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- From: oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: Myself and Magick
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:29:00 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.075737.23727@ncsu.edu> <tmerante.0326@weird.miami.fl.us> <JOSHUA.92Nov22084718@bailey.cpac.washington.edu> <2005@lysator.liu.se>
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- In article <2005@lysator.liu.se>, ceci@lysator.liu.se (Cecilia Henningsson) writes...
- >
- >
- >
- >>In article <tmerante.0326@weird.miami.fl.us> tmerante@weird.miami.fl.us (Tony
- >>Merante) writes:
- >>> And I am eager to meet people of the same mind. I also have
- >>> been getting into past-life regression.
- >
- >joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller) writes:
- >>the important question to ask when you get into something like this is this:
- >>'are these past lives I am regressing to actual memories of past lives, or
- >>just some interesting fantasy I am indulging in?'. [rest of article deleted]
- >
- >Is it really? Why not try to tolerate uncertainty and simply state
- >that the so called past-life regressions might be a way for some but
- >not all people to cope better with their current lives, leaving aside
- >the question of truthfulness, and emphazising the question of
- >helpfulness?
- >
- >--Ceci
-
- I think the best response is to respond with exactly what you
- think. The person chose "YOU" to tell, because they value "YOUR"
- credibility and responses. They must trust your opinion to a
- certain degree to even be asking for it, so why change it to be
- what (you think) is more palatable?
-
- If they want concurrence they'll choose another experiencer
- of past-lives. If they want objective criticism they'll ask someone
- they know to be skeptical. If they want something in-between, they'll
- ask someone who'll give a warm, fuzzy, helpful, non-threatening response.
-
- If they hear something they didn't expect to hear, and it pisses
- them off, they still might learn something.
-
- - Peggy -
-