Hellooo, just introduction... Options

hello from Croatia! I'm interested in magick so i have come across this page!
I have many questions but they can wait. One I am wondering is probably the basic one: Is magick only ritualistic? or does it exists like in the movies where one can summon a fire or lightning from his hand with a word or a thought...
I really would like that one answered because i'm just not the type to be doing rituals and God know what summoning and marking myself for life.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wizard.gif)

Yeah, I've been a fan of Clamp sine Tokyo Babylon

So for the ascention... Well whan I've gotten started it was different from now! People were more open minded and ready to develop their own techniques. The most common way would be to practice trought indian yoga (chanting mantras etc... I know that you've done it and were disapointed but still... it works). But you may not have the chance I had to go to India with an exchange program called AIESSEC! It don't think one can find a true sadu (wise man) or yogi or... guru (a genuin one, not one of those new age people).
But on the other way, if you are Croate then you are catholic, so in youre place I would go to the basic kabbala stuff (some say it's onely dated to de 12 th century but free manconnery has been officallu founded in the 18 th and still they claim to relate to the temple of Solomon). Try the merkebah visualisation at first in order to purify youre soul and after that...
Try it out, I'll tell you what comes next!