Is Witchcraft real? Is magic real? Does it even matter?
The age old question that very often bothers the rational witch, is that with scientific consideration: Is my practise even real? What is your answer?
I would like to take a moment to quote someone.
“Many scientific disciplines begin by not observing any sort of vital spark or consciousness in material events and proceed to deny that these things exist in living things, including themselves. Because consciousness does not fit into their mechanistic schemes they declare it illusory. Magicians make exactly the reverse argument. Observing consciousness in themselves and animals, they are magnanimous enough to extend it to all things to some degree—trees, amulets, planetary bodies, and all.”
- Peter J Carroll (Author of Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic)
Science is a measure of observed results over the course of several experiments starting with a hypothesis. If the results cannot be proven multiple times over the course of several experiments than it is not fact. Even something that is so real to us like gravity is still just a theory. So I would raise the question. What about the unknowns in life? What about the things that science does not have the quantifiable evidence to prove?
This leaves us in a place with lots of questions. How do I prove that I love someone? There can be no measure no proof. Love can be charades between two people. It can be faked in movies and plays. And yet. We all have felt what we believe to be real love, before. We love our pets, our children, our partners, our parents, and our friends. But love cannot be proven. But love can enact change.
Is magic even real? This is a hard question. In the modern age is often seen as hoakum because of its inability to have quantifiable results. And yet, over centuries of time, and generations of people, it is still practised. It can be found in all cultures ethnicities and peoples. And somehow, even without quantifiable proof people rely on their spirituality to get things done.
I believe that the world requires balance, an equilibrium of sorts. If you ask the universe to do something for you you must also put forth the effort to make it happen. And intention can be one of the most powerful forces in your repertoire. One persons feelings or intentions can change an entire situation. And yet those things cannot be measured.
Many practises that we see now as magic, we’re actually considered the scientific method centuries ago. And our understanding of science is not, as of yet, entirely whole. There are still things we do not understand. Still occurrences that we do not have the ability to measure. And in that thought it’s still there.
Is magic real? For me it does not matter. For me magic is a way for me to enact my intention into the world. To manipulate my brains chemistry into getting the results I desire. To be closer to my own nature. To be closer to the earth and the stars that I was birthed in. But on the same note. There are things that I have accomplished that I cannot explain. Things that have happened. Entities I have communicated with. Experiences that have blown my mind.
So. Is magic real? Does it even matter? What does this question mean to you?
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