Well, but in fact, my suggestion had nothing to do with mysticism (there is no mystical magic at all, IMO, thought we are told there will be special rules for mystical magic in future books I think there's a contradiction here).
IMG, absolutely non canonical, you could have common magic talents or simply "Talents". Puma transformation, troll's darksense, human talking, bird flying are talents, thought we usually needn't caracterize it as magic *in the rules* and perhaps, we usually needn't caracterize it as an ability at all. But, of course, it is magic (inner magic, for me, and not mysticism), everything is magic and it is made of everything. Sometimes, we need caracterize it as "magical talents" (a boy was born who could 'talk with animals' and it wasn't recognized as a divine feat), but the rules are not intended to represent perfectly the world, but to represent the story, and our needs for running the game.
You could concentrate in some elaborate form of inner magic, and you need to lose other kinds of magic, but otherwise, talents and other forms of magic are compatible.
The boy who could talk with animals concentrates in theistic magic and devotes to Humakt. He can talk, walk, and things like that. And also he can talk with animals. It is of course, magic. But for him it is as 'natural' as walking and talking. And the same thing for the puma person. I call it 'Inner Magic', because I could't find a better name. But, in my book, it is not mysticism. And someone could concentrate in some philosophy which 'discovers' new talents (not apparently innate); it is also inner magic, but it isn't mysticism at all.
Regards,
Antonio
(Unfortunately, I haven't got HQ yet -Spain is different- But my brother will bring me the book this evening, sorry if my misconceptions are due to this retard ;-)))
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