/sunflower/ - Sunflower

Haven't shared the previous experiences and I won't because of various reasons, I'll just say that this week was the first time I went off with Yuuka after entering Gensokyo though it wasn't like I had much of a choice. She grabbed my arm and dragged me with her to a different place instantly after entering. She then showed a more monstrous side and acted accordingly. Afterwards she said she wanted to see how I would react to it,but I remained calm and there weren't any problems. More happened but these are the parts I wanted to share for now.

I've left out the details here because they could be misinterpreted and sharing them wouldn't be useful for anyone anyway. All I can say is the Friends have a very functional way of performing magic which is extremely powerful. This'll be a short note of an important step.

Japari Park 23/2 2020

Alpaca leads us to the landing area, I follow her into a cave located a bit upstream behind the area. Fennec, Lesser Panda, Tsuchinoko and some members of PPP joins us. We perform a ritual in which the collected power of all participants gather in my abdominal area and opens up all of my body's meridians at once, as elixir is said to do in qigong. We return and gather by the landing area to close the session.

It's a new week and the sessions are open!

You can do one group visit to Gensokyo and one to Japari Park throught the instructions in this thread. Post your notes sometime during the weekend before sunday ends, so as to not disturb those who haven't done their session yet.

Visiting Japari Park is mostly relying on your ability to reach there, which takes energy and direction. Doing this as a group will both make it easer to build up the energy needed for the travel and it will make it easier to find the location as we have a deal with them by which they send a guide to pick us up.

Gensokyo is more difficult to reach because of the double barrier blocking both entry and exit from the human word. Humans intending to keep yokais out created a barrier which stops around 70% of yokais from passing. The barrier isn't extremely strong and can be forced through by a single skilled entity or three average witches linking to form a magic triangle. This has created a market for human goods inside Gensokyo, keeping the prices up and for this reason the stronger members have no intention of bringing the human barrier down. They're making money off the now rare goods being brought in by themselves, and want to keep it this way. Among humans today only a handful have the ability to gather the power needed to pass this barrier, and few of them even want to enter as they'd become prey the moment they set foot in there.

The yokais played along and created their own barrier to keep the few hostile and skillfull humans out, who could have broken in to cause harm. The barrier on the Gensokyo side works by the attitude of the being attempting to enter. It feeds off hostility and will become increasinly stronger the more hostility the intruder carries in them. On the other hand, those sympathetic of the world will easily sneak past and enter.

When we link up and let Yuuka guide us, most of the energy is used to brute force through the human barrier. The rest is a matter of attitude. By linking up our minds are syncronized and hostilities can be minimized. This opens the yokai side of the barrier.

Upon entry we are treated as paying guests or as recruits, and will be protected by a guide during the stay for as long as needed.

You are free to attempt personal visits to either world anytime you want, but keep the above in mind when doing this!

>>373

If the human barrier is meant to keep yokai out why would we need to break through it? As far as I'm aware yokai means monster/demon.

>>400

To me that's proof the barrier is working. When you can no longer sense Gensokyo you will not attempt to interact with them in any way, you will not give them attention or energy and the humans who created (and who are maintaining it) have achieved their goal of keeping yokais out of the human world by purging them from your mind.

This place itself is resting on the top of the Babel's tower so it's easy to jump from here to anywhere mentally. If you didn't come on here first you wouldn't find it so easy to pass the barrier even with help from Yuuka and the group.

Eventually your conviction comes from yourself and your own experiences, you have to make your own choices on what to invest time and effort into.

It's saturday now so here are the notes for Gensokyo.

Entered Gensokyo on a mountaintop. Yuuka was lightly teasing me but then cut her own finger and wanted me to lick it. Reason for this unclear. We flew from the mountain over a forest and descended into a clearing where we dove into a small lake. After getting out of the lake and sitting against a tree I saw that there were a lot of fairies. They seemed to leave us alone. Before the time was up she suprised me and took me to a/the scarlet mansion. There wasn't much time left so she only wanted to introduce me to Remilia and Sakuya before the session was over.

Gensokyo 29/2 2020

I am directly picked up by Flandre who is partially dressed like Reimu. We walk away on to a narrow road covered in tree bark and dead leaves. The sun is filtered through the branches of the trees. We stop behind a rock and do some warm ups before walking further along to road to a clearing. In the middle of the clearing a large bonfire is burning. It's very hot and its color is white and yellow. We walk inside the fire and stay there to be cleansed. I can feel the white hot fire on my body but it isn't painful. Outside the fire, yokais are standing in a circle around it.

