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Selcar
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I practice because it interests me, and because it feels physically good to do so. I don't have an end result in mind; I just do it. I don't hope to be a master, or to do anything spectacular; I just hope to understand more about myself through it.
Since I don't have a goal to go after, I simply practice in what little ways I can; healing what little I can, fooling around with shielding or whatever else tickles my fancy.
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Shira
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I don't really have an end goal, I just keep trying to better myself.
Actually, I've become quite dependent on what I've learned to do... so I guess that's what keeps pushing me ^^.
I more passively pursue it, though every other night I'll sit down, meditate for a bit and play with whatever energy I find around my room, charge an item for a friend, or simply work on my basics.
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 10:52 pm
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Nanara
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Re: End goal of Magic
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For those who are practicing magic, or energy work, why do you practice? What is your goal at the end of the day? How do you actively pursue this goal in your day to day life, and magical practices? Be honest  . |
I practise because it feels right to do so. I started because it made sense, I'm interacting with reality, if I can, and it hurts no one, why not poke it and see what I can do? My original goal was just to learn more about myself and reality, learn how things work and why. A few years ago, I had extremely severe energy problems (I basically became empathically vampiric, so bad that people would fall asleep in my company), so I had to pursue magickal alternatives instead of being very sick or hurting others just to survive. That worked perfectly fine for a few years (there is infinate energy at your fingertips with magick). Then, after I got the Reiki level one atunement, about a year ago, I had no more need for it. Now I pursue magick to learn, to push it to the edges and find out what can really be done, what the limits are. I'm driven to explore myself now, and to learn more about reality and what can really be done. I'd be extremely happy if I could figure out how to do PK with magick, fly or some form of teleportation. Though... I'm quite fine if I don't get to those extremes, but you know.. as they say, aim for the stars, and even if you only get the moon... its still pretty damn big.
What I do? hrm. That's harder to define. I am constantly doing things. My goal is to live life within my Will, which would theoretically mean breathing magick, speaking magick.. etc.
As for formal practises, I meditate and do exercises nearly every day. Every evening I do a small focus exercise, checking, layering and charging my shielding layers, my house and my servitors/construct spirits. I consider the Reiki I do to be magick, as I'm always looking for ways to push the boundaries with that as well and learn new applications.. and I do Reiki frequently, on myself, and on friends who'll let me.
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Miniar
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For those who are practicing magic, or energy work,
why do you practice?
I honestly couldn't tell you why I started looking into it. I've always had an interest in the unseen world, the occult, mysticism, magic, heathenry, spiritualism, etc. As such "magic" and energywork (which for the most part is the same thing to me) fall in under my general interests. This is why I've studied and examined.
The reasons why I practice are a few. General curiocity is a factor as I experiment whith what I am capable of and what works. I play with my own limits and capabilities for the sake of learning better control over myself as well as trying to work out what I "can" do. I play with "what works" in order to better understand the limits of the external reality and the possibility of affecting it.
What is your goal at the end of the day?
You know I don't work on goals, but all in all I do think that better understanding of myself, my situation, my capabilities as well as the world around me are pretty much the active goals. That and getting to a point where I feel I can comfortably say that I "can" affect the world around me.
How do you actively pursue this goal in your day to day life, and magical practices?
I am very much aware of the fact that I don't do enough. I do read and contemplate and do little things here and there. I do think I might be hesitant for a fear of success almost as much as a fear of failure. I am trying to do "more" (you know I'm reading more) I want to set up somewhat of a schedule or something for me to work on this more actively but like I said. Even with all the reading I done I feel like an ignorant child in the company of people far more advanced than me ('specially when I talk to certain people) and this makes me feel a little intimitated. I don't feel too comfortable talking about my attempts at things because they're such small things and I am definately not advanced enough to try a lot of the things that others are doing and this slows me down a bit further. I know that these are personal issues but still, the way I see it, I'd raher go too slow and do things at my own pace, learning everything that I can from each tiny little exercise, than rush head on into creating servitors and casting complex spells and ending up with something that I didn't intend from the very first moment.
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:47 am
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