I would just like to briefly state my thoughts on ego and the use of telekinesis. There is an effect I refer to as ego burn where The selfish use and or showing off for the sake of the ego can redirect the required attention from the desired task creating a sort of short circuit to the desired movement.
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I think it all depends on your motivation. You see focus takes attention. Empathy is a skill yes? Well TK takes a type of empathy with the object as it were in my opinion. So if your empathy is being distracted and rechanelled to observers because the reason you are doing it is specifically to see how it affects them then yes your attention is being redirected from the tk you are trying to perform making a sort of short circuit. Now you can train with others around you so that you can condition yourself to ignore or direct your intent only to the tk task however most practice alone making the added stimulus of people watching to much of a distraction... This is just my theory so I hope you can get something from it
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Omega(the end) + X(the unknown) = Ending Ignorance of the unknown. Truth...knowledge...enlightenment
There is no failure only feedback. Failure is when you stop trying.
I agree completely with your theory. It's obvious that's what happens, i've tried to show a friend me raising the flame and it wouldn't work. Applying that theory to the situation makes much sense of the situation.
And Pungaboy, I doubt it would stop your channeling of chi if you were strong enough and trained long enough. I figure even then it still saps some energy, but not enough to completely stop the change caused by the disruptive flow of energy.
Building on your point, I think there is a problem with using too much will power in TK. One should not try to impose one's will on the object. One should nudge and coax it. Too much will power doesn't help. With regards to the ego, I totally agree. One often acheives optimum experience, when one loses conscienceness of self and litterally loses oneself in the activity. I apologize this link is not TK related, but it does add to the transcending the ego discussion.
It basically teaches you the conditions necessary for optimum experience. Radical hedonism seems to miss the point, but I don't want to take this discussion into a non-TK direction.
