[Buddha-l] Re: Magic

[Joy Vriens]

Hi Eric,

>To all you warlocks, witches, witchmasters, satanists, theosophists,  
>etc. if there's some room left in your mental kaleidoscope, you can have  
>your pick in the 
>http://rapidshare.com/files/34678777/encyclopedia_of_occultism.zip 
>If you want some real data about witchcraft and magic, try  
>Evans-Pritchard: /Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. /This  
>tells you that witchcraft has nothing to do with the bourgeois clich¨¦ of  
>a kind of religious Robin Hoodism, but is noting more then the symptom  
>of a sick society. 

There is a difference in method between science and witchcraft, but is there a difference in objective? Isn't science (especially its applications) simply a more efficient method of witchcraft? Destroying ennemies, fertility, telecommunications, rejuvenation ... So is science a symptom of a sick society?  

As for the reason of the sickness of society, the Dalai Lama humbly offers the following hypothesis:

<<Some of Ray's questions are softballs: Why does America seem spiritually poorer than India? "Too much greed," shrugs the monk. "Limitless desire." >>
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2007/06/22/getting_answers_from_the_dalai_lama/

Joy