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transmothrai've been brewing this for a long, long time now. i feel i can finally come forward with this; the time is finally good:
the occult, magic/k, new age beliefs, and mysticism in general are all crap. complete and utter bulldada.
this idea has been festering in me. it is stimulated foremost by those great charlatans and wise men Aleister Crowley and Carlos Castaneda.
here's how it works:
we, as children, first think of "real magic" as if it were bolts of lightning from the palms of sorcerors.
we grow up a little and finally, after mustering up the courage to ask our forebears, realize that, well, "it's not quite like that." you do rituals and perform arcane incantations, and sometimes you can almost believe you can make your neighbor go bankrupt, or fall in love with you. but you're still not quite steady on the actual physical science of it. you investigate.
sensing your natural inquisitiveness, your guru or mentor or what-have-you asks you to accept a sort of promotion. the more you learn, the more you realize how unnecessary much of the actual ceremony is. you get a Matrix-like inkling that something is amiss, somehow. like it's "not quite like" how you were led to understand it.
at some point, you are given a key made of pure data: the concepts of WILL (Crowley), or INTENDING (Castaneda). something is suddenly starting to click, but you're not sure which puzzle piece fits where just yet. until...
you realize that magic is nothing. there is no "magic/k". there is only you, and your tool to make things happen (intent), to cause change in accordance with your own will.
you are magic. you have the power to create or to destroy. you can make things happen.
can you chop down a mountain with the back of your hand? hardly. but human beings (in concert, at least) have been directed to take on monumental challenges many, many times in the past. can you shoot flames from your fingertips? no. you can stalk, kill, or even devise foolproof schemes to outwit or even destroy your enemy. can you see into the future? no. but you can envision it. and you can cause precisely the sort of changes that are necessary in order to make the future comply with your intentions.
magic is more subtle than you have been led to believe! so much so, that you have been performing it for many many years without realizing it, because the make-believe sort never even existed in the first place; you have simply been getting your way.
the occult, magic/k, new age beliefs, and mysticism in general are all crap. complete and utter bulldada.
this idea has been festering in me. it is stimulated foremost by those great charlatans and wise men Aleister Crowley and Carlos Castaneda.
here's how it works:
we, as children, first think of "real magic" as if it were bolts of lightning from the palms of sorcerors.
we grow up a little and finally, after mustering up the courage to ask our forebears, realize that, well, "it's not quite like that." you do rituals and perform arcane incantations, and sometimes you can almost believe you can make your neighbor go bankrupt, or fall in love with you. but you're still not quite steady on the actual physical science of it. you investigate.
sensing your natural inquisitiveness, your guru or mentor or what-have-you asks you to accept a sort of promotion. the more you learn, the more you realize how unnecessary much of the actual ceremony is. you get a Matrix-like inkling that something is amiss, somehow. like it's "not quite like" how you were led to understand it.
at some point, you are given a key made of pure data: the concepts of WILL (Crowley), or INTENDING (Castaneda). something is suddenly starting to click, but you're not sure which puzzle piece fits where just yet. until...
you realize that magic is nothing. there is no "magic/k". there is only you, and your tool to make things happen (intent), to cause change in accordance with your own will.
you are magic. you have the power to create or to destroy. you can make things happen.
can you chop down a mountain with the back of your hand? hardly. but human beings (in concert, at least) have been directed to take on monumental challenges many, many times in the past. can you shoot flames from your fingertips? no. you can stalk, kill, or even devise foolproof schemes to outwit or even destroy your enemy. can you see into the future? no. but you can envision it. and you can cause precisely the sort of changes that are necessary in order to make the future comply with your intentions.
magic is more subtle than you have been led to believe! so much so, that you have been performing it for many many years without realizing it, because the make-believe sort never even existed in the first place; you have simply been getting your way.
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Date: 2005-09-28 12:27 am (UTC)Magick as a concept is a passion for me, though I have been seeking another name for it for years. The practice is more one of applying headspace to real space and seeing what happens. It is one part daydream and several parts more of planning.
I totally agree with you.