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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Replying to @unormal
if you want to do pre-nerd-fantasy-technicalization magic the mindset you want to get into is animism, where every active process around you is a matter of intelligent effort and if you want to ride the wind then obviously the thing you need to do is make friends with the wind
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Replying to @unormal
ritualism comes from animism; you want to come correct when you're asking the wind for a favor
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Replying to @chaosprime
In one form yes but you might also be asking for paracausal intervention from outside causality (dank demon summoning)
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Replying to @unormal @chaosprime
(Though I do agree even that is rooted in animism at its core)
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Replying to @unormal @chaosprime
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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Replying to @unormal
and anything else that demonstrates kinesis on its own
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Replying to @unormal
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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so you get rituals that produce effects because it made sense to Pre-Socratic Ted Kaczynski that they would
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