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Q&A: How Did You Get Started?
Old 07-20-2004, 03:13 AM   #1
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Daviszko
07-07-2004, 11:07 AM
Hi all, this is just a thread basically to clear up all the confusing ammount of information, and narrow down options for those interested in magick. There are a lot of experienced practitioners is all different forms of magick here, and I think it would help newcomers, like myself, if they shared how they got started and how they developed their practices over time.
Just an idea.
Eden
07-07-2004, 11:09 AM

I read a book that my mother had bought hoping for quick and easy answers... the book did nothing for her but it drew me in and gave me an interest in witchcraft. That was three years ago and I'm still hooked

Ashnook
07-07-2004, 01:31 PM

I started studying ghost hunting when I was 10 because I saw the movie "Ghostbusters". When I was 12 I was playing a video game "EverQuest" which got me interested in magick. Im 16 now.

babyalien
07-07-2004, 01:48 PM

it is my time, and everything has directed me here,

MoonShadow
07-07-2004, 02:35 PM

When the Harry Potter books first came out, that sparked my interest in magick. Over time I read more and books about various topics (mainly psionics) and I was hooked!

Plus, my friend also helped to spark my interest.

Fr.NovumOrganum
07-07-2004, 06:32 PM

I was lead to AC during a long reading process when I was finishing college. He said that a magickian should familairize himself with all of philosophy etc. before starting. I was young enough to take that 100% serious, so I went to grad school. LOL.

I had forgotten about the occult for a long time, 4-5 years, and then it fell back into my life. This time I began to actually do the work, and well, here I am now.

Qryztufre
07-07-2004, 06:45 PM

I learned everything I needed to know from playing D&D *smirk* (you'd actually be surprised at the amount of things that are correct in D&D...then again, you'd be appalled at the number of things that are wrong...)

D&D sparked my initial interest in the Occult. 2 years later my (now ex) wife got me into it (I started reading a bit on this & that & did a few simple spells with moderate success). That was mostly Wiccan stuff...though, they all (the group we were in) used the Necronomicon (and that is what spurred my interest in the Sumerian Pantheon).

My current interest in the occult revolves more around Ceremonial Magick. Waking up one morning and wanting it brought about my interest in this. *shrug*

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Quidgyboo
07-07-2004, 07:04 PM

Well I have the typical response. I'd always liked magick as a young child without knowing of its reality. I would stand in a park and talk to the wind, whisper to the birds, throw imaginary fire balls at my imaginary Power Ranger enemies and all that Jazz. My 'real' study began after I watched The Craft and decided to do a little research. I've now been going strong for the greater part of my life and I don't plan to stop anytime soon.

Daviszko
07-07-2004, 07:26 PM

I learned everything I needed to know from playing D&D *smirk* (you'd actually be surprised at the amount of things that are correct in D&D...then again, you'd be appalled at the number of things that are wrong...)

D&D sparked my initial interest in the Occult. 2 years later my (now ex) wife got me into it (I started reading a bit on this & that & did a few simple spells with moderate success). That was mostly Wiccan stuff...though, they all (the group we were in) used the Necronomicon (and that is what spurred my interest in the Sumerian Pantheon).

My current interest in the occult revolves more around Ceremonial Magick. Waking up one morning and wanting it brought about my interest in this. *shrug*

QYou know I read a website earlier (a very amusing one) that was all anti-D&D in your typical small minded fanatically-Christian babble. The writer claimed that D&D was evil because there is a lot of occultism in it, thought they went to extremes by claiming that the game encouraged rape, murder and satanism. The versions of D&D I've played have really only had magick in the "throws fireball" sense, certainly no rape or satanism. Thanks for the replies everyone. Keep 'em coming

Dark*Avalon
07-07-2004, 07:47 PM

I started off playing V:tM as a Ventrue surrounded by Tremeres. The idea of blood magic got me interested, and one day I happened to chance upon a local occult shop while job hunting and bought my first "real" books on the subject. Since then, I've been studying off and on as time permits, which isnt often between 2 jobs and college.

Qryztufre
07-07-2004, 07:47 PM

You know I read a website earlier (a very amusing one) that was all anti-D&D in your typical small minded fanatically-Christian babble. The writer claimed that D&D was evil because there is a lot of occultism in it, thought they went to extremes by claiming that the game encouraged rape, murder and satanism. The versions of D&D I've played have really only had magick in the "throws fireball" sense, certainly no rape or satanism. Thanks for the replies everyone. Keep 'em coming
Good old D&D and AD&D (1st ed) were both a bit more ceremonial then what it is today. As for it 'promoting Satanism' half of the reason it does is because of the Church. In the original Monster Manual it had demons, but they were named "demon type I - VI". Thanks to the church (who did not like them using the name "demon") in later editions the demon types had a workable names, rather then just a number...but the church was happy

I no longer have my OLD OLD books...but in a few of the guides & supplements it went into things a bit more...it spoke of casting circles, the summoning of demons, the uses for herbs and which stones were best for what. In one of the 'adventures' it even had the sigils fer a few of the 'spirits' within the book...I've no clue if they actually matched anything here...but it is A LOT more then you'll see them publish today. (but even then, most of it was of the "fireball" variety).

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Grey Magician
07-08-2004, 12:56 PM

How i started was by reading everything i could on magic in general. I went online and searched for magic and spells, but got all that money and love spell crap. But then i found other places that talked about how spells actually worked and then i started reading up on energy manipulation. Then i kept studying and studying and studied some more and spent the majority of 1 year just reading and not attempting any spell or anything like that, because i wanted to be ready. Since then ive done various spells with very good results, most crossing the line of being instantanious or pretty close, 1 day at the most. But this is all because i worked very hard and still am working hard. So believe in yourself and read alot. If you do this then anything is possible and i mean anything, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Through magic the sky is not your limit, your limit is the limit you put on yourself, and if you put no limit on yourself, then you can do anything.

