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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 6660487" data-attributes="member: 58172">The reallife words ‘mystic’ and ‘sorcerer’ have different meanings and connotations.A mystic is someone who contemplates the transcendent aspects of reality, to ‘unite’ with infinity. Compare Hindu ‘Neti Neti’ tradition, Buddhist ‘Nirvana’ or ‘Nibana’, Catholic ‘dark night of the soul’, and so on. These examples are reallife religious traditions, but what they all have in common is something like a dissatisfaction with religious traditions, often described as superficial ‘clothing’, and they desire to personally experience infinity, including ones own infinite aspects of consciousness. A common sentiment is the mystics from different religions ‘meet at the top’.Unrelatedly, the word ‘sorcery’ is specifically to influence otherworldly spirits (by means of promises, threats, etcetera) to perform a supernatural phenomenon. Normally, sorcery refers to black magic, such as sending a demon to do harm to some one. But strictly, the word can refer to other kinds of spirits, such as ghosts or elementals or whatever, and is not necessarily malevolent.The sorcerous reliance on external spirits is the opposite of psionic.In D&D, the Sorcerer class is a misnomer, representing ‘innate’ magical abilities. But perhaps even here, the Sorcerer relies on external sources of magic, such as a Dragon ancestor, elemental spirits, etcetera. While the Sorcerer is in tune with these external agencies of magic, they are still external sources. Perhaps this can explain why Sorcerers still need external material components, and so on.By contrast, for the psionic person, there are no external agencies. Marvels are by means of the mind of the psionic.</blockquote>

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