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As Arthur C Clarke once said:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
My "technology" is, inter alia, an advanced discourse on how humans can gain insight into their relationships with others and the extent of their own possibility.You and Flange, plainly, don't get it, and accordingly, it seems to you like magic, rather than an exposition on how things can be achieved.
Your characterisation of my teaching as "witchcraft" is interesting on another basis. As you might know, the word "witch" in the middle ages describes someone with privileged (albeit dangerous) knowledge or insight. Such people were seen as a threat to the stablished order, but the common folk saw them otherwise:
See for example, Reginald Scot The Discoverie of Witchcraft," 1584
"At this day it is indifferent to say in the English tongue, 'she is a witch,' or 'she is a wise woman.' "
People accused of witchcraft, often midwives and wetnurses, were commonly accused of witchcraft and liquidateed. Hundreds of years later, the HUAC in America conducted their own "witchhunts" in an attempt to ferret out those seen as possessed of quasi-magical powers to subvert the established order. Your characterisation is telling. I thank you for your acknowledgment that I am a wise woman, though I regret that I'm incomprehensible to you.
Hear endeth the lesson ...
Fran
