels right. Reaffirm the construct’s programming
as the final step, and then end the process. You have just completed your first
construct.
Another quirk of mine is that my constructs tend to be complete, but in-
active, when I first create them. If you find that this occurs - and you’ll know
by the lack of activity with the Attention Getter - simply will it to be active.
“See” it start to glow, “hear” it hiss, and know that it is active.
Play with your new creation for awhile, and pay some serious attention to
how well it works. Is it as clear as you’d like? Are there any imperfections that
you can see? Perhaps it’s not quite as spherical as you’d hoped, or it’s difficult
to sense. The purpose of this construct is to help you hone your perception, so
spend as much time as you can feeling it with your mind. Once you’re done,
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 A lot of authors recommend including a “kill switch” in the programming, so
you have a way of destroying the construct quickly in case something goes awry.
Remember what I said earlier about expectation? This is your construct. You
made it, you own it, you control it. What you make, you can easily destroy. It’s
a simple act of will. The easiest way to do this is to remove the programming.
You can do his visually by imagining the form blinking out while willing it to
disappear, leaving only the leftover energy to dissipate in its own time. As with
everything, this takes practise, so re-make and re-destroy it several times.

15 Further Information
I’ve tried to keep the information thus far relevant to the process of construct
creation itself so the reader can get to the actual construct making as quickly
as possible. With that out of the way, we can get a little more in-depth.

15.1 Energy Types and Sources

The energy we’ve been working with thus far is usually termed psi energy, and
it comes from the energetic body itself. The ambient energy we gather from
crowded places is largely composed of psi energy cast off by human beings. What
we interact with physically, we interact with energetically, and we leave energy
behind wherever we’ve been. I’m sure we’ve all heard the example of walking
into a room shortly after an argument has taken place and felt the emotional
energy left behind. There is some contention about whether emotional energy is
a type in and of itself, or whether it is simply psi energy that has been patterned
with the emotions of the people who generated it. The general consensus is that
the latter is true, and it’s an example of unintentional programming being left
behind in a room’s ambient energy.
I’ll stick with types and sources that can easily be used to power constructs,
and leave the rest for your own experimentation.
Most short-term constructs are powered by the practitioner himself. If you
look for it, you should find a link, which looks a bit like an energetic hose,
between the construct and yourself. It’s not a good idea to power too many
constructs from yourself, which is why we use other sources. If you power up
a construct initially, but don’t give it another power source, be sure to specify
that it not draw power from you. That way it will simply cease to exist once it
uses up its energy.

15.2 Ambient Energy

In his book, The Power of Intention, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer describes air as
possibly the best example of something that appears to be infinite. Where does
the air in one room end and the air in the next room begin? Where does the air
in your house end, and the air of your yard begin? The defining lines that make
up areas of your house don’t apply to air, which flows freely throughout. Unless
you’ve installed an air-lock, anyway. Like the air in Dyer’s description, energy, in
varying densities, is virtually everywhere. Though it is easiest to draw ambient
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no such thing as an energetic vacuum (as far as I’m aware, and certainly not
naturally occurring) on Earth. No matter where you go, you will find energy.
It is worth bearing in mind that your construct may not find sufficient energy
in a given area. It must not only gain energy from its immediate environment,
but from a distance also. The pull of energy must be constant, rather than
drawing it only when the batteries are low, so to speak. By doing it this way
the construct is always at full power, and there is time to remedy the situation
if it for some reason cannot access its usual source of energy. It also means that
there will be a constant, slow tug as opposed to a sudden, massive drain.

