From:	Gian-Paolo Musumeci <musumeci@***.LIS.UIUC.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Toxic Shaman's
Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 1995 16:55:18 -0500

> Intriguing comment, GP. What is your rational behind it. How do the magics
> differ and why? (I sound like a professor).

Well...this is speaking from personal experience, but...

I have met a lot of people who would consider themselves "magically active,"
some of them very much like hermetics (No, I don't mean "fireballs," I mean
like atheistic Wiccans) and others more like shamans (Again, I don't mean
"fireball casting people"). In discussions with these people I can see how
it seems to them that they're drawing upon very different energy sources
The hermetic sorts tend to feel that they're drawing upon a neutral, cold
energy source that is just 'out there'. The shamanic types tend to think
that the energy is based in nature, and is a vivid shifting sort of thing.

Further discussion is possible: if anyone feels offended, please accept my
apologies.

GP