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Magical Substrate - by xiq - Fractal Sidequests

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The collective unconscious as a distributed substrate for magic as subtle communication

I love the aesthetics of magic - I love the robes, the smoke, the energy powers, manipulating the elements, the celestial bodies, the mythical creatures - it just rocks. And on top of that it seems like a bunch of people are committed to practicing disciplines that seem to work despite seeming to lack grounding in physical formalism. Usually people treat magic as a word for "stuff that we don't know how it works". I don't think that's wrong but we can try to be more specific. Let's take magic as subtle communication - processes that work thanks to information bypassing the conscious…

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