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Mana == Prana (yoga) == Chi (I dunno, karate or something) (== attention, maybe). People have been talking about this stuff forever. Generalized cosmic power.
by swayvil 12y ago
Mana == Prana (yoga) == Chi (I dunno, karate or something) (== attention, maybe). People have been talking about this stuff forever.
Generalized cosmic power.
People scoff, but I think that modern people are just different. A shift in sensitivities happened. We're all about ideas now.
Consider the classic case of the geek who can't get laid. It's like he's blind to something.
- hosh 12y agoI can quibble with that -- mana would be more like refined jing, or shen in the "three treasures" schema (jing-chi-shen). The sensitivity has always been here, though it has been suppressed (among some other weirder phenomena) Some interesting readings: * http://earthweareone.com/what-a-shaman-sees-in-a-mental-hospital/ http://earthweareone.com/what-a-shaman-sees-in-a-mental-hosp... * Ken Wilber's arguments about the "dignity" and "diasaster" of modernity (_The Marriage of Sense and Soul_) It's less about modern people and more about modernity itself. Modernity currently treats anything woo woo (pre-modern) as childish, wishful thinking (think, "The Secret"), and as a result, there has been pathological disassociation with wisdom traditions.
- GlennS 12y agoMojo?
- yawaramin 12y ago> ... A shift in sensitivities happened. We're all about ideas now. Nah, we're all about Stack Overflow rep now.