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The Enigmatic World of Magic Potions: A Comprehensive Guide

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The Alchemy of Magic

The alchemy of magic as it were, it is often in the mixture where the wondrous things occur. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13560881/8/In-the-Dark-A-Blaise-Zabini-Gellert-Grindelwald-Dark-wizard-fic

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Как входить в транс?

Экстрасенсам приходится считывать неизвестную для них информацию из общего потока, поэтому им приходится впадать в #транс. Что такое транс и как его достигнуть, всем ли подвластно это состояние?

Что такое транс в общепринятом смысле? Это помраченное сознание, во время которого обычные бытовые действия могут выполняться на автомате. То есть находящийся в данном состоянии может ходить по улицам, умываться, есть. Только потом он не будет помнить – если транс был классический – как он провел это время.

В транс вводят гипнотизеры, страдающие эпилепсией или некоторыми иными заболеваниями нервной системы, периодически впадают в это состояние. Ясновидящие, маги и колдуны вводят себя в транс сами, чтобы общаться с гостями из потустороннего мира.

Когда экстрасенс входит в транс, он полностью отрешается от бытовых обстоятельств, от сиюминутной информации. Он концентрируется только на том предмете, которы�� его в сию минуту интересует. В это время активируется поток информации из подсознания.

Можно выделить 2 основных вида экстрасенсорного транса: внешний и внутренний.

Во время внешнего транса внимание сконцентрировано на каком-либо существующем реально предмете. Это может быть икона и цветок, огонь и качающийся маятник.

Гипнотизеры достаточно часто вводят своих пациентов в это состояние, используя как раз качающийся предмет. После такого воздействия люди выполняют все свои основные обязанности, и при этом подчиняются установке, которую им дали в состоянии транса.

К- внутреннему трансу #экстрасенсы прибегают чаще . Они сосредотачиваются на внутреннем объекте в своем воображении или в теле. Такой транс позволяет черпать информацию из будущего, настоящего и прошлого.

Подобное ясновидение позволяет не только видеть картинки, но и общаться с душами умерших и ангелами, находить потерянные предметы, разоблачать обман. В трансе такого типа можно узнать, что спрятано в запертых шкафах и заклеенных конвертах, находить потери – включая людей и животных.

Те экстрасенсы, которые умеют входить во внутренний транс, удивляют окружающих чтением мыслей, угадыванием того, что происходит на больших расстояниях и они ни в коем случае не должны об этом знать.

Обычно те, кто способен к ясновидению, подсознательно это понимают. Но обычно ошибочно считают, что способность предугадывать обстоятельства объясняется интуицией. Может, это и хорошо. Если бы люди знали, что научиться входить в состояние транса и развивать у себя ясновидение можно искусственно, спрятать тайные помыслы было бы трудно и в общении повсеместно испытывалось бы неудобство.

В транс возможно входить различными способами.

Те, кому магические способности даны от рождения, пользуются своими методами. Многие из них проверены веками. Например, шаманы в транс устремляются за звуками своих барабанов.

Те же, кто совершенствует свои способности, наиболее часто применяют следующие методы.

В транс входят, вглядываясь в темное пространство. В этом случае нужно научиться сохранять полную пустоту в мыслях, ни на что не отвлекаться, глаза должны быть закрыты. Уже после входа в транс нужный эпизод встанет перед глазами, но пока транс не достигнут – голова должна быть абсолютно пустой. Состояние Космоса.

Визуализация подходит для людей с развитым воображением. Человека или нужное место представляют сразу, а потом мысленно идут к назначенной цели, представляя каждый шаг и каждое движение. Все действия обязательно считаются. Если резко вырваться из состояния транса, не возвращаясь той же дорогою, можно повредить собственное сознание, иногда необратимо.

Еще один метод называется «лестница». Постоянно контролируя дыхание, уменьшая объем вдоха, спускаются в подсознание в глубину. Выходят из транса точно так же, представляя действия в обратном ключе, вдыхая воздух в большем объеме.

Что такое #транс — отключение сознания для проникновения в высшие сферы. Но всем входить в них не следует. Транс — это в некотором роде опасно. Без умелого руководства и способностей в нем можно остаться навсегда.

