Ok now I have to spend a week thinking about what's most important to me with regards to magic; before thinking my intuition says it's to steer away from anything that makes it science, it's acausal & paracausal, and I want to lean as far back into the history of 'magic' as I can
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Animisim is good, but so is ritualism
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ritualism comes from animism; you want to come correct when you're asking the wind for a favor
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In one form yes but you might also be asking for paracausal intervention from outside causality (dank demon summoning)
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(Though I do agree even that is rooted in animism at its core)
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Especially since I think our belief sysyems originated when we applied our human subjective internal state simulator we evolved as social apes to volcanoes and the sky ("oh. Volcano ANGRY.")
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and anything else that demonstrates kinesis on its own
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the basis of magic in http://lostsouls.org , on the other hand, is the idea that the underlying structure of reality is programmable, mostly by apophenia sufficiently intense as to qualify as a psychotic break sustained and systematized for years
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell is good for this and one of the few major recent things that is, actually working meaningfully in a context where magic is paid for not in spell points but in obligation
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