Perspective Shift

History: The United Psionics Club

The United Psionics Club (UPC) was one of the Online Energy Communities popular websites. However, many people don't truly know how it came to be. After looking over various different assumed histories from former members, I realize that the need for a little more information on the site, what happened, what will happen, etc... Is pretty much a necessity and owed to the members.

UPC was not an over night creation by any means and the popular website most knew actually came into existence by a series of many smaller and less popular websites that were created some time before. Around the year 2003, Float began to become a regular at various Psionics based websites, more notable was his presence at PsiPog, which in turn created a reputation and life of it's own through widespread videos demonstrating acts of Psychokinesis. The work ethic, and pursuit of understanding and progression in this field is what commonly earned him either the respect of those who came before, or the suspicions of those individuals who felt for whatever reason that something was out of touch...

Three videos were released to PsiPog from Float, two of which were combined into one video, demonstrating the movement and manipulation of a toothpick. The second is probably one of the most disputed videos in the OEC, that of the manipulation of a quarter inside a glass. The video was actually crated as a favor and because requested, little do most know. With some searching it is plain to see that the most popular of Floats videos, were not all of the videos that were created. Several videos were released on various other websites.

Other videos were also created for means of experimentation that were kept completely private. Several videos depicting the "charging" of metallic objects were sent to individuals like Sean (aka Peebrain) of PsiPog.net. So the range and quantity of videos most knew, was actually much larger.

Due to his notability for Psychokinesis Media, and the ever so obvious urge for beginners and regulars alike to see new, updated, and continued videos and images of psychokinetic events, Float, with the help of AggSk8r (aka FireEye), and PsiLizard (aka Lizard), created a website known as Psi-Media around the year 2004. The website was created for the primary reason of listing videos, images, and games that made the cut. At that time Stony's site, PsiOnline (was primarily geared towards energy manipulation) as well as Floats site, Psi-Media (was primarily geared towards psychokinesis), seemed to be extremely focused branch websites to PsiPog, as many of the members that went to both, were regulars at psipog.

Around the time of 2004-2005 Float began to slowly get over a sort of block in the road, and he had begun heavily experimenting with the levitation of various objects. Several pretty in depth conversations about the matter were held with most of the regular members at PsiPog. It was one discussion with DagoRed which actually led Float to continue pursuing levitation. Different theories and ideas were tossed around the air, until Dago made a suggestion about a possible way to attempt to do it. The idea sparked similar ideas in Float, and they came up with, not a method, but a form of application of the skill that one already possessed.

Various videos were created during the practice, portraying the tilting of psiwheels on multiple sides, the "lifting" of one side of an L folded paper, to result in the paper falling over, etc... The practice continued for a few weeks until finally Float decided that he would go for something a little bigger. While sitting in the chat room at PsiPog, Float was engaging in a conversation about how he was attempting, with no real expectations, to make a nickel stand on it's side. After somewhat attaining success, excitement was shown for a lot of people, because what everyone had been working so hard to achieve, now had accomplished.

Later a video demonstrating the same thing, only with a quarter, was made. The video was created to show a few people, and in the video you see minimal results. The quarter briefly on separate occasions wobbles off of all sides in a seemingly jumping type fashion. No other videos demonstrating this were released.

After Sean had reviewed the video he quickly asked Float for the permission to put it on the website. No choices were made at that time, however a day later the choice was made, granting Sean to publish the video most already knew would create large streams of controversy. The e-mails, forum messages, chat room private messages, etc... began flooding in from all sides, those congratulating, and those questioning.

At this point the buzz in the video was at a high, and PsiMedia was no longer one of Floats interests. He decided that he should expand the website to also make room for articles and a more community friendly environment. The final choice to expand the website was made late 2005. Originally the idea was to just create another website and divert former traffic to the new page, and wait as the website grew. However, it took very little effort to notice the smaller communities that were springing up all over the place, as everyone seemed to want to run one. The idea grew from there that they should scoop up a smaller community or two to come along for the ride, granting former administrators moderation position, and their moderators, for the most part, would just be out of a job.

