5/ Systems of ritual and religious/mystical tools serve the function of enhancing personal belief in the attempted magic and have no other inherent power or function
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6/ Western Ritual Magic and other esoteric systems developed highly-ornamented systems to make them seem more mysterious and enhance the practice with a ready-made belief framework that lifted the magician out of the mundane But this is not necessary for efficacy
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7/ The concept of play also seems very important to belief and magic; wonder is a component of this Loosely held ideas in the style of Kegan Stage 5 as discussed on Meaningness mimic childhood mindstates in some ways and there may be overlap
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8/ Furthermore, the efficacy of belief to work magic may be heritable, which is why we have cultural priors encoded in our media about "magician lineages" Check out placebome studies and consider them from this lens
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9/ Theory #3: There are some limitations to how it works or what it can affect and I don't know what they are or how they function... yet. But magical practice has produced better than random results in my best attempts to be unbiased with tarot, sigils, and dreaming.
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10/ If you're inclined to be skeptical, my results won't convince you. The nature of magic working seems to be variable and highly subjective. Skepticism itself may interfere with magic and there are some very interesting theories as to why, which I intend to explore.
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11/ The skepticism interferes to such a degree that my personal tarot results are consistently worse when I'm reading for a person skeptical of the practice This needs more study and better consideration But the results are still better than random
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12/ Also, attempting to use it for military or economic ends appears to interfere in unpredictable ways
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13/ Theory #4: Magical practice is intimately linked to Art, Technology, and Philosophy and is much more art than science I can't really explain what I mean yet except to say that labs will not produce good art consistently
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Do labs produce good science consistently? Cc
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some labs do good luck guessing which
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i'm partial to chocolate ones
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Yeah my thoughts exactly
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