#Life Force

[mythologyofthepoetandthemuse]

How miraculous this seems, I sometimes dream of such meetings with such ageless and powerful beings. If only...

During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries a considerable number of alchemical adepts made their way from place to place throughout Europe, appearing and disappearing apparently at will. According to popular tradition, these adepts were immortal, and kept themselves alive by means of the mysterious medicine that was one of the goals of alchemical aspiration. It is asserted that some lived hundreds of years, taking no food except this elixir, a few drops of which would preserve their youth for a long period of time. That such mysterious men did exist there can be little doubt, as their presence is attested by scores of reliable witnesses. Manly P. Hall, “The Secret Teachings of All Ages” Manly P. Hall. Collection of Alchemical Manuscripts. Box No. 4. 1600.

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[fanofspooky]

Tobe Hooper’s horror movies

[desimonewayland]

Rockwell Kent

Starlight (Burne-Jones 52), 1930

Wood engraving on wove paper

Bonhams

[daughterofchaosstuff]

Woman never emerges from a man's ribs, not ever,

it's he who emerges from her womb.

Nizar Qabbani

[retroscifiart]

Art by Takashi Terada for Lifeforce (1985) and later Crimson Glory’s album Transcendence (1988)

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Frederick M. Rossiter - Water for Health and Healing - H. C. White Publications - 1972

[eveeyehorizons]

[fancypantsrecords]

Konami Kukeiha Club - Konami Classics: The Best Of The NES | Spacelab9 | 2023 | Pink | /800

[wayti-blog]

"Our soul stores all our feelings. Everything that we experience and feel is absorbed by our soul. Our whole life and all our memories are part of our soul, as a result of which our life of feeling becomes more spacious and more conscious.

From our soul comes the impetus [the force or energy with which a body moves/lives] as a result of which we make the main decisions in our life. Our soul leads us, gives us strength to persevere. She is the driving force to make the most of our life. Our soul recognizes the people who are part of our life, as a result of which we feel attracted to those people."

"We are more soul than body. Our soul is eternal, our body temporary. Our physical body only serves our soul for this one earthly life. As soul, we connect ourselves with the fertilized egg cell in the mother who can receive us. We ourselves are the life that inspires and steers this cell to growth. For our whole life, our soul feeds our body with life force, until her life task has been completed."

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[positivepostoffice]

[the-healing-mindset]

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You're here. You're doing the work. Feel good in knowing that you're on the path that you need to be on.

[smbhax]

Life Force (NES)

[movieposters1]

[scarlet--wiccan]

Is Wanda a reality warper or was that just the Life Force?

Just as a reminder, I have a detailed breakdown of Wanda's powers in this post.

Wanda has the capacity for reality warping because of her status as a nexus being, but it's not supposed to be part of her "normal" powers that she uses on a regular basis, and it also comes with specific costs and limitations. People get confused about this because, in 2004, House of M and Disassembled threw all of the established lore about Wanda's powers out the window and insisted that she was just an ultra-powerful mutant reality warper with "schizophrenia". The Life Force retcon in Children's Crusade was an attempt to bring the character back in line with the way her powers are supposed to work, and also restore her agency and dignity. Unfortunately, people still conflate chaos magic with reality warping.

Here's the simplest explanation I can manage:

As a nexus, Wanda is a natural conduit for magic, which means that she can channel almost any kind of power from any source, and she has an integral connection to the fabric of reality and the multiverse. She is able to subliminally alter reality by channelling high levels of magical power and funneling it through that connection. "Subliminal" is the key word, here-- she very rarely has conscious control over this power. It comes with a lot of risk, too-- in the past, Wanda was easily overwhelmed and would experience mental breaks with reality, putting herself and others at risk. She also becomes very vulnerable to possession and outside influence.

Think of it like an aperture-- once she opens herself up this power, anything can come through, and it can be hard for her to stop. Before HoM, we saw this with her babies and Mephisto, as well as Immortus in Avengers West Coast, Lore in Scarlet Witch (1995) and Morgana in the late-90s Avengers.

So, TL:DR, yes, reality warping is one of Wanda's natural abilities, but it's very circumstancial, and it's not supposed to be something she can do freely.