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- Subject: Types of Magic
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- From: drake+@cs.cmu.edu (Drake)
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:47:50 GMT
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- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
- Keywords: Vitalist, Mentalist, Mix of ?ists, my Definition of Magic(k)
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- hz225wu@unidui.UUCP (Micaela "Stayka" Pantke) writes:
-
- >D> I'm not sure I understand the difference between life-force and mental
- >D> energy. Could you give a few examples?
- >
- >In my humble opinion life-force would be energy which is drawn to you
- >from other living things, be they animals, plants or men, be it given
- >willingly or unwillingly. (Which would give my idea of 'black magick':
- >anything taken from or forced on unwilling participants, be they plants,
- >animals, men or whatever). Mental energy would be energy contained
- >within yourself, or raised energy from one of the formerly named sources
- >which you incorporated for your own use and by that transformed to
- >mental energy.
-
- But would not life-force to you be someone else's mental energy?
-
- And you don't necessarily indicate what you think of 'black magick;'
- do you think it's a "bad" thing, or just a different way to operate
- that is sometimes required?
-
- So let me see if I understand what you're saying: Your mental energy
- is your own personal life-force. Someone else's mental energy can
- be accessed by you as life-force (kinda like using a pointer?), and
- someone else can access your own mental energy as life-force. Is
- that about it, or am I missing something?
-
- >(No sources existing, those are just my own thoughts...)
-
- Same.
-
- >D> However, I think that in discussions like this, there cannot be one
- >D> "true and right way" to differentiate types of magic.
- >
- >How true! Please note that I also only state MY OPINION, derived from
- >MY OWN EXPERIENCES.
-
- I hope to learn from what you have expereienced, as I hope that you can
- learn from me.
-
- >D> What do you mean by magic?
- >
- >I want to answer that question my way -- IN MY OPINION magic(k) is
- >something that science can't explain rationally AT THE MOMENT, and
- >something that moves something in the senses of the magic(k) worker and
- >co-workers, or in the senses of others sensitive to those phenomenons.
-
- OK, I can partially agree.
-
- >I deliberately used lots of expressions that could say everything or
- >nothing, because I would not want to limit an open word like magic(k)
- >by the confinements of our language(s).
-
- I think our langauge is an important tool for use in magic.
-
- Thank you for your input. I look forward to continuing this discussion
- with you.
-
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