They are decent books to illustrate certain points, but they're not what I'd call good reference books.
As for Misty saying that Guardians are fiction, she pretty much had to say that after some lunatics took the concept so seriously they decided she was slandering "true" guardians and threatened her life. However, I'm pretty sure she based it on people she knew; people I knew, too. Maybe even a bit of me. We knew her back when...
Magic is a natural force and everywhere. All action and will are affected by and affect the ambient magical field. I don't buy the "it works because it's just magic" explanation. It works because it's physics. It's quantuum probability manipulation, and anything that gets in the way of it working (like disbelief or consensual reality) is quantifiable resistance, and anything that helps it (like symbology or ritual) reduces that resistance (to the desired exaction of probability lines that lead to the effect happening).
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As for Misty saying that Guardians are fiction, she pretty much had to say that after some lunatics took the concept so seriously they decided she was slandering "true" guardians and threatened her life. However, I'm pretty sure she based it on people she knew; people I knew, too. Maybe even a bit of me. We knew her back when...
Magic is a natural force and everywhere. All action and will are affected by and affect the ambient magical field. I don't buy the "it works because it's just magic" explanation. It works because it's physics. It's quantuum probability manipulation, and anything that gets in the way of it working (like disbelief or consensual reality) is quantifiable resistance, and anything that helps it (like symbology or ritual) reduces that resistance (to the desired exaction of probability lines that lead to the effect happening).