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Discussing the Psychic and Energy Workers community in general.
Discussing the Psychic and Energy Workers community in general.
As we all know, United Psionics Club is closed. Some rumors say it is closed for good, other rumors say it will be back. I don’t know which rumor is truth (perhaps none), still I’ve found this a good moment to write a short history of United Psionics Club. Please note that I’ve never been member of this website – everything I know about it’s history has been reported by “people from the inside” :).
There was a website called Psi-Media – administrator name was Float. There was a couple of people helping around, for example Stony or Mindless (aka FireEye). There was an idea for merging Psi-Media with other psychics website. That’s how we reach to Psilight – website run by Goober (I guess). So both side have merged into one – United Psionics Club (I guess that is why there is this “United” in name heh) – it happend around January, 2005. Soon, Goober (aka SuperNaturalGuy) left. Float with his staff were in charge. He got help with coding from Vitaymst then. After this new articles and media were coming, forums grow etc. But eventually at January 28th, 2008 the upconline.net domain expired and right now website is closed.
So this is very short history of UPC written from scratches. I hope this site will return one day. Right now, if you have any other informations related to this history, I will be happy to hear them.
… Sort of :). What can I say? It is a great story about growth and hard fall. Yes, that’s right – we’ve hit the ground. But, we’re not buried yet :).
The gold age – it was time of PsiPog. There were may good articles, great community. I’ve asked JediKaren, why so? Why PsiPog’s community was so great? She have told me because many people wanted to become Jedi. Ok, interesting – I didn’t know that.
And what now? Now people want to become heroes from stupid television dramas and anime. Great psychics are disappearing, websites are beign closed (PsiStudies, United Psionics Club), other websites are beign overwhelmed by fluff, stupid kids and lack of ideas.
Winged Wolf wrote an article about communication between communities (mainly about diffrent terms describing the same thing) – and I’m writing – there is no communication between communities. We need a boards where representators of every community can work for better future of psychics and community.
Now I’m asking everyone of you – what are you going to do about our state, about our crisis? Are you going to sit there and watch our community dying? Are you going to watch as we are closing the end of our road?
Hell I’m not going to – I will build new road if I have to. And you’re free to follow me. And as long as single person is out there, the community will not die.
Old websites are closed, but new are beign opened. Old ideas have burned out, still there are new ideas. People before us have planted a seed – our task is to push the community forward. We need to talk to teachers in order to create new learning systems, we need to talk to scientists to create new theories, we need to talk to ourselves to learn ideas and opinions. Also, back to the Jedi and Anime things – we need to build a new image of a psychic.
Psionics is not just a practice – it is a state of mind. Psion is not a kid who want to become a superhero, psychic is a person hungry for knowlege, supporting charity work, helping other people in many ways, person trying to understand the universe and people actions, person trying to make the world a better place.
New ideas are needed, new actions need to be taken. And I’m going to do everything I can to helpt the community. Are you going to do the same? Oh yes! You are going to do the same, because you are psychics, not some superhero kids.
You are going to say “hell I have a great idea and I will make it real”. You are going to get out of your house and look as maybe someone need your help. You are going to do something good for community.
But you know what you are going to do now? Right now, right here? I’ll tell you what you’re going to do right now, right here – you are going to turn off your computer and finally do something – like a psiball. C’mon, stop reading and make this craping ball of energy!