Did Magic Change Your Life?and How ? Options

so i was wondering if magic changed any aspect of your life ! and did dealing with spirits change it? and in what way?bad or good,and how do u see your life without practicing magic?would it be different?

This post has been edited by superakarma: Nov 14 2007, 01:19 AM

Any aspect? How about ALL of them! The society I live in treats animals (obviously aware, if stupid, beings) like soul-less beasts, and forget about plants or incorporeal spirits! Sure there are boatloads of exceptions, but there's plenty people who treat their fellow humans poorly, too Good luck trying to explain your world-view to a devout [major religion] person. It's easier for me to just translate things into technobabble. "How did I know that Harold? Why it was on the internet, of course." "Where did that extra $ come from Joan? An internet auction... What? Oh not that one you use 24/7, a different one."

To sum it up:
Defeats (IMG:style_emoticons/default/badmood.gif)

• Conversation - lots of trouble doing much more than chitchat or talking about news
• Friends - don't understand or are religiously declined
• Convenience - can't just chuck that wrapper when you know a nature spirit is watching
• Patience - if at first you don't succeed, try again... and again...
• Sanity - infinite ways to get something right or wrong and they're all different
• Time - never seem to have enough of it, especially when trying to do a ritual
• Money - the lion's share mysteriously vanishes to be replaced by unsalable paraphernalia

Victories (IMG:style_emoticons/default/evil2.gif)

• Money - not really a problem anymore, can always manage to get enough to pay the latest bill
• Confidence - knowing you can affect the probability of success is good
• No fear of Death - just talking to someone who's supposed to be "dead" can do wonders
• Open mindedness - your neighbor's conversations with local fairies sounds saner than "I summoned Belial just to get a new car"
• Comfort - servitor! more wine and change that dirge to a samba
• Calmness - no need to worry about that trial when you can see how it ends

I'd also have to say there's not really even one aspect of my life that hasn't been changed in the course of my magickal career. Being aware that your thoughts, actions, and intentions affect the world around you in a direct way - true for even those of us that don't practice magick - makes you personally responsible for paying more attention to those things, whether that means making an effort to change what you put out, or simply eliminating the negative stuff.

So I'd say I'm a better person all around, which in turn has given me a greater quality of life. I make more money, I do the things I want to do, I live without fear for the greater part, I pay more attention to the world around me and can be more aware of it's subtleties, which makes life more fascinating even in it's most mundane aspects.

Magick took me up the coast to my new home, and has pointed me in the direction of the next adventure in life; it's given me a unique relationship with my nephew, and hopefully my future next-gen family as well; it's kept me healthy and sane, and given me just enough experience with being not-so-sane that I know the difference now. I haven't been to a doctor in ages, and never been more healthy.

If I hadn't experienced magick, I would be a deadbeat, more or less. I had no discipline, no drive to achieve anything in life, no aspirations, no real spirituality (granted I was only 12), had so many family problems that I was just about guarunteed to be totally f*cked up. But practicing magick, growing into this path, and realizing the potential that I had, allowed me to transform myself into what I wanted to become, rather than allowing myself to be shaped negatively by my past. I broke old family curses, broke the mold I had been cast in, and now I live life the way I want to, with full recognition of who and what I am. There's nothing more freeing than taking responsibility for yourself, your personality, and your actions. It doesn't require magick to do those things, but for me it was magick that faced me with the necessity of it.

peace

Smiles all, I hope you are all well and safe!

I am more than likely the most ignorant one in the whole of this form, as I have never dabbled in magic, but have been addicted to the subject since having some serious out of the ordinary experiences when younger, it's funny tho because it was those experiences that for me anyhow opened my mind to the whole idea of the power of magic but I'm talking about a more mundane and everyday kind of magic, the kind of magic that is life itself and everything in it.....but I know there is of course a fundamental distinction between the magic I am referring to and ''Magic'' in its manifested and celebtrated form as would be known by most in this forum, real magic the kind that is worked on through trial and error.
The closest I ever got to real magic was having visions and commuinicating with energies as I call them was after buying a book called '' Summoning Spirits '' by Konstantinos,
that book , even though I didn't even get all the way through it, was a very specail book for me , mainly because of events that I was able to identify with,
as for example one of the
spirits in that book being Amsariah , It was a long night once, I was at the point of desperation after having been through some seriously disturbing awakenings in terms of let's say magical stuff, and I had a appariotion of Amsariah, I had no idea who or what a spirit form was untill a few months after having this apparition, I'm still not sure if the word ''apparition '' is the correct word here lol , but it sure looked real, and I wasn't driking or smoking weed at the time haha! ....
All I know is that after the '' apperition '' I for some unknown reason found myself wondering into the book shops in central London, I was normally more inclined to go to the guitar shops and jam with people haha , but I found myself in the occult sections of the big book stores in London, but it was when I was flicking through some book about summoning spirits yeh that one by Konstantinos, anyway, it was while flicking through that back that I nearly freaked coz I recognised instantly the apparition I had, it was that of a spirit called Amsariah...well that is one story amongst many others as to why I am addicted and in awe of anything to do with magic, it and many other amazing things that happened to me changed my life totally in as much a negative way as a positive one yup, I have been left with a completely paradoxical and dualistic understanding of life or my life, and what magic is all about, but I am very much on the ground here, magic for me fundamentally means the power to change, and find new knowledge to make onself greater that one is, in order to help others, all magic in my eyes no matter what shape or form it takes, must have a universal just as a personal objective and that is to help others become greater and find what lies within them so that they can too do know how to access their innate gifts.

Magic in all its shapes and forms for me, their is nothing comparable to it.
I am an outsider as I do not practice magic, but as I said when younger I lived through some very very special experiences that for me were magic and put me on a path and a manner in seeing life in a way that my neighbors would find hard to deal with haha , yeh ...

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so i was wondering if magic changed any aspect of your life ! and did dealing with spirits change it? and in what way?bad or good,and how do u see your life without practicing magic?would it be different?

If magic didn't cause the changes that I wanted to see in my life, I would never use it. I have no use for spiritual stuff (to answer your question). If I had never practiced magic I would be... someone else.

I hope this was helpful! xoxo

Its difficult to really say how I think practicing magick has affected my life. I believe magick is like dreams everybody has but few do it delibrately to control them. Practicing magick has tought me much about myself and given me an alternative perspective to my concept of life, death and reality. In that respect practicing and learning about magick theory has changed me and given me what I consider a more enlightened way of thinking. It has also helped me to gain control of my life. Very little negative has come out of this. I guess those who know I practice and study magick try to down cast me, but not always. Others have actually come to respect me and my beliefs. All in all my venture in the realm of magick has only been a positive one - minus the cost of books and supplies.