[Glorantha] Mind, Soul, Spirit, Essence (cont)

[Greg Stafford]

> From: CJ cj at falster23.freeserve.co.uk
continues the intense discussion


> Subject: Re: [Glorantha] Mind, Soul, Spirit, Essence
> I have bored enough people in my time!

Not me.
Maybe we can discuss this at some convention this summer? You, Simon Phipp and
me.
Heck, maybe on a panel to share our mental meanderings with other
We MIGHT have any many audience members as are on the panel! 

> Nah, I certainly don't believe the gods are empowered by worship.  I
> however do note that ghosts and spirits seem to only take on personality
> under certain very specific coditions, and that in the God World
> individuals are notoriously hard topick out.  yet they retain those
> individual personalities as we know from something in the Star Ship
> epuisode. I wondered if we allowedthem to manifest them by our Living
> presence which removes them and distinguishes them from the collective
> identity of the afterlife.

The mainfestation of their presence in the material plane certainly COULD assert
their individuality, like a temporary suit of clothing. They ‘put on’ the
clothese they once knew.

> Again, wild theory, Greg could easily put us
> straight on this, if he has time, as he seems to be posting. :)

My posting will shortly diminish as I take another short trip to MesoAmerica,
but this I worthy discussion.

> Anyway I had better go do the dishes.  I wa stempted to look at
> Heortling concepts of life as breath, and draw analogies with Germanic
> (geist) and Greek (pneuma) thought and ancient semitic parallels, but I
> have waffled enough.

You would not be incorrect to do this.

> I have had an odd thought though.  In Glorantha, is Death a positive
> metaphysical state, not merely absence of life? It appears to be.  So
> what makes you die?  Being hit repeatedly with a rock, burnt to ashes,
> or falling off a  mountain would not be enough, it would just severely
> curtail bodily fuction.  Death is an active principle, a spiritual
> reality, an is greater than mere cessation of brain activity, or
> whatever we undertand it as...

I have to think hard about this.

> Mybe we should create a seperate "wild and inappropriate theorising
> about pointless philosophical minutiae of glorantha" list! ;)  I'd be up
> for it it seems!  I feel really guilty about this, because usually I try
> and focus on stuff relevant to my game. :(

If people are bored to death by this, maybe such a site would be useful for
occasional musings. I know I have limited time to spend on it, no matter how
much fun and challenge it presents for me.

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