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Magic that doesn't feel like magic

 
 
Perfect Tommy
18:13 / 10.12.02
Half-baked hypothesis: Magic works better if you don't think that it's magic.

General Examples: Using a metal "key" to start a car. Making sounds with your mouth to telepathically transmit information to others.

Personal Examples: Playing around with NLP. Using "mindmaps" to generate and organize ideas.

Lately I just haven't felt the urge to make sigils, meditate, recall dreams, or what-have-you. A big downside of this is a reduction of incoming synchronistic messages. But I'm still feeling like progress is being made, on other fronts.

Anyone have similar experiences or comments?
 
 
arcboi
19:54 / 10.12.02
Strangely enough, I'd agree. I did initially have a hard time accepting that any sort of 'mumbo jumbo' would actually work. Then I won the lottery and had to seriously rethink the way things worked.

When I started reading NLP I realised that you don't really need any mystical layerings on top of "magick" to necessarily make it work. You just use whatever tool works best.

Basically, I think you should use anything that works and being a sceptic (in the true sense of the word) I will try anything at least once and will use it again if I get results. So NLP techniques are useful and sigil magick is useful.