Dossiers A Better Life The Psionic Predator, by Charles Cosimano | Page 37

In the receiver mode, the plate is used in much the same way. The witness of the
target is placed on the center of the amplifying pattern and the palms of the hands rest
on the hand plates. Once you have done that, all you have to do is sit back, close your
eyes and relax, and try not to fall asleep, which is a problem that I have. I'm always
falling asleep. It may take a few tries to get it right and not fall asleep in the process
but once you get it, you will be able to pick up stuff from the mind of anyone at any time
and you can guess at how useful that will be.
For example, you are running for sewer commissioner, a job which may make no sense
to outsiders but to anyone who has ever tasted the fruits of graft it is the most desirable
of public offices. It is sufficiently under the radar that the bribes and kickbacks flow like
champagne on New Year's Eve and no one ever notices. There is only one problem.
You have an opponent in the election.
Now, the immediate thought that one gets in such situations is to simply kill the person
and there is much to recommend in that approach. I like permanence in my solutions.
But it is much more fun to destroy the person and ruin his family. There is something
about watching your opposition's first born being hauled off to federal prison that is just
too satisfying for words. But to accomplish that end you need information!
Start with the trusty pendulum. Write down the names of the target and the members of
his family and ask which one is the best, most vulnerable target. Let us say that it
points to his wife. Ok, this is going to be fun.
Procure a witness of her. That is usually pretty easy because, as you know having
done it yourself, all politicians love to have pictures taken of themselves with their
families. They think it will bring them votes when it reality it shows that their wives are
too incredibly stupid to get their pill bottles straight which is why they end up being
cursed by Shub Niggurath (the black goat with a thousand young) with a pack of
drooling, mongoloid offspring running in the Special Olympics. But I digress.
Cut out the picture of the opponent's wife and put it in the center of the pattern on the
plate. Now put your hands on the plates and relax and let whatever impressions come
to you that will.
Surprise!!
You did not know that she ran the town's premiere escort and domination service on the
side! (And what is more amazing is that you have an ex-girlfriend who worked for her
as a professional submissive!)
The key is to get the local newspaper interested in that. Actually all you need to do is
get a local reporter interested.
And to do that you need to make a thoughtform.