projective precognition

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) projective precognition
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:28:18 -0700
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Rostrum:=20
Thanks for responding to my idea that Silk can inspire others.  Look at=20
several of the other dream sequences in Long Sun: Hyacinth and Silk in a=20
deadcoach, all the Scylla dreams in the Short Sun.  His cheek tracing patte=
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usually precedes the deductive leaps he makes.  Of course these leaps resem=
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precognition, but he doesn't have absolute faith in them.  I am willing to =
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that Silk's major problem is self-doubt, but not doubt in external forces l=
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"God".  I have always thought the analytical power he shows (like in=20
Nightside, when he knew Chenille had stabbed Orpine, or in Exodus, when he=20
knows Hyacinth cheats on him) where in large part due to his precognitive=20
abilities.  Silk "knows" without knowing.  After all, the enlightenment gav=
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him glimpses into all times in one time.  He saw Jesus crucified, he saw th=
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war, he sees accurate symbols in the guts of animals.  He is a precog who d=
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not have faith in his precognitions.  The tracing of circles on his cheek=20
usually precedes these jumps.  I think his precognition might have allowed =
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enlightenment to occur.  I don't know if this helps. Maybe he has some kind=
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projective precognition: without directly knowing, he can inspire that same=20
knowing in others.  Odd.  I'll need to re-read Long Sun again... he doubts=20
that Jahlee bit Sinew because he cannot rationalize his "prophetic soul" ->=20
the same thing Hamlet does.  Do I act? Do I just sit here? To be?  Not to B=
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(even though he knows there is "being" after "not being" because his father=20
has appeared to him after death, and it agrees with what he suspects from t=
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beginning) Sorry for the Shakespeare digression.
The main thing is that Silk does NOT need all the evidence to reach accurat=
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conclusions (something that resembles the concept of "FAITH") and he can=20
project this accurate knowing without evidence onto others.  Does that make=20
sense? I think I'll adopt that stance on his powers for now...
Marc Aramini

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