Part 1 The Joker Chapter 32 Spirit Sight
Klein looked at the dark blue viscous liquid that was hard to tell if it was a glass or a piece and swallowed hard:
”Just drink it?”
”Doesn’t it require any additional preparation? Like rituals, incantations or prayers?”
Old Neil said with an “uh”:
”Preparation? There is, you start with a glass of Ormil wine from Intis and a Dixie cigar, then hum a lilting melody, a light court dance, or tap dance if you prefer, and finish with a game of Quintessence ……”
Seeing Klein’s expression grow stupefied, the elder Neil smiled and gave the summary described earlier:
”If you’re feeling nervous.”
…… You’re kinda funny …… Klein twitched the corners of his mouth twice, resisting the urge to draw his gun.
He put his cane away and stretched out his right hand, lifting the opaque cup as if holding a heavy object, the flavor of the magic potion clear and illusory.
”Young man, don’t hesitate, the more you hesitate, the more nervous you are, the more scared you are, the more it affects the absorption later.” Old Neil turned his back to Klein and said as if casually.
He had somehow made his way to the nearby sink and unscrewed the faucet, clattering and washing his hands.
Klein nodded silently, took a deep breath, and like a child pinching his nose to take a pill, he brought the opaque cup to his mouth, tilted his head once, and gulped it down.
The cool, slippery sensation flew to fill his mouth, then slipped through his esophagus and into his stomach.
The viscous, deep blue liquid seemed to grow a thin, long tentacle, and the coldness and excitement instantly burrowed into every cell of Klein’s body.
He couldn’t help but convulse, and his eyes quickly became blurry, the colors of everything intensified, the red became redder, the blue became bluer, the black became blacker, and the blocks of color were thick and haphazardly pieced together, just like an oil painting splashed out by an impressionist master.
This kind of scene, Klein had experienced before, that is the “psychic” Daley asked when the picture.
At this moment, his vision was blurred, and his mind drifted but clear, as if he were a shipwrecked man floating on the sea.
Gradually, he could see the scene around him clearly, all the colors overlapped each other distinctly, and a gray and illusory fog filled the air.
Around him were things that were indescribable, even transparent to the point of non-existence, and in the depths, there was a line after line of different colors of bright and pure light, which seemed to have a life, or to contain endless knowledge.
This is somewhat similar to the “transfer ceremony” seen …… Klein instinctively looked down, and found that “himself” is still standing in place, his body twitching and twitching.
Suddenly, he had an epiphany, and his consciousness sank down, becoming one with his body.
Boom!
The mist quickly dispersed, the color blocks normalized at the same time, and the clear light and non-existent objects disappeared in an instant.
The scene within the alchemy chamber returned to normal, but Klein felt his head expanding, with a tendency to crack, looking at everything with uncountable overlapping shadows, while an ethereal whisper from an unknown object came to his ears:
”Hornachis …… Fregla …… Hornachis …… Fregla… …Honachis……Fregla……”
A stabbing pain shot through Klein’s forehead, and his heart quickly filled with the urge to lash out, to destroy.
He frowned and shook his head continuously.
”Is the vision abnormal? And heard a sound that you couldn’t hear before?” The old Neil beside him asked with a smile.
”Yes, Mr. Neil, what should I do?” Klein held back his intense mania and opened his mouth to ask.
Old Neil laughed:
”This is because there is an overflow of the power of the magic potion and you lack the means to control it, well, do as I say, visualize an item in your mind, something common, something simple, something easy.”
Klein gathered his attention and sketched his half-height black silk bowler hat within his mind, thinking of how it would feel to fondle it, thinking of its exact shape.
”Doesn’t it feel better to put all your attention on it, to keep repeating it, to keep outlining it?” Old Neil’s voice penetrated, as if it were a song of requiem.
Klein shifted his attention a little to the imaginary silk bowler hat, only to feel the whisper in his ears diminish until it disappeared, and the overlapping shadows in his eyes slowly superimposed and no longer blurred.
”Much better.” Klein exhaled as he calmed the jumble of emotions in his mind.
He looked down at his body and didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary.
Moving his arms and legs again, Klein asked, half in anticipation and half in doubt:
”I made it? Sort of a ‘soothsayer’?”
Old Neil drew a mercury-plated mirror from the side and brought it up to his face:
”Look at the eyes.”
Klein gazed at it, only to see himself in the mirror wearing a black bowler hat, with a darker profile, ordinary features, and seemingly no difference from before except for a sweaty face.
