Power of Mana (1)
Reading This Manual…
Mana particularly illuminates every word in bold in this manual. The dictionary defines Mana as a “power” or “psychic force.” Mana already flows between you and everyone you have ever communicated with. Mana even transmits between you and everybody who has ever lived – the words, movements, and sounds we make today connect us to the long-gone communities thousands of years ago which forged their meanings first1. We carry our ancestors’ Mana with us in our DNA, in our culture, and in our minds. Mana animates our every thought and emotion. The point is to notice Mana, then harness its power to live regretlessly.
Mana is an Amazon-wide river of undeterminable depth that runs through our minds. Mana invisibly criss-crosses the space between us, whenever we communicate. Mana is what we exchange the moment of that electrifying touch with your (soon to be?) lover. Mana is what carries the feelings you, your pet cat, dog or pony feel which brings you so much joy. Mana is the content of subliminal cues our micro-expressions reveal when we smile or frown or try to conceal our sentiments. Mana is the immanence of which our mentality is made.
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“As is usual with protolanguages of the distant past, we can’t say with certainty where and when PIE [Proto-Indo-European, the first Indo-European language] was spoken, but evidence currently available points strongly to the river valleys of Ukraine in the fifth millennium (the ‘steppe hypothesis’).” Page 5 of “From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic. Second edition” Ringe, Don (2017, Oxford University Press) https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792581.003.0002