Did Magic Change Your Life?and How ? Options

so i was wondering if magic changed any aspect of your life ! and did dealing with spirits change it? and in what way?bad or good,and how do u see your life without practicing magic?would it be different?

This post has been edited by superakarma: Nov 14 2007, 01:19 AM

Any aspect? How about ALL of them! The society I live in treats animals (obviously aware, if stupid, beings) like soul-less beasts, and forget about plants or incorporeal spirits! Sure there are boatloads of exceptions, but there's plenty people who treat their fellow humans poorly, too Good luck trying to explain your world-view to a devout [major religion] person. It's easier for me to just translate things into technobabble. "How did I know that Harold? Why it was on the internet, of course." "Where did that extra $ come from Joan? An internet auction... What? Oh not that one you use 24/7, a different one."

To sum it up:
Defeats (IMG:style_emoticons/default/badmood.gif)

• Conversation - lots of trouble doing much more than chitchat or talking about news
• Friends - don't understand or are religiously declined
• Convenience - can't just chuck that wrapper when you know a nature spirit is watching
• Patience - if at first you don't succeed, try again... and again...
• Sanity - infinite ways to get something right or wrong and they're all different
• Time - never seem to have enough of it, especially when trying to do a ritual
• Money - the lion's share mysteriously vanishes to be replaced by unsalable paraphernalia

Victories (IMG:style_emoticons/default/evil2.gif)

• Money - not really a problem anymore, can always manage to get enough to pay the latest bill
• Confidence - knowing you can affect the probability of success is good
• No fear of Death - just talking to someone who's supposed to be "dead" can do wonders
• Open mindedness - your neighbor's conversations with local fairies sounds saner than "I summoned Belial just to get a new car"
• Comfort - servitor! more wine and change that dirge to a samba
• Calmness - no need to worry about that trial when you can see how it ends

I'd also have to say there's not really even one aspect of my life that hasn't been changed in the course of my magickal career. Being aware that your thoughts, actions, and intentions affect the world around you in a direct way - true for even those of us that don't practice magick - makes you personally responsible for paying more attention to those things, whether that means making an effort to change what you put out, or simply eliminating the negative stuff.

So I'd say I'm a better person all around, which in turn has given me a greater quality of life. I make more money, I do the things I want to do, I live without fear for the greater part, I pay more attention to the world around me and can be more aware of it's subtleties, which makes life more fascinating even in it's most mundane aspects.

Magick took me up the coast to my new home, and has pointed me in the direction of the next adventure in life; it's given me a unique relationship with my nephew, and hopefully my future next-gen family as well; it's kept me healthy and sane, and given me just enough experience with being not-so-sane that I know the difference now. I haven't been to a doctor in ages, and never been more healthy.

If I hadn't experienced magick, I would be a deadbeat, more or less. I had no discipline, no drive to achieve anything in life, no aspirations, no real spirituality (granted I was only 12), had so many family problems that I was just about guarunteed to be totally f*cked up. But practicing magick, growing into this path, and realizing the potential that I had, allowed me to transform myself into what I wanted to become, rather than allowing myself to be shaped negatively by my past. I broke old family curses, broke the mold I had been cast in, and now I live life the way I want to, with full recognition of who and what I am. There's nothing more freeing than taking responsibility for yourself, your personality, and your actions. It doesn't require magick to do those things, but for me it was magick that faced me with the necessity of it.

peace