Plural Magic

Referring back to my post about terrain and maps, I (and many others) experience an consistent inner-space or other-space which contains, among other things, Others*, residents, guides, denizens, whatever word you want to use. Moving your inner eye, your consciousness, to that place, and walking, flying, moving around, talking with its inhabitants, is an important concept. Neo-pagan circles tend to refer to that as shamanic journeying, whether that's accurate or a cultural appropriation (or perhaps my own misunderstanding of what they're talking about); but I tend to simply call the whole concept as I stated it "journeying".

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* Others: Nothing to do with this story. >.> (Gore TW on that one, sorry.)