Magick Verifiability

Magick Verifiability

Speaking as someone who has practiced magick for many years and been part of a number of magical groups practicing in a wide variety of ways...

I have never met someone who could consistently manifest supernatural results.

Now, I have heard many reliable stories of supernatural happenings. I have even had a few myself that occurred seemingly as a direct result of my own work, but consistently reproducible? No.

The flashing stuff isn't even the point of the practice. Seemingly miraculous happenings are super cool, but the magick is more than that. The weird shit that sometimes happens is actually a distraction more than anything. In my experience, good effective magick manifests subtly.

For me, the practice of magick is an approach to being. Magick is about being fully engaged in the mystery of existence. Magick is an exploration of being, consciousness, free will, memory, and time. It is a constant wrestling with the very concept of reality.

My advice, don't fret the weird stuff. Whether it happens or not, it isn't the point of the work. Don't be timid about doubting others, and don't be offended if others doubt you. Don't take incredible claims at face value.

I was probably away from Tumblr long enough to miss a lot of the alterhuman/therian discourse that has been circulating. To be fair, discussions around ‘otherkin’ were just peaking in popularity around the time I abandoned my old account (not for any reason besides being busy with other things and it was mainly used for creative reference anyway).

While I personally do not use any of those labels to identify myself nor do I feel compelled to thoroughly define myself in that way, perhaps I always figured everyone had experiences that triggered very specific emotions and bodily memories that were not quite describable by ‘normal’ means. Then again, I similarly felt for a long time that everyone wondered what it would be like to be a different gender or that everyone dealt with executive dysfunction to some degree—only to come to the realization years later that it was surely not the case.

But these feelings of ‘otherness’ within the self is part of what I was alluding to in my manifesto when I say that ‘We are fragmented and multifaceted’. Of course each of us is allowed to explore diverse interests and aesthetics but it’s more than that: within each of us is a series of refractions of experiences and emotions like if life was light filtered through a gem or placed in front of funhouse mirrors. It can be beautiful and terrifying and lonely to be confronted with disparate feelings or memories and contradictions within ourselves.