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- From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: More Definitions of Magic
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 18:12:51 GMT
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- I once read a good definition of magick in a book called (I think)
- _Alternative Realities_ by (I think) Lawrence Leshan. (It's been six
- or more years since I read it, so someone please correct me if they
- know what I'm talking about.) He said there are four basic realities:
- one in which everything is seperate (western materialistic reality), one
- in which everything is connected (Nirvana, or eastern spiritual reality),
- one in which things are seperate but all connected to an over-being (western
- spiritual reality, or one in which it is possible to experience telepathy
- or to pray for someone else) and one in which some things are connected
- if one can build a connection between them. This last reality is the one
- where children play -- "you're the mommy and I'm the daddy and this doll
- is our baby." It's also the reality where magick exists, because once
- you create a connection between two objects you can manipulate the one
- object as if it were another one. The author said all four realities are
- real, and most people spend some time in all of them. It seemed like a
- good way of organizing things.
-
- Dawn
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- Joseph Campbell gave me hope and now I have been saved.
- "Folk Song" by Bongwater
-