Aloha,

On 4/19/2010 2:30 PM, Khem Caigan wrote:

>That hasn't been my experience here in the U.S., and it isn't
>corroborated by even a cursory glance at history < and I have
>provided several links to key historic documents here on the
>ASM-list >. 

Sorry. My earlier comment didn't express my thinking about
magic and occult studies attracting attention of security agencies.

What crossed my mind was that in today's world, magic and occult
studies in academic institutions is a relatively small field dispersed
across many departments. So security agencies would not be able
to take a casual look at the field and individuals doing it by targeting
a department.

What I was thinking was that the security agencies would have to
know individuals and/or have some mission goal already to pay
much mind to people doing magic and occult studies at academic
institutions.

Or that the agencies might look at people for doing something other
than magic and occult studies, even if that were the academic
focus.

(My own little bit of personal experience vis a vis state
security agencies always had something to do with who I associated
with and what I was doing in the community, not what I studied.
So I'm bumping into my own limits here.)

But I'll admit that this is kinda muddled thinking about security
agencies and academic institutions and researchers.

I suppose that I was also thinking that folks like us list members
probably hold few state secrets as a result of magic and occult
studies that we could reveal in order to compromise the state.

Musing But Then There's All That CIA Remote Viewing Stuff!

Pitch