Author’s note: For purposes of elucidation, it is necessary that language be used in this journal in its fullest permissible scope. Sorcerers’ discourse, on the other hand, will be rendered as it was stated.
In the first issue of this journal, intentionality was defined as “the tacit act of filling out the empty spaces left by direct sensory perception, or the act of enriching the observable phenomena by means of intention”. This definition is an attempt at staying away from the standard philosophical explanations of intentionality. The concept of intentionality is of key importance in elucidating the themes of sorcery, as bona fide topics for philosophical discourse.
In the discipline of philosophy, intentionality is a term first used by the Scholastics in the Middle Ages. The term was restructured in the late 19th century by Franz Brentano, a German philosopher, whose main concern was to find a characteristic which separates mental from physical phenomena. He stated that only mental phenomena contain objects in themselves by way of intentionality.
In the discipline of sorcery, there is an entry called calling intent. It refers to the definition of intentionality that was given in this journal. Sorcerers maintain, as Brentano intuited, that the act of intending is not in the realm of the physical. Intent, for sorcerers, transcends the world we know. It is something like an energetic wave, a beam of energy which attaches itself to us.
(Carlos Castaneda, The Warrior’s Way – A Journal of Applied Hermeneutics)
