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Originally Posted by Mick
This discussion is veering into one of the "mystical" properties of beliefs in regard to the keris.
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It started as a thread about the mystical properties ie mantra. That is a major aspect in keris too.
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Originally Posted by Mick
One of these people told me that an empowered blade will give a tingling feeling to his hands while a regular blade will not. This individual visited me before I left the country about 40 years ago, went through the 20 or so of the kerises that I had on hand and picked out about three or four as having power. I, obviously, don't profess to have this ability, so I didn't feel any difference between these kerises and the rest of the bunch. But this is one of the things that arise when you really study the subject of kerises.
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One guru I knew believed the same, he would hold a keris blade between his thumb and index finger and feel for a vibration.
People would bring him keris occasionally but the thing is he was secretive and if someone had a live blade he would not tell them. I remember actually one occasion in which after the person had gone I overheard him say to one of his senior students "that blade was live, but I went going to tell him that"