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Apr. 1st, 2011 03:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I should probably wonder what happens to me, if Lucius ever finds out that Destin lies to him to spend time with me. Haha, after what I did ... what I said to him ... how this all started ...
I don't.
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Er, one of the books that I was working on, these past few weeks, I've actually found a very, ah, enlightening read.
It was about the mediums. It's rare to actually read any documentation about them. The Church tends to try and keep most of it secret. It's not ... regulated, exactly, just kept under control and suggested to be ... well, private.
But this book was fairly frank. It was older, so that might explain it ...
Ah, it mostly just talked about what their abilities can actually do, which is the least we know, isn't it? We see them all the time, especially here in Lucre, but most natives don't pay much attention to them. And, ah, pilgrims and such don't tend to ask questions. We know where to find them, and we know they give small benedictions and prophecies and that they often come true. And we know that certain forms of incense and, er, herbs can enchance the effect, and that hurricanes on the horizon make their abilities stronger ...
Anyway, what I read, it was a fascinating account by an actual medium who was retired from service. She hadn't had visions in years, but had apparently been fairly powerful when she had, and often served in the Grand Temple outside the Chamber of the Altar because of it. She actually wrote about her visions, themselves, which is what we never hear about.
The most interesting thing was ... well, her visions were all visual, always. Er, that sounds like it should be obvious, but she said that she would "see" things in the air, quite physically, and that it would always be silent, there was never any sort of sense involved other than the visual, which I found interesting! What she'd prophecy would then be based on those images. They could be quite detailed, she said ...
She did recount one occurrence when she had a vision that had sound with it. She was on a ship, visiting family on an island, and her ferry was hit by the tail of a hurricane. She was knocked almost senseless by a loose bit of equipment, and she said that when she was there, she had a vision that involved a woman singing. It was the most vivid she'd had, she said, and she swore the saw the images in the clouds, themselves.
Er, of course ... most assumed she was just ... well, she was hit awfully hard, and she was middle-aged by this time, so everyone thought ... ah, but I thought it was interesting. She'd know a vision, wouldn't she? Logically ...
... er, that's ... I just ... thought it was an engaging read, I ... that's all.
I should probably wonder what happens to me, if Lucius ever finds out that Destin lies to him to spend time with me. Haha, after what I did ... what I said to him ... how this all started ...
I don't.
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Er, one of the books that I was working on, these past few weeks, I've actually found a very, ah, enlightening read.
It was about the mediums. It's rare to actually read any documentation about them. The Church tends to try and keep most of it secret. It's not ... regulated, exactly, just kept under control and suggested to be ... well, private.
But this book was fairly frank. It was older, so that might explain it ...
Ah, it mostly just talked about what their abilities can actually do, which is the least we know, isn't it? We see them all the time, especially here in Lucre, but most natives don't pay much attention to them. And, ah, pilgrims and such don't tend to ask questions. We know where to find them, and we know they give small benedictions and prophecies and that they often come true. And we know that certain forms of incense and, er, herbs can enchance the effect, and that hurricanes on the horizon make their abilities stronger ...
Anyway, what I read, it was a fascinating account by an actual medium who was retired from service. She hadn't had visions in years, but had apparently been fairly powerful when she had, and often served in the Grand Temple outside the Chamber of the Altar because of it. She actually wrote about her visions, themselves, which is what we never hear about.
The most interesting thing was ... well, her visions were all visual, always. Er, that sounds like it should be obvious, but she said that she would "see" things in the air, quite physically, and that it would always be silent, there was never any sort of sense involved other than the visual, which I found interesting! What she'd prophecy would then be based on those images. They could be quite detailed, she said ...
She did recount one occurrence when she had a vision that had sound with it. She was on a ship, visiting family on an island, and her ferry was hit by the tail of a hurricane. She was knocked almost senseless by a loose bit of equipment, and she said that when she was there, she had a vision that involved a woman singing. It was the most vivid she'd had, she said, and she swore the saw the images in the clouds, themselves.
Er, of course ... most assumed she was just ... well, she was hit awfully hard, and she was middle-aged by this time, so everyone thought ... ah, but I thought it was interesting. She'd know a vision, wouldn't she? Logically ...
... er, that's ... I just ... thought it was an engaging read, I ... that's all.
