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- From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: Myself and Magick
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 18:28:59 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov16.075737.23727@ncsu.edu> <tmerante.0326@weird.miami.fl.us> <JOSHUA.92Nov23000702@bailey.cpac.washington.edu>
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- In article <JOSHUA.92Nov23000702@bailey.cpac.washington.edu>, joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller) writes:
- >
- > In article <1992Nov22.192847.10167@wam.umd.edu> angelai@wam.umd.edu (Angela I.)
- > writes:
- >
- > > In article <JOSHUA.92Nov22084718@bailey.cpac.washington.edu>
- > > 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?'.
- >
- > > However, if you use the experience (memory or fantasy) to learn to get
- > > in touch with deeper or formerly hidden aspects of yourself, the
- > > "objective reality" of the experience is pretty much irrelevant.
- >
- > I don't know that this is true; it tends, at the very least, to be
- > destructive of critical thought.
-
- Not if you're aware of what you're doing. Sometimes I've thought that
- "entities" have told me things. I'm 99% certain that it's my imagination
- trying to tell me something, .05% certain that it really is whatever
- entity it claims to be, and .05% certain that it's some other external
- force teasing me. Trying to get an entity to give me some information
- that only it would know so I can test its veracity would be a complete
- waste of time. In fact, I think it would be naive and silly. The only
- thing that matters is what I was told, and did it make sense, and is it
- worth acting on. My critical thought is much better expended looking
- there. But I'm starting with the assumption that I'm talking to myself,
- and the spirit/goddess/disembodied-whatever is just an imaginative metaphor.
- I suppose if someone thought that their disembodied-whatever was a literal
- thingie then they would want to check it out more carefully.
-
- Dawn
-
- Joseph Campbell gave me hope and now I have been saved.
- "Folk Song" by Bongwater
-