I really like the materialist pat answer you gave because coming to magic felt like its negation to me. Missing the strings that correlate phenomena is folly; getting out of your way to insist there aren't any is madness; and we've been trained to do that to some degree.
"Show light to the creatures of the night and you hide their light; it is the light that blinds them and for them is darker than darkness."
It used to be very common to note the similarities between the insane and the shaman, between the wandering, tattered outcast and the extreme philosopher, saint or sadhu and so on. I guess it just comes down to learning to open and close the veil or having a hole punched through it but both seem to reveal the importance of ritualistic, intentional acts; it is just that one lets you work with it and the other makes you the thing being worked upon.
I've been to places with mentally ill people and some of them, honestly, seem saner in some sense than the sane.
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Date: 2022-08-20 07:59 pm (UTC)"Show light to the creatures of the night and you hide their light; it is the light that blinds them and for them is darker than darkness."
It used to be very common to note the similarities between the insane and the shaman, between the wandering, tattered outcast and the extreme philosopher, saint or sadhu and so on. I guess it just comes down to learning to open and close the veil or having a hole punched through it but both seem to reveal the importance of ritualistic, intentional acts; it is just that one lets you work with it and the other makes you the thing being worked upon.
I've been to places with mentally ill people and some of them, honestly, seem saner in some sense than the sane.