there's a point in the otherworld experience when you are 'not here' anymore.
t.
> > This may have been asked before, but I was
> wondering...
> Thunder Rebels p.62 has the answer to most of your
> questions here
> (well for Orlanthi certainly I assume for others).
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> > during a theist ritual (say the Orlanthi Holy Day
> trip to visit
> > Orlanth's house) what is "really" happening? Do
> the worshippers
> > physically travel to the God World? Or do their
> "souls" travel
> > there and their bodies stay behind?
> To a participant he or she travels to the
> Otherworld. TR implies to me
> that at the key moment the worshippers is in both
> worlds at once.
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> >If I were an observer at the ritual who was not an
> initiate, what
> >would I see?
> The men are flying towards their sacred mountain (or
> back again), the
> women are standing still
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> > could disrupt the ritual very easily by attacking
> the bodies of the
> > participants while their "attention" is in the
> Otherworld. Yes?
> I think so. Which is why 'other ways' are valued as
> they can help to
> guard the sacred places. In addition the sacred site
> is likely to have
> a guardian being which will help to protect the
> particpants. Dragon
> Pass tells us that the Lunars try to kill people as
> they fly to Kero
> Fin on One Day, but cannot identify individuals
> amidst the mass.
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