Scouting

 
"Magical Scouting is the indian scouting technique with an added benefit of magic to aid the scout. Start by reading the book called "The way of the scout by Tom Brown Jr." The points to pick up from it are: Move silently, Use the spirit-that-goes-through-everything, Scouting of the area and know your surroundings, how to lay traps, and know how to blend in. What I added was: use the spirit to command people, items, and moments by will alone. The laying of magical traps. Mastery of all equipment and spells you are going to use. Long range viewing and manipulation. Finally, magical disguise.

Moving silently starts by a person wanting not to be seen. Walk on the balls of your feet and make no noise. Imagine a gray wall surrounding you at all times. Make things happen by imagining them and focusing through the spirit-that-goes-through-everything. These events imagined must be anticlimatic to yourself and never pointing towards you. Use of imagination is a very nice thing.

To use the spiorit-that-goes-through-everything one must be willing to commune with spirits. Just because you don't know about it doesn't mean it's not there. So believe and imagine the words that are being said. Notice everything around you being aware of an answer that could come through by any means. Be aware that asking the spirits will get an answer, but a price is always there. You lose your luck by asking for alot of money. There could be some disaster that you to never use the item that was of your desire. The higher the communal asking means the more the price.

When Scouting the area one is seeing the area in some form. Take for example this quote "know the way of the land by observing its patterns." When the pattern is clear, you can move on to the next plausible step of the scout.

  The laying of traps is an old art where thieves would intentionally decapitate the victim to protect his territory. Scouts take this to disarm, small acts of terrorism, and momentary lessons. All to teach those bad guys a small lesson to drive them away. When trying to scout the land, observe the flow and patterns of the area. There are loopholes that people can take advantage of. Notice where the crooks paths take them. There is there flow. Place traps unnoticeably into that flow where it doesn't interfere with other people. This is the scouts way of trap laying. They lay the traps according to the flow of the criminal. 

To blend in, place yourself where you most likely will not be seen. Do this according to the lay of the land and the flow of life. The book says that a pizza place throws out old pizza after the restaurant closes. Take some of it as it will be wrapped in its separate bag. It will be unnoticed and you would have blended in. Notice that people have blind spots. They will do something and expect an answer in some way. The obvious thing is to say the unexpected and notice them ignore you. Intentionally be out of place and unnoticed. Watch what people are doing, when people really get in to something they will ignore everything else that is not associated with. This called blending in.

To use the spirits to command everything around you is the same as asking the spirits to be your will and imagine event you want. Think to the spirits "I accept the results of the actions I imagined. Make them happen!" This is important because if you accept them and you don't get away with them, then your guilt will consume you. By acceptance by saying mentally "I accept" is to accept the actions you imagined as real and happening with no guilt. An example: to make someone say exactly what you want when you need it the most. Imagine the conversation as you would want it to happen and will through the spirits for that occurance to happen. Now think "I accept" to actually make it happen. Watch with amazement what occurs next. This is undetectable. To make it useful, use instinctual fast thoughts through practice of this skill.

The laying of magical traps is fairly simple. Imagine a flow of energy that is yours to use at your will. Wield it to represent the force you want by playing with it in your mind. When it works, you will feel the flow of it tingle through your fingers. Imagine the action you want it to occur. Like: A fireball that just happens to make an appearance when the crook passes by and consumes the crook by stumbling near it or comes near that spot. Now imagine it resetting itself. Think to the spirits in a commanding voice of mind "I accept the results, my conscious is clear, make it happen now!" Do not test some results yourself! You do not want to get fried by a fireball trap. Great ideas for traps are all through this document.

Mastery of all equipment and spells you are going to use is a straightforward idea. Before you do anything, practice, practice, practice. At first one doesn't succeed, but practice makes perfect. Do the practice at night. For spells you will get the best ideal results.

Long range viewing is to focus the mind and let yourself float upon the wind, keep a gray wall around you. When the wind is enough, let yourself go where you think yourself. You will appear in the area, yet not seen and hearing all with vision of what is happening. This isn't limited to any particular time as you can go anywhere. Feel yourself slip back into your body then release the gray wall and then things done to it during the time, will be undone. No aging will happen, yet while away you can tell people what to do and they will take it like your a ghost. Thus you manipulate the person till they stop listening or you decide to not manipulate, yet don't play god as in you are the event creator. For wrongful things go back to the person if karmatically wrong.

Magical Disguise is called illusions and shape shifting. Place the appropriate illusions at the points where someone will notice and then do the action. They will never suspect one who can shapeshift. 80% of the time when a person tries to identify a person, they do it by facial expression, scars, eyes, and shape. To blur in a small way by changing the face through shapeshift will make your distinction unrecognizable. To shift the form will be to make the person who looks for things to miss you. To do illusion is to make something non-obvious. It is explained in the illusion magic section of this document. To do shapeshifting, Imagine the form as you would have it. Imagine your form shifting to the form you would want. Mentally say the words "I accept" and the form of yourself will change. Another way is to cast a wild magic spell. Call this spell "shift". Cast it 5 days in advance by saying out loud "I will through myself the ability to shift at any time by act of wild magic to save my life from any trouble." Now pause and say "Let someone else be blamed for my actions in this ruse." Pause again and say "When I say the word or think the word "shift" I will have used my ability of shifting to shift my form." Pause and finally say "I will this to be done!" What will happen is that your form will be the same, but the body will feel cold to the touch and you will feel clammy. In a situation of scouting, you will appear like them enough to walk right through their lines without being noticed. Important notes: even in normal scouting, try to look like you belong there. If you say nothing, then you'll never be noticed. This is useful in a city where you can't hide by bush. Use the Flow of the pattern of life to good effect.