We move forward along a corridor inside the fire and reach a small study room. Flandre brings a book from a shelf which is about the concept "suki", love. After some studies we are done and walk back out again. The fire suddenly cools off and the flames dissappear leaving only a few flames no bigger than a large candle arising from the grass. All the yokais are now applauding our success and asking us to show them what we learned. After this we return to the clearing by the portal.

It's a new week and we are once again organizing sessions for Gensokyo and Japari Park. Follow the instructions posted earlier in the thread to participate!

Seeing as there hasn't been a lot of interest in the group sessions here, we may call them off after evaluating this week. The purpose of holding them as open group sessions itself is to aid those who can't organize on their own, but if no one is using the opportunity there is no point. The core members here can already do this by linking with their spiritual companions in their own time.

The artifact shared for this purpose will still be available and usable even if we don't officially schedule a session, so nothing changes there.

>>303

Jesus Iesous/Yeshua ~33AD

Ichthyo = Fish = Pisces

it is ~2000 years per astrological age.

today is 2020AD

4000 Age of Aries

<ram sacrifice

6000 Age of Taurus

<ox/bull sacrifice

8000 Age of Gemini

10000 Age of Cancer

12000 Age of Leo (oldest known megalith)

I was lamenting my inability to draw the visuals I see, particularly my inability to draw Remilia as I saw her, but I very quickly found a picture of her in a very close approximation to my own image of her. Two differences, one in the color of the eye, the other in the absence of a red jewel ornamented on her dress. Her eyes are a much more striking bright red.

Also interesting that one of the posters here meets with Flandre more than Remilia, where it's the exact opposite for me. Flandre is something I have to remind myself exists, otherwise I forget of her existence. Might have something to do with my extreme leanings towards intellectual pursuits rather than social ones, I've only ever interacted with Gensokyo out of curiosity rather than real interest in the inhabitants. Remilia isn't bad at spell craft. Posting in this thread since it was an entertaining read.

I'm aiming to do sessions for both places shortly. Anyone interested can join by using the time correction crystal.

>>685

When should the session notes be posted?

Haven't done this for a while but just had a vision of Flandre (despite never having met her during the sessions, only dreams) where she was sad that it's been a while and that she prepared something special for me but I didn't return.

There was too much text and I already shorted it as best as I could without rewriting the whole thing. To the pastebin it goes.

https://pastebin.com/gFtTEikX

Gensokyo 28/3 2020

I arrive directly to the clearing in the forest. The trees look more ancient and realistic than before, also darker. I am picked up by Flandre and Tewi who lead me to a place with two small cottages. They dress me up as Marisa and ask me to watch the fire which is burning in the yard between the two cottages. I see some kind of tool inside the fire but can't understand what it is. It looks a bit like a hayfork. I enter a state of trance as a result of staring into the fire and strange scenes appear in my mind, of a nature which makes it impossible for me to retell them using language. I now understand the meaning of the hayfork and its magic is formed in my mind. It appears as a dark red tattoo of a hayfork with two points aimed downwards, placed below my navel. Reimu leads me back to the clearing and the session is over.

Japari Park 29/3 2020

Serval leads me into a large cave which is sealed with two large round, flat stones which are rolled to the right. We pass an outer cave before entering the inner cave. While there we perform a ritual by forming a circuit with me (Snowcat), Serval and Margay. At a later time, Snow Leopard joins along with someone with red fur I do not recognize, possibly a kind of raccoon. I get to learn a kind magic through this. The ritual keeps going for a long time.

It's been over a month since I last participated so I figured it was time to do it again. Here are my notes https://pastebin.com/Y8AGTHeh

In all honesty I don't know what that ritual was for but the pattern of how the candles were laid out reminds me of past life ritual(s), magic circles were involved as well but this one was different. Haven't studied up on magic circles or their dynamics but I assume they're essentially bigger sigils with more preparation.

>>833

>>831

Remilia has shown me something similar. "Pour blood out onto the floor and watching as it dissipates and dies, losing the vitality of it's creator." Is what she responded when I asked her. From what I take it it's how normal people view the world, specifically what gensokyo does to abuse this concept. It's deeply linked into the idea of deception. The human mind works off of deception, no truth is without a foundation of lies, the attachments to the points between truth is all we can see, etc etc.

>>834

I'm not very good with metaphors so to my disappointment most of that passes me by.

