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.

This is why it try not to think to much or hard unless I am trying for some result. When you think about something even just what if games you gather energy with your thoughts, and when after some time of thought, you happen to visualize a release -poking the light for example- the gathered energy follows the path we unintentional gave it.

Granted Taoists shouldn't do a lot of hard thinking anyway (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif), but when you give something a release, power -however you define it- is sent on that path. Emotions are often a sign or symptom of want, and once you have a want your Will often follows. To be sure lights that are always on will go out, and baseballs tossed about will go awry, but because they are more likely to happen when tossed or left on, they are also more easy influenced by magick. To my mind it does not need very much energy to make something that is likely to go wrong, do so.

I used to do odd things like this all the time. My workings are strongest with groups of people rather than objects, so that is how many coincidenceses manifested in my youth. When playing cads with people who where decent at the game, they would miss an obvious combination or try some play that was not likely to win. Much like Iamnoone there was no Will for that to happen, only a want to win.

This post has been edited by fatherjhon: Jul 15 2010, 11:16 AM