<\/p>\n
Just before Yule one of my readers For that reason I did not <\/p>\n If magick works, and I believe that But the Solstice is past now, and My working definition of magick is In the physical realm I believe The Harmonic Connvergence<\/b><\/p>\n I know of one major wonderful and I was one of the skeptics who In June, 1988, Lithuania started Mikhail Gorbachev became General Gorbachev’s rise to power came before So if <\/i>the mass meditation had any impact here it was to Thwarting Hitler<\/b><\/p>\n The effort by English witches to As the possible English case ANWAR?<\/b><\/p>\n I am intrigued with the survival of This is why I do not personally get And this points to another aspect <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just before Yule one of my readers asked me to explain why I was not more interested in working magick on big issues, such as stopping global warming or bringing about more enlightenment in public policy. He said he planned to do such things up till the Solstice. For that reason I did not immediately…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pagan-culture","category-pagan-rituals-and-festivals"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nasked me to explain why I was not more interested in working magick on big
\nissues, such as stopping global warming or bringing about more enlightenment in
\npublic policy. <\/span>He said he planned
\nto do such things up till the Solstice.<\/p>\n
\nimmediately reply. More power to him.<\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n
\nit can, one requirement is that the magician’s will be as pure, focused, and
\nwithout any waver in believing that the goal is possible. <\/span>Any good to come from my reader’s work would not be helped by
\nmy skepticism.<\/p>\n
\nso I’ll give my answer.<\/p>\n
\n“the non-coincidental accumulation of meaningful coincidences.” Which means we never know for sure. Sometimes a tossed coin will come up a dozen times in a row and <\/span>not<\/i> violate probability. Just not very often.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nmagick works best by empowering a small change that will have progressively
\nbigger impacts down the line. <\/span>Our
\nminds are powerful, but so is the resistance of physical reality to mental
\nphenomena. <\/span>And we are working
\nwithin a sea of psychic noise.
\n<\/span>Spectacular effects simply seem outside the realm of human possibility
\nto me, and if some humans have attained such capacities they are wise enough to
\nmake sure they remain unknown.<\/p>\n
\ncompletely unanticipated event that followed a worldwide meditational effort at
\nencouraging change for the better.
\n<\/span>In August 1987 people worldwide, mostly New Age in their sympathies, all
\nmeditated on world peace and related issues. <\/span>There were maybe 20,000 involved. <\/span>None of the promised UFO sightings and such happened. <\/span><\/p>\n
\ncalled it the “moronic convergence.”<\/p>\n
\nthe series of events that led to the collapse of communist rule in Europe and
\nits transformation elsewhere. The collapse of a despotic state that encompassed
\nmuch of Europe and Asia happened within two years as the pressures for its
\ndissolution built. <\/span>Was there any
\nconnection?<\/p>\n
\nSecretary of the USSR in 1985. <\/span>His
\nextraordinary unwillingness to enforce control violently (I wish we had more
\npeople like him), and his attempt to reform the Soviet system from within
\nthrough perestroika, were key catalysts in the rapid and peaceful end of an
\nunusually brutal regime. Not only was Communism’s fall in Russia peaceful, it
\nwas peaceful everywhere else but in Romania. <\/span>And there the total killed was small for such an event.<\/p>\n
\n<\/i>before the Harmonic Convergence that might
\nhave unleashed magickal power. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nmake small shifts that in time would lead to big outcomes, building on currents
\nalready in motion. <\/span>And that was
\nwith 20,000 people or more involved, although most were hardly skilled at this
\nsort of thing. But there was no focus on anything specific. At most it might have changed the psychic atmosphere around certain key people. But of course, that “at most” would have been quite a lot.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nprevent the German invasion of Great Britain may or may not have been
\neffective. <\/span>We will never
\nknow. <\/span>But Hitler’s sudden change
\nof mind seems strange and a great many people, many of whom were experienced in
\nsuch matters, concentrated on this one <\/i>man
\nand sent a single brief message: “You cannot cross the sea. You cannot
\ncome.” <\/span>The energy was reportedly
\nenhanced by some present giving their lives. This suggests smaller groups
\nattempting bigger tasks had best be <\/span>very<\/i> serious… <\/span>(For the
\nstory and the evidence see Philip Heselton: <\/a><\/span>Wiccan Roots<\/a><\/i>.)<\/span><\/p>\n
\nindicates, this does not mean magick cannot be employed for larger
\npurposes. <\/span>But it must be very wisely
\nemployed, and with discipline. <\/span>Magick works for better or worse at the retail level. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nthe Alaska national Wildlife Refuge despite years of republican control and
\ntheir intent to drill there. <\/span>I
\nknow that many Pagans were involved in fighting against this effort, and would
\nbe amazed were magic not used. <\/span>But
\nit would have been used by many, and likely many would have agreed on a single
\nmessage in their workings.<\/p>\n
\ninvolved in large-scale projects where we are asked to use magick. <\/span>I think the energy will be dispersed,
\nsent to a vague target “world peace” for example, and be drowned by psychic
\nnoise. <\/span>If there was a large scale
\norganized effort, I’d join in. <\/span>But
\nshort of that I’ll use it for helping to heal people close at hand and other
\nsuch things. I’ve used it for very very focused healings at a distance, and the
\nperson got better. <\/span>But was this a
\ncoincidence? <\/span>Or not. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nof magick: you will likely not know whether what you did worked or not, even if
\nit did. <\/span>It might, after all, be
\njust a coincidence. <\/span>So my
\nrecommendation would be for those seeking to help others magickally would be to
\nwork “retail” on a single recipient, be very very focused, and completely let
\ngo of the working once it is over.<\/p>\n