Post:Destruction of the World - 2/1/2010 - 17:59:46

Re: Destruction of the World · on 2/1/2010 5:59:46 PM	4751
>>Freud and Jung are about as embarrassing to read in the mental health field as fiction, because everyone thinks of the Collective Unconscious and the Oedipal Complex. Oooh, you're working with CBT guys. I'll change my book recommendation: "Freud and Man's Soul" by Bruno Bettelheim, as an essential complement to attempting to read the English translations of Freud. I also recommend the Parisi article "Why Freud Failed" that appeared in American Psychologist about 20 years ago. (psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/42/3/235.pdf) >>...also the fact that if moon mages so much as thinks about Necromancy too hard they have visions of every reality ceasing to exist. There's two different things at work here from the Moon Mage side of the fence. When a Moon Mage Perceives an extremely corrupt Necromancer, they have a knee-jerk reaction back in the part of the head that's attuned to the Plane of Probability. When you're dealing with the future, you're dealing by and large in symbolism. Things mean more complex things by their presence, and different items and ideas ressonate together. In the hands of a prophet, a bowl unfit to serve salad in becomes a vessel in which the future rests. Those Necromancers are, in the Moon Mage system, symbolic of the End -- the death of everything. The time when time runs out and there is stillness. It's relevant that the first definite sighting of the demon known as the Hunger was under the pesodynm "Entropy's Glory." When a Moon Mage aligns towards Thanatology something... else happens, which is not merely a horrified response. As has been demonstrated in the past weeks, a Moon Mage who goes through that ordeal gains a necromantic taint which can be verified by Clerics and interfere with Holy magic. That's a bit of an elephant in the room. -Armifer
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