> From: "James Turner" <j.a.turner_at_...>
>Me:
>>>What could be more unnatural than leaving the beloved wood and buggering
>off
>>>to an "alien" spirit plane?
>
>Peter:
>>Spirit Plane - is what?
>>Human concept - garish,
>>artificial, stillborn.
>It's the name the humans use for the place where all our magic comes from.
>>Listen to the Song.
>This is easy whilst you sit in the forest surrounded by trees etc.
>
>Chris:
>>Spirit plane? What is that? We know the physical Forest and we know the
>>spirit Forest, but they are inseparable.
>Insparable, except for the fact that only shamans can go there and only then
>if they go into a trance and physically disappear in front of us!
Not necessarily. You can get to the underworld by physical locomation (cf
The Grotto of Despair). There are also places (including parts of elf
forests) where the mundane/spirit world boundary is fuzzy.
Thom