houba said:

Ravendance said:

By magic, I mean God (or your interpretation), spirituality, weird occurrences and coincidents that are CRAZY.

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This just sounds like the divide between expectation and reality.


Now, I wouldn't argue that consciousness or expectation has no effect on the surrounding reality, but I don't think these sorts of coincidences evidence anything beyond what can be expected naturally, barring our human failures of imagination.

In other words, magic is all natural man.

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BrendanFlock said:

You dont have to have any special knowledge or education to cast or use magic...

As soon as you think of magic..therein do you have it..in mind..and from there you can attempt to use it in any matter you wish want..or thought of!

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Ravendance said:

Don't forget Big Pharma!!! Destroying magical abilities of most Americans daily.

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zzripz said:

BrendanFlock said:

You dont have to have any special knowledge or education to cast or use magic...

As soon as you think of magic..therein do you have it..in mind..and from there you can attempt to use it in any matter you wish want..or thought of!

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will you please explain in more detail what you mean?

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circastes said:

I just came to an agreement with my docs to come off the antipsychotic Abilify! Very happy, there had been lots of contention, but I lean towards the view that there's no way that stuff is good for the brain. Furthermore, as has been said, I've found my own cure.

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That's awesome, I've been there man. Makes me so happy to hear.  Coming off that shit is the hardest part just be sure to do a mental check daily and only feed the good wolf

Ravendance said:

zzripz said:

BrendanFlock said:

You dont have to have any special knowledge or education to cast or use magic...

As soon as you think of magic..therein do you have it..in mind..and from there you can attempt to use it in any matter you wish want..or thought of!

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will you please explain in more detail what you mean?

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I think he means that we as people have uncanny manifestation skills that some of us are not aware of.  At least that's what I gathered from it.

You take mushrooms will magical intentions, you WILL create magic.  If you spend all your time wallowing about how miserable you feel and watching T.V. shows about mental illness and doctors and nurses, you will feel sick.  If you spend all of your emotional energy complaining that you can never find a good companion, you probably won't find one until you change your thinking. You listen to music about depression and hang out with depressed people and all you talk about is depression YOU WILL BE DEPRESSED.

That is manifestation and we ALL do it daily.

Manifest love, magic, mystery, music, whatever your passion is!! Don't manifest the things you don't want!

But that's just what I took from the quote, not trying to misquote here

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Ravendance said:

You take mushrooms will magical intentions, you WILL create magic.  If you spend all your time wallowing about how miserable you feel and watching T.V. shows about mental illness and doctors and nurses, you will feel sick.  If you spend all of your emotional energy complaining that you can never find a good companion, you probably won't find one until you change your thinking. You listen to music about depression and hang out with depressed people and all you talk about is depression YOU WILL BE DEPRESSED.

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sudly said:

I agree that physical conscious living like picking up the remote effects your surrounding reality but how can you make the argument or suggestion that the conscience somehow does this too?

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Ravendance said:

If you spend all your time wallowing about how miserable you feel and watching T.V. shows about mental illness and doctors and nurses, you will feel sick.  If you spend all of your emotional energy complaining that you can never find a good companion, you probably won't find one until you change your thinking. You listen to music about depression and hang out with depressed people and all you talk about is depression YOU WILL BE DEPRESSED.

That is manifestation and we ALL do it daily.

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Ravendance said:

I've had many many experiences that make me 100% without a doubt believe in magic.

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Things are magic....


A week or so ago I was at Lake Ontario watching a storm.
The waves had a tidal action as they were striking into the pier down at the Whitby beach.

I was there for about an hour sitting with my wife in the car watching the weather.

A young couple pulled up beside are car and walked over to the railing very close to where the water was crashing into a break wall.

Suddenly we watched a huge wave come along from a distance, and cumulate a huge wave which struck directly where the couple was standing.
The couple got soaked, but in a kind of adorable way. They were not completely soaked, but they laughed as they ran back to their car. Shortly after they drove off.

In that time, my wife and I had not yet notice any waves crash in such a way to cause water to be thrown onto the side walk area where the couple had been standing.
So it looked a bit odd, to only see that part of the pavement and sidewalk wet.


So about 20 minutes later another car came along and parked close to where we were parked and a family got out and went to the pier also to take a closer look at the storm waters in the lake.

They were standing about 50 feet further down from where the other couple had been splashed. The ground they were standing on was quite dry.
As the family started taking selfies on their cell phones standing near the railing overlooking the water (they were on a kind of breakwall in which a ship could have been tied to)
a huge wave, came along and completely soaked them.
It soaked just the area they were standing in.

Once again, the family were giggling and laughing as they ran away, and they returned to their car and left shortly after.

My wife and I were parked in that parking lot at least an hour after the last incident, and we never witnessed the storm waves ever hit the breakwall again.

No other areas were wet.

It seemed quite apparent ...that the water appeared to have a mind of it's own and deliberately did that to soak those folks.

Had I not of witnessed it with my own eyes, during that particular event, I would not have believed it.

so ...yes ...I do believe in magic

Ravendance said:

I think he means that we as people have uncanny manifestation skills that some of us are not aware of.

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QFT.