Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Tom" Newsgroups: alt.magick References: <677960b4.0203120127.33fdd3d7@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: a question Lines: 54 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:20:19 -0800 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.26.19.129 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 1015957007 216.26.19.129 (Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:16:47 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:16:47 CST Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:291372 "Kasper Kofoed" wrote in message news:677960b4.0203120127.33fdd3d7@posting.google.com... > Hello there > > Me and my friend have a assignment about magic, and > therefore I have some questions I hope some of you > would answer > > Of what I have read here you all, or at least some of you > sincerely believe in magic, and I would like to know why? > I myself would love if there was magic in the world, but I all of > my life, I have never seen anything that could convince me, > how did you become “believers”? Different people believe different things about magick. I, for example, have never seen anything I would seriously consider to be a "psychic power", but many people who practice magick believe in them. Personally, I don't think you need to believe in such things as psychic powers or spirits made of ectoplasm or some such mysterious substance in order to experience phenomena associated with magick. Magick, to me, is what gives you a sense of wonder and mystery. It produces a confusion about the nature of cause and effect in those who don't understand what's going on. Magick is stuff that happens and you don't have any explanations that can be checked. Lots of people get into magick hoping to discover some acceptable explanation for some extraordinary event or events that they have experienced. Not me, though. I grew up a Roman Catholic and that means that my early life was filled with stories and examples of rituals that supposedly influence invisible powers that are capable of miraculously circumventing the laws of nature and the effects of chance. It was in the course of trying to find out if all those things (or any of them) were true that led me to the study and practice of magick. > What does it mean to you life that you believe in magic? Did your life > change a lot when you learned about magic? I've been learning about magick all my life. I'm still learning about it. There was no point in my life where I can say that I went from a state of not believing in magick to a state of believing in it, so no sudden change, like a religious conversion, took place for me. > How does magic affect your life? Magick is a way of appreciating and stimulating a sense of wonderment, awe, and delight in my experience of life. I like to laugh, too. Magick affects my life much in the way that humor affects my life. Like humor, I do it and it affects how I see things and feel about things. Like humor, I do it and it affects those around me in a variety of ways.