#8. The Vocane

What kind of name is “The Vocanic Weird” anyways? I had to come up with some words to make classifying things in conversation easier. For example, I needed a word to represent what type of thing mindreading is.  It’s looked at as a purely psychic function, and mainly that’s how I verbally approach it to save time, but considering the stories coming up in these writings, the underlying conclusion I have come to is that there are more energies involved, like divine energy, or even elemental energy.  I theorize that all of those “schools of magic” involve manipulating the same core energy.  If there is a pre-existing word for this I will yield to it, but I chose to use the pseudonym that I used during my research in 2007, “Vocane.”  It’s not narcissistic to sign your work, and of all the possible names I came up with for my writings, “The Vocanic Weird” was the most personal and sounded the best.  The nickname was actually coined by one of the subjects I successfully read, aptly named Nick.  I was using a cumbersome pseudonym at the time and he boiled it down for me into something interesting.  We’ll get back to him, but the other term I want to share defines what I’m trying to help people to achieve: Psychovisual Stimulation.  This is what I call the art of mentally stimulating imagery to appear with ones eyes closed.  Most people can already do this on some level, but I have my best strategies to get people started in later entries.  It might be something you have to work at, and it’s why a little background in meditation is important.  When you get to a state where you can actually watch your thoughts go by, without particularly making them happen, you’re at least on the right track to handing the wheel over to your subconsciousness. I had some more terms, but not everything made it onto paper, or even turned out to be necessary. When I have really high-concept breakthroughs, they often happen between asleep and awake, and it might take years for my conscious self to remember those moments, because on some level it takes me that long to grasp it. To this day I know there are more helpful terms I use to label large concepts in that state that I haven’t even pulled out yet. I know that’s easy for me to say, but I’m foreshadowing something important.