Flipping the viewpoint

[fuzzyjayling]

We've been focusing a lot on a sort of this-world-centric message in regards to plural magic things, and the area that we know best personally, plural systems. It's implied in the very phrasing I've used to describe it, and this community. There's a body here, and in one way or another, more than one person inside...

For some, that's exactly the right way.

I wonder, though, if I've been getting this wrong in my broader message, or perhaps neglecting an entire side of the equation. One might also say that, for people like me at least, there's an other-world and a view into or out of it. It might be a more accurate description. I haven't explored it all, but I have whole continents in there, deserts, oceans, forests, cities... thousands of residents.

This is a much more common and comfortable view for many neo-pagans, even though it's essentially the same thing.

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Non-visual ways of being

[fuzzyjayling]

I'm on a roll here. Two posts in one night. :)

A common theme that runs through many of our posts is visuality. You go to a place and you see people and places. Or you see Others nearby. These are all concepts laden with visualisation and sight.

For a variety of reasons, some people don't work this way. For one thing, you may have trouble moving your consciousness to another place to begin with. For another, you may simply not see things that way, for a number of possible reasons. Some people don't have other-worlds.

So I want to take a stab in the dark (har har) at some thoughts on another way of being, doing plural magic.

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