PsiLight was a semi-popular website around the general time frame in which Float had made this decision. It was run by SuperNaturalGuy (aka Goober) at the time. It had a somewhat professional layout, not so serious forum, and not very much content, but it showed intrigue and commitment to practice. Float decided that because the community was not very large, they should consider coming with the now deceased PsiMedia and creating another website to expand the horizons of both sides, gain more content, and be able to effectively do what they had all originally set out to do.

After few meetings with the main moderators and administrators of the two communities the idea was finalized. Constant brainstorming of the website was done, and the Idea to name UPC, well, UPC, was Floats. However, the original name was not suppose to be the United Psionics Club, it was originally deemed as the Unified Psionics Community, however the slight name variations changed slightly to get a better feel, and the debate between club and community was never fully solved as we all enjoyed both terms, but in the creation of the new website, SuperNaturalGuy put "Club" in the title, and it just stuck. Which was fine considering no real choices were made and everyone was happy either way it went.

The website maintained this state for some time.

Float and SNG were co-administrators, and SNG was the lead programmer for the site, more like only programmer for the site. It was his original coding that the website used, and no one was really interested in manipulating that. Some months past as the website was still in re-development, as it originally just kept the original PsiLight layout. It was a short while before the new and updated website came out, new articles were put up, better forums, new chat, and the website was off to a good start.

Some time later there was an issue, a controversy erupted causing SuperNaturalGuy to leave the website for preservation of his reputation. What had happened, Float informed the community, but after about a day he removed all information regarding the event for the sake of SuperNaturaGguy, and for that same sake anymore information about the event will not be given here.

At this point the website was left without a lead programmer. Luckily, a regular and an individual Float knew for awhile, Vitamyst, was up to the task. Float granted Vitamyst administrative rights and he quickly took on the responsibilities granted to him. Some months past and the website was slowly gaining momentum. Around '06 JoeT, a former psipog regular returned to the scene. He remained a regular to PsiPog for some time before creating his own website that was essentially a Parapsychological based Forum, incorporating both scientific and rough psionic information. Around the time this website was put up, Sean decided it was time to branch out and pursue other things, and thus put the community ties to PsiPog to rest, archiving the site.

This was a blow to many of the newer members who felt the strong urge to be part of a community, and so many of the members fled to websites like the Psion Guild, Veritas, Psi Palatium, Psionic Social Club, etc... And of course UPC. At this point in time UPC had a massive surge in new members, so much so that Float decided it would benefit the community to expand it a little more.

He ran across JoeT at some point during that pondering and they began chatting it up. At this point the topic of collaboration was brought up, as Joes site was still currently just forum based, and Floats was lacking in some vital content, they teamed up. Joe came along bringing some moderators, none of which received immediate moderation positions, and Joe became UPC's Fourth administrator. Around the same time, the now Goober (SuperNaturalGuy) strolled back into the site, and with his return a new layout was quickly put into the works and completed, new content was put up, and the forum and community it self grew in both notoriety and content.

A good run was had, and a lot of concentration on advancement, debates, etc... took place at the chat. An "Advanced" section of the website many do not know about was erected around the same time. This housed articles pertaining to subjects like Telepathic Suggestion and the like. The members who had access were those who presented themselves in an intelligent and mature manor, however, some who had access weren't exactly the most mature. In any event, this section did not last too long before many of it's content was places back into the general circulation of articles.

At this point the community was doing good, with content and new members added and joining daily. However, it wasn't exactly a happy story from here on out. Float encountered many personal family related issues causing him to go missing from time to time. Some phone conversations were had while Float was away, but in general this happened several times. Float was moving around, his access to the Internet was brought down to about two days a week, if that, and it was just a hard time in general to get much done, as no one really wanted to make significant changes to the website without going to him first. The administrators, especially JoeT took control of the website to the best of his ability, which of course had many members happy and some not so happy. But either way it goes, the community was hanging on and still thriving.

