Post by walkerofsorrow on Feb 24, 2017 16:52:35 GMT -5
Response to “The Definition of Magic”
I assume by “the CIA has had a vested interest” you’re referring to the government’s purported experimentation on psychic phenomena? On the core values, I don’t see anything about your definition that screams wrong. I do not yet have a working method of determining what magic precisely is and is not. But I will say that it appears to involve a bit more than the psyche, at least in my experience. Have you used the four methods you stated, to determine if they work for you?
Response to “Insanity”
The definition of insanity I am far more familiar with is a state of compromised judgment and behavior that does not speak to sound reason. Or in short, foolish and irrational. I would not be surprised if many others share this point of view. And so you might see why some people would not be overly fond, as practitioners of magic, of the stance that their work is based in such irrational and foolish behavior. In psychology parlance, one forms a distinction between mental disorder and mental disease, as the former is merely “abnormal behavior or thought” and the latter is degenerative, disabling and possibly threatening the sufferer’s life. What your definition of insanity sounds like is strictly within non-disease parameters, like one could expect of a behavior disorder or High Functioning Autism.
As for the remainder of your statement, I see nothing further to add. You seem to have a strong, though perhaps somewhat slanted, view of the matter.
Response to “Touched Since Birth”
Do you have any statistics on the matter of “the rate of attrition from suicide and other self destructive tendencies” ? I would not typically ask for them in this context, but several things you have written on this matter suggest that you’ve looked into this on that level of depth.
Response to “Physical Disabilities and Death”
Similar to the above, I’m curious if you have access to brain scans that would corroborate what you say about an overloaded central nervous system. That, unlike chakras, is something that is squarely within material and testable grounds.
I assume by “the CIA has had a vested interest” you’re referring to the government’s purported experimentation on psychic phenomena? On the core values, I don’t see anything about your definition that screams wrong. I do not yet have a working method of determining what magic precisely is and is not. But I will say that it appears to involve a bit more than the psyche, at least in my experience. Have you used the four methods you stated, to determine if they work for you?
Response to “Insanity”
The definition of insanity I am far more familiar with is a state of compromised judgment and behavior that does not speak to sound reason. Or in short, foolish and irrational. I would not be surprised if many others share this point of view. And so you might see why some people would not be overly fond, as practitioners of magic, of the stance that their work is based in such irrational and foolish behavior. In psychology parlance, one forms a distinction between mental disorder and mental disease, as the former is merely “abnormal behavior or thought” and the latter is degenerative, disabling and possibly threatening the sufferer’s life. What your definition of insanity sounds like is strictly within non-disease parameters, like one could expect of a behavior disorder or High Functioning Autism.
As for the remainder of your statement, I see nothing further to add. You seem to have a strong, though perhaps somewhat slanted, view of the matter.
Response to “Touched Since Birth”
Do you have any statistics on the matter of “the rate of attrition from suicide and other self destructive tendencies” ? I would not typically ask for them in this context, but several things you have written on this matter suggest that you’ve looked into this on that level of depth.
Response to “Physical Disabilities and Death”
Similar to the above, I’m curious if you have access to brain scans that would corroborate what you say about an overloaded central nervous system. That, unlike chakras, is something that is squarely within material and testable grounds.
