Overlap

Chapter 100: The Yogi Philosophy

<04/09/2013 - 13:03 | Cage High School (Library), Austell, GA, USA>

In the days passing of my psionic practices, I grew stronger as a psychic, much stronger. My ability to contact Lumina became easier than ever, and seeing through her eyes with only a standard connection wasn't as difficult as it was before. If I had to guess, I would say Lumina was right all along, about me reaching my peaking period in high school.

Lately, I've been practicing with clairvoyance and anything else I could think of. I can only use future-sight clairvoyance, though I sometimes get these strange feelings of something else, emotional sensations that don't make any logical sense for me to experience on my own. I feel like it might be part of something else.

Needless to say, my ability to learn clairvoyance is going quite well. I'm starting to enjoy the decision to master the ability. What's better, is that I can use clairvoyance on myself. Strangely, the echo return data doesn't always come in though. Sometimes, I see fragments of my own future that turn out to be true by day's end, but other times, I see and feel nothing at all, the ability backfiring on occasion. On top of that, I've learned another limitation to clairvoyance, at least as it pertains to me. I can only invoke clairvoyance three times a day maximum, four if I space it out really well. If I try invoking it more beyond that period, I fail and start to feel incredibly drained for the rest of the day.

Then, there is the aspect of changing the future. There isn't much I can change with only eighteen hours given, and as much as I would like to see something amazing by this, my life isn't interesting enough to take on such experiments. I mostly see myself studying in my room, working on a book, or eating, never leaving the house, which is an everyday occurrence for me. The most I can change about that is where I am at the time and what I'm doing. The difference is only, I'm either studying at this time, or I'm not; whoopty-fucking-doo.

I let my imagination get the better of me before, about how useful clairvoyance would actually be. The truth is, crazy moments like freak accidents or school fights are extremely rare on occurrence. Plus, my clairvoyance doesn't just kick in and warn me if something like that is about to happen on its own. I have to manually invoke the ability each and every time I want to see it, so anything crazy can still sneak up on me so to speak, if I'm choosing a day not to practice it.

Oh yeah, there's another element to clairvoyance. Clairvoyance can be disrupted by a warm environment too, just like telepathy. Only, the difference in maximum temperature seems to be a little higher. With clairvoyance, the ability will work until I'm in an area above eighty degrees, where the value is down to sixty with telepathy. If it heats up or I get a headache, I can't use the ability. Also, if I try to see into a specific area with clairvoyance, no matter the hours, and I keep myself in mind as the target person, I'll see nothing at all about that place, unless I've decided in advance to physically show up there at some point. This means if I wasn't going home tonight, but instead directly to a hotel somewhere else, and I use clairvoyance on myself but focus on my home as the location reference, no echo return data is obtained. In addition, if I don't know the relative location of this hotel before I get there, I also can't see my own future, in any sense. A direct person of target and a location are both required for the ability to function, and the location will be a dud if that same target isn't going to be there within the eighteen hour period, or if the location is not known by the ability user.

These are only the simple aspects of clairvoyance I've been learning though. The Altiri know a lot about psionics, which doesn't surprise me. It's a no-brainer that any physical or online research I conduct from here on Earth pertaining to things like Altiri aliens or telepathy isn't going to return a useful single result. However, upon discovering a few interesting aspects of Clair-sensing abilities, I tried my online research once more, focusing specifically on lower-tier abilities like clairvoyance and psychic powers.