*The Magical Thinking Thread*

justonemoreperson wrote:
Also, I find that if I think a certain way about something, then I'll get evidence of the opposite within the next day or two.

This happens to me at times too.

I also find that as soon as I try and think positively, something negative happens almost instantly.

Currently I am wondering if I focus hard enough, can I make it rain in NSW.
or
if a million people, world wide, tuned in at the same time and shouted 'Rain for F sake'
(or maybe something more poetic)
would it?

I just don't feel the magic anymore like I used to do.

I get this thing where something really random will just pop into my head and then it'll happen. That happens a lot.

I had to stop saying certain phrases at one point like: don't worry, it's not a train crash or "worse things happen at sea" because the next day there'd be a train crash or a ship would sink... I've just dared myself to write that BTW.

salles wrote:

justonemoreperson wrote:
Also, I find that if I think a certain way about something, then I'll get evidence of the opposite within the next day or two.

This happens to me at times too.

I also find that as soon as I try and think positively, something negative happens almost instantly.

Currently I am wondering if I focus hard enough, can I make it rain in NSW.
or
if a million people, world wide, tuned in at the same time and shouted 'Rain for F sake'
(or maybe something more poetic)
would it?

Well, some people think so:

https://www.one-mind-one-energy.com/connected.html

However, some people also think the Boston Tea Party involved cake and croquet.

I made a magical game once that stemmed from my magical thinking.

You don't need anything for this game other than concentration, focus, belief and a sprinkling of madness, magic and a room full of people.

All you do is choose one person in the room. It helps if you've got to know them a little bit just so you can get a sense of who they are and feel what they are like. Then you concentrate really hard on then. You don't need to stare at them or anything like that but just focus on them. Then scratch your ear, now if you've done the job properly they will also scratch there ear. Pat your head and they will follow. It's funny to see how far you can get before the link breaks but it really does work and in a boring office it makes for good entertainment. Anyone can do it. I taught a girl who sat next to me hoto do it.

Oh and btw you have to call the game by the name of the person you're focussing on.

I've believed that I could taste/smell certain qualities (for example, if someone is in a cult, the memory of them smells/tastes like bitter red wine). In a more tedious way, I used to try to access secret knowledge about uncertain situations by comparing the vague way a situation "felt." This was separate from reading people's body language or the like. It was supposed to be a direct line to the truth of a situation that I felt I had.

I've believed I could accidentally sell my soul to the devil or make some austere promise to God. A gesture or movement would suddenly count as acquiescence and I'd have to stiffen my body and say some cancelling phrase.

I also believe the universe deliberately makes me wrong if I ever dare say something with certainty. I halfway suspect that if I say the sky is blue, it will turn out to have been green this whole time.

Considering the ever growing new-age movement, I wonder for how much longer the term "magical thinking" will last - given that, within that movement, people literally make things up as they go (there used to be some basis to that style of belief but now there rarely is).

i believe i have some form of mind reading ability. nothing so straight forward as hearing thoughts. but using cues from people i know to make assumptions about what they are thinking or planning. i don't generally look at people and wonder "what are they thinking" because i know. people aren't as mysterious as they think.

then there is also my ability to tell the future. which doesn't seemed to be based on any deduction ability because the instances have been unexplainable unless they are just explained away. premonition dreams is the big one. images of places i've never seen. or moments that never happened. just a brief snippet of time. people walking by while i look up at a building, out a pool, down a hallway. i think of these dreams, wonder about them. then some time later, a week, a month, years. i'm in the exact moment. carbon copy. every face i remember the same. who knows how many i have, since most dreams i forget. it's so real to me i don't count it as magic. there is an unknown explanation.

Hello this is my first post on this website.

This thread has a lot of information in it that I relate with. Especially the sense that none of this is as "real" as people normally assume. I feel emotionally distant from almost everything, even the hardships of friends and family. In public I never smile unless it's an act to generate the nessecary response in a person to get from A to B smoothly. I am obsessed with chaos magick, eclectic witchcraft, thelema, goetia, shamanism, paganism, etc. I have totally immersed myself into the occult subculture, even joined a coven for awhile before splitting off into my own solitary practice.

I pick up on patterns all around me which cannot be made rational under a scientific paradigm because science makes a distinction between natural and supernatural. The truth is that this distinction is arbitrary and false. Supernatural is better worded as "ultranatural". Jung understood this with his archetypes, collective unconscious, and synchronicity.

I believe this reality is a shared collaborative work of art. Each of us are self contained infinite continuums, we are our own demiurge. But by chance or by intention, we generate a simulation which is very similar to the ones being generated by other "people" (better to say "entities"). Thus, because you remember and experience your "self" to be "human", you are. And thus you see a human reality, think human thoughts, have a human brain, etc. But if you were to somehow reprogram your own "soul" you would manifest as a cat, or an alien, or abstract geometry, and experience a reality appropriate to that modality of consciousness.

I am trying to break free. I am trying to achieve a deep spiritual metamorphosis through which I can access the next level of my evolution. I could simply wait for death to force this transition, but I have decided to devote my life to preparation for that, possibly even bypassing it through some kind of apotheosis. So I am very interested in figures like Alister Crowley, Peter J Carroll, Eliphas Levi, Robert Anton Wilson, Austin Osman Spare, Arthur Edward Waite, Gerald Gardener, just to name the first that come to mind.

I hope my beliefs aren't too offensive to anyone here. I'd like to hear more about what others think because I believe that is what I wanted to do by manifesting as a human. I want to "play this game" so to speak. I must've come here for a purpose...

Gosh, that's me too. Mr Nobody, the idea of being special and that some kind of order beyond or under society lived what i lived, etc. That resonates with my life XP.

But, since years, i have the feeling i can not be that weird me. I mean, it was what was making me but now i have the belief, after having lived with my step-children that they took something from me and than i don't have the right to be original and myself anymore. I have the fear and constant obsessional thought saying that i am an impostor, a stealer...

Gosh, i (we) suffered to be and now i can not be? That's hard.

Who has that weird (annoying) thought / belief saying that you're just copying everybody except of yourself. In concrete terms, it means that i'm not fully living and accomplishing what i am and what i thought. I'm always comparing my ideas and my thought to the thoughts and idea of the persons i know that i have introjected in my mind. Gosh, i'm NOT being!

See ya.

RealityFrayed wrote:I subscribe to the belief that all words are magic.

Yup, same here. Saying a thing instead of another one is like activating different levers. And the most part of the time, they're all negative levers.

Culpability and obsessions.