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   From: Aunty_Kreist@satanickittens.net   
      
   "Arlon Staywell"  wrote in message   
   news:SDMVd.319588$w62.155595@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...   
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   > "Aunty Kreist"  wrote   
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   > > "Pertial"  wrote   
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   > >> "Rhyanon"  wrote   
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   > >>> 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?   
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   > >>   
   > >> P   
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   > > 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."   
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   >             Arlon   
      
      
   I understand completely where you're coming from, I think I was responding   
   to a comment about how one must be able to write and spell well though. :)   
      
   That's why they created oral traditions- the haitian Slaves and the   
   backwoods farm folk couln't read and rite. ( haha! I made a funny!)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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