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Message no. 1
From: Jai Tao <jdfalk@****.CAIS.COM>
Subject: PSI: Science/Mysticism
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 20:17:44 -0400
On Thu, 14 Jul 1994, Chris Lubrecht wrote:

> Interesting side note: are ther two types of Psi's? One scientific(brain
> power types), and one humanistic (zen, Tao types). I quess the differece
> is in one knowing the how and why and the other knowing it just is.

Yeah, I'd agree with that last sentence. For role-playing value
only, I think the scientific types would be able to refine and control
their abilities more, while the "mystics" (I prefer the iced tea myself)
would have more gross power.
But it would be too complicated to try to show this in the
mechanics; we don't want to overwhelm people. This would be very
interesting to put in the history, of course -- perhaps a clip from some
article talking about how surprised the MIT&T scientific community was
when a bunch of monks from Tibet suddenly appeared on their doorstep with
all the answers! (And when I say appeared, I _mean_ appeared...!)

/-----------------\
| J.D. Falk | "We're not mental or anything, so
| jdfalk@****.com | don't be afraid."
\-----------------/ -Mike Meyers as Wayne Campbell
Message no. 2
From: Chris Lubrecht <lubrecht@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: PSI: Science/Mysticism
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 10:38:17 -0400
On Thu, 14 Jul 1994, Jai Tao wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jul 1994, Chris Lubrecht wrote:
>
> > Interesting side note: are ther two types of Psi's? One scientific(brain
> > power types), and one humanistic (zen, Tao types). I quess the differece
> > is in one knowing the how and why and the other knowing it just is.
>
> Yeah, I'd agree with that last sentence. For role-playing value
> only, I think the scientific types would be able to refine and control
> their abilities more, while the "mystics" (I prefer the iced tea myself)
> would have more gross power.
> But it would be too complicated to try to show this in the
> mechanics; we don't want to overwhelm people.

I disagree. Like I said earlier it would be like a totem-shaman thing.

Nigel

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