Magickal Addiction Options

I'm not sure exactly where this topic should fit in, so if you can think of a better place for it feel free to move it. I know that a lot of writers and directors use magick as a metaphor for drugs (Joss Whedon comes to mind) and I was wondering what your thoughts were on addiction to magick. Do you think that people can actually get mentally addicted to using magick? And, if so, have you had any experiences either directly or indirectly

This post has been edited by Thorn: Dec 9 2006, 12:03 AM

And hopefully individuals who do deal with higher and stronger (and perhaps potentially more addictive and dangerous) magick have already developed their constitutions out of necessity with previous spiritual growth and learning from past failures

"Then does this mean I finally get my DMV (Disabled Magickal Veteran) membership card?"

This is a very true predicament. We are STILL currently in the age of pisces. The piscean approach, so I have seen it, is one of "let it be," and "this is the way things are." It's perfectly fine if someone wants to go Zen, and as of this lifetime and age, this seems to be the only real way "out" of our reality, in respect to the general Idea of a calmness/centeredness/ambivalent unification/etc. This would further go on to point out the possibility that Higher Beings are indeed ones that abide by the celestial rule of which it IS the age of Pisces, and this is the dynamic of which it goes (that's the way it is). Note that there are some allegories, metaphors, and (that literary term that means "a reference to another source") that show that this may be indeed how our reality works in relation to Magick.

For instance, the age old question "Who are you?" when asked to a divine source. It's response? "I AM." Most Theologists and other scholars generally agree that the term is said in the context of "I am who I am. This is a statement of present tense. I am not of the past, nor of the future, for my concentration is NOW." This truly aligns with the concept of "centeredness" and "enlightenment" by "being in the here-now," thus bringing to terms that "God(liness/ship)/enlightenment is found by being centered and rooted in the present."

Bring this point with the former, then we all must realize that at this current point in time, although one may learn about magick in a gnostic fashion, it is actually very dangerous to live in magick as of this point in humanity's existence. After all, this IS the Age of Pisces, and it is to be accepted where we are, when we are, who we are, as of the are-nots. As of now, this is the way things are. This is our reality which must be accepted. When the Age of Aquarius rolls around...then we can hokey-pokey and dosey-do.

Our reality, as of this point, does not accept magick. This is a truth. It is, indeed, unaccepted. Thus, magick, in all it's forms, is not proper when forced into this realm. If it shows itself, it is indeed because it has to be at that point in time. It's not our place to really know how to break the barrier, because it's not time yet. There is no reason, it just -is-, and that's the way it is...

For -now-.