Current State of the OEC

OEC=Online Energy Community

Notice that I am making this post about the OEC, not about the OPC (Online Psionics Community). This includes members of other practises (Ki, magic, etc.) I want to talk about everyone here for a minute, but before we talk about the current state I’d like to talk a bit about the history of the OEC.

Psionics isn’t really that old. It dates back to the ’80s. Maybe earlier. Before that so-called “normal” people didn’t bother themselves with these things. During the ’60s, during the Hippie movement in the USA, alternative spiritualities became popular, but only with the “weirdos.” These people created the basis for the OEC today.

Well, okay, psionics has been around even longer than that. Scientists have been messing around with this sort of thing for years. In fact, psi is a term that was coined by B.P. Wiesner and Robert H. Thouless in 1942. Once again, these aren’t “normal” people. They are scientists.

Many practitioners of psionics started off from watching Star Wars, and other sci-fi films. The hero’s had amazing abilities that no one else could comprehend. Then the to-be psion has some experience that is like in the movies. They then find other people interested in this sort of stuff, and start communities, like Psipog. That is why there was such a boom in psionics from the Star Wars movies.

The other big boom? Psipog’s closing. When they closed 2836 psions had to find new homes, on various sites. The problem was, there were few sites out there. Excuse me, few good sites out there. There were plenty of crap ones. A few people just gave up and got lives…how silly (R.I.P. NI), and everyone else searched for another site to join. This forced the creation of many new sites. The best sites were made when someone made a site, and people from the pog flocked to it. By doing this it forced upgrades and made great sites. Then the newbies came there. Boom…new communities everywhere.

«Ooops…I just spent half the post in an introduction. lol»

Currently the psionic community has forced to believe that we are in a crisis. You hear about it everywhere! The problem is, there isn’t a problem! We are just coming of the high (can’t believe it took us years, that says something in itself) of Psipog closing.

It feels like a crisis because few psions were around before Star Wars. The ones that were have left the community (the psionics community is filled with mostly teenagers anyway). Before Star Wars we were right where we are now. There was just much more pioneering in the field than there is now. Star Wars brought in many new people, then the closing of Psipog, and the three new Star Wars movies. It was all piled on top of one another.

As I said in my previous post, EVERYONE want’s a p.site. Not everyone can have one, sadly enough. The currently well established sites were the result of hard work, and really great luck. Struggling webmasters, just wait. There will be another site closing soon enough. Just wait for a site to get as big as Psipog. Soon afterwards it will close. Then we’ll be able to do this all again!

I can hear the argument already, “no site is going to get as big as them, all the sites are getting smaller!” Yes, that’s true. All the current sites are smaller. This is for the same reason I have previously stressed. There is no hugely popular sci-fi series or books or films out yet. Just wait. There will be something eventually.

So what do you guys think about the length of my posts? I’m trying to make sure that they are around 600 words.