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[johnpalmer]

Those of you who are into magic and ritual, how do you raise power?

Chanting helps, right? And music, even a good sing-song voice, right? Rhymes, gestures, dance, they all help, right? And if you have a group doing it, so much the better, right?

And, here's the thing. One one level, that power is real, because it can change you, and it can change other people, who are also involved. Only the densest of people would deny that these can be powerful, even life-changing, emotional events.

Would you say that's relatively indisputable?

What's my point? This is my point:

Childhood teasing is hostile magic.

'nuff said?

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[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

Nod. It's like the effect is magnified, I think. It's one thing if one person says something... but when it's more, and when they've closed ranks to shove their teasing at you, it just focusses and gets nastier, and, I dunno... "louder", even if the volume is the same.

This doesn't mean I'm going to stop a certain form of sing-song teasing, mind you... :-)

(Never mind, folks, private joke...)

[kightp.livejournal.com]

LaLaLa ... I can't hear you ...

(Translation: No problem, darlin', as long as you don't assemble a whole pack of kids to join you ...)