XPost: alt.religion.wicca, alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.magick
From: shez@oldcity.f2s.com
In article , Tom
writes
>
>"Peter J Ross" wrote in message
>news:slrnd2ch3l.43r.gadfly@nntp.petitmorte.net...
>> On Wednesday 02 March, Aunty Kreist wrote in rec.arts.poems:
>>
>> > There are also many types of martial arts that manipulate and control
>either
>> > the body's energies, or the energies around them.
>>
>> WTF are "energies", and how they be measured in a laboratory where the
>> "energised" person's sleeves are checked for hidden Aces?
>
>In my experience talking to occultists and newagers, the term "energy" is
>usually equivalent to "feelings".
>
>Emotions are "energy". A feeling of warmth is "energy". A tingling
>sensation is "energy". A feeling that things are going well or badly is
>"energy". Even a memory or an imagining of a feeling is "energy".
>
>Of course, they tend to get confused about what is an interior feeling and
>what is a perception of an external force, which makes it difficult for them
>to express themselves very clearly about this.
>
>> 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?
>
>We don't all have the capacity to conceptualize reality in that much detail.
>Those with less ability or different motivation settle for less precise
>explanations.
>
>I don't think that these occultists and newagers are completely wrong. It's
>just that their explanations are not as precise as those of scientists.
>
>See Asimov's wonderful essay "The Relativity of Wrong".
>
>
And his wonderful short story Magick inc.
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