Accidental Sorcery?, Casting spells without trying? Options

Hi,

I'm not sure if I posted this in the right section; the way I learned, sorcery was defined as magick done only in the mind. So if I did post this in the wrong section, would a mod please move it to the right section?


Tonight, as I was outside watering my plants, I was looking at the lights from the elementary school that's across from my back yard. As I stood there looking at the lights I thought to myself how I really disliked the lights (they are very bright street light type lights that are always on).

I started to think, wouldn't it be great if I could just get rid of the lights with no effort? So, just playing around, I picked out a light and imagined that I had a sharp metal spearhead in my hand. I imagined myself raising my hand to my mouth and blowing, as if I were blowing a kiss. In my mind the spearhead zoomed through the air and in 1 to 2 seconds traveled the 100 to 200 yards to the light and made contact, destroying it. Almost instantly that exact light went out. I don't know if it turned off or burned out, but it went out and didn't come back on.

It reminded me of something else that happened earlier this year where I was at a funeral and thought to myself, "wouldn't it be strange if the deceased's spirit started playing with that lamp; making it turn on and off?" And that's what happened; the lamp shut off immediately and flickered on and off throughout the whole service.

In both these incidents I didn't intend to cause any change, I was just playing in my mind. 'What if' scenarios, but they happened anyway, instantly.

I've been practicing magick for well over a decade, but I've never had this happen, that I know of. I may have but just wrote it off as coincidence. And instant results to boot.

My question is, is it possible I was preforming magick without any intention of doing so? And if so, why the instant results? I understand these could very well be coincidences, but that's really far out there if they are.

Do any of you have any experience with this happening to you or anyone else? Do any of you have any stories like this where you might have caused change but you weren't even trying?

I welcome your thoughts and stories.

Do any of you have any experience with this happening to you or anyone else? Do any of you have any stories like this where you might have caused change but you weren't even trying?

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frequently. I think, that one of the neat realizations I made in the occult was that we're basically always doing magick, whether we intend to or not. We're constantly influencing the reality around us with our thoughts, energy, etc.

I don't think it's always so blatantly obvious as your light experience, but sometimes it is. When i was young, once my father had basically infuriated me. I forget what it was about (guess it wasn't too important eh?) but I was absolutely livid. So he had gone outside to play catch with my little brother, and i was in the bathroom looking in the mirror and fuming. And in my mind I mentally reared back and hit my father as hard as i could. It was just a fantasy, a sort of way to burn off steam, i wouldn't *really* hit him like that. But the fantasy was very vivid and felt 'potent' anyway, at almost the exact moment I hit him in my mind, I heard a yell from the back yard. shortly thereafter my father and little brother came inside. He had been hit in the face by the baseball, shattered his glasses and gave him a beauty of a black eye. He told my brother that he had a wicked curve ball, to which my brother pleaded innocence.

Obviously these things happen naturally. Just as lights go out. But when the timing is so precise, and it just feels like you 'did' it... well it's hard to not think that there's more than 'chance' involved. From a probability & statistics standpoint, events like this are a one in a billion shot. To think that there's more to it than chance is not just superstition or paranoia IMO.