The natural properties of Psi

[dema354]

When it comes to learning/developing psychokinesis aside from spontaneous cases, one of the first lessons that is taught is the creation of a psi-ball. The student is instructed to gather psi (preferably from their environment so as to not drain themselves unto exhaustion) in order to make the psi ball. This lesson is generally considered to be one of if not the easiest in psychokinesis development however I wonder:

When psi is gathered, does it naturally form into a ball and float through an inherent antigravity property or does the psion have to mold it as such and concentrate on levitating since by itself psi cannot actually float and is subject to gravity? Often times gathered psi is depicted as floating balls though I sometimes wonder if that depiction may not be accurate to how gathered psi generally behaves without prior expectations. Think about it. The psion is tasked with making a psi-ball. Ball. Suppose they were only tasked with gathering psi but weren't given any instructions how how it should be done or what it should look like. Would the gathered psi still take the shape of a ball even without any preconception of what it should look like and if so, does this generally happen? For example, perhaps psi when gathered doesn't always naturally form into a ball but it does have the tendency to do so. The same could also be said of their common floating depiction. Either the gathered psi doesn't need the psion's concentration to float and thus has some antigravity properties, that's generally the case, it's reverse or by themselves gathered psi would actually sink without the psion concentrating to levitate it.

Well regardless of whether the common depiction of gathered psi as floating balls is representative of their natural characteristics as opposed to being constructed or not, either way for most practicing psions, the programming of psi seems to be rather easy so it's a bit ambiguous as to how psi would naturally act without any programing.

 

[aviaf]

Love this line of inquiry. You're poking at the psi-ball orthodoxy like a true chaos technician.

Psi, which is just another name for energy,has worn many masks: chi, prana, odic force, vril, mana, orgone. The name shifts, but the current remains. What we call “psi” is the raw, ambient potential gathered, shaped, and programmed by intent. It's everywhere, and when you gather it into your self and direct it to take shape...

From my own grind and ritual framing, psi doesn’t default to “ball” or “float”, those are instructions, not inevitabilities. The ball shape? Likely a byproduct of human symmetry bias and ease of containment. Floating? That’s programming, not passive behavior. Psi, raw and unshaped, feels more like a pressure differential, like heat shimmer or magnetic tension. Left unprogrammed, it drifts, clings, sinks, or dissipates depending on ambient conditions and the psion’s own state.

If you gather psi without intent, it doesn’t snap into a sphere... it waits. The ball is a mold, a ritual container. Floating is a command. Without those, psi acts more like fog than orb.

So yeah, depictions of floating spheres are useful teaching tools, but they’re not psi’s native behavior. They’re ritual scaffolding. And once you’ve got the knack, you can shape psi into blades, nets, sigils, whatever suits your working.

Psi doesn’t float. You make it rise.

 

[dema354]

From my own grind and ritual framing, psi doesn’t default to “ball” or “float”, those are instructions, not inevitabilities. The ball shape? Likely a byproduct of human symmetry bias and ease of containment. Floating? That’s programming, not passive behavior. Psi, raw and unshaped, feels more like a pressure differential, like heat shimmer or magnetic tension. Left unprogrammed, it drifts, clings, sinks, or dissipates depending on ambient conditions and the psion’s own state.

If you gather psi without intent, it doesn’t snap into a sphere... it waits. The ball is a mold, a ritual container. Floating is a command. Without those, psi acts more like fog than orb.

So yeah, depictions of floating spheres are useful teaching tools, but they’re not psi’s native behavior. They’re ritual scaffolding. And once you’ve got the knack, you can shape psi into blades, nets, sigils, whatever suits your working.

Psi doesn’t float. You make it rise.

Interesting. For me when I gather psi without intent, or at least as far as I'm aware, it kind of depends on whether I'm drawing it from myself or the environment though in either case once gathered it just sits there, like it's locked in place neither drifting, clinging, dissipating, floating or even falling. Anti-gravitic basically, not subject to gravity or in other words not levitating due to concentration or focus. While both cases end up with gathered psi forming something round, and again I'm not directing it to form such shapes at least not on the conscious level, it's somewhat different with the only things being common are their antigravity properties, being quiet and possibly noise cancelling, having swirls that end up at some central point, an inward pulling force like that of a blackhole and being completely dark or black. Even if another colour does arise I seem to convert it into the darkness to such an autonomous degree that such colours are just transient, temporary. Now as for the differences...

If gathered from the environment the unprogrammed psi globs around me. It is globular. Amorphous yes, but overall globular. When gathered from within it's like a concentrated node, so essentially it's more spherical. Spirals which close in on a point with a centripetal formation ending up with a spherical shape.

It's strange though. Given the depictions how psi balls are made you'd expect that the first lesson when it comes to psionic training is to gather psi with the second being to shape it into a ball as if to imply that gathering psi is the easiest part of psionic training and development with shaping it requiring a bit of effort but that's not what happened with me however. You'd also expect for the gathered psi to appear as either white or light blue and to be subject to gravity given the 'try tossing the psi ball to a friend' description. Not so with mine, in fact the properties of mine don't really allow them to be used as projectiles. Now I don't know if mine is naturally capable of being formed at a distance without direct observation but I do know that from what I have observed I have some sort of extremely short range limit that exists independently of belief or non-belief though I suppose with enough training this range could be extended up to a certain point, probably as far as I can naturally observe.

So, either shaping psi and inputting certain codes has always been easy for me and I have never really noticed it or that I have some sort of innate effect on psi that causes it to automatically take on certain codes, possibly even both. To be clear I've never had any difficulty in causing psi to take on those certain codes to the point that it's hard for me to tell why though if I had to guess since I never had to consciously learn how to do so I'm leaning more on one explanation over the others.