| From: | Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: RM Tarot Mage in SR |
| Date: | Thu, 14 May 1998 04:07:57 -0400 |
>At 18:15 5/13/98 EDT, Ereskanti insinuated:
>>I am going to answer this for Steve, but not directly. THIS TOPIC got
way out
>>of hand as I recall a year or so ago. There are many beliefs running
around,
>>that much is certain.
Easy there Keith. I was near ground-zero at the very first magic vs.
magick debate this list had. I have no intentions of repeating that less
than enjoyable experience. I know there are people out there that believe
magick really exists and that they have "cast spells" for lack of a better
term. Then there are those, such as myself, that don't really believe
magic exists, let alone alien abductions.
But I'm a self-described gnostic, so I'm open to the possibility. To each
their own.
<snipped Max's many thoughtful sentences>
I know a bit about magic from anthropology and various differnet books and
films and documentaries. I'm a strong skeptic about it being "real"
though, so that's my personal bias, which certainly colors how I understand
that information.
I saw Steve's Many Masks of Magic within days of him posting it up on the
Internet and AOL. Good treatise and I never figured out why it never made
it into Awakenings.
But having had discussions with Steve over the past several years about
magic, I'm continually amazed about how much he knows about it, from SR
magic to "real" magic(k).
I'm just curious, and I suspect the list is also somewhat curious, to know
how it is that he knows so much. Did he study anthropology? Did he start
with Ars Magica like Max did and go from there? Is he Wiccan? Simple
curiosity. Not much more than that.
Erik J.
"Ladies & Gentleman, the newest member of the band, the one and only Spice
Boy, GRUMPY SPICE!!!" <and the crowd goes wild!!!>
