Charles W. Cosimano

PREFACE

There is a problem with this type of book and it is not one which you would expect. I have
no doubt that it is going to get me into a lot of trouble with many people, some of whom
have opinions which I actually respect. That is not the difficulty. Nor, as you will learn in
the second chapter, am I a man to be intimidated by other peoples' ethics. No, I fear that
the real problem lies in deciding how much material from my other books to include in this
one and I fear that it has proven to be quite a lot.

Please allow for an explanation. My original publisher, Carl Weschke at Llewellyn, in
asking for this book, described the audience for Psionics as being divided between what
he termed the Healers and the Warriors. Being a profound warrior myself, with the scars
to prove it, I assumed that all my readers were as enamored of psychic combat as I am
and thus my work Psionic Power was intended to have a chapter on the subject.

My publisher, undoubtedly visualizing a lynch mob of outraged Healers pursuing us with torches and garden tools, suggested that I transform that chapter into what is this present volume, aimed at a new group of readers.

Then he read it and his beard almost fell out. He was not quite expecting what he got and

pretty soon this work was back on the market.

It being likely that these new readers will not have seen my earlier works, I have included
the basic methods covered in them, not to fill up space, but to enable those readers to
build and work the equipment that they will need to survive in the brave new world of
psychic warfare

But I have not forgotten my old friends as well. While many of the methods and devices will be familiar, there is much that will be new and they should not feel cheated at being given a review of what they already know but might not have practiced for a while.

So start reading and as you work through the material in this volume, keep in mind the

advice given by General Patton to his troops: "Do not take counsel of your fears."

One other thing. It is not always easy to work alone, but with a few exceptions noted in
the text, Psionic warfare is a lone business. Very rarely will others be involved in your
work and these, for reasons which should be obvious even to the most foolish, will
generally not be allowed to know the full reasons for your activities.

When the above was written 10 years ago I had no idea that this was going to the
beginning of my dark cycle, which has led me from being the eccentric, somewhat
reclusive researcher with a weird sense of humor to the exhalted rank of International
Terrorist. Like my other early works, this one is somewhat old now and as a result needed
some very real upgrading to bring it and its ideas and methods in line with psionics as I
practice it today. Fortunately with word processors and the internet for publishing that is
not the difficulty it had presented if I were confined to a print medium.

This book was first written in the summer of 1985, just after I had sent the manuscript of Psionics 101 to Llewellyn. I was by no means certain that that book would be published so I wrote Psionic Combat (now returned to its orginal title, Psionic Warfare) as a back-up even though marketing it would have proven even more difficult. After all, this is NOT the

sort of thing the New Agey types wanted to see, as was proven by the publication history

of the early edition.

As Psionic Combat, it was kept in print by IGAS for a goodly number of years but the time
has come for a revision and here it is. I’ve added a few things and cut out a few things to
create a whole new work with a much more aggressive emphasis, if that were indeed
possible. And for those of you who heard about the book but never wanted to spend the
ungodly amount IGAS was charging for it, here it is, the work that made my reputation as
the psionic bad guy. I’m a lot scarier now than when this was written, but at the time much
of the material in here was theory. It has since been proven in practice.

Enjoy.

Charles W. Cosimano