Fellows, if you played pencil-and-paper D&D, you aren't missing that much. At least initially, it's all a big game about playing with your perceptions to make believe you are availing yourself of psychic energy. It's not Scientology (Hubbard was into Satanism, not Rosicrucianism), but some of the exercises seem to be similar in their "look and visualize" way. I have no clue what was in the artist's mind when they illustrated this... it's not unlikely the magazine itself hired a hack to "draw some weird magician crap."

I've tried both, and I currently own a Soyajoy. It's better constructed, more reliable, produces consistently better quality soymilk, and maybe the cylinder shape rather than the Soyabella's dumpy teapot-like shape has something to do with it.

Two words. Just two.

BIRD FLU.

Because all these chicken owners are Clorox clean and first class veterinary experts who can and will detect a suspect animal and get rid of it in a manner approved by the CDC, before it contaminates the next-door-neighbor's flock, right?

Goddammit.