Talk:Table of correspondences
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I object to the emphasis on "supernatural" in the opening paragraph. The first articulated theories of correspondence originate in classical idealism (with its distinct approach to reason) and modern ones often depend on ideas like resonance. Correspondence posits a natural world full of interlinking influences--metonymy and synechdoche, resonance, synchronicity, etc. are all related ideas. Many people who use this term think of it in naturalistic ways--albeit alternative naturalism--and would distinguish it from supernaturalism. This is especially true in earth-based nature religions that employ ideas of magical correspondence. Some are more or less mentalist, more or less phenomenalist in their approach to correspondence--depending on whether reality is situated in consciousness or matter.
Correspondence is also often understood to be acausal--as in the understanding that tarot cards or astrology "correspond" to events on earth rather than CAUSE events, and this idea refers to something more akin to the fabric of nature, which would understandably cause some holders of this view to object to the term: supernaturalist overlay.Thaddeus Slamp (talk) 05:40, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
this is the most biased poser version of what a table of correspondences is that i have ever heard of . This is onje more great proof that wikipedia is run by mediocre evli people who want to keep the world as stupid as they are.
The truth is that a table of correspondences was never identified as having "supernatural" connections until after hollywood and christian fascisst added their two cents in.
A table of correspondences is based on real similarities which even science can appreciate. I will give you a simple example. Day is to night as summer is to winter. Both are cyles of light and dark due to the geometry in motion of our solar system. This creates a small fractal pattern which echoes as a lot of other fractal patterns do, getting their quantum fingerprints all over everything.
The "four elements" which this doublespeak derided 50 years ago is now a new science paradigm; The four "states of matter" INLUDING "Plasma" a state so new that they still haven't bothered to find a name for it that won't confuse the beejeezus out of doctors. There ARE connections, Some connections ar weak and some connections are strong. Some connections are symbolic. Most Tables of corrrespondence follow a specific mythic structure; theres actually a hidden mythical linguistics;
What people like you are so frightened to "SEE".
The endless echo of mirros laughing back at them; The superluminal quantum gravity holomorphic singularity that the universe is; which operates under strings of relationships that can be contrused graphically.
What about the periodic table of the elements fer Gwds sake?
Oh, no, thats not a "table of correspondence" (unless of course you count quantum numbers and valence shells.....er..uhh..)
What about Abrahm maslows hierarchy of needs, or the stemming fractal strucure of the brain hemispheres and their assorted functions?
Just because a system of information does not make sense to YOU Does not make it "Nonense." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.6.42.188 (talk) 17:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Is this article useful or accurate?
The title of the article is a blaring alarm bell. "Table of correspondences" is simply a plain English phrase, and could apply to any field of science or the arts in which one thing corresponds to another. See for example [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]... need I go on? The phrase doesn't relate specifically to magic, and within the field of magic it's not a phrase that has special meaning; it's still just a "table" of "correspondences".
I don't see much point in the article even if the name were changed to, say, Table of magical correspondences, because all it really says, when it comes down to it, is that "in magic some things are seen as being related to other things". The fact that people have written about these relationships or even placed them in a tabular form hardly warrants an article. Why not create separate articles for Magical diagrams, Magical poetry, Magical instructions, Magical index, Magical narrative and all the other articles we could dream up relating to magical writing and publishing?
Most of this information properly belongs in a discussion of sympathetic magic, with a few details being relevant to numerology and Gnosticism. I therefore suggest this article be merged into Magic (paranormal), Numerology and Gnosticism (if those articles don't already cover it all), and then deleted. Fuzzypeg★ 00:05, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
