Three has always been the magick number, hasn't it. It doesn't cease there, however. There are three types of love (friend, family, lover). there are three types of hate (misconceptional, foe, blood-oath), and there are three types of pain. The only unique thing about pain, however, is that one can have all three at once.

Level A) Psychological Pain: Manipulators can twist another's will until a person doesn't know how to walk without direction anymore. The pain from this realized dependence may shock a person for quite a long time. You've been raped of yourself.

Level B) Emotional Pain: You cherish it so deep and then there is emptiness. We've all felt it and we all react to it differently. The sense of loss is there and the pain can be searing. The emotional loss can be so wrenching that it can feel like an invisible dagger is jutting into your heart and sawing its way both to the floor and to the sky at the same time. The emotional tear is so strong that you can even feel the blood from the wound that splits you into two seperate pieces.

Level C) Physical Pain: This is pretty self explanatory as every animal on the face of the Earth has learned to live with some sort of physical pain or other. Sometimes it's a paper cut, other times it may be a bullet to the gut or blade to the neck. In any case, each of these are directly connected to a person's physical being which effect the physical nervous system. The scars are more visible to another person, though Emotional and Psychological pain may be the worse ones to feel. Physical pain, however, does not always have to come from the sense of wrongdoing. Sometimes pain can be derived from an overload of pleasure. Again, the nerves are only so sensetive and the ache for one's touch potentially be worse than any violent torture a human being can do to another.

The queer thing about pain that is so entriguing, though, is that Psychological, Emotional, and Physical pains can be braided so tightly and invisibly that no one knows that they are going to feel any of it. Then all the person holding the string has to do is drop it and it will go into flames. The physical pain or absense of dominating pleasure aches the body while the sense of loss will rack a person's heart to death. The person will lose him or herself psychologically, forgetting or feeling unable to do anything without the aid of another living soul.

There are far worse things than death and all it takes is one person to make it happen. Just remember, all, there is power, there is responsibility, and there will always be karma...


JT