broke apart my insides...

[lizblackdog]

Am reading the first of a trilogy topbit lent me, a B5 spinoff about Technomages. (Casting Shadows by Jeanne Cavelos, if anyone wants to know. It's good.)

The book goes into somewhat more detail about the Technomages' abilities than the series ever did, and one of the things they can do is mentally message each other. It's described rather like an email... the message arrives in the brain, and the recipient has to think about it to open it. I caught myself wishing I could do that; and then I realised that if I could I would just be sending so much porn spam!

Bad Liz. Down, girl!

Comments

[darkndeviant.livejournal.com]

I dont know the book in question...but I can tell you that empathic communication isn't just a myth. I mainly communicate empathically with animals, but that's just because I relate better to them. Humans arent a great species and are generally far less pleasant and interesting. The same techniques apply though. It's real time, not delayed like email though. That's just my experience though. Who knows what's possible?

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

This is very true. My Border Collie (pictured) is especially good at it, and I have experienced it with humans as well; huntingdon and I do it regularly in a platonic sort of way.

Really, though, at the time I was just thinking of a particular person whose mental inbox I'd have been flooding that night. Probably just as well one can't automatically do it at will.