Free-Write: Magick and Other Unbelievable Things

The trick with magick is this:  for it to work, it must be real to you.  There is no other way.  The wonder of magick is that it allows one to call up previously experienced emotions, physical conditions, etc. with no real stimulus except one's own will.

And through that, to pull into one's reality something that was not there before.

But there is no such thing as a free lunch, and everything has its price.

The price of magick is the ritual itself.  The mental, physical, and emotional exertion required to make something real to you.  To cause something to exist in your reality.

Of course, like the creation of anything else, the components seem lacking, incomplete, mundane or even useless.  It is in their completed application, their final form, that allows it to exist; the magic.

I believe that I have been trying to explain away this inherent paradox - that if something is not already real, then it cannot 'become' real - when in reality the truth lay in this paradox itself.  Witchcraft, the act of creating.. anything, magick, magic, hypnosis, positive (or negative) thinking, etc. ...like anythinge else we experience, it is real because we accept it as being real.

But we must also accept that there are layers of reality, some of which cannot be experienced by others, and some of which others have conditioned themselves - for better or for worse - not to accept.

Finally, there is this conception that one definition of magick - that sort of Hocus Pocus, Halloween, crooked-nose witch, stereotyped magick... which I also have never experienced and may never will - cannot exist.  That it is simply not real.  Moreso, that there is a strict binary between what we believe to be real at the present moment, and what we believe is false.  But we must also remember that we have made great strides in the past century with electronics, weapons, and the like that many before us would have called impossible, including and especially the 'miracle' of airplane flight - which many of us take for granted to this day.

The point of this all is that our reality is always changing.  Our nature is as inherently ignorant beings, and as such we are always searching for what is truth, discovering it in new forms every year, and finding ourselves suddenly able to do things we as a people previously thought impossible.

There is no need to immediately attack that which one doesn't believe, but instead to educate oneself on what one believes to be ridiculous, why people believe it, what others experienced, etc.  Then to come back and to question one's own beliefs if it is found to be important.  There is no need to fear the testing of one's own truths, because if it turns out your truth was indeed false, then you will have succeeded in deconstructing one more misconception that hovers in our social world, and colors the way we see the world around us.

And if it was true, whatever idea you clung to? Congratulations, you were - for the moment - correct. :)

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