From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Tue 28 Jun 1994 - 10:24:16 EEST
In Paul's piece on Toe Chopping, he wrote:
> I am not sure about the Easterners; instead of entering the Otherworld
> they may just gradually realize the unity of things - this world may
> _be_ their Otherworld. Not sure, leave them out for now.
> So, who are the people with a presence on the Other Side?
Add: Mystics (including the Draconic, Kralori and Illuminated varieties).
> The shaman jumps into the pool of water.
The mystic says, "What pool?" Or perhaps the mystic is a fish, or water.
He does not "jump into" anything: he becomes a part of it, and it of him.
> The priestess cautious sticks her toe in, with a lifeguard handy.
> The sorcerer cuts off his toe and throws it in the pool - "That's not
> me, it's something else that I can reach into the Otherworld with"
> Things that were once part of you are always part of you, in a magical
> world.
And so the Kralori strive to eliminate the self? Different, less limited kinds of magic would become possible for the one who Is Not. You have no "handles" any more: the world cannot affect you, because you are not part of it. Or, perhaps, because you *are* it. (Not a part: the whole). (The whole which is the hole: as all is nothing).
Does this work for you? Or does it need more Taoism? You might be able to squeeze out some more detail from examining Cults of Terror cosmology and the Path of Illumination writeup. I think it's fair to lump those three "types" of mystics together: there are distinct similarities. (UnGodLearn- able, for a start).
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