Non-magical People, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! Options

i probably said this before, but don't you just cringe and turn all blue when somebody totally ignores the invisible that freaking jumping up and down right in front of them?

its like they think there is nothing here but here - pitiful, and nauseating

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As possibly one of these "non-magical people", please don't hate me. I'm reading about all sorts of bizarrely creepy events in this forum: levitation, aura vision, spiritual parasites, demons, artificial sentient constructs, curses made of human bones, and etc., and I wonder, if I stay away from 'magick' (I know hardly anything about it), will I never encounter any 'supernatural' phenomena or might I potentially have a 'spiritual parasite' or etc. whether I believe in them or not?

For my self-protection, should I at least make an attempt to learn magick and how to use it to at least defend myself, or would it be better if I never looked into this ever again? Because if I take what is said in these forums at face value, it gives me the chills to think what some of the people on this forum do.

This post has been edited by myusername: May 20 2010, 12:19 PM

As possibly one of these "non-magical people", please don't hate me. I'm reading about all sorts of bizarrely creepy events in this forum: levitation, aura vision, spiritual parasites, demons, artificial sentient constructs, curses made of human bones, and etc., and I wonder, if I stay away from 'magick' (I know hardly anything about it), will I never encounter any 'supernatural' phenomena or might I potentially have a 'spiritual parasite' or etc. whether I believe in them or not?

For my self-protection, should I at least make an attempt to learn magick and how to use it to at least defend myself, or would it be better if I never looked into this ever again? Because if I take what is said in these forums at face value, it gives me the chills to think what some of the people on this forum do.

Magic is a byproduct of a much wider process of awakening to an expanded awareness. I'm not necessarily talking about prescient abilities or supernatural powers, but just the knowledge and understanding of a different side of reality. As that awareness begins to include a more complex reality, we become aware of things that wouldn't otherwise catch our attention. But, just because we don't pay attention to those things, doesn't mean that they don't affect us - or that we don't deal with them in other ways. I call it a spiritual parasite, you call it clinical depression, a chemical imbalance, malaise, etc. You'll go and get medication (as an example) to deal with it, while I'll resort to banishing the parasite and repairing the damage it leaves behind.

We both may see an old man surrounded by crows - but all you see is an old man surrounded by crows. I see the answer to my question, a sign or omen I was waiting for to confirm that my magic has initiated the necessary events to bring about my intention.

The fact is, we're all dealing with the same issues of being alive and observing the world. We all get depressed, angry, happy; we all feel compassion and hatred; we all get sick or injured, good things happen and bad things happen. The difference is that if there is no awareness, then all you really have to go on is the symptoms of these things, and you deal with them from a symptomatic point of view. Magicians, etc., view existence holistically, wherein symptoms are manifestations of subtler reality, and by becoming aware of and manipulating that subtler reality, we interact with the causes of 'symptoms' in a direct way.

So in other words, you experience the supernatural all the time - everyone does - they just don't realize it.

I'll leave the defining of supernatural alone for right now - suffice it to say that we have different definitions more than likely, based on our definition of nature as a phenomenal existence.

peace