| From: | Louis Barrera <lbarrera@****.NASA.GOV> |
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| Subject: | The Coming of Age |
| Date: | Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:58:35 -0700 |
>This may come as a shock to most psysics student among you, but au
>contraire to what you have been taught to believe, magic may very well
>have validity. Not that I believe in a sudden awakening of the world.
>Not that I believe in all the actual mumbo-jumbo flying around out there.
>But I do believe humanity lost something in the rage of rationality we call
>the renaissance.
>Who knows we might wake up in an awaken world one day.
I write:
This may come as a shock to you, but just because someone is a
physical science major, doesn't mean their senses are dulled and their
minds are closed. My [graduate] education never included anything
about magic, or the lack thereof. In fact, if you get right down to it, any in
depth physical theory becomes a question of (meta)physics. I don't
know what they teach where you come from.....
Science is an ATTEMPT to codify what people see occurring around
them. It is not a religion, except for a few. If the threads concerning
magick in this list aren't the exact same thing, I guess I must have been
missing something.
By the time the people become Awakened, it will be too late. The only
good outcome is that the Mana may return. Otherwise, we are headed
for a Gibson-esque future. The current level of practicing magic users
(for lack of a better, generic phrase) is hardly enough to stop the trends
displayed by Corps, the Gov't(ours included), and the people en masse.
Things are getting darker chummers. Pray for the magic.
Lou - Wisdom is the Beginning of Fear
