Anyone Do The Test? Options

Wondering if anyone tried the proof of principle experiment of magickal/psychokinetic effect I posted back in December 2010 in the "Real Ultimate Power" thread in the fight club and, if so, what are your results?

Do I detect just a tiny bit of disappointment with the folks you've tried to help? Run into this so many times that I consider it a lesson. The corollary of "when the student is ready the teacher will appear" is "when the student isn't ready the teacher should stop butting his head against a brick wall, go home and chill". You can't teach magick to those not ready to learn. Automatic safety system built into the universe? Maybe.

Most everybody today gets their ideas about magick from Hollywood, so if you don't raise the dead or throw lightning bolts at whim they assume it's all fantasy and delusion on your part. At that point their mental filters kick in and screen out anything else you may say. The desire to learn new things and the understanding that they don't know everything there is to know is essential for a novice in magick. Along with this is a type of quiet courage; the willingness to face their own limitations and to work to transcend them. Add to this is the honesty to admit that they may sometimes be wrong and to find the truth, no matter how it conflicts with their beliefs. And then a dogged determination and willingness to work for a goal that does not show up immediately. All this is unfortunately very rare.

No wonder the old-time wizards were always depicted as grumpy and distant. They had reason to be that way.