I don't ever want to lose my skepticism. There is a level of skepticism that I seem to be able to hold without losing the kind of belief that makes things work. I think it has to do with the knowledge that everything I perceive, magickal or otherwise, could be illusion, that I could be in an elaborate deception of senses in the universal hologram, and that what 'reality' is there could be far different from what I perceive it. That's probably the Magick 101 rule that applies here - "Perception is everything". Literally - if you read anything in modern physics theory, they are now developing theories that match what occultists have said for centuries - that nothing may exist if it is not perceived. So that turns 'reality' into a process, not a thing - the dynamic process between my perceptions and what I am perceiving. For all practical purposes, nothing exists outside your own perceptions. It may, but you'll never be able to know, because everything is always filtered through your own perceptions. This is why there can be no 'absolute truths', because no two people will have precisely the same perceptions. This is why I can be skeptical about magick, because on a certain level I'm skeptical about everything I perceive, to verify that that process is working as well as I can make it. And that is why magick can work, because if all reality exists within the mind, if space and time on a quantum level don't exist as separate entities, then a strong enough belief or will, if it adjusts enough perceptions, can effectively change reality. Not the 'immutable' points of reality, the consensus that we put together about the 'laws' of space and time, but the random factors of the universe. Schroedinger's Cat - is it there or isn't it? That's the sort of thing magick works on - causal reality, 'Making things happen'.
Is magick coincidence? I'll ask you in return, how do you explain coincidence? Could it be instead that coincidence is magick? I think perhaps magick could be defined as manipulating coincidence, making the dice rolls come out favorable for you.
- Cecylyna
And remember Thalia's favorite line...
Life is too important to be taken seriously!
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