He followed Old Neil’s prompting and looked carefully at the position of his eyes, only to realize that his own original brown eyes had deepened considerably, so deep that it seemed as if there was not the slightest bit of light in the darkness of the night, so deep that it seemed as if it could absorb other people’s souls.
-Normally, deep brown pupils are easily seen as black, and without careful differentiation, Kline himself would hardly notice.
”This is the outward appearance of the magic potion’s power, once you learn to meditate and know how to collect yourself, your eyes will return to normal.” Old Neil smiled and extended his right hand, “Congratulations, new extraordinary person, our Diviner.”
”Thanks.” Klein reached out and shook the other’s hand, “Mr. Neil, when can I learn to meditate?”
”Right now, preliminary meditation is fairly simple, even more so for the Extraordinary.” Old Neil said with a smile, “Just now, you sketched items within your mind to divert your attention and collect the overflowed power, that’s actually the first step of meditation, you do it again.”
Klein closed his eyes and once again traced the half-height black silk bowler hat in his mind.
It seemed to be easier than ever for him to focus, and soon some of the distractions came up and fell away, leaving only the outlined bowler hat.
”Allow the head to empty slightly, then replace the outlined item with one that does not exist in this world and is imagined out of thin air.”
”This rule must be obeyed, only then can you enter into meditation and become little by little one with the transcendent ‘I’, the infinite ‘I’, the cosmic ‘I ‘ to become one, to gain insight and revelation of the truth, to gain knowledge that can only be embodied by yourself; in the field of occultism, this is called ‘secret experience’.” Old Neil said in a soothing tone, “For the latter description, you only need to listen to it for the time being, the most important thing at the moment is to enter meditation.”
Does what doesn’t exist in this world and is imagined out of thin air …… on Earth count? Klein tried to replace the half-height black bowler hat with the earth-green, long, thick ICBM he’d seen on TV.
But, no matter how he sketched it out or imagined it, he always just got more focused.
It didn’t seem to be working …… Klein had to use his imagination, sketching a ball of light, and then sketching many more similar things and leaning them together.
The balls of light overlapped, full of fantasy, and Klein’s thoughts gradually fizzled out and seemed to drift.
His body and mind were tranquilized, and the illusory grey mist and mixed color blocks that had previously been covered in non-existent-like objects and bright light reappeared, quietly suspended in the sky, out of reach.
The spirituality stretched a little, unfolding inch by inch, and Klein looked down upon it silently, feeling it, reining it in.
”Very good, worthy of being a ‘Diviner’, entering meditation was smooth, only a little, a little worse than when I was there.” Old Neil laughed, “In that case, I’ll start teaching you the most commonly used, easiest to master, and subsequently most promising ability in the Mystic Realm, Psychic Vision!”
He turned off the gas lamps one by one, but opened the dark door of the alchemy room, making the place where Klein was in unusually dim but not so dim that he couldn’t even see the outlines of objects clearly.
”Okay, to continue as you are now, lift your hands up in front of you, index fingers facing each other but not touching.”
”Open your eyes until you adjust to the darkness.”
Following the old Neil’s description, Klein completed it step by step, seeing his opposing fingers and the outlines of the objects around him.
”I should have laid down and let my body completely relax, but since you meditated well, let’s continue.” The older Neil gave a chuckle, “Focus your vision on the back of your hand, it has to be the back, then move your fingers slowly, keeping them opposite yet not touching, and also not letting them out of your vision.”
Klein listened calmly and dropped his gaze to the empty position behind his hand, letting the two index fingers that were relative yet not touching move slowly out of sight.
Once, twice, three times …… Suddenly, Klein saw a little more fiery red color between his fingers.
”Huh……” he made a noise.
”See the color? Not bad, that’s preliminary psychic vision, the color you see is your own aura.” Old Neil laughed, “Don’t be in a hurry, come a few more times to stabilize it, and after that, you can go and see somewhere else, and I’ll also take this opportunity to tell you the meaning of different colors.”
”Okay.” Klein moved his fingers back and forth, intently scrutinizing the bit of fiery red.
Old Neil thought for a moment and said:
”To put it simply, the mainstream field of occultism divides the non-corporeal part of every human being into four layers, with the very core called the ‘spiritual body’, which is the most fundamental spirituality of every human being, and the animist school of thought believes that all living things have a spirituality and a spiritual body.”