15.3 Ley Lines

Originally suggested as an explanation for the straight lines intersecting archaeo-
logical sites, ley lines have come to mean something slightly different in energetic
practise. To the psionics student, ley lines are paths of energy criscrossing the
Earth. The energy contained in ley lines is different to the psi energy we have
utilised thus far. As with ambient energy, you should not internalise it, but feed
it directly into your construct. To use a ley line, you need to find one. Tra-
ditionally, ley lines were dowsed for, using divining rods or a pendulum. The
easiest way to find one for our purposes is to enter your meditative state, then
view the landscape around you energetically. You are seeking what looks like a
long, thick stream of energy. You can draw energy directly from the line, but to
power a construct long-term, you’ll need a way to connect the construct to the
ley using a link. Creating one is simplicity itself; just create a hose construct
between the ley and your construct. If you find that one ley line is not enough,
you can use multiple ley lines for a single construct. Don’t bother using mul-
tiple links to the same ley, however, as the effect is not the same. When you
first create the hose, ensure that it is closed at one end, opening it only once
it is attached to the construct. Unlike ambient energy, there is no need for the
construc to draw in the energy. It comes from the ley line at force, like water
from a hose. Pay attention to your construct when you open the hose, and see
the difference the ley line’s power makes.

15.4 The Sun

The sun is a much greater source of power than ley lines. You use it in much
the same way, by creating a link between power source and construct. As with
the ley, the energy comes at force.

15.5 Energetic Body

The energetic body, or subtle body, has been described by some as the frame-
work upon which the physical body exists. I prefer to think of it as an essential
part of the totality of a living being. Just as our physical bodies exist in and
interact with the physical “layer” of reality, the subtle body exists in and in-
teracts with the subtle layers. We describe reality as having layers as a means
of classification only, so as to separate things out and make them more easily
understood. Your physical and subtle bodies occupy the same space. Studying
the energetic body is a good introduction to the planar theory many practi-
tioners subscribe to, which is why I’ve saved discussion on the topic for this

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section. While it’s not necessary to understand the different “layers” of reality,
it certainly doesn’t hurt to have a very basic understanding.
Physical reality is the most easily perceived for those with a physical body.
This stands to reason, as we have physical organs with which to perceive them.
Eyes, ears, etc, feed us information from our physical environment, giving us a
window on the physical plane that allows for perception. But we in the physical
don’t exist on one layer alone. We exist simultaneously on all planes. When
we deal with subtle energy we are dealing with energy that, for the most part,
does not exist in the physical. It can and does have an effect upon the physical,
but it does not exist here. Reality is often described as being made up of a
certain number (it varies, depending on who’s doing the writing) of planes,
starting with the physical and becoming more and more subtle, or less and less
physical. Most articles about the aura, or field, describe it as having several
layers, and name them accordingly. I’ll leave the specifics of the different bodies
and their corresponding planes for a later article, and stick with those parts of
the energetic body which are relevant to basic energetics and construct creation.
The energetic body as a whole takes up a great deal more space than the
physical one. Diagrams of the human field usually show the physical body at
the centre, and the different layers of the field as radiating outward, the closest
hugging the physical body and conforming to its basic shape, and the outer
stretching out to form an oval which extends several metres in all directions.
The field is a part of the individual, rather than a plume of energy exuding from
the individual. What affects the individual affects the energetic body, and we
therefore see the effects of diseases and injuries in the field. Things like diseases
generally show up in the field before they appear as physical symptoms. The
reverse is true of injuries; if you cut off your finger with a power saw, that would
not appear in your field until after the event. For this reason, aura reading is
used by some healers to gauge health in a subject prior to healing.
The most dense part of the field extends a centimetre or so from your physical
skin. This is the most easily detected part of the field. It is also the most easily
manipulated. One of the field’s functions is to act as a sort of shield, to keep
out the majority of the mental noise. Working with energy will enhance your
senses, so it’s a good idea to enhance your field’s resistance to excessive input
by putting more energy into it and willing it to become more dense. This is a
form of programming also, but in your field rather than a blob of energy.
The outer layers are more subtle, and thus more difficult to perceive at first.
By now you should be able to find your own way in exploring your field, so I’ll
refrain from further exercises.
The energetic body is far more complex than this brief section has room for.
I suggest the reader conduct their own research for further information.