>>833

Thanks for the insight.

I had a short visit with Japari park. I will keep most of the details short. I met up with Serval and what I believe to be the leader, or the closest thing to an owner, of japari park in the temple. Here I was prompted to make a different version of the energy sharing device. I did so, that device had a very powerful effect. Connecting ourselves to the device, those present except Yuuka, and headed towards the park after the leader towards the library. I had more control over the entire group and felt the need to instead lead them in guidance, for reasons I don't understand, this is something not new put to this extent of clarity, is. We went into a private room and I picked out a book to read. Here lies my reasoning for posting: I was allowed to write down the contents of the book and share them here. I could have done so before, but these words were written with a clarity I only find in dreams. So I did.

On the book of truth. The words on this page will be spoken thus: without lie or error shall they be trusted, without honor and friendship these words be known. The first lie will then be trust.

The text of these books will be read as such. This book made to enforce the bonds of trust, so that endless oblivion will not be spent alone. Then the first truth shall be spoken, that no lie is without falsehood.

This book shall be written and said, so no man should read it. The next falsehood, he who "lies within the bottom of deceit where light has fled and only screams are heard."

On the subject of life, in it's complexities and myriads of shapes, lies the bottom of a swamp eternal.

Within this swamp lies life and death, joy and happiness, friendship and ally.

The first deceit then thus. That man will fight man for goods and honor.

The second deceit thus. That woman shall give birth to beings who bring war.

Let those two be known

>>831

>She lead me up the stairs into her room

>Flandre's room

>upstairs

Do the beings running this fake Gensokyo really see themselves as good at it? Or do they purposely stick to drawing in tertiaries because they know the illusion quickly falls apart otherwise?

If anyone feels like joining in this week for easier access I plan on doing some visits. Including to the nekopara.

>>940

>>2326

I'll join in. I don't have much success with telepathy or spirit contact yet but I'll use the additional sigils for that in addition. Maybe you'll be able to see me at the table at least, even that would be a success.

I have performed 2 out of 3 sessions while using the meeting room crystal. I will do the last one and then post my notes here tonight or tomorrow. If anyone wants to join in for this window there is still time.

Nekopara

I land directly into the inner garden, wearing a yukata or similar. Another cat leads me through a gate in a wall. On the other side it is moist and smells of earth and plants, like inside a tropicarium. I see an oni-mask, a red devil, on my right side. It's dark and the atmosphere has an air of something mystical. We arrive at two japanese tea houses. They have platforms on the front with some steps. The cat says they're our houses, and that we can unite them and live together. We perform a ritual on the platform, then the houses are one big house and we are back in the light filled inner garden again. Our house is in the far end, to "this side" and a bit to the left. There's dry grass and some sand in front of the house, and a small dam in between our house and the big house, which has to be passed to enter the garden. The cat refers to the moist garden as "Garden of Creation."

Gensokyo

This time I'm told to perform the visit on my own, using my own power and finding my own way there to pass the barrier. I land in the forest with my back against a vertical rock wall. Below there's sand and smaller stones in an empty lot. I feel a diagonal energy which ends in the point where the ground and the rock meets, inside the 90 degree angle formed there. I decide to fly up the rock wall and land in a higher part of the forest. It seems to be at least 50 - 100 meters higher up, with a view over the pine forest. It's warm and sunny and smells of forest with a mild breeze. A bit further into the sparse pine forest up there is a small log cottage. Chen comes to meet me and invites me. After some socializing I notice Chen has a dagger. I ask to see it, it has a green snake crawling around it in a spiral around the blade. We learn something from each other and my knife gains a new aspect corresponding to Chen's dagger, her dagger gains a new aspect corresponding to my knife.

Japari Park

I arrive together with the group at the usual location, the sandy piece of land with some high grass around it, by the stream. Caracal calls to me: "Snowcat, come with me!" We run outwards and upwards along the mountain until we reach a sandy limestone surface by the far end, which forms a peak. From here we have an overview of the eastern side of the island and see the sea and other islands in the haze further out. We sit down facing each other in north-south direction, I look at Caracal sitting south of me, she looks at me sitting north of her. We sit with legs crossed and hold our palms facing forward towards each other, then we join hands. After this follows a shared meditation with several steps. It ends with an energetic opening of the friend-body, first mine, then Caracal's.

We run back to the landing area and play in the water until it is time to end the session. I gain an insight on how distant and safe the island is.