*kiss* I will be your first visitor I promise!
Marie
Robin Faichney wrote:
> In message <19980224121129.AAA28380@[204.96.32.206]>, Wade T.Smith
> <wade_smith@harvard.edu> writes
> >Well, this was from alt.magick- I am a bit ignorant of what magick is,
> >naturally...
> >_____________________
> >
> >Ripples in Cyberspace... Introduction to the Psychosphere by Philip H.
> >Farber
> >
> >...(Any "change in conformity with
> >Will" will affect the Psychosphere just as any other action, as in #1,
> >#2, and #3.)
>
> According to one definition, magick is "change in
> conformity with Will". This covers not only such
> as psychokinesis (sp?), but also the way my
> fingers are moving right now, to type this in.
> Which makes sense, when you think about it: this
> is precisely the mind/body problem: how come my
> willing it so makes my fingers move? Or if you
> like, how does my will make impulses travel down
> the nerves in my neck, sholders, arms and hands.
> Or, slightly further back, how does my will
> affect my brain so as to cause the appropriate
> motor neurons to fire? Science as of right now
> has no better answer to that, than it does to
> explain how psychokinesis would work (if it did).
> They're equally mysterious. They're both magick.
> Except, if you don't believe psychokinesis ever
> actually happens, the difference is that typing
> is *real* magick.
>
> --
> Robin
> (Synthesis website and email list Real Soon Now!!!)
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