Floats on and off time for the website continued from the year of '07, to the summer of '07, at which point Float was highly active in the community again. New content was put out and the community as a whole was doing pretty well. At this point, however, Float was also more so concentrating on his pursuit of other areas, as he had always been interested in, but it became more of a priority at this point. Psionics was always included, based on the typical use of the word, however, more intrigue on the scientific portion, general metaphysics, and spiritual pursuit was far more important than simply focusing on strict psionics.

This did not affect the UPC community at the time though, however. Float had ambitions of once again expanding the website to broaden the horizons of the members, to allow them to think and not be so judgemental of the many areas that were not even discussed on the site. Some members were not exactly happy about this, others encouraged it. However the knowledge of how to do this exactly was kind of wary. Float brought some other individuals around the site who would help with incorporating other areas of interest, as Float himself wrote articles.

This need for advancement and expansion of the website unfortunately never took place, though, as Float was struck with a lot of different responsibilities around the fall of '07. His former plans did not go exactly as expected in his "real life" and he was forced to spend what extra time he had, on other things. When he did have free time, the need to get online, to a community he knew was simply turning into a run of the mill psionics site, grew faint. He was unable to access the chat room due to network issues, and the instances when community members reached out to Float unfortunately were all received late, and when they were received the thought of allowing the community Float no longer believed was benefiting anyone, to the extent that they couldn't receive that same benefit on one of the other larger communities, simply was not present.

Many hours of contemplation was put into the site when Float had time to think it over, but the thought of resurrecting the community was simply not a priority, at least, not in the same form it was in before. Around late May '08 to Mid June '08 Float returned to the OEC, visiting chat rooms under his common alias, and under forums as a different one, as to be able to express himself without having members regard him as "Float," who many people held assumptions about what his practice incorporated, and what his time primarily went into. He simply did not want those former name based associations to go along with the experiences, and advice, if any, that may have been given.

Upon this return he contemplated bringing UPC back up, but changing it and incorporating more things as he planned before. However, unfortunately the entire site was removed from the server, so all the information was lost, including the member database and the articles.

At this point in time the site is no longer around, and UPC as it was known before is resting in peace, and will no longer be resurrected. A new site may take it's place, but not in the immediate future. At this point it's more important for me to continue to focus on my own advancement, so that I can continue to be in a better position to help those individuals interested. Many thanks goes out to all of the regular members, many of whom I cannot remember at the time of jotting this small history up. I apologize for those individuals who feel as though I did not fully incorporate their individual works put in to maintaining the site, however know that I am truly grateful for the years UPC was around and all the work and commitment many people put into it. From advertising, writing articles, media, to regular forum and chat members doing their part to ensure an educated community.

UPC was filled with many kindhearted people dedicated to the advancement of parapsychological research, and housed members from all different beliefs, practices, and experience. It was an amazing place to be, however, like many communities it also had it's fair share of community politics that I am not happy about. Many of the former admins have all been focusing on their other priorities in life, but many have also stuck with their practice, whereas others have since "retired," due to time constraints. The community would have been nothing without the members and admins/moderators who stuck by it. There were ups and downs, arguments and disagreements, but in the end it was one very large, very dysfunctional, very dedicated and motivated family, and anyone who had the opportunity to be a part of it will understand that it will be missed, but it served it's purpose.

There are many smaller communities that have since been brought up and many of the larger ones have just continued to grow. As for the future of UPC, or, rather, what will become? What will stand in it's place? For now we'll just have to wait and see what happens, but either way it goes, I'm sure it can only be better than what was known before. So to all of you former members out there reading this, forgive me for any details I might have missed over, but I hope this cleared up the assumptions, and some shady areas you might have had, about myself, and the community. Once again, I apologize for anything I may have missed over or not gone into enough, if there is something specific you would like added, you may leave a comment that can either act as an update to this history, or I will add it to it.

Thank you everyone who has been there and gone through the wonderful ride we called the United Psionics Club.

Take Care,

~Chris aka Float