My First Spell - Why It Didnt Work Options

Hello. I have just started in magick. I have read liber null, futureritual and i am now reading 11 lessons in magick. Does this all worrk? I have tried a seduction spell multiple times, but it seems it has done nothing. Is magick real???
Also is there a link between magick and law of attraction? Do you think law of attraction works?
Any way here is the spell, in any case:


1) Form your statement of intent.
2) Energize with breathing.
3) Create your magickal self and zip it up inside you.
4) Sit in your circle.
5) Visualize and feel a circle of energy. It becomes a tunnel to the target.
6) Reach out and yank the tube into your physical space. Get the sense that the actual
person is standing there in your circle.
7) Create a golden rapport bubble surrounding you both.
8) In imagination, open arms and greet warmly. (Alternative: shake hands warmly.)
9) See your energy extending from your solar plexus to theirs. Represent the same
thing also connecting your third eyes (middle of your forehead) and your groins.
10) Unzip the target, releasing their energy.
11) Unzip yourself, allowing your energy to flow into the target.
12) Physically reach out and remove the target’s head, lowering it over your own.
13) Mentally say, “As I place this head on mine, I automatically and unconsciously
absorb everything I need to seduce and influence this person.”
14) Place their head back on their own body.
15) Mentally step around behind the target. Imagine your arms around her. Imagine
you can feel what she would feel. Simultaneously imagine the sensations from
both perspectives.
16) The two of you now watch a movie screen that shows the two of you doing
whatever it is that you want the two of you to be doing.
17) As this occurs, describe to her all the benefits and values and good feelings that
flow to her as a result. (You should be able to do this in order for it to work.)
18) Step into the target on the movie screen. Feel what she feels as she’s doing
whatever she is doing.
19) Step into the target as she’s standing in the circle, watching the movie play. Feel
what she feels as she watches herself.
20) Keep narrating to her how she is responding. Specifically tell her about her own
responses. Make sure you give her warm, safe, comfortable feelings before you
turn up the heat to more exciting feelings.
21) Step outside of all that. You’re still in the circle with her; see her standing before
you. Say, “You want this now, don’t you!”
22) Hear and see her give her ascent: “Yes, yes I do.” Then zip up her energy
meridians. Lock them closed, locking those thoughtforms inside her.
23) See the energy of those thoughtforms vibrating within her, and spreading up,
down, and all throughout her body.
24) Tell her, “Go. Make these thoughts your own, until you’re compelled to act on
them.” [At this point on the tape, Ross instructs the students to cross out the next
three steps in this ritual that appeared on the original handout. I left them out of
this document as well, as they were unnecessary.]
25) Zip up your own energy meridians.
26) Close the ritual by saying, “My will is now truly and well done.” (Or something to
that effect.)

As someone who has used love spells before, I now feel that they're usually not worth it. I don't particularly regret using the one I did and it did in fact, bring me the girl I wanted(but mind you, not without a lot of additional effort and past magic work), but she turned into FAR more of a hassle than I could have imagined at the time. I have a feeling that while 'karma' doesn't exactly 'punish' you for generally decent intentions, it will make your life rather interesting.

On the other hand, there is experience to be gained from using magic, so what is to blame about that? As for the practice, I will say that repetition, discipline and a genuine will untainted by emotion is the best way about it. You must not feel very strongly about it - simply because it inteferes with the working. Its like forging a sword and paying too much attention to the joy of finished product - you are far more likely to slip up and cut off your fingers.

she turned into FAR more of a hassle than I could have imagined at the time.

MUHAHAHAHA!

She and every other bloody woman, mate.

...and men are no better.

Anti-love spells are useful for this reason.

(cynical and grumpy rant follows)

And jeeze, if it isn't "meant to be" for whatever reason the magick won't last anyway! And what's "wrong" if it doesn't work in the end? You get burned? You realize what kind of person you really want to be with instead? And if it does work, then what? Oops, already nipped it in the bud!

Practice no magick, learn nothing, let the universe decide what is going to happen for you. Because magick influences the world in an unnatural way, forcing things to happen, and you'll regret it in the end.

(end cynical/grumpy rant)

Ideally, magick is supposed to bring oneself in line with the "natural course of the soul," to use Vagrant's language. I think the real difficulty here is not knowing from the get-go what the course of one's soul is supposed to be, and it gives me shudders to think that being foreclosed in life would be preferable to "trying stuff out and messing it up." To quote Jack London, I'd rather be ashes than dust...and don't forget that the phoenix always rises from the ashes.

This post has been edited by monkman418: Jan 20 2011, 09:35 PM