16 The Question of Shelling

“Shelling” is commonly taught as an important part of many tutorials on con-
struct creation. I’ve omitted all mention of it for a very good reason; using this
method, it isn’t necessary. For the sake of clarity, I’ll explain.
The method of construct creation I’ve described is different to that com-
monly taught and used in many circles. The “normal” method goes something
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 1. Gather energy.
2. Shape energy into a useful or meaningful form.
3. Form a shell or skin of dense energy on the outer surface, in order to hold
it all together.
4. Program the energy.

My method, in brief, is as follows:

1. Mentally create the blueprint or programming in its entirety, by deciding

what will be required and what attributes will be necessary.
2. Externalise the blueprint in an energetic form.
3. Energise the externalised blueprint.

Let’s revisit that first step. We create the blueprint, by deciding what will
be required, and what attributes will be necessary. I think you’ll agree that
maintaining a cohesive form is necessary. Shelling is nothing more than pro-
gramming the energy to do this. Some may initially dispute this. The outer
shell is denser than the energy housed within. Quite right. But what is hold-
ing that dense energy together? It is the practitioner’s intent for the energy
to form that shell and hold it all together that causes it to happen. In other
words, programming. This is covered, usually without actually thinking about
it, in the initial programming stage. This is an example of expectation as a
more passive form of programming. In expecting the construct to maintain its
form, we are programming the construct to do so. This means the formation
of an actual shell is not necessary, and the proof is in the pudding. If you’ve
followed my instructions (and I really do hope you have) you will have created
a construct already, and that construct will have maintained its form without
the additional shell. Going Deeper
Now that you have a functional construct to play with, we can move on to one
of the more interesting things about constructs; how they are put together. This
is a largely visual exercise, which leads me to re-state my warning from earlier:
how you see things in the energetic has nothing to do with your physical eyes.
By attempting to perceive a construct visually you are signalling to your mind
that you want a visual representation of a non-visual phenomenon. Your mind
will happily oblige, but you must understand from the outset that what you see
will very likely be far from literal, and in the beginning it is equally unlikely to
be very accurate. With time you will see an increase in your accuracy, and you
will, with practise, be better able to discern the meaning of what it is you are
“seeing”.
Allow your senses to come into contact with the construct and attempt to
“see” it in your mind’s eye. Remind yourself as you work that you want to see it
as literally as possible. Maintaining a focused, disciplined mind is of the utmost
importance here, in order to avoid spoiling your results with erroneous mental
noise. View the construct’s surface and then move beneath to the inside, so you
can see the programming itself. What you will see will be determined by several
factors, including how adept you are at consciously perceiving energy, what you
expect to see, and what is actually there.

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 Against my better judgement I’ll describe how I perceive constructs, if for
no other reason than that many other descriptions have been put forth, and it
is unlikely that this is the first psionics article you have read. Remember that
you are attempting to perceive what is there, rather than what you want or
hope to see.
As I described in Beneath the Construct, my first look at programming oc-
curred at a time when I had fairly little interest in what the programming looked
like. I was in a “cage”, which is like a shield, but inside-out (or outside-in). Such
creations are made to block another practitioner’s senses and abilities, keeping
them confined within. Because I was more interested in getting out of the cage
than in what the programming looked like, I was able to avoid anticipating
or imagining how it would appear beforehand. When I chose to perceive the
programming, I “saw” the programming in the form of glowing filaments or
lines, showing through the construct’s outer surface. To others it might have
appeared as etchings, or some other expression that meant that information was
somehow encoded into the energy which composed the construct. Such imagery
is a mental construction, something seemingly objective which you can relate
to on a more literal level.
I urge you to simply look for yourself and see whatever is there to be seen.
But don’t stop there. Once you are able to view the programming, look deeper.
Scrutinise it on a finer level, zooming in, as it were, on each part. I will describe
no further, but I will offer some further advice. Once you can perceive the
programming, take a moment to quiet your mind and focus on perceiving its
function. With practise, you will find that you can discern the programming’s
purpose. This information arrives in the form of a sort of intuitive leap. Rather
than seeing it, you come to simply know it. We are, after all, looking at a
creation of the mind, and thought is the mind’s province.
Play with the programming in an existing construct. Take it apart, see
what happens when you remove a piece, or duplicate a thread or two. What
happens when you change the patterns? Can you strengthen the programming,
making it more resilient to external tampering? Can you make it harder to
“read”, or harder to find? Given that this is an online article it’s not a great
stretch to assume that my readers will have had some exposure to the OEC,
or Online Energetic Community. There are many chat rooms out there with
people like you who are in search of greater understanding. Passing constructs
back and forth, pulling them apart and trying to understand them is a great
way to improve your skills in construct design very quickly.
An element of construct design that is not always discussed is the link be-
tween practitioner and creation. Because our minds often go with the simplest
description, this link is generally perceived as a line that spans the space be-
tween the construct and its creator. It is similar to the link that provides the
construct with energy, insofar as it resembles a kind of energetic hose. This
link tends to appear finer and is a little more difficult to discern immediately.
I had to be told that it was there before I perceived it, which is rather telling,
suggesting once again that there is less of form than there is of function. Once I
needed to see it, I was able to see it without difficulty. This link between practi-
tioner and construct is what sustains the programming. Break this link (which
is actually a little more difficult than it may sound) and you effectively separate
the construct from the mind which created and sustains it. Without that link,
the programming ceases to exist, and the construct will be nothing more than

