Fiddlers Green
It is impossible to do spellwork without interacting with the Vis web, if the spell is purely internal, it has less collateral effect, but as you breath, move, and generate electricity ect... you are a part of the Vis web. It is dangerous to act upon a system without understanding that system.
In what circumstance would a spell be internal?
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I'm not saying that it doesn't exist, but isn't it dangerous to make a positive claim as well if there isn't a conventional way of measuring it that is peer reviewed? Are you referring to something like those metal bars you hold that waver when there's a disturbance (can't remember what they're called) or a pendulum?
I have about 17 people I consider peers in this. It is reviewed. Just as I would not ask a random person on the street to review a treatise on molecular decay, I will not desire review from the unaware or uninitiated. Furthermore, the research is not entirely available to the public. I am working with the research of others as well, and I am not at liberty to share their research as givens or causal components for my own findings. Nor are they desirous to have their names attached to this, for reasons of their own concern.
I invite you to research for yourself and come to your own conclusions. I suggest starting with physics, biology, and geology.
If you find that the cosmos is series of independent events that transpire in isolated situations, Then that is your finding. I will disagree, but it could be as much vaguerity of my perception as anything else.
Pendulums are fine tools.
I suggest the Sun, Snowflake, and Lodestone to start with tho. They are similar enough to create easy concordants, yet divergent enough that they require actual observation and causal reasoning to correlate.
I respect that you are not at liberty to divulge more about their findings. What exactly should I do with the last three things you mentioned? What should I be watching for?
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The way sound interacts with it's environ. I don't have room/time for the physics part of this here... which is really most of what there is to it. It is the way a wave interacts with everything it passes by or indirectly effects passing near. The Sound itself is Vis, it interacts with other Vis by either moving it, organizing it (when sound is used to create patterns), or changing it, such as changing the state of matter. There are other possibilities as well. The sound might provoke some entity to action, whether it is your neighbour yelling for you to be quite, or some long slumbering Genus answering an ancient agreement.
Do you know what these sound theories are called so that I can look them up?
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It is like damming a river or flicking on a light switch, somewhere, sometime, something, likely many somethings, shall be affected by it. Just know where you are getting the energy from, and how it is interacting with the world around you. Carefully note your environment before and after, if there was no noticeable change, and some time passes without any, it is possible that the amount of alteration was small enough as to be repaired before it reached a level we can notice. Mind you, just because we don't notice something is wrong, doesn't mean it isn't... but expecting people to function beyound their perceptual capacity is asking a bit much, even for me. Rather, I encourage people to use reason, look more closely and carefully at what they are doing, maybe expand that list of what is individually perceivable, have a care for the causally potential after affects of their actions... And take the rake to more things.
What else can I use to measure Vis? What else should I look for? I have no experience with this, so your telling me to notice the environment without giving any signposts to guide my search is sort of like teaching me to read without giving me any books. sweatdrop
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In case you didn't notice, I am a crotchety old curmudgeon about magic. I do everything other than sit on my porch and shake my cane, ranting about kids these days. However, I would rather a world with far less practitioners, than more who are careless. It is a tool of great might. I would make comparison to celestial bodies... but the immediate impact would be lost. No, more like nuclear science. Even our attempts at positive usage can have gruesome and long lasting consequences, even when we take every precaution that we know of.
Understood, which is why I'm being so particular.
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A little patience before may make less need for a lot of patience afterwards. On this topic, and in my current mood, I am happy to share what is mine to share. However, my answers will never be your answers. To internalize knowledge seems to require an actual process of learning. I could spout formulae for physics, biology, and causal relationships until my body fails me and my time in this narrative is done, and I would still not be finished explaining it all. On the other hand, if you seek causal relationships, on whatever level they interact, be they social, molecular, ecological, and then find the common thread, then you will Know, and it will be your knowledge. wink
...if only I could see the unseen so intuitively. An then, trust what I've seen once I've seen it.
