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.

Hey there~

I'm really happy I can help. To be honest, I have been a fairly messed up kid for a really really long time. I've known that for quite a wihle, and pretty much when I had the opportunity to actually get help, I sought it out and i'm recovering from crap that happened.

Since I was a kid, I've had egregores around me, teaching me, explaining stuff to me, running long commentaries through me, explaining why for example, killing is inappropriate at that moment, and generally small things that kept your mind intact. They also taught me everything I know, and they told me stories. Stories about stuff like UH, and whatnot.

Frankly, I don't genuinely comprehend the concept of UH, and this big picture is slightly a pointless waste of time. I can understand the concept, but I can't genuinely comprehend it, and its a total waste of time. My teachers basically told me its the cosmic joke. Genuine truth is pointlessness, inaccessible, and unknowable. The small truths of our lives: our feelings, our hope, our fears, our dreams, are the truths worth knowing. Though they aren't 'pure', and they aren't the greatest picture, they're all you should work with. "Go on with your life, why the f%*! should you care about the big picture? " was literally what my teacher told me when she taught me this.

Fate technically doesn't exist on our plane of existence and perception. Events, according to our observation will continue to occur. If you shoot a man, the gun in your hand fired a bullet that seriously wounded an individual. In the big picture, fate exists, but this big picture is so big that its stupidly pointless that you might as well disregard it. In our plane of focus, we are responsible for our actions. We will be rewarded in one way or another for our actions. You can throw away the notion of UH, and still be okay. You won't be saved or damned for knowing or not knowing this concept.

But, back to your final question, my teachers reached out to me because I think that I couldn't actually establish a legitimate bond with other human beings. My original goals in therapy was to develop compassion towards the living. There was one point in my life where I've shut people I don't like in spiritual Faraday cages simply because it was fun to watch them struggle under the weight. I'm still honestly horrified and disgusted by things I did, but to be honest, I feel that spirituality is a sign of some degree of great emotional trauma. It means that normal coping mechanisms couldn't save you, so for some strange reason, whether it was out of pity, or some celestial raffle, some Gods somewhere decided to be your guardian angel.

If UH starts becoming a problem, I would seriously seek therapy. Therapy is not for nutjobs, its for fine tuning the brain, and teaching individuals how to change your own oil and soup up or tone down your brain when you need to. Preferably look for one that's more open minded (when i was looking for a therapist, I found they usually explained their own beliefs up front.) If you have more questions about this stuff I can give you preliminary answers privately.

This post has been edited by kaboom13: Jul 18 2010, 09:38 AM