From:	Nexx <nexx@********.NET>
Subject:	Re: Mana Cycles ? Merlin (the NBC movie)
Date:	Sun, 3 May 1998 21:38:24 -0500

----------
> From: Alfredo B Alves <dghost@****.COM>
> I
> '
> l
> l
>
> i
> n
> c
> l
> u
> d
> e
>
> s
> o
> m
> e
>
> s
> p
> o
> i
> l
> e
> r
>
> s
> p
> a
> c
> e
> :)
>
> Here's the idea: what if the mana cycles were induced/fluctuated by our
> belief in magic? I think this is a neat idea and would mean that the
> current mana spike wasn't caused by the Great Ghost Dance but rather by
> how quickly information spread about it... this will probably mean that
> it will be alot less unlikely that a mana downswing will occur (but not
> impossible) So what started the return of magic? The new agers with
> there beliefs in power pyramids/crystals, the tarot, etcetera. Oh well
> tell me what ya think :)

Interesting theory... Personally, however, I don't think its plausible.
If it was true, why would a magical world ever end? People would believe
in magic during the Fourth and at the end of the Sixth, so the magic
wouldn't die.
Before you point to Merlin as an example, I would remind you that he had
powerful magic even at the end of movie (instantaneously youthening 2
people from senility to prime of life...), when no one believed but him.