Comments on: Weather, magic & the not-so-pathetic fallacy http://dreamflesh.com/blog/2007/01/patheticfallacy/ Ecological crisis and archaeologies of consciousness Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:48:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: estanislao de mediolao http://dreamflesh.com/blog/2007/01/patheticfallacy/#comment-288 estanislao de mediolao Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:45:40 +0000 http://dreamflesh.com/archives/2007/01/patheticfallacy/#comment-288 In my experience emotional situations can trigger weather change when the protagonist is a magician or anyone with natural shamanic inclinations. Sometime last year me and my wife got into a very heated argument outside the house (to avoid worrying the kids), and in the middle of the argument, in a sunny North Carolinian day, the wind started blowing intensely, ripping branches off some of the trees in our yard. Our argument finished when I pointed out to my wife that those violent winds were my anger taking place in reality. In another situation I activated a sigil wishing for rain, and it worked, but it didn't stop my daughter's swim meet from taking place, because I didn't wish for thunder & lightning. Go figure...... In my experience emotional situations can trigger weather change when the protagonist is a magician or anyone with natural shamanic inclinations.

Sometime last year me and my wife got into a very heated argument outside the house (to avoid worrying the kids), and in the middle of the argument, in a sunny North Carolinian day, the wind started blowing intensely, ripping branches off some of the trees in our yard. Our argument finished when I pointed out to my wife that those violent winds were my anger taking place in reality.

In another situation I activated a sigil wishing for rain, and it worked, but it didn’t stop my daughter’s swim meet from taking place, because I didn’t wish for thunder & lightning. Go figure……

]]> By: Gyrus http://dreamflesh.com/blog/2007/01/patheticfallacy/#comment-287 Gyrus Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:33:05 +0000 http://dreamflesh.com/archives/2007/01/patheticfallacy/#comment-287 I've edited a few minor bits of this since writing it, but I'll leave what seems to be a major error as an interesting slip. In Ruskin's assessment that "the difference between the great and less man is, on the whole, chiefly in this point of <em>alterability</em>", I got him the wrong way round. His "great" man is <em>unalterable</em>, steadfast in observation even in the greatest emotional storm. Well, more detail on my take on this is in the 'Who's in Control?' section of '<a href="/essays/shamanism/" rel="nofollow">Aspects of Shamanism</a>'. I’ve edited a few minor bits of this since writing it, but I’ll leave what seems to be a major error as an interesting slip. In Ruskin’s assessment that “the difference between the great and less man is, on the whole, chiefly in this point of alterability“, I got him the wrong way round. His “great” man is unalterable, steadfast in observation even in the greatest emotional storm. Well, more detail on my take on this is in the ‘Who’s in Control?’ section of ‘Aspects of Shamanism‘.

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