Hi Norman,
Thanks for reading and for taking your time to comment on this article.
Is there an absolute truth that can be graspable by the mental realm and translated into words? If not, does that mean we shouldn’t write at all? Aren’t we all writing from “our limited truth” at that moment, whatever that is?
Do I have to include every thought about something in a single piece? If there are schools where there is no distinction I magic, if I only write from their point of view, would I be making a disservice to the other schools?
When you write “but they definitely don't include any of the parameters you have set forth in your article either.” Do you know how all schools work and their parameters, or are you also bringing here your own view? For the parameters I write are in line with the schools I have been part of. I’ve joined my first mystery school over 20 years ago, which I take provides me solid experience in this.
My intention with this piece is to talk about good intentions and naivity when working with magic, black magic being a way to do that, albeit simplified. Yet as I wrote in the text “to believe what anyone says that you should this or that, is again naive (yes including reading this piece, so use your discernment).”
As I see it, a story is more in the subplots than in the plot, and that writing is as much about what is it that doesn’t belong in the story so its point is not diluted.
Wish you a great weekend,
Aline