When I was studying Tibetan Buddhism, my fellow practitioners and I were constantly being regaled with stories about this or that special lama who could materialize things out of thing air. I forget the word of it. The lama I studied with also claimed that folks would try to walk through walls and get caught in between. (But I don't really believe this. ) And this stuff is also known in Hinduism ansd Yoga. For example, Sai Baba supposedly can materialize things--and even though this phenomenon by him was exposed as sleight of hand, it (and some other questionable things) has not marred his reputation in the least among devotees. I know an elderly woman who was at a bhajan (a devotional rite) with Sai Baba folks who were chanting in the dark for hours and when the lights went back on, my elderly friend was supposedly miraculously covered in dried flower petals. People perceive things according to belief. But even the early 20th century "lady lama" Alexandra David-Neel noted that although prodigious things occurred in Nepal and Tibet among the lamas and sorcerers, still sleight of hand was at play as well. There are instances of persons creating tulpas (thought-forms that can be seen and experienced as entities by others). I think that people in the west sometimes can do this --and they often to it unintentionally because of neurotic obsession or compensation. So-called poltergeist activity has been theorized to be such and not the effect of otherworldly beings. I myself generated a presence very many years ago--not on purpose or in the context of magic. It was more like an "imaginary friend" (on these occult/mysticism boards you will occasionally come across folks--usually young women--who claim to have an "astral lover"--it was something like that--a grown-up "imaginary friend"). In any case, poltergeist activity began to occur in my home and elsewhere for a few months and had the effect of protecting me and freaking out my then husband. An exercise in Chaos magick, of course, is to create servitors--which in a sense are hought-forms directed to a task. If you were a very concentrated and advanced mage and if you spent a great deal of time in obsession and trance on a servitor, theoretically speaking,it would be possible to make it materiallize as a lama might materialize and tulpa.
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Leaving aside those principles of magic that play on the superstitious and that, whatever they be, are unworthy of the general public, we will direct our thoughts only to those things that contribute to wisdom and that can satisfy better minds . . . -from De Magia by Giordano Bruno (born 1548; burned at the stake February 16, 1600). My Webpage
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