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[holyposition]

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[semicharmed]

In place of prayer, yeah. Or of channeling life energy, which is more or less how I cast on the daily. Some people use emotion or force of will.

You generate energy, and then things like candles and herbs and chalk lines help you shape your outcome.

[ Matt wants to tell Tim I think it's rarer than it should be, to feel like that. But even though he thinks he might be about to die, that feels a hair too presumptuous. Too intimate. He's already shared more about sex magic in the past fifteen minutes than he's told almost anyone in his life, except maybe Vincent. ]

[holyposition]

[ If it isn't love, then it must be sin. And if it is love, then it must be transcendent, consuming, self-sacrificing and without ego, devotion of the mind, body and soul. It has to be worship. That's how you're meant to love God. He never learned any other way. ]

So you have this powerful experience through physical intimacy, which allows you to do...all kinds of magic? It doesn't have to do with intimacy. You used it to track the belt.

[semicharmed]

Exactly. The powerful experience is more like a battery or something. Like how you can use a battery to power a vibrator or a car

for me, I try to honor the source of the power not necessarily in a specific application, but in trying to do good with it

[holyposition]

Like a battery. Okay.

I don’t have any supernatural ability myself, as you know, but I think I understand.

[semicharmed]

I know ... I'm sure I'm barely making any sense, but I appreciate you listening.

[holyposition]

No, I think it does.

I don't think I'll participate in your group thing, but I hope it works.

[semicharmed]

Ha, no worries. It's a very specific kinda thing.

I hope so too.