This log from Monday July 5h 2010 has been edited for readability and sensibility. This meant reordering some lines, deleting superfluous lines, and correcting typos and spelling. This seminar took place in #tkschool on Dalnet server, at Sylar's request.
[22:03] Miri-classic: Tonight we'll be discussing seals. I'm assuming most of you have read my first lecture on seals, a year ago for Psionics online. If not the link is http://sites.google.com/site/miripsion/seminarlogs/seals-seminar I will also be providing a short recap of that information now.
First let’s define what a seal is, in the context of this seminar. Seals are constructs that in some way inhibit a person or other entity, either from influencing beyond a certain distance from themselves (like an inverted shield), or by reducing or stopping their ability to do energy work.
Some seals are temporary, others are less temporary, none last forever (though some have the potential to last beyond a natural lifetime). I’ll take the time to note now that this definition is not the full scope of all ‘seals’ that exist in energy work, however the definition is sufficient for psionics.
[22:03] Miri-classic: The simplest seal to make or absolve is an inverted shield. As you might have guessed, these variants on shields keep things inside a given area, rather than outside them. The most effective simple inverted shield is a mirror shield, which will bounce back basic attempts to bypass or cause damage.
Creating an inverted shield is relatively simple, just program them to keep in rather than keeping out, keeping the rest the same. Another note on this type of seal is that their effectiveness varies wildly.
If you can’t make a formidable shield quickly your incomplete inverted shield may be tossed aside before completion.
Some psions and other energy workers also have various tricks, ranging from thinking in four (or more) dimensional space, to viewing themselves and the shield on different frequencies, preventing interaction between them then simply walking through, and so on.
I won't be covering this methodology (inverted shields) any more than this, tonight, so are there any questions on this methodology, so we can move on?
No questions were posed
[22:06] Miri-classic: The other methodology I covered in the previous lecture was cutting people off from their ability.
There are seals that do not concern themselves with containment of the target. These seals are often hard to detect and harder to remove. Usually they target parts of the energy body (sometimes all of it) in such a way as to inhibit them from functioning normally or at all.
These seals come in a number of designs, from things similar to inverted shields around chakras, to dozens of tiny ‘parasite’ constructs circulating themselves through the target’s systems, to constructs that directly inhibit the target’s control over and production of energy targeting the brain, heart, etc.
These are pretty varied, so specifics will be avoided (as they do not exist broadly). Questions?
[22:09] Aryn: Yes, what are some methods of circumventing seals of this nature?
[22:10] Miri-classic: It's simplest to have someone else help you, if that is not going to be possible, or may not be possible int he future, creating a surrogate energy body/energy body extension would be advisable.
[22:10] lutasi: why would someone want to make and use a seal?
[22:11] Miri-classic: lutasi: To provide a non-violent solution in combat. Seals generally do no lasting harm to a person, and prevent them from causing harm.
[22:11] Aryn: Why would you want to disarm somebody? Similar reasons may apply.
[22:12] Miri-classic: Aryn: Some are morally opposed to causing harm, others fear karma, some are friends of those they need to stop, for whatever reason.
[22:13] lutasi: some are just assholes
[22:13] Miri-classic: That too
[22:15] Miri-classic: Okay, moving on
[22:15] Miri-classic: Now, we can move on to the good stuff, new things that have not been covered in the previous lecture! Yay. For starters, separating the target from conventional reality is highly useful. This can be done many ways, but there are two ways I prefer:
1) Implanting psychosis, which, due to its nature, difficulty, and taboo nature will not be covered
2) programming and assuming control of the target's environment.
Programming an environment is somewhat different from programming energy, it is not simply programming the energy around, rather you are manipulating “the astral” around the target. I detailed this approach (programming astral/reality) in an advanced shielding class a couple of weeks ago (http://sites.google.com/site/miripsion/seminarlogs/advancedshieldsseminar)
[22:15] Miri-classic: To affect your target's reality you should gather their environment to you, synchronize yourself to your reality, physical and energetic both, and infuse it with you will. In this case you're going to be wrestling with the target, if they are at home or otherwise very comfortable with their locality.
If they are on equally unfamiliar “ground” neither of you will have an advantage. However, pulling your target to an area you are much more familiar with. Thankfully, this is relatively easy, as most people are pretty unaware of astral space, and those that are aware are usually so only to “chase” their quarry.
Once the target is in an area with which you are much more intimately familiar it is infinitely easier to overtake their reality, and insert your will/programming.
[22:16] Miri-classic: To keep the target adequately removed from reality I recommend first separating the targets reality from “the rest of reality” and expanding it to a very large size, then changing it to meet your needs (full of demons, energy moves the opposite direction of will, etc.). Questions?
[22:18] Hybridragon: so this is applying mainly to the astral plane correct?
[22:20] Miri-classic: Yes, that's the idea. Most energy work is at least mostly (usually entirely) astral, this method simply concentrated on the astral as it is the most time/effort-efficient.
[22:20] Hybridragon: so how useful is this if a person is grounded very strongly in the physical plane?
[22:21] Miri-classic: If you're a great distance from them, equally as effective.
[22:21] Miri-classic: If you're right next to them... not really helpful.
