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I think people tend to forget that magic largely works through mundane means.
If I were to cast a financial wealth spell, the money would come through whatever channel has the best money potential: It could be a gift from a relative, a bonus paycheck, or just finding some extra cash I stashed away at some point and forgot about.
The money doesn’t just pop into existence, because doing magic doesn’t produce magical results. It produces results.
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concept: there are lots of different worlds and all of them have different levels of access to magic. Some are just all over the place and some have no magic at all.
You would think that we would be one of the strictly non-magical worlds, but actually, that’s not the case—we don’t have like, a huge excess of magic, but we have, like, dreams, and the placebo effect, which puts us pretty solidly in the “Numinous” world category.
This post brought to you by the placebo effect, which is completely insane if you think about it for more than like 3 seconds
but for some reason we insist on thinking of it like “so people’s symptoms improve, but like, it’s Fake” rather than “HOLY SHIT humans are so powerful, they can improve the symptoms of their illnesses just by believing they are being cared for.”
Anyway just imagine like
Human, suddenly sucked by portal into a Magical Land: damn I wish I came from a magical world lol
Elf wizard dude: hahaha bro what are you talking about
Human: well, my world is just—
Elf wizard dude: what about the magic rocks????
Human: What magic rocks?
Elf wizard dude: You know, the magic rocks. The ones that generate near infinite energy by tearing apart the fabric of their reality? You know, like, uranium? You haven’t found those yet?
Human: Wait wait wait. That’s not—
Elf wizard dude: And like, come on, you even have some low level necromantic spells over there, like—
Human: We do not have necromantic spells, what are you talking about
Elf wizard dude: didn’t you say your friend was an EMT though? they do that shit all the time. Hell, you don’t even have to be like a high level caster or some shit, it takes like a few weeks to learn CPR
Human: Wh—
Elf wizard dude: You guys do have CPR, right?
Human: I mean yes but—what the—CPR is not necromancy!! That’s not how it works, it doesn’t bring people back from the—well I guess technically it does but that doesn’t—
Elf wizard dude: Next you’re going to be telling me Mothman doesn’t “count” either.
Human:
Human: …
Human: …What.
Human: You don’t understand. I mean…Radioactivity kills people!
Elf wizard dude: Ohhh. You got just the cursed magic rocks.
Human: …
Elf wizard dude: Damn. That sucks man.
Elf wizard dude: So you have no talking animals? None?
Human: Well I mean—there is that one type of parrot but like that doesn’t—
Elf wizard dude: godDAMN it
It got better!
Human: Oh, right, and various of the corvids. Ravens and that. They talk too.
Elf wizard dude: And no sapient animals? At all?
Human: Well ... I mean, depends what you call ‘sapient’. Crows remember who’s nice to them and bring them presents, and will get the whole flock to attack people who are mean to them, and cats basically conned us into lavishing them with food and attention--
Elf wizard dude: And that?
Human: Oh, that’s a pigeon. They’re really dumb, though.
Elf wizard dude: It’s getting on your public transport network!
Human: Yeah, it’ll get off at its stop-- wait.
Elf wizard dude: CATCHING ON YET?!?
ok seriously tho like. The placebo effect can work EVEN IF YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING A PLACEBO as long as you believe in the placebo effect itself.
Like, there is nothing about sprite that should soothe my stomach when I'm nauseous, and I know this, but if I'm feeling nauseous sipping sprite is one of the fastest ways to settle my stomach, because when I was little my mom told me it would help.
If that's not a kind of magic IDK what is.
have faith, be courage itself, and live through your heart. your strength and compassion will be recognized, received, and reciprocated.
- Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love.
My Wednesday is gone. We don’t know how she got out or what happened, but we found her body in the neighbor’s driveway this morning. She just turned 5 two days ago. My baby is gone.
So you know how I use The Magicians as a magickal allegorical scaffold for my life...
...well what the actual heck does this shit mean?
Found this graffiti a couple weeks ago along the walking path near work... Kinds gave me the chills. Wtf?
https://www.livescience.com/first-case-coronavirus-found.html
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So you know how I use The Magicians as a magickal allegorical scaffold for my life...
...well what the actual heck does this shit mean?
Found this graffiti a couple weeks ago along the walking path near work... Kinds gave me the chills. Wtf?
https://www.livescience.com/first-case-coronavirus-found.html
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Keep casting spells and performing rituals and praying to protect protesters!
Keep signing petitions and donating!
Start supporting Black witches in the community and amplify our voices!
Pace yourself, take breaks, but don't give up!
Black Lives Matter isn't a trend!
Sekhmet inspired pro-protest doodle. Be ready to help, friends. We've got miles to go before we sleep.
Do you know why so many people on this website are entitled? Books, I think.
The old books on magic and witchcraft - really most of the material written before the 1980s - it was not written in a friendly, 101 style. It was written for readers who sought out the hidden mysteries, readers who had a sense of expanded consciousness, readers who were not afraid to put in the effort to learn systems and make them work. It was not assumed that magic should seem simple or friendly or easy. No, magic was hard and weird and difficult to even comprehend.
Even books like Paul Huson’s “Mastering Witchcraft” is not overly simple, not like the stuff that would follow. I highly recommend it for beginners, but let’s be real. The introduction is a 10-page screed on gnosticism and he also encourages the reader to evoke a spirit from the Ars Goetia in, like, chapter two or something. But “Mastering Witchcraft” was pre-80s witch-boom.
Now everybody wants everything spoonfed to them. Do you want to experience deep, life-changing mysteries or do you want pretty plastic baubles?
Even if you could get the mysteries of the Universe delivered to you in shrinkwrap, why would you want to?
What the inexperienced don't realise is that these older texts were written in a way that forced you to figure them out. The confusing nature and symbolic languages of these books trains your mind to think, consider, analyse, and interpret the world/the subject matter in a new way. It doesn't spoon feed you, but instead it makes you work hard for it. It works out your grey matter like the muscle it is. It's supposed to change you and prepare you for the works featured later in the book or in subsequent writings. These books are living teachers just as much as they are tools. Occultist study these books the same reason your parents do crossword puzzels or play sadoku; to keep sharp in a world designed to dull us.
Aaaand now I’m reading Mastering Witchcraft. Free PDF here.
The Power of a Made-up Ritual https://one.npr.org/i/853612919:853612921
The Happiness Lab With Dr. Laurie Santos from Pushkin Industries on NPR One | 34:52
Both science and mysticism are tools to uncover the secrets of the universe.
Both science and magick are methods to create change in the world.
I don’t see why they should be mutually exclusive.
Placebos belong in clinical trials, not in the doctor's office. At least, that's been the conventional wisdom for decades. This week, we ask whether placebos have more to offer than we've realized, and what they might teach us about healing. For research related to this episode, please visit: https://n.pr/2B9v2B0
Great episode of the Hidden Brain podcast about the placebo effect ie. the most widely accepted example of using belief as a tool.
i was looking through medieval drawings of demons the other day and i found the demons that make you gay
this is what an ally looks like
they’re officiating their weddings
Why are the men holding hands and the women holding.... bellies?
