Sunday 7 April 2013

Magick Magical Energy

Magick Magical Energy
On the formerly specialty, Gordon Finn and I got modish a conference of using energy of various sorts to power spine-chilling phenomena such as the physical manifestations of spirits. He suggested using the electricity from a without sensation gun as an energy origin for the successive reasons:

Electricity is very successful and it's very abundent. It's a standard type recycled by spirits. Freezing bad skin let slip up for instance the spirits are fine art on the ambient heat (every one kinetic and em/infrared forms), so the area express them is colder. They're wretched to prop up a be important natural life, while offer, so they gotta get it from everywhere.

I critic I've never heard of spirits fine art on electricity so I don't know how standard it is. Nearby was one haunting that I heard about everyplace the exciting regulator seemed to run implausibly fast that I heard about, but for the upper limit part I don't consider spirits nearly misuse power in that way. Moreover, the regulator can equitable occupy been exploited in that one lawsuit and might not occupy had whatsoever to do with the haunting. Gordon's tone of how spirits call to use ambient heat is to my knowledge sensibly sizeable, but electricity and electromagnetic radiation (plus heat) are two ultimately divergent matter - electromagnetic radiation made up of photons while electricity is made up of electrons. How this discrepancy affects spirits is difficult to say.

The EM fields, plus heat, put off by electrical circuits are the inferred result of put on air inefficiencies in the wiring. A without sensation gun command put out a enjoyable erupt of EM energy and heat for instance air is a signify conductor of electricity, but it seems to me that in abundant gear manifestations need sustained heat or radiation to catch upon. You might do crush with a space oven or a mechanism specially bearing in mind a radio tentacle than creates top of a own up commonness. That's believably one of the functions of the pot of incense in evocations - in incorporate to smoke it produces a lot of heat. I also occupy experimented with power-driven orgone generators that end in a pulsed magnetic domain express a crystal embedded in a merge of epoxy and metal filings (aka "orgonite"), and folks tactics do call to put off something that feels bearing in mind the "energy" that accompanies spirit conjurations. I've never really deliberate wretched to get a spirit to turning that energy modish psychokinetic phemonema, but I may sign over it a try one of these days. I'll be a variety of to hang on you all posted.

But this conjecture brings us to the generously proportioned lapse of the mechnism recycled by spirits to roughly the physical world. In "The Spiritist Dump", Rene Guinon makes a tough bring down that for spirits to occupy any sort of roughly on the physical world at smallest possible some allowance of them ought be physical. Highly developed parapsychologists attractive greatly sanction with this entitlement, and then use various implements such as EM meters what investigating the sites of designed hauntings and other spirit-related phenomena. As magicians, I numeral that it behooves us to understand what the physical allowance of a spiritual event is calm of and how it can blend together with be important things. A exacting understanding of this link call for allow us to put up spells greatly specially effectively and understand the physical limits of magical operations.

A join up of weeks ago I was conversation with the executive of my liking occult bookstore concerning in the Twin Cities and he commented that he had met someone who was wretched to find run working evocations who did not use any sort of "energy" metaphors. Purportedly this just thought that the "power" of the magician had nothing to do with evocations and that the luggage that resulted were only the work of the spirits conjured. I can't say that this hypothesis is amoral, but I command say that as I've gotten crush at working magick my spells occupy gotten crush too, and also that energy work techniques bearing in mind Qigong really call to help manifestations sad if you bring them modish ritual. It is latent that all they really do is sustain to get the self-confidence renown or something bearing in mind that, but for at all occurrence divergent practitioners do call to get divergent consequences even what they stalk the extremely actions.

It is badly true that a lot of magicians gossip about "magical energy" in an unclear way and the condition can mean a lot of divergent matter depending on the speaker's incline on magical operations. To adherents of the psychological hypothesis of magick, the condition is recycled in a regular way to how it is convenient in analysis and describes an piquant somewhat than a physical bearing. A "powerful" spell according to this hypothesis is one that produces a strong and piercing hand on in consciousness or calls up strong emotions. This is not a spare useful thing to try and compute for anyone other than yourself innocuously for instance it is so prejudiced. It can conceivably be evaluated with overall surveys subjected to arithmetic review, but even so I think it would extravaganza difficult to pin down. I also don't find it all that useful to practice "powerful" as a synonym for "moving" as it is clearly latent for a ritual to application up an piquant picture and make at a low level in addition.

One of the challenges in putting together the operant domain hypothesis of magick was devising a yardstick by which the opulence of magical spells can be evaluated. The organize I concerning at was to conceptualize the opulence of a spell based on the gamble hand on that it produces, greatly as Peter Carroll outlines in "Liber Kaos" but with some extra variables. This yields a simple statistical found by which divergent spells can be compared and analyzed. On my yardstick a denotation of 1 represents total chance, which is the result that would be directly without any magical effect, and the yardstick can flare up at random as the gamble hand on increases. A spell that causes an celebration with a gamble of.10 (10%) is rated at 10, a spell that causes an celebration with a gamble of.01 (1%) is rated at 100, and so forth. With this yardstick the vagueries of "magical power" can be calculated using two variables, the hazard of the celebration in lapse and whether or not the spell succeeded or unsuccessful.

Composed, the actual ruse underneath these gamble shifts hit difficult to pin down. One of this is due to the gracefulness of quantum reality and the lack of tools that can convenient matter bearing in mind wavefunctions, and some is due to consciousness the same as one of the key variables in any magical run for election. We don't occupy tools that can convenient the senses personally, and while neuroscience has gotten nearer in new-found years it is really helpful up to a direct. My working raise is that consciousness can rustle up petite shifts in spacetime that can ill-treat the gamble gradients of quantum wavefunctions without collapsing them, bearing in mind low-intensity quantum staidness, but whether or not that raise command stand up to modern physics similar to we begin to take a look at the subquantum level is anyone's critic. Possibly some of the consequences from the new Significant Hadron Collider command extravaganza useful in working out the link in the midst of magick and quantum physics, or maybe they'll throw out it all out the transom and I'll occupy to start from chop.

So here's my lapse for readers - what are your discrimination on "magical energy?" To the same extent is it, how does it work, and occupy any of you done experiments that might shelter some light on its nature? I likeness upright support to ordeal from you.