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johngault22
12-18-2005, 11:15 PM
I noticed on another post a call for a singular verb for psychic sensing of all types.
I realised that some of us in the psi "community" use the word "scan" to imply that we are sensing things psychically.
I think I already know an argument against the word, which is that when most people use the word scan, they mean they are reaching out with their energy to read an object or person. My counter to that is that when you think of touch, you are probably conceptualising reaching your arm out to touch something.
Ramza
12-19-2005, 06:32 AM
I would use "scan" for intentional information retrival only. Otherwise I just call it ESP.
I vote no, because the word "scan" already has a definition and I think we should avoid confusion.
miri
12-19-2005, 11:19 AM
what Razma said, but add on: scans reffer to energy based information, be it auras or constructs, however one can sense the physical with esp. A BIG DIFFERENCE.
johngault22
12-19-2005, 05:58 PM
When I scan somebody I sometimes feel phsyical characteristics of the person.
Also you can call Scanning ESP because it is extra sensory from the normal 5 senses. but ESP also applies to precognition & you don't scan for precognition.
Andrew
12-19-2005, 09:05 PM
I voted no... Scan sounds a bit too active. an analogy of what I'm trying to say would be like
look is to see as scan is to (whatever word we're looking for)
Admittedly I don't have much better of a word... of course if you ask me I'll probably make one based on a word in Japanese because I'm like that :lol:
Sol
12-21-2005, 04:22 AM
I don't know about anyone else, but I just say sense in the context you're talking about. It makes the most sense (no pun intended), because you're actually sensing that the energy is or is not there. Scanning sounds too active and we already have a definition for it. That's my take on it, at least.
Elliptic
12-23-2005, 08:18 AM
It really depends on the sense in question...I tend to verb words as I go...I often use "to hear" as for what I do with telepathy, though I also use "to 'path" for the same thing. I've used "telepathize" from time to time, generally in the context of "I telepathized X information."
I do not actively scan things that I do 'path, however. When I'm 'pathing something or someone, it's generally passive...I 'path people as I pass them on the path, but I scan them when I'm intentionally wanting information.
This is entirely disregarding energetic sense, and empathy. Empathy I also use 'path, or feel, since empathy is heavily emotionally oriented. For psionic energy sense, I use sense, or feel, or see...whatever synaesthetic modality I'm applity at the time.
Short answer: No. I find this term unsatisfactory.
Intrepid
01-09-2006, 01:46 AM
I have always understood scan to be an active verb. It's an intentional act, whether scanning a person, or an area.
Telepathy and empathic input are most often passive activities. When they are not, a link is usually involved, intentional or not.
As I understand it:
Listen - gather ambient information that is being projected
Reach - focus on a particular person to gather or transfer info, sending a detectable amount of energy in their direction (frequently an accident, a link may form)
Link - to connect psionically, usually intentional,
Scan - to examine the target's shielding, or field, or in the case of scanning an area, purposefully looking to see if activity is present and what type
12-18-2005, 11:15 PM
I noticed on another post a call for a singular verb for psychic sensing of all types.
I realised that some of us in the psi "community" use the word "scan" to imply that we are sensing things psychically.
I think I already know an argument against the word, which is that when most people use the word scan, they mean they are reaching out with their energy to read an object or person. My counter to that is that when you think of touch, you are probably conceptualising reaching your arm out to touch something.
Ramza
12-19-2005, 06:32 AM
I would use "scan" for intentional information retrival only. Otherwise I just call it ESP.
I vote no, because the word "scan" already has a definition and I think we should avoid confusion.
miri
12-19-2005, 11:19 AM
what Razma said, but add on: scans reffer to energy based information, be it auras or constructs, however one can sense the physical with esp. A BIG DIFFERENCE.
johngault22
12-19-2005, 05:58 PM
When I scan somebody I sometimes feel phsyical characteristics of the person.
Also you can call Scanning ESP because it is extra sensory from the normal 5 senses. but ESP also applies to precognition & you don't scan for precognition.
Andrew
12-19-2005, 09:05 PM
I voted no... Scan sounds a bit too active. an analogy of what I'm trying to say would be like
look is to see as scan is to (whatever word we're looking for)
Admittedly I don't have much better of a word... of course if you ask me I'll probably make one based on a word in Japanese because I'm like that :lol:
Sol
12-21-2005, 04:22 AM
I don't know about anyone else, but I just say sense in the context you're talking about. It makes the most sense (no pun intended), because you're actually sensing that the energy is or is not there. Scanning sounds too active and we already have a definition for it. That's my take on it, at least.
Elliptic
12-23-2005, 08:18 AM
It really depends on the sense in question...I tend to verb words as I go...I often use "to hear" as for what I do with telepathy, though I also use "to 'path" for the same thing. I've used "telepathize" from time to time, generally in the context of "I telepathized X information."
I do not actively scan things that I do 'path, however. When I'm 'pathing something or someone, it's generally passive...I 'path people as I pass them on the path, but I scan them when I'm intentionally wanting information.
This is entirely disregarding energetic sense, and empathy. Empathy I also use 'path, or feel, since empathy is heavily emotionally oriented. For psionic energy sense, I use sense, or feel, or see...whatever synaesthetic modality I'm applity at the time.
Short answer: No. I find this term unsatisfactory.
Intrepid
01-09-2006, 01:46 AM
I have always understood scan to be an active verb. It's an intentional act, whether scanning a person, or an area.
Telepathy and empathic input are most often passive activities. When they are not, a link is usually involved, intentional or not.
As I understand it:
Listen - gather ambient information that is being projected
Reach - focus on a particular person to gather or transfer info, sending a detectable amount of energy in their direction (frequently an accident, a link may form)
Link - to connect psionically, usually intentional,
Scan - to examine the target's shielding, or field, or in the case of scanning an area, purposefully looking to see if activity is present and what type