What Do You Use Magic For? Options

Magic: the art of producing a desired effect or result through the use of incantation or various other techniques that presumably assure human control of supernatural agencies or the forces of nature

In it's definition magic has endless possibilities....

does it?

For some strange reason. when i am thinking up "Incantation" or "various other techniques" I have trouble thinking up what to do.

"what exactly is the problem i'm facing now? How do i solve it?" are questions i ask,

but magic doesn't seem to come up as an answer often.

and when it does, i use my trusty tarrot deck and i get BAD RESULTS
BAD BAD BAD RESULTS

so the magic i do always ends up being pure white magic since everything else seems it would go bad.

that's pretty limited if you ask me.

You'd make a great bodhisattva (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
we perceive the same problem of "infinity being infinitely depersonalizing".

The entire focus of my path right now is on examining the possibility of engineering a sort of paradoxical existence, both finite and "not finite" at the same time. to sort of become a finite, persona-containing, face of the infinite, whole with the infinite, yet also individual. A sort of truncated model, like a cone with an ending point at the tip, and no end to it on the other side. I am led to believe that this is an even more difficult task than just merging with the infinite. While some might consider it an incomplete attainment, I feel the result is (from a certain perspective) actually "more vast" than just touching aum and going to nirvana. Since infinity in and of itself actually does fail to encompass one thing, 'finite-ness'.

But I wonder at just how such a blended state would play out, and whether one would (in full knowledge of the 'grand clockwork' and the meaninglessness of meaning) actually ever want to act upon it. I think that touches on the paradoxical aspect of my notion.
I'm afraid I have yet to really work it out.
It is my feeling that to do so will require shifting the throne of one's self anchor to the "higher self" rather than the physical self, or essentially merge with one's HGA, as I agree that it looks like it may well be beyond the capacity of a limited human brain/body to resolve this paradox.

no telling for certain what will make this notion workable though, without actually doing it.
as for the possibility of it, I feel that my patron would not spend the past decade helping and instructing unless it was possible.

that's what I would do by the way... like in your 'dying breath' act, to make the world a better place. my bodhisattva-like 'good will' would be to in turn instruct anyone who is capable, ready, and desirous, to help them realize the same spiritual growth. (i'm really more tantrik than buddhist though)

actually, from an infinite perspective, depending on how you look at time, perhaps I already am doing that, if i, in the future, succeeded. and maybe that's exactly what the higher self/hga is...

This post has been edited by Kath: Jun 1 2010, 03:02 AM