XPost: alt.religion.wicca, alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.magick   
   From: dmh7@skypoint.com   
      
   Peter J Ross wrote:   
      
   >   
   > I can't speak authoritatively for Dale, but I don't think you'll   
   > persuade him by citing Eastern superstitions any more than by citing   
   > Western ones.   
      
   Certainly not. In fact, the very tendency to run to the East in a search   
   for authenticity is a sign of flat-out cognitive bankruptcy.   
      
      
   >   
   > But it's still a ridiculous superstition. Why can't people pay   
   > attention to the real world around them instead of having to invent   
   > tedious "energies" and such stuff? Is reality really too hard for the   
   > human mind to accept?   
   >   
      
   I think the only positive aspect to such "elastic thinking" is that its   
   very liquidity is sometimes (not often) supportive of better thoughts.   
   One can be too land-locked in rationalism, but should be careful to take   
     along the brain when swimming too far out into the Magic Ocean.   
      
   dmh   
      
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