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subtle energy floating in the breeze. Even if the practitioner is unaware that
somebody has been tampering with his construct this kind of action tends to
grab their attention. The link will resist tampering, and re-form immediately if
attempts are made to break it. It takes a concentrated effort to break this link
and keep the practitioner separate from the construct before the programming
will be interrupted to the point where it will disappear.

17 Thoughtforms — Accidental Constructs

Thoughtforms are, as I mentioned in the beginning of this article, rather similar
to constructs. The terms “construct” and ”thoughtform” have been used inter-
changeably in some circles, but the definition usually accepted is that thought-
forms are unintentionally created, whereas constructs are created with intent,
and with purpose. The notion of accidentally popping out energetic creations
may seem strange, so I’ll explain with an example.
Let’s say that you’re an avid cricket player. You’ve missed the last two
matches due to illness, and one match remains this season for you to show your
stuff out on the pitch. Your team won’t make the finals, so this is your last
chance. You desperately want that game to go ahead. Then, to your horror,
someone mentions that it might rain, forcing officials to cancel the game. You
desperately want to play in that last game of the season, and you are beset with
worry. All week, your mind conjures up images of torrential rain, soaking the
grounds and killing your chance to play. As we know, thoughts carry weight.
By focusing - meditating, after a fashion - upon the worst case scenario, you
unknowingly create a thoughtform, strengthening it thorugh countless repeti-
tions. The day of the game finally dawns, bringing with it the rainstorm that
you were dreading, courtesy of your thoughtform.
It isn’t guaranteed that you will create an effective thoughtform every time
you worry, but the chances increase based upon the length of time and the
amount of focused thought you put into it. A good example of ineffective
thoughtforms would be those wrought by teenage boys, constantly daydreaming
about that girl they have their eye on. One would think that all those torrid
imaginings would create a first-class thoughtform, capable of attracting the girl
of their dreams, but it doesn’t quite work that way. If the boy has no doubt
that he’ll get the girl, his chances of success are dramatically increased, but if
he doubts it, focusing on the fact that he’ll never get her, he cancels out much
of the work he’s done. A thoughtform, like a construct, is only as strong as the
intent put into it. If the intent is mixed, the thoughtform will be so unclear
that it is unlikely to do much of anything.
This reinforces the importance of clear intent when creating constructs. By
setting the intent aside from our mental meandering, we keep the intent clear.

18 Sample Construct Types

18.1 Shields and Filters
Entire articles have been written on the related subjects of shields and filters.
Having already discussed construct creation, we can skip the process of creation
and look at what makes a good shield or filter, and why.

