From:	Bruce gyro@********.co.za
Subject:	What the Heck is Magic, anyway?
Date:	Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:17:32 +0200

-----Original Message-----
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.carl.org>
To: shadowrn@*********.org <shadowrn@*********.org>
Date: 16 February 1999 09:48
Subject: Re: What the Heck is Magic, anyway?


>For the mere cost of a Thaum, Neil Clark wrote:
>/
>/ what they heck *is* magic, anyway? ... is it an intangible
force that
>/ most of us are dead to? is it an aspect of the universe mundanes
are tuned
>/ out to by nature? if so, how far removed is magic from the domain
of normal
>/ human (mundane) comprehension?
>
>Magic is the result of the manipulation of mana, either consciously
or
>subconsciously.

<snip example>

>The real question is, "What the heck is *mana*?"


I was taught that magick is the art and science of causing change in
conformity with will.

I guess you could look at mana as a universal "Force" or simply the
life energy of a vital biosphere.

-- BRUCE <gyro@********.co.za>

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