Автор: magictheory

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If I can read only one book, what book would you recommend me? and hello! :D

Hi Elaine! :)

As of now I'd say The Lord of the Rings. It is so dense, so real; rereading would never wear out your interest but rather heighten it. I'm speaking from experience, because I've just finished reading it. Now and again I flip open the book to a random page and read it again. Never gets old. XD 

Thanks for the question :D

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Just my thoughts on 'talent' in art while I do a picture in my new style. Actual paint time was 1hr but I sped it up to match the audio. Sorry if it's a litt...

This seems like it's about art, but it's actually about a lot of stuff. Including Magic. Think about the importance of copying, setting standards, and especially about the difference between practice and performance.

This is why 9/10 times when people see me playing at my shop, it looks like garbage, but then I can show up at something "more important," like a tournament, and my game looks totally different.

I used to not do this intentionally, but over the past several months I've been play-testing with a willingness to make mistakes, or playing looser, or allowing myself to fall into uncomfortable in-game situations. This is not to say I'm intentionally making mistakes, but playing at a speed and paying a level of attention to the game where they inevitably occur. The reason for this is three-fold.

One: when I practice, my focus is so far-flung from what my focus is like under pressure that acting like they're similar or trying to focus like I would in a tournament feels like a kind of false god. By making mistakes and playing loosely/instinctively, I can up my investment in a match by finding new ways to play from behind. When I'm invested, my drive to win goes up, which helps recreate a situation of pressure. In addition to being more invested, I've gotten very, very good at playing from losing positions, but more importantly...

Two: Before I show up for an event, I want to have already made as many of the mistakes I can possibly make. I've discovered that any mistake I've made and identified as a mistake is one I'm extremely unlikely to make again. I'll isolate some particular line which made me lose a game, like being able to do things other than crack fetches with a Miracle trigger on the stack (such as cast Vendillion Clique to rob them of the counterspell you know they have). Once I've isolated and extracted the core of the mistake (in this case, being able to play at instant speed during times which you're not normally accustomed to doing so), I can slow down during a real match and take this new line (or conversely, avoid this old mistake), and not lose the game on the spot.

Three: If you are practicing with a focus on experiencing new situations, even if they're losing ones, your knowledge accumulates much faster than it does if you play with the intention to win every practice game from the outset. Magic is a loser's game: it is most often decided by the player who makes the most mistakes as opposed to brilliance from the winner. (Most brilliance in Magic is simply not making a mistake that was hard to avoid, anyway.) If you can identify a plethora of ways you can lose a game of Magic, that knowledge is going to help you improve far more than doing anything else, like getting really good at exploiting your opponents' mistakes. You'll eventually get to a point where your opponents make infinitesimally few mistakes, and then where will your strategy be? Conversely, imagine being a player who knows how not to make mistakes in a meta defined by players who prey on mistakes. That would be an extremely good position to be in.

This is not to undervalue the importance of exploiting mistakes, but when you know how to not make your own, taking advantage of someone else's missteps is usually trivial.

What do y'all think?

<3

~Base

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Love you like I do- Jamillions

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I was in high school when I first read To Kill a Mocking Bird, I didn’t appreciate it until I got in college. So I guess you can say that it’s not much of a page turner. I think you’ll love it, though :) you seem to like classics, wow =D

Oh I see. I'm not really into classic novels/stories. I'm more of a YA dystopian reader. But as long as the storyline catches my interest I'll probably read it. Have you read The Giver by Lois Lowry? A short novel but beautiful story. Underrated though. It's a trilogy, actually. But not like the usual trilogy. Just one or two characters in the next one but different story, not the continuous type. The second book is Gathering Blue and the third one is Messenger. Oho, that's long. >.<

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12 :D

12 - The first novel you remember reading

Hi, Elaine! I've never thought of it before--keeping track of the books I have read in the past--so thinking about that book now, I can even barely remember. But I remember the first novel that I have finished reading just because I thought it was beautiful, Harley Like A Person. It's a novel classified under young adult and it's about fourteen year old Harley Columba who thinks she is adopted. She goes through all these crazy stuff teenagers go through to find proof that she really is adopted. She has an abusive and drunkard father and whiner of a mother. I thought this book was amazing, reading it felt like going back to what life was like back in the earlier days in high school.