[22:23] Hybridragon: Okay if used on the physical what is the extent that visual and auditory hallucinations can be caused
[22:23] Miri-classic: Varies by person.
[22:23] Miri-classic: Particularly sensitive people can exhibit advanced schizophrenic symptoms
[22:24] Miri-classic: The less sensitive, the less effective.
[22:24] Nachtsul: what kinda schizophrenic symptoms we talking about?
[22:26] Miri-classic: auditory hallucinations (snapping twigs, things falling, etc.), visual hallucinations (shadows, flickers at the edge of the field of vision, etc.)
[22:26] Miri-classic: Delusions are pretty common, as well
[22:28] Miri-classic: The last methodology I will cover is exceedingly simple.
Reach in to the target, and stop their chakras, one by one. The slower your deceleration, the less likely you will be noticed. When all their chakras have stopped their natural rotation they will have a seriously diminished field, and a greatly reduced ability to manipulate energy.
This won't cause damage, however it will not be permanent, either. It takes time, but usually no more than a week for the chakras to resume their rotation.
[22:29] sinclair: Can you "disconnect" someone's chakras from whichever source they gather energy, in your experience? And if so, how would one reasonably expect it to affect them?
[22:31] Miri-classic: Yes and no... To some degree chakras process and feed on ambient energy, this can be greatly reduced, or cut off entirely. If the chakras are still active, though, their chakras will instead draw from "the soul"
[22:31] Aryn: Would stopping chakras cause any physical effects?
[22:31] Miri-classic: Aryn: Achiness, sometimes. Fatigue, numbness... mild pains, generally.
[22:32] Hybridragon: does stopping the chakras also completely stop the flow in the charka network?
[22:33] Miri-classic: Hybridragon: "entirely" is difficult to say. Some parts of the energy system will keep working, things too slow to see, or too fundamental to be stopped.
[22:33] Rein: if you destroy the chakras entirely?
[22:33] Miri-classic: Rein: that's not a seal, that's destroying them
[22:33] Rein: well yes, but what happens if you do?
[22:33] sinclair: Indeed, can they be destroyed?
[22:34] sinclair: I've never witnessed or heard of that personally
[22:34] Miri-classic: Generally it's not possible in a developed person to destroy the energetic systems entirely.
[22:34] Aryn: How about an undeveloped person?
[22:35] Miri-classic: Damage is possible, destruction, well it's not readily possible.
[22:35] Miri-classic: In an undeveloped person it wouldn't matter anyway.
[22:36] Miri-classic: Their chakras, then, play no role int heir lives, it would be like removing wisdom teeth
[22:36] Miri-classic: Possible, but not easy.
[22:38] sinclair: Miri, in your experience how many bodies, such as physical, energetic (where the chakras may reside), soul, etc. exist and can be sealed?
[22:39] Miri-classic: For the sake of simplicity I separate a human into three parts, the physical body, the mind, and the soul. There are infinite variations between them, and most of them can be sealed off.
[22:41] sinclair: Do you have any favored seal breaking techniques should one find themselves trapped in one?
[22:41] Miri-classic: I keep surrogate simulated energy bodies with which to externally manipulate myself.
[22:42] Miri-classic: Additionally, physically based techniques LBRP, for instance are effective.
[22:42] Aryn: Hmmm...and how would one properly construct such for the first time?
[22:44] Miri-classic: It's hard to explain how to make an effective surrogate body without a lot of background build up. I can summarize it as recreating the body using a process similar to the process through which your original energy body was created
[22:45] Miri-classic: Observe a child from birth to learning basic magic/energy work/psionics
[22:42] Aryn: What does LBRP mean again?
[22:43] Miri-classic: Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
[22:46] Miri-classic: First two links from a search
[22:46] Miri-classic: http://asiya.org/article.php/LBRP http://www.kheper.net/topics/Hermeticism/LBR.htm
[22:46] Miri-classic: The Kabalistic cross, calling of god names, the directions (which are traditionally symbolized by Archangels), and another Kabalistic cross, would be the most basic variety.
[22:49] Hybridragon: so how is seals different from Bindings spells
[22:50] Miri-classic: Depends on the binding. There are hundreds of types of bindings, Shamanistic, Runic, Western, Eastern, Etc.
[22:51] Miri-classic: Seals are generally constructions though ,the exception being the slowing/stopping of the chakras
[22:51] Miri-classic: Which becomes constructed when you make it more permanent
[22:53] Miri-classic: Bindings, in my experience, Hybridragon, are more simplistic, with little or no actual design
[22:53] Miri-classic: Rather it's power against power
[22:53] Hybridragon: fair enough
[22:54] Miri-classic: A good seal, regardless of the strength of the creator, can stop a very powerful worker cold.
[22:56] Rein: I hate the idea that I can be sealed.
[22:57] Miri-classic: You can break it, I'm sure.
[22:57] Rein: Think so?
[22:58] Miri-classic: Mmhmm, so long as you're prepared, or able to physically break it
[23:00] Rein: how would I be prepared or physically capable?
[23:00] Miri-classic: I had a suggestion for each, a surrogate energy body, or a LBRP (among other banishing rituals)
[23:00] Rein: right
[22:59] Miri-classic: Okay... I guess that's it then?