As in the topic depicting what you claim yourself, "mage, magus, sorceror, witch, wizard..." many others such as that, a single problem seems to appear and that is simply the language that there is. To me this seems to be the biggest problem with peoples perseption. Generally when people speak of something on the same or similar subject they automatically assume that the other persons in the conversation knows what they mean when they use certain terms. Two very good examples are the discussion of demons and of the term gods. demons to me and to most general descriptions would be a dark being. however I found in a discussion with my good friend whom is a devout christian with god given "gifts". that such a simple term as demon can have drastically different meanings, the discussion was on a grave site with "dark spirits" "demons" however you like to call them, and he refered to a demon as a fallen angle saying ways to banish something thrown from heaven. this prompted the discussion of that term because if an evil spirit escalates to that malevelence without being cast out of heaven than what would it be called. Thus bringing up an old subject on views of multiple gods such as the greeks or native indians "some could add the Wicca religion into this but i shall not for purposes of keeping descrete (that and my knowledge of it is still limited)" and that is that even though most of them followed different gods most of them had one god that triumphed as supreme over all of them, or so I have seen I could be off on some aspects, however the main point is to some the term god simply means a being of power on another plane of existence instead of the supreme lord of existence and marking that distinction adds a very large area of perception that some hadn't thought of. The point of all this, I find daily different magical and spiritual terms that seem to carry different meanings for different groups or individuals. I am a firm believer that a different view on terms or situations can bring forth a new level of understanding or comprehention, I am curious what terms and instances similar to this that others have to offer. obviously terms are important and views on them much more so.
-Magus2500x