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   From: arlon.staywell@worldnet.att.net   
      
   "Aunty Kreist"  wrote   
      
   > "Pertial"  wrote   
      
   >> "Rhyanon"  wrote   
      
   >>> Words aren't necessary for "spells". which is a misnomer in itself. I   
   >>> don't have the patience to dumb down the basics for you   
   >> > nimrods.   
      
   >> Could you try?   
   >>   
   >> What does the "verbal" mind do during the spell? Nothing?   
   >> Focus in the verbal mind doesn't matter?  Really?   
   >> Is it all visual?   
   >>   
   >> Can you give an example of a non-verbal spell?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> P   
      
   > Imagery. Visualization. Say, for instance, you have severe arthritis in   
   > your   
   > legs. You can visualize blue colored, healing energy enveloping your legs.   
   > You visualize the bones inside, and the swelling slowly receding. You   
   > visualize your body repairing itself. This is very dumbed down and simple,   
   > but it explains it matter of factly.   
      
        You are still using words and symbols.  You made up a new symbol, "blue   
   colored, healing energy," but it is just another symbol like a cross or the   
   word, "cross."  The association is a new one, blue glow = heal, but the   
   principle is the same.  The mind holds an image, a symbol, a word, but it is   
   "mind stuff," not real.  Even if real things, electric blue lights for   
   example, are used to enhance the mental images, essentially you are still   
   working with a symbol; a new, fancy word that is supposed to mean "heal."   
      
      
               Arlon   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)