Constructs and Planes

So, in looking around psionic forums for more mental exercises and mental manipulations to add to my Tips and Tricks list, I shared those that I thought up. I probably should have done that in the first place, firstly because checking that these things are within the experience of other people in the community is an underrated reality check (understandably underrated by people who are suspicious of the honesty of other people... which is an appropriately-rated thing to be, much as I complain about it.)

Secondly, much as I love making up cool-sounding new words for stuff, language is about communication. So, what I call genesis and imaginarium could just as easily be called astral construct and it might sound less poetic but it would also sound less pretentious.

Here's my experience of a construct. With what I took to be extra-sensory perception of a metaphysical force, because this was not a force that I could pick up with a thermometer or microbalance so it wasn't a physical force, even though I needed to use my physical hands to make that force, I felt the Jedi "force". This was what I understood to be a construct.

With my two hands, I held them apart as if I were holding a ball, and then felt a repelling force between my fingers that would grow stronger the more I set the intention of the invisible ball to grow larger between my hands. This force was what I later understood to be called "psi", and what I was making was a construct called a psi ball. When I bent my wrists, however, that resistance disappeared.

I could have presumed that flowing lines of psi movement innate to my physical body needed to be angled and positioned a certain way corresponding to the physical, in order for the psi ball to sustain itself. I presumed, instead, that a psi ball was illusionary. The tendons, ligaments, and nerves in my wrists had played a trick on me. My conscious mind, how I focused on making a larger psi ball, was playing along.

Sometimes, I would feel that same force flowing outwards from me, like body heat. In my mind's eye, the heat would be colored and stay in the same place, as if I were watercolor painting in three dimensions, using empty space as the canvas. That could have been some subtle form of synaesthesia.

That's the level I'm familiar with constructs working, on a spatial and temporal plane... though, not necessarily physical.

The imaginarium might be somewhere else, but, the way that I've been shaping it is also, among the metaphysical enthusiasts I've communicated with, considered a construct. And, I approve of this classification.

I'm well aware of metaphysical literature already having mapped these planes of reality: physical, etheric, mental, astral, spiritual... but, I haven't explored them enough to agree that they work the way they're said to, and that those who hold to these categories and myself are talking about the same thing.

How I build my imaginarium, isn't exactly the same way that I made a psi ball, but they're both constructs.