”I’m not sure about anything else, but for the secret peepers, the purpose of meditation, the way to enhance their power, all point to the ‘spiritual body’.”
”Beyond the ‘spiritual body’ is the ‘astral-spiritual body’, which is the former’s way of communicating with the spiritual realm and with the stars, belongs to the former’s external manifestation, and is directly related to your own will and current emotions …… The sight you saw after taking the magic potion is the picture of what the ‘astral spirit body’ sees when it wanders into the spirit world, where the rules of the material world are not observed, and where the transcendent ‘I’, the infinite ‘I’, the ‘I’ of the universe, where past, present and future may overlap, which is the root of divination.”
”In the spirit world, what you see is just imagery, just symbols that must be interpreted to figure out exactly what it means.”
”Divination, and many other magics, are cast through the ‘astral-spiritual body’.”
”The relationship and difference between it and the ‘spiritual body’ must not be mistaken.”
One is the body, the other is the use well …… Klein continued to look at the aura at his fingertips and succinctly summarized.
”Further out, is the ‘mind body’, from here onwards, with the physical body has a combination …… It involves the mind, belongs to your reasoning ability, thinking ability, insight ability and the ability to recognize things in a comprehensive presentation, some magic potions mainly is to enhance this, and quite a few magic spells are targeting it as well.”
Old Neil explained in considerable detail, “The outermost layer is the ‘Etheric Body’, which is a manifestation of your life energy and physical state.”
”The color of the aura you see is an outward symbol of the ‘etheric body’, which means that in addition to directly seeing some spirits, ghosts and grudges with your psychic vision, heck, maybe including certain existences that shouldn’t be seen, you can also see other people’s ‘etheric body ‘, or aura, thus judging the other person’s health and emotional state through its different thickness, brightness, and color.”
”When your spiritual vision improves and you have more knowledge of the occult, you can also discover even more details, and be able to use this to judge the length of the other person’s lifespan.”
”Yes, I just said emotional state, because the ‘astral spirit body’ will also have a bit of external presentation. When your sequence becomes higher and your spiritual vision reaches a rather strong stage, and you can even see the other party’s ‘Astral Spirit Body’, then you can know more, which belongs to the category of similar ‘soothsayers’ and ‘secret peepers ‘ Extraordinary people can only reach that level.”
”Certain guys even claim that the strongest state of Spiritual Vision can see anything anywhere, including the past and the future, but I’m not too convinced.”
It sounds impressive …… Klein was on the verge of developing a feeling of longing.
Old Neil coughed and continued:
”Let’s go back to the colors of the ‘etheric body’ or aura, where your hands and feet and other areas involved in movement will appear red, your head and brain surfaces will appear purple, the location of excretion and detoxification will appear orange, the counterpart of the digestive system will appear yellow, outside of the heart and regulating system it will appear green, the throat and parts of the nervous system will appear blue, and overall balance will blanket the body in white …… These are the symbols of health.”
”Once they become dull, or thin in thickness and change in color, it means that the corresponding parts are in trouble, in a state of exhaustion or illness.”
”In addition, the corresponding colors of the astral-spiritual body in the inner layer indicate current emotions; red is enthusiastic and exuberant, orange is warm and contented, yellow is happy and extroverted, green is calm and peaceful, blue is calm and in the midst of reflection, white is bright and positive, dark is melancholic, sad and silent, and purple indicates that the spirituality is dominant and cold and detached… …”
Klein memorized silently, stabilizing his initial psychic vision.
”Alright, you can look at other things now.” Old Neil said without further ado, nodding his head.
Klein slowly turned his head and looked at Old Neil, and sure enough, he noticed that he had auras of different colors, either thick or thin, with the purple of his head being the brightest, the red of his hands and feet being relatively dull, and his overall white color being somewhat lighter.
Surely it is getting older? …… Klein murmured to himself silently.
Until this time, seeing these, he really had the feeling that he had become an “extraordinary person”!
”I’m the ‘Extraordinary One’ now!”
He shifted his gaze and carefully looked at Old Neil, but suddenly, he saw a pair of eyelashless, cold, indifferent, and transparent eyes in the void behind him!
These almost unreal eyes were silently watching Old Neil, watching himself!
This …… Klein shivered, opened his mouth, and blurted out:
”There are eyes behind you!”
Old Neil froze for a moment, then squeezed out a smile and said:
”Don’t mind it.”