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   From: shez@oldcity.f2s.com   
      
   In article <38pbtvF5ql0eqU1@individual.net>, Jani    
   writes   
   >   
   >"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   
   >   
   >   
   Oh so it was, that will teach me, I have been re-reading the   
   Caves of steel series... after that terrible movie they made...   
   I don't know why I mix up Heinlein and Assimove... I should know better.   
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