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 A shield is a construct created with the purpose of preventing something
from reaching the practitioner. That “something” can be anything energetic,
and commonly includes things like other practitioners, and energetic entities.
The term “filter” is often used to describe a shield which keeps out input, such
as telepathic or empathic emanations, while not blocking anything else. I tend
to use the term shield to cover all types.
A great many shield articles describe fairly literal shield types. A good
example is the bubble shield. A bubble shield is a bubble of energy which encases
the practitioner, keeping nasties out. Another example is the marshmallow
shield. This is a bubble composed of energy with a thick, soft consistency. A
described benefit of the marshmallow is that it will absorb blows rather than
shattering. A good attribute, if we were talking about physical matter. We are
not. Energy will do, in essence, whatever you want it to. My attitude here might
make you think that I disapprove of this kind of imagery, but the truth is that
I don’t. By visualising a material, we are mentally describing the attributes we
wish our shield to have. Marshmallow is soft. Soft means that there is a degree
of “give”. By building the shield using such a material, you are programming
your shield to likewise yield a little.
Time to relate a little story. Awhile ago I was surveying a shield I’d made
and was feeling pretty smug about it. The only problem I’d ever had with
shielding was getting the things to sit properly. I’ve always had problems with
creating things around myself for some reason. I can create them behind, in
front, to the side, above or below, but to hold a visualisation on all sides at once
is something that has caused me some issues at times. To remedy this I would
create the shield, then put it on. I’d been playing about recently with altering
my perception of my devices, and for some reason I was reminded of an episode
of Doctor Who I’d watched when I was little.
The Doctor and Leela are in the TARDIS, which is a sort of ship which
travels through space and time. One of its more interesting attributes is that
it is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Leela asks the Doctor how
this is possible, and he illustrates the concept with a pair of boxes, one large
and one small. He asks which one is bigger, and she indicates the larger of the
two. Setting the smaller one a short distance away, he carries the larger to the
far side of the room, and asks which is larger now.
Leela pointed again to the larger box. “That one.”
“But it looks smaller, doesn’t it?”
Leela admits that it does, explaining that that’s because it’s farther away.
”Exactly! If you could keep that box exactly the same distance away, and
have it here, then the large box would fit inside the smaller one!”
“That’s silly!”
“That’s trans-dimensional engineering!” said the Doctor severely. ”A key
Time Lord discovery!”
It is silly, but it got me to thinking. I looked at my huge, spherical construct,
and switched my perspective, trying to view the shield as though it was a great
distance away. From this perspective it did, of course, look smaller. Then I
reached out and plucked the golf ball-sized bubble shield from the air. It had
nothing to do with trans-dimensional engineering, and everything to do with
a shift in perspective. What I did was chose to view the shield as small, and
maintained that perspective when I mentally picked it up. Now I had a tiny
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thing was, upon further investigation, I found that the shield still worked! It
still blocked everything it had been programmed to keep from reaching me. It
wasn’t necessary to have the shield actually around me in order to do it.
The key to the shield was the programming. The shield was programmed
to block certain things from reaching me. I didn’t program it to block only
those things between the shield and myself. If I had viewed the construct as a
physical-type barrier, one which blocked things like a wall instead of blocking by
virtue of the construct’s programming, I would have found that the construct
no longer worked. The other thing this story illustrates is that things like size
are largely irrelevant. A properly prepared construct the size of a match book
can have the same effect as one the size of a car. It may assist you mentally
to visualise your construct as something massive in order to reinforce in your
mind that your creation is equal to its task. Once done, it’s very easy to shift
perspective and “make” the construct appear smaller. A ”smaller” construct is
often preferable if it’s something you intend to keep on your person, and you’re
not in the mood to have a tank on your shoulder. Bear in mind, also, that if
your intent is for a construct to be large, it will probably be perceived by others
as being large.

18.2 Practical Shield Types

You’ll pick up more uses for shields as you progress in your studies in psionics.
Below is a basic overview that you might find useful. There is no need to cover
the how-to of shield creation as we’ve already discussed how to create a basic
construct. The method is the same, and the only additional information you’ll
need is the intent.

