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From: jani@dsl.pipex.com
"Shez" wrote in message
news:frmLHSBcb2JCFw6f@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.
Hon, that was Heinlein ;)
Jani
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