Post by JohnHall on Oct 5, 2014 1:43:39 GMT
When defining black forces and white forces in magic, black magic is a base talent, being the kickstarter of unseen movements. Fairy tales and storybooks make a war out of the light and the dark, and Yoda himself warns about the all-consuming power of the dark side. Really it is a misunderstanding of the way it works. There is no light without darkness, just as darkness makes up the vast majority of the universe. Light is an emanation, or a result of the dark forces at play.
If you analyze the color spectrum, black is the combination of all colors into one and white light is the separation of all colors from one point. That causes your flash or your beam, which has physical properties to it. You can break up white light with a crystal for instance. Dark forces are movements, and mastery of the forces comes with increasing levels of subtlety. It is almost unseen, unfelt, unheard, etc. You can see this play out in solar physics, where sunspots can be made with dark vortical movements and coronal jets and flares blast out of a star as a result of the internal convective movements.
Is there a danger in using this kind of magic? Yes. Somewhere along the line, instead of using the natural flow of dark to light people started using an unnatural light to dark movement into the below where the energy can't sustain itself. Light needs a platform or a base to function off of, and moving light backwards into darkness is more of a destructive thing. That's where you get magic practitioners who fall into insanity and even scientists who misunderstand the things they're doing and make things like atomic bombs.
That explains your Star Wars scenario which comes with the warning, "Beware the dark side". But the good thing is, if you want to know how to do it safely, you can always look to the stars for help.
If you analyze the color spectrum, black is the combination of all colors into one and white light is the separation of all colors from one point. That causes your flash or your beam, which has physical properties to it. You can break up white light with a crystal for instance. Dark forces are movements, and mastery of the forces comes with increasing levels of subtlety. It is almost unseen, unfelt, unheard, etc. You can see this play out in solar physics, where sunspots can be made with dark vortical movements and coronal jets and flares blast out of a star as a result of the internal convective movements.
Is there a danger in using this kind of magic? Yes. Somewhere along the line, instead of using the natural flow of dark to light people started using an unnatural light to dark movement into the below where the energy can't sustain itself. Light needs a platform or a base to function off of, and moving light backwards into darkness is more of a destructive thing. That's where you get magic practitioners who fall into insanity and even scientists who misunderstand the things they're doing and make things like atomic bombs.
That explains your Star Wars scenario which comes with the warning, "Beware the dark side". But the good thing is, if you want to know how to do it safely, you can always look to the stars for help.