Sincerely,

Grey Magician

Tzimtzum
07-08-2004, 01:15 PM

I suppose my earliest curiosities set in when I started playing AD&D when I was 10. The Magic User class was always my favorite. By the time I was 13 I'd already started reading Crowley, Mathers, and Levi. By the time I was 14 I was doing ritual and had jumped head-long into any type of invcation I could get my hands on... yeah, I was a spooky kid. Sometimes I look back and wonder how I survived. Heh.

death reaper
07-08-2004, 01:41 PM

When I was a little kid I always had intrest in magic, not knowing it was real. Then when I was like 8 I heard about witchcraft being real somewhere went online and started looking it up. Seeing a little 8 year old looking up witchcraft must have been real freaky for my family lol . Any way after looking it up for a while my family kept telling me it was evil and I just gave up looking at it till like last year. Now I'm back into it and everything, this time I plan to stay.

DevilsDelight
07-08-2004, 04:48 PM

i suppose it started when i used to sit on my dad's lap playing his Mystic Eye and then he'd read my cards before bed, or stories he and my grandmother would tell of ghosts, spirits and other...interesting experiences...after a divorce it was a disgruntlement with the church my mother made em go to and a fascination for their devil, in a desire to rebel and movie style satanism that stirred my desire to seek beyond the few items from my father...after a few years of focusing my unhappiness and negativity in the more destructive arts, i discovered i was more natural and that's where my power lay...being one with nature and not trying to control what i'm not meant to.

erisdoe
07-08-2004, 06:47 PM

I read a book when I was very young called "Witch's Sister" which got me interested. Not a lot was avaiable at the bookstore at that time. I read some stuff by Gavin and Yvonne Frost, eventually found and practiced "regular" Wicca (as opposed to Frost Wicca), moved into general Paganism, started incorporating other elements and working beyond practical, started incorporating a bit of everything into my practice, now I do not consider myself Pagan as such. I don't consider myself anything. I work within a framework that includes the great spiritual masters (Jesus, Buddha, etc.) an ultimate being of whom we are all a part, and The Balance.

Also, when I was very young I was interested in Ouija, palmistry, things like that. It is part of what led me on my path. Now I do not do much divination at all, I will use the tarot or my pendulum from time to time for divination purposes. However, I do try to record EVP.

SARDONICPILLOW
07-08-2004, 10:03 PM

i had to think about it for a minute but i remember now.

when i was fairly young i went to the library a lot and often times i saw this couple there. i was a curious boy and the way they dressed and certain vibes i picked up from them made me interested in what they were doing.

so i would watch them and when they would go on the computer and when they were done i would get on the computer and go through the history and look at all the sites they had been on. the sites were all about the occult so i would read for a while and then i would go home and look at the sites some more.

i would say that's what really got me started

Tzimtzum
07-08-2004, 10:56 PM

I read a book when I was very young called "Witch's Sister" which got me interested. Not a lot was avaiable at the bookstore at that time. I read some stuff by Gavin and Yvonne Frost, eventually found and practiced "regular" Wicca (as opposed to Frost Wicca), moved into general Paganism, started incorporating other elements and working beyond practical, started incorporating a bit of everything into my practice, now I do not consider myself Pagan as such. I don't consider myself anything. I work within a framework that includes the great spiritual masters (Jesus, Buddha, etc.) an ultimate being of whom we are all apart, and The Balance.

Also, when I was very young I was interested in Oujia, palmistry, things like that. It is part of what led me on my path. Now I do not do much divination at all, I will use the tarot or my pendulum from time to time for divination purposes. However, I do try to record EVP.
I know how you feel, I've cut out divination all together. Over time, I noticed that I would subconsciously work to make the readings correct. I didn't see any reason to let something have that level of control over me.

erisdoe
07-09-2004, 03:52 PM

Exactly Tzimtzum. Although at times a reading would be right on beyond a doubt, other times they seemed vague, like a daily horoscope. An additional reason why is that I am just no all that interested anymore. For some reason, it doesn't seem important to me as it used to.
As I mentioned though, I still make haphazard attempts to record EVP, not to divine the future but rather to see if it is possible.

Mother Mo
07-10-2004, 02:35 AM

My interest was always there, but it got alot of fuel when I took latin in high school for 3 years & starting reading all I could about Greek & Roman mythology. That lead to other kinds of myths from other cultures, which lead to a genuine interest in the actual spirituality of the ancients. I studied polytheistic & monotheistic religions alike in college & independently & found the biggest differences to be basically vocabulary issues.

A witch lived next door to me years ago & helped to pull me in a bit deeper, but then proved to be quite destructive to my own existence. I've always had a hard time trusting any form of organized religion, so I remain solitary in my studies & practices. I now teach my 12 & 14 year old children about the magical arts, but I will forever be a student myself, always looking to see what the universe will offer to teach me next.

Eden
07-10-2004, 06:54 AM

Futher to my earlier response... I brought the little question and answer book all about witchcraft into school... and showed it to my friend. We both decided that this deserved more investigation and we soon discovered, accidentally, that there was a practicing witch in the year above us. Several loaned books later, we decided to start buying our own books about the paths that interested us most. We started our thirteen moons, at the end of which we iniatated one another. That was about two years ago and we're still best friends.
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