Does Magick Work?
Yes it always works but not in the way you often think it will.
Is magick real?
Yes. Don’t be dumb, of course it’s real.
But does it work?
Yes it always works but not in the way you often think it will.
Magick is about focus, energy, and action.
If you mean can I do magick for money and have the money just come to me without work?
Anything is possible but I have never accomplished such a feat.
That said, magick helped me focus and apply my energy to money making endeavors.
So you could view it as a kind of funky mindgame that helps you get shit done.
But sometimes weird things do happen.
Things you can’t exactly explain.
During an invocation of Hecate, I saw candles light themselves and one of the participants became possessed in some strange oracular way.
Sometimes the Tarot or the I Ching or some other divinatory method tosses up an image or theme and then you see that very thing in your actual physical life.
Sometimes the spirits talk. Or move tables. Or throw things.
Those weird things indicate that something beyond my wishful thinking is at work.
This said, many people will try to halfheartedly do a sigil or do some recipe style spell and nothing will happen.
Magick is a practice. Like Yoga, meditation, martial arts, writing, or music.
Banging away on a piano for ten minutes doesn’t disprove music and your lack of skill at the art doesn’t disprove magick.
If it’s real then why doesn’t anyone research it?
Because I could walk into any university holding hands with Bigfoot and a Black Eyed Kid and no one would look at either of them.
There is no will to investigate the paranormal in academic circles. There’s no funding for it. And to even consider the evidence can cost you your reputation in serious research circles.
I was once told an anecdote about a neuropsychologist who discovered a curious phenomenon.
His clients helped their depression by changing their handwriting.
It wasn't a cure or anything like that but it was a weird phenomenon he noted.
He brought this to the attention of his colleagues and they nodded with interest.
The idealistic neuropsychologist suggested they study it.
An older colleague said simply: “No one's going to fund that research. There's no profit in it.”
This anecdote has stuck with me ever since.
In the modern world there is no room for the study of the curious, the strange, or the uncanny.
Not because these things don't exist but because you can't turn a profit on them.
Magick is a practice that sometimes yields uncanny results.
But those tend to be the exception rather than the rule.
If you look at the roots of magick it was about survival.
Ensuring a successful hunt.
Trying to help someone heal.
Cursing an enemy so you could get the upper hand.
Helping the crops to grow..
Note that all of these things needed focused action.
The hunt.
Tending to the sick.
Fighting the enemy.
Planting the crops.
You could look at magick as a kind of psychological focus practice that supports our actions.
And sometimes, just sometimes, weird things happen.
Food appears. The patient spontaneously recovers. The enemy dies suddenly. There's an unexpected bumper crop.
We need to look at magick more as a survival tool than a vending machine.
Yes magick is real.
And magick always works.
You have to put in the work but magick has kept me going in the face of impossible odds.
And that's pretty fucking miraculous.
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