Why Does Real-Life Magick Work?
Magickal WorldThose who practice magick know that it works. But many do not know why. How is it possible? And, why should it work?
What is magick? Amber K (2015) states that “magick involves using forces to affect willed change in our own perceptions or consciousness” (3). So, real-life magick is not a parlour trick or an imaginary supernatural force exercised over natural force. It is rather an internal change within the person that has a positive result of changing a person’s life. Is it than just a psychological change? No, it is not. The important part is that reality around the person reflects back the change that happens inside the person. How is this possible?
If reality is physical in nature, magick should not be possible. The physical universe cannot respond to internal changes in the person. For example, if I learn to believe that I am lucky, this belief should not make me luckier in a fixed, predictable physical world. So, reality cannot be physical in nature if magick works.
If reality has both mental and physical aspects, it should also not work. If the mind has the power to change, but the physical reality is fixed and predictable, then, changes should not take place in physical reality as a result of any mental change. So, magick should not work in a dualistically designed mental-physical system either.
The only way that magick can work is if reality is entirely mental in nature. In a mental reality, everything is made of mental force or power, and this reality allows for changes made outside the person’s internally perceived world. Amber K explains it in the following way: “We know we can manipulate energy, and we do it all the time in rituals. And if even solid things are really (or sometimes) energy waves, then they are not as rigid and static as they seem, but susceptible to change by the power of imagination, will, and directed energy” (37). Basically, if the internal world of an individual and the external world of people, in which they collectively participate, are made of the same energy, then, reality in the external world can reflect changes that happen within the internal world of an individual. They just have to be made of the same energy. Of course, this energy has to be mental in nature because the mental power of imagination, will and humanly directed energy can affect it. Thus, reality has to be mental in nature at the end.
All in all, this means that reality is mental in nature if magick works. Naturally, those who do not work with magick may deny that magick is possible at all. But those of us who made it work before with good results know that it is not only possible but that it is very real indeed.
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