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It's a fascinating subject, ignored by science, and yet having some level of psychic reality at least. A football crowd has a collective energy similar to an Egregore, Then there's the idea of a Tulpa - a materialised thought form that may be created by a magician and perhaps 'escapes' and has an autonomous existence. How far a Muse fits these criteria I don't know. Nine Muses are listed by the Greeks. It's a complex, interactive world, equivalent to the botanical kingdom or the animal kingdom, yet barely charted or given a vocabulary, because science says it doesn't exist and it's all a delusion. I must take a closer look at the Nine Muses and see if there any clues. They're roughly similar to the Nine Arts. The latter should start with oral storytelling and ends with Comics, the ninth art.

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Hear, hear. Psychology rarely looks at things like egregores and similar psychic phenomena. It's good that the term 'egregore' is being popularised. There's a surprising number of articles about them on line

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