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The Truth About "Kill All Monsters" Decks

"What about decks without good, proactive plans? The much-loved Mono-Black Control archetype jumps to mind. Mono-Black Control was a powerful deck during the era of Torment when it had access to cards like Mind Sludge, Nantuko Shade, Cabal Coffers, and Skeletal Scrying. I played Mono-Black Control in that Block format, and my deck had an exceptionally powerful game plan of using Mind Sludge to tear my opponent's hand apart followed up by using the mana generated with Cabal Coffers to chain Diabolic Tutors with Mirari and bury my opponent under card advantage and card selection.

That's why Mono-Black Control was good then—it had a cohesive, powerful, and, most importantly, proactive game plan that was good no matter what the opponent was doing. A deck full of Mutilates and other removal may seem like a good idea in a creature-heavy metagame, but how does its plan hold up when it plays against anything else? What is its plan, even? Mike Flores touts the "Destroy All Monsters" school of thought, but that's not a realistic plan in anything but the most tightly defined fields. Your deck needs to be working toward something rather than just answering what your opponent does.

I was toying with Mono-Black Control toward the end of the last Standard block, using a plethora of removal and discard to try to keep myself alive and eventually win with something like Sorin or Griselbrand, but I frequently lost games that seemed under my control simply because my deck didn't do anything. Too many of the cards I drew were entirely reactive in nature, and many of them could line up poorly with my opponent's threats. My "plan" boiled down to trying to survive until I could play Griselbrand, which wasn't consistent or realistic enough. A far cry from the days of Mind Sludge and Cabal Coffers. Compare this to a more recent incarnation of Mono-Black Control, the deck played by Conley Woods to a Top 16 finish at Pro Tour Gatecrash. While I'm not sure if the deck is actually any good, he had a much more proactive plan. Instead of focusing on using all of his cards to answer what his opponents played, he planned on using Crypt Ghast to power out huge threats early like Griselbrand and Rakdos's Return. His plan relied on a very fragile 2/2 creature for four, so it may not be stable enough to work in the long run, but at least he had a vision in his head of what he wanted his deck to do and built toward that." -Brian Kibler, from a recent Premium article, linked here: http://www.starcitygames.com/article/25833_The-Number-One-Rule.html

Kibler is brilliant, and the rest of the article has made its way into my library of resources. As usual, I can't espouse enough the value of Premium, blahblahblahfanboying.

That being said, he makes a truly phenomenal point succinctly here. I myself have struggled with the Mike Flores School of Monster-Slaying. It feels like it should work; it just does: but it doesn't. Kill All Monsters is a naive plan in a complex metagame, and the reason for this is it's not a proactive gameplan, and it doesn't have the resources to become proactive. Kill All Monsters doesn't have a goal in life: it just sort of rolls with the punchs until it dies or until it wins. And that's not good enough, most of the time.

Contrast MBC variants (with perhaps the exclusion of Conley's List) with Esper: Esper is pretty good right now. It plays /a lot/ of removal. It doesn't play planeswalkers. How is it proactive? The deck coheres around Sphinx's Revelation: survive until I can cast this spell, then win the game with my nigh infinite resources. The deck has tools to survive and tools to find Sphinx's Revelation. After a Rev, it has multiple paths to victory. Most MBC lists kill things, and then kill things, and then they might draw a threat and win, or they just die when they run out of removal. Or worse, if their opponent actually plays real card advantage spells, like Revelation. Hope this was interesting and relevant! Remember, when we build decks, we always ask ourselves, "What are we trying to do?" If our answer isn't good, our deck isn't good. <3 ~Base

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I've just created a 2 new blog.

artworks19

literature19

My reasons?

Used as a bookmark. Meaning, easy to track what's what.

Designed for one specific genre.

Good place for me to practice and have someone to correct my mistake.