Witchcraft! Do you believe in it?

[Teppler]

Originally Posted by feniin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why are you trying to "prove" a dream happened in the first place?

I’m getting at a point here.

There are things that happen in this world that aren’t provable, yet they happen none the less.

[Ennewi]

Insert scene from "Contact" here.

[Cecily]

I've been dabbling with magic since April. It's given me a sense of radical openness in addition to nihilistic skepticism. I can entertain any belief because I have the tools to escape that belief.

"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."

You can get a lot done if you don't believe anything is stopping you. That's magic.

[Madbad]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."

You can get a lot done if you don't believe anything is stopping you. That's magic.

True magicks

[Tethler]

Originally Posted by Teppler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Feel free to test me.

Shamanism is high voltage. It's a series of techniques that tugs on incredible forces that are behind the veil.

Consider this. I've probably done this rant somewhere here before but, string theory says that reality is made up of tons of intersecting strings that make up reality. Most are not perceivable to the human mind but they are there none the less. There's a whole world of things happening around you every moment, tugging on you, that you are unaware of. Advanced occult meditation teaches one how to deal with these forces and perhaps one day manipulate them.

Shamans main technique is the power of the trance. They utilize all sorts of techniques to induce a state where they are in a trance and they can gain information from there. They utilize repetitive singing, dance, other movements, drugs, rituals and my favorite, intense breathing exercises which I'm one of the best at. Spinal bhastrika is a great breathing/trance technique.

This is true immersion, folks. Teppler camped Seb crypt for so many hours he thinks he became a real-life shaman.

[Vormotus]

Originally Posted by Teppler [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

How does one prove a dream?

It’s possible to look at brain waves during sleep and show someone is within dreaming brainwave activity but..... how does one prove this or that happened in a dream last night?

Some experiences are personal. You know the dream happened. You experienced it. How can you prove what happened?

This reminded me for a bit about one ... very and highly interesting brain/mental condition:

-APHANTASIA


- BBC Article on Aphantasia

It is ... quite daunting to have this condition. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Vormotus]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Santa most certainly is real!

Ohh!
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[Vormotus]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."

You can get a lot done if you don't believe anything is stopping you. That's magic.

Completely apart from any Magic, this mindset is personally a very powerful one!

Glad you are incorporating it in your mental/thought patterns! +1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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[Hazek]

Magic, whether you call it witchcraft, voodoo, sorcery, etc, and despite the different practices within those schools, is just the concept of doing anything, usually ritualistic to achieve a desired result. Although the result isn't always how you expect kinda like the cliche of wishes from a Genie (Jinnea) backfiring. And the three main components of successful magic is belief, "the energy put into it", and "help" from unseen forces.

So whether or not you're drawing pentagrams in your room with candles or tricking people into giving you money with an illusion, is the essentially the same. And the means of doing so or even how it works is less important than producing results. And it includes "calling on unseen forces" or beings like demons, spirits, elementals, pure consciousness, whatever. Where do you think EQ got its lore from like the mage pets or the Ifriti? Its an actual type of jinn.

But I strongly suggest avoiding magic entirely and to call on God instead and do real work if you want results without "negative" effects. Although you could say that even basic work is a type of magic. But you need nothing else and it will only harm you in the end, sometimes severely.

This guy explains it well: Richard Smoley: Magic and the Occult

And here's some examples of what Jinn sound like, although they vary in type and demeanor. Some of them like to lie alot and mess with us but they have different motives. And multiple of them can reside in people. The new age channelers are using the same phenomena but have no idea what they're letting possess them:

"SON OF IBLEES" - 100,000 YEAR OLD JINN True or False

Abu Ruqya - JAY Z satanic jinn

[feniin]

Magic isn't real.