Sympathetic Magic: Source, Contagion, Target

So the formal definition of the laws of Sympathetic Magic are: “Descriptions of a consistent pattern of beliefs, thoughts and practices observed across a wide range of traditional cultures. Their widespread occurrence suggests that they may constitute laws of human thought.” I can’t go that far. What I can say is: I spend my time looking for mental laws affecting native Indo-European-language speaking people like me whose minds, whose native language is an Indo-European language. There’s certain commonalities between all of us who have our minds formed inside Indo-European structures of thought. It’s these commonalities which Russian disinformation can hack and take advantage of.

Source: Podcast: Combatting Russia’s Mental War

Contagion, which is the medium. So you have a source of Contagion. You have RT today, which is pumping out a meme. That meme itself, once it leaves the Source, manifests the Contagion (Mana). There’s something in it, a Mana, an energy, which then… gets assimilated into a Target. Source, Contagion (Mana), Target. The Law of Similarity really helped me understand this strange phenomenon that, so for instance, that somehow the fact that President Zelenskyy is a native Russian language speaking Ukrainian, who is part of the Ukrainian Jewish community, somehow with enough amplification, this demonstrates to certain minds that of course he’s a Nazi.

Source: Podcast: Combatting Russia’s Mental War

The Laws of Sympathetic Magic — Contagion and Similarity — are the mechanism through which Mana travels. Source, Contagion (Mana), Target. The Law of Similarity explains how a Jewish president gets called a Nazi: our brains mistake appearance for substance when Mana is loaded into the association.

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