18.3 Energetic Protection

There are some who feel that a psion needs to be on guard against the world
at all times, but I’ve found that this isn’t the case. If you don’t go actively
seeking trouble you are very likely to find that trouble won’t come looking for
you. As we’ve discussed, thought is what makes things happen. It may seem
at first glance that anybody who has a nasty thought about you is sending an
energetic nasty screaming for your blood. Realistically, your average ”I hate
him!” thoughtform isn’t going to do a great deal, and actual psionic attack is
very uncommon. All of this being said, here is how to protect against both.
External energy is the best choice for protective constructs, as they tend to
be long-term creations. While it’s a good idea to check your construct from
time to time it makes little sense to use a long-term construct that will need
to be frequently recharged. The construct must block all attempts to alter it
by anybody other than yourself. It must block all attempts to reach or affect
you on an energetic level. Be aware here that if you intend to interact with
other psions it’s not a good idea to simply block everybody. You may choose to
stop all attempts to harm you (an ambiguous sort of intent at best) or simply
block everybody aside from a trusted few. It is certainly possible to block all
interaction that is not initiated by you. That way you are free to interact, but
it won’t allow contact without your permission. You may find it useful to create
a construct to block all energetic interaction, and leave it inactive until you feel
there is need to use it.

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18.4 Mundane Protection
The energetic can affect the mundane. Magic in general would be a fairly point-
less effort if this was otherwise. Charles “Uncle Chuckie” Cosimano’s Psionic
Warfare contains a good example of protection in the mundane, where a mug-
ger is dispatched by a falling air-conditioner, which just happened to come loose
from its mounting at the right moment. A construct cannot break an assailant’s
neck or stop an oncoming car. What it can do is manipulate circumstance, to
make it more likely that that air-conditioner is going to make a bid for freedom
at the right moment. It may cause you to feel an odd compulsion to walk a
different route to the train station, or to slow down before approaching that
intersection. There are a variety of ways in which a construct can offer protec-
tion that don’t involve direct physical inervention. Once again, the best energy
source here is external. The construct’s intent is very simple: it is to protect
you at all times from attack, accident or misadventure, using whatever means
are necessary, but without harming anybody who does not intend you physical
harm. The workman who drops his hammer from a scaffold above had no ill
intent, and doesn’t deserve a three-storey fall. Simply ensuring you’re not in
the path of the hammer is more than sufficient. The crackhead waiting in a
darkened doorway is a different story, and while the construct’s mandate does
not include punishing those who mean to harm us, I think it altruistic to the
point of stupidity to worry about their safety when helping you avoid harm,
especially when the easiest path may involve a sticky end for them.

18.5 Input Shields

Commonly described as filters, input shields are of particular use to the telepath
and empath, especially when out and about. A trip to the local mall can be an
exercise in discomfort for those who can can sense the thoughts or emotions of
others. They key is to choose what you want to block, and what you want to
let through. There is a major consideration here in the form of passive input
versus input which is actively sought.
There have been times when I’ve put shields in place to block input from a
certain person, only to find that the input still came through. There was nothing
wrong with the shield and everything wrong with my approach. We gain input
in two ways; passively and actively. Passive input is simply that which comes
to you without your needing to seek it. This is the surface information that
people cast off at all times without intending to. All one need do is simply focus
upon it. To seek input actively is to attempt to read a person directly. If your
shield’s intent is to block passive input, you will still be able to actively seek
information. If you find that an input shield has failed, ask yourself whether you
are still focusing on the input. It could be that the passive input is effectively
blocked out, but you’re still actively seeking.
An input shield can be short-term or long-term, depending on what it is
being used for. A shield to block input from one person during a temper tantrum
may last for only an hour or more. In that case it may be easier to charge it
directly and not worry about a permanent source of energy. If you are especially
sensitive you may choose to put a permanent shield in place, in which case you
would be better served by an external energy source.

