Being active within on-line psychic community is fun and somehow useful, yet no on-line community can replace real, off-line group of people. Therefore, here I present you a whole guide to creating an off-line psychic group, as believe me or not, even if it’s simple, it might not be so clear ;).

Answer some questions

First of all, you have to answer a simple question – why do you want to create such off-line group? To gain profit out of your skills? Nah, I don’t think it’s a good idea, regarding the level of the skills one can learn. To help people by secretly performing psychic healing sessions? Weird yet interesting :). Maybe you want to create a group only to develop skills further? That’s also a good idea. Finally, maybe you just want to do some research and experiments, to find simpler ways for learning and developing skills, then share your knowledge with others – also, a good idea.

Finding members

Now when you have a goal, you need to find members. Two members within your group is already a nice number, really – two persons already create a community. First, ask around on psychic-related websites you’re active on – then take a look at Facebook. In both cases what we need is some reliable people who will take things seriously. So, always pay notice to people’s posts – see how much they’re posting, and pay attention to the level of their posts – are they fluffy or scientific? “Shouts” or logical arguments? On Facebook, you can additionally learn more about these people – their skills, interests etc., the point is to gather only people who want to achieve something and won’t be shooting with fireballs ;) – reliable people. When recruiting members for your group, show them an opportunity to achieve huge goals, and learn something new, and help others and all other advantages of such group.

“But what if I don’t have any psychics around me?” – hah, don’t worry, I have few tips for you too – read this article: How to help others discover psychics abilities.

Getting name

Now it’s time to create a name for your psychic club :). A name is giving your group and its members a feeling of identity, and helps recognising you within larger community. Stick to few rules – don’t create a fluffy name like “superpowerful mages of the red dragon”, make something simple and something short, that can be easily embedded into logotype. Finally, make your name easy to remember and recognise – et voila.

Chain of command

You have found members, it’s time to create a proper chain of command. Are your all working to achieve the goal as friends/colleques, or perhaps there is a group leader, then his assistant, chiefs of departments etc? Who’s in charge, and who should just “listen to orders”? :) You have to remember one thing – a group leader is a group leader because he have skills to manage this group, not because he’s a guru of some kind. Within such group, always build your relations based on partnership, never on worship, and remember someone can be higher than you only in case of skills and responsibility hierachy, but all people are equal. If you’re going to create a sect of some kind, I will personaly hit you with that psiball :P.

You need (1) someone to deal with your inventory – someone who can coordinate what equipment your group have in its possession, what books do you have in your library etc. And you need (2) a computer specialist – who can deal with OS’s crashes, search the web, build websites and create graphics etc. You need (3) a person that will make sure you have a fresh supply of coffee in your HQ :P if you want of course.

Come in, HQ!

Now you need an HQ – which one of you have the biggest garage? Hey, why not? Pick up a garage, or a back of your friend’s club or an empty warehouse in your city’s abandoned industry district etc. Or you can just establish a weekly meeting in a McDonald and perform research/experimentation in someone’s home, the choice is yours :). But when you will set your own meeting place in such “garage”, you will be able to bring a lot of stuff there e.g. books, documents, cd’s with Hemi-Sync and everything useful for whole group.

You could create a quiet room with desk, chair, pencil and a piece of paper to perform Remote Viewing sessions. You could create a laboratory section, just don’t blow yourself up, OK? :) If you want, you can create your own website in form of a blog, but I think Facebook Groups will be enough for on-line conversation and coordination, right? They can be set as “secret groups” so no one except you and your members will know about it, useful for keeping things in private. Don’t bother with creating public forums, use these that already exist if you want to “socialize”, use your Facebook group for in-group conversation and if you’re going to publish a research paper, I think you can just create a PDF and then throw it into web licenced under Creative Commons Science licence.

Finances

How are you going to finance your group? Will it be a monthly membership fee of $20 USD, that will be spend for food and coffee supplies for your HQ? Maybe you will be taking donations or using some sources of passive income? Or you will use your other skills to earn money? You need to remember that if you just want to run an unofficial group, stick with your small club HQ, supply it with food and drinks, pay some bills and just discuss & learn, you don’t need a huge budget, and monthly fee will be enough.

Yet if you want to perform more complicated research, or even organize some conferences (why not?), you will have to seriously think about your budget.

Brainstorm!

It is time for some brainstorming – you have a nice group and a nice HQ (I can feel these comfortable armchairs already). So what can you actually do? OK, let’s improve your skills, organize evening telepathic practice session, or RV evening sessions – one person will be assigning coordinates, other will be a viewer. Develop your skills further, get a The Gateway Experience Hemi-Sync cd’s and experiment with them. Make some statistical research on micro-psychokinesis. Use your skills, find someone who need help with disease and anonymously perform a healing session – or find someone who need financial help, gather some dollars and anonymously send them to that person.

Make someone a “community manager”, person to coordinate all group activities, and make someone else a “web hound”, searching the web for everything that might be useful for your group. Just sit there, search, brainstorm, learn and create.

This… is… weird

Yes it is – you might have a feeling already that a lot of the things above are a little… “childish”. Well, you’re right! :) Now one said that off-line psychicic club/group have to be 100% serious, right? Use your imagination, play around like you were a kid again, enjoy your group’s activities. If you can learn something, why not making it fun, too? So, ready – go! Create your very own psychicic group, or just look around – maybe someone already created one around you? Who knows, maybe one day someone will create a directory of such clubs and grups…

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