Re: Monasticism and Mysticism

From: Greg Stafford <glorantha1_at_D27xnw6PHEz43F8WpRnsypzplJlk_N4mDc9A8Q7odNT1IofwhWRwl3zA4Essbp9VB>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:46:44 -0800

YGWV On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Chris Lemens <chrislemens_at_FFs0xcpqNscifUOan5JbDIYSxNjkSZkVST7zDSyfwT5wD-fHkwyUQACJ4h8YKJuOSnuE0utj6elzIfLI9w.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

> > Here's another way of thinking:

Animists see the otherworld as *that is* filled with things *entities that *have
*at least the rudiments of *personality individuality and that you *can sometimes *control.

Thiests see the otherworld as *that is* filled with processes and entities (of Nature, society, our people, and the greater cosmos,) some of which have personality and that you can emulate.

 Sorcerers see the otherworld as *that is* filled with things processes that do not have personality and that you can sometimes control.

Mystics see see the otherworld world as filled with things that do not really matter, whether they are entities, processes or states of being, except when they help in this world and do not impede movement to the next one too much. have personality and that you emulate.

All generalizations are true, but inevitably false in particulars.

-- 
Greg Stafford
Game Designer


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