positive and negative energy - by vincent huang

revisiting midnight gospel

also on mit admissions two years ago i watched the midnight gospel, a tv show where the dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast interviews. in the third episode, darryl, the interviewee, is an ex-convict who spent his time in prison practicing spirituality and magic. when i first saw this show i thought this episode was mostly nonsense. darryl often says things like: “The reason that meditation is so important in magic is because whatever we fasten our attention on, that's the direction our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to…

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