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.

hehe, um... well, i don't quite believe in a UH/god/thing exactly. no "creator being" in my concept of the universe. so I pass on that part of it.

time, in my thinking, is the universe, in a flow, moving through causation. with both the future and the past already existing. so I don't think of time as very personalized either, it's just 'time'. it's just while i sit here wondering what words to type next to explain my thoughts, i've already actually typed them, I just haven't moved to catch up with those keystrokes yet. (well, until now anyway)

consciousness is neato. I don't understand it as much as I'd like to, but I study it a lot. the more i learn the more i end up with new questions. It seems to be mainly to do with the human brain. But there are aspects of consciousness, perception, memory, awareness, etc. which seem to wildly violate not just the physical capacities of an organic brain, but even break physics laws. which suggests that some element of the consciousness is transdimensional in nature. making 'mind' a heck of a lot more than just the byproduct of an electro-chemical bio-computer that looks like a noodle.

At the moment, i am more impressed with the magnitude of the things I dont know about consciousness, than I am the magnitude of the things I do know. So I'm reluctant to ramble on about it too much. I mean, i know a great deal about how the human mind works, on a psychological and neurological level, as well as cognitive science. but, i don't know as much as I'd like about that part of consciousness which exists beyond the physical brain. It strikes me as something I may not really get entirely figured out until I complete my spiritual goals in life. I do feel that consciousness is related to 'the infinite' the universe. but the exact nature of that relationship? well, if i knew *that*, then I'd be pretty close to wrapping up my time here on earth (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bigwink.gif) I mean, most people have paradigms regarding this matter. and I'm familiar with most such paradigms. but I'm not quite satisfied with a paradigm, or even a working model that makes functional magick. I want to really figure it out. I have a sense that it's the sort of understanding which would 'change everything'.