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azurelunatic) wrote2003-05-05 07:48 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-05-05 07:48 pm
Consensus. (Not filtering this one, because it's important.)
At certain points in a Practitioner's career...
If you deal, as I do, with the esoteric senses at all, and notice things that aren't noticeable by the physical senses, the five that all Muggles have, then there's a good chance you may be hallucinating.
Or, you may not be.
Sanity lies in the ability to tell the difference between things that are Muggle-consensus-reality, things that are mage-consensus-reality, and things that are very real... within the bounds of one's mind.
Distinguishing those three levels of reality takes practice.
Doubting that one actually sees these things is a good road to insanity. Knowing that one sees them, and periodically checking with other people to see if they see them too, both mages and muggles, helps one sort out the differences. With practice, much practice, one can distinguish relatively well between things that muggles can see, things that mages can sense, and things that the psyche tosses up for reasons of its own.
If you deal, as I do, with the esoteric senses at all, and notice things that aren't noticeable by the physical senses, the five that all Muggles have, then there's a good chance you may be hallucinating.
Or, you may not be.
Sanity lies in the ability to tell the difference between things that are Muggle-consensus-reality, things that are mage-consensus-reality, and things that are very real... within the bounds of one's mind.
Distinguishing those three levels of reality takes practice.
Doubting that one actually sees these things is a good road to insanity. Knowing that one sees them, and periodically checking with other people to see if they see them too, both mages and muggles, helps one sort out the differences. With practice, much practice, one can distinguish relatively well between things that muggles can see, things that mages can sense, and things that the psyche tosses up for reasons of its own.