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18.6 Fields/Wards
Fields or wards are usually created around a specific area, and are programmed
to keep people away from something. The most common ward I use makes use
of colour symbolism, and I jokingly call it the “gtfo ward”. The visualisation
is simply a very dense, ominous-looking black cloud or field of energy which is
programmed to keep people out by making them feel uneasy and unwelcome.
Fields of this sort are good for keeping people off your property at night, or
away from your car when you’re parked. It’s very quick and easy to deploy, and
for that reason I’ve used it for things as simple as guarding a can of Coke when
I have to leave the room. The power source is usually nonexistent or ambient,
depending on how long I intend to leave the ward. I’m sure you can come up
with a lot of applications for this one. You can programme your field in a similar
way if you are in a place where you want to be left alone. I usually deploy this
at shopping centres to avoid being bugged by salespeople. Don’t forget to dispel
it once it’s served its purpose, or you may find people avoiding you at home and
at work.

18.7 “Guardian” and ”Watcher”

Watcher constructs may or may not be sentient, and usually serve as early-
warning systems to let the practitioner know of any trouble on the horizon,
such as an unfriendly psionic observer, an approaching mugger, or even bad
weather on the way. It is not uncommon to place a watcher construct around a
student or loved one to keep an eye on them.
Guardian constructs tend to be sentient warrior-types that actively defend
against psionic attack, in addition to the duties carried out by the watcher type.

18.8 The Cop-Attractor

I thought it a good idea to add something useful for those times when my readers
are angry on the road, just so it’s known that there are ways of getting justice (or
vengeance, at least) without resorting to violence or property damage. Besides,
this is one of my favourites for when I’m in a temper over some teenaged hooligan
on the highway. I hope you’ll find it useful, too.
As we’ve seen, the form can be just about anything that’s meaningful to you.
I use a dome-light, like the ones seen in old cop movies where the undercover
officer puts the light on the top of his car before charging off at full speed after
the criminal. The intent is simple: to attract police officers, and make them very
interested in the vehicle, and its driver. After years of saying, “There’s never a
cop around when you need one,” I decided to ensure that there would be one
around eventually, even if they’re not there at that moment. The Construct
Library
After you’ve worked with constructs for a short time you’ll find that, if you
do it properly, you’ll only ever have to create the blueprint once. Once created,
all you need do is call it up mentally and then externalise it energetically. This
saves a hell of a lot of time and effort, and means you can cast multiple constructs
of the same design very quickly. If you want to change the construct later in
some way then you’ll obviously have to re-plan it, but as long as you’re only
doing minor modifications and not changing it in its entirety then this is a very

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easy matter. Pretty soon you’ll have a library of construct designs at your
disposal, which you can cast at a moment’s notice.

19 Final Notes
This is an article that was written to be read more than once. I realise that my
advice regarding mental discipline will fall on deaf ears with some readers, but
I suppose that is to be expected. After all, I certainly ignored similar advice
when I first set my feet on the psionic path. It was only later, and through
other studies, that I learned the value of a clear and disciplined mind. I hope
that the reader won’t fall into this trap.
However you choose to practise, I urge you to be an active participant, rather
than an armchair theorist. Theories are great, but they’re all for naught if you
don’t put them to use, and put them to the test. Far too much has been written
by those who prefer to sit back and regurgitate things they’ve read by others
(often by others in a similar position), with their own spin on how it actually
works. That is one of the reasons I decided to take a long time to pen this article,
being sure to include only those techniques I’ve used myself. Often I’ve found
myself stopping the flow of writing just to take some time out to try an exercise
for myself and ensure it really works from a practical point of view. Some areas
have been left intentionally vague in an effort to discourage the thinkers from
just thinking and hopefully give the doers a nudge in the direction of practical
experimentation. If you want in-depth information about constructs, spend
some time making and dismantling them. You’ll find more useful information
under the surface of a humble psi-ball than you will in most online articles, this
one included. That that reason, I urge you to trust only your own experience.
If somebody tells you something, and your experience contradicts this, go with
your experience. All ideas and hypotheses should be tested for yourself. Take
nobody at their word.
Constructs are easy to make, cheap to build (you don’t even need to visit
the local hardware store before you can make one), and very useful. They can
also be a lot of fun, especially if you have a sense of humour. There’s nothing
quite like the feeling you get when you watch somebody look around the room
for the tenth time because you made a construct to simply stare at them.

Get busy. :)

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