On "Magick"

Ratotoskr
Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:44:37 -0600

Another excerpt from communications between myself and dbot:

"As a prelude to a potentially "off-topic" discussion about something which has been troubling me a bit for around a week now, what are your general thoughts on "magick", not necessarily in the traditional meaning, but rather in the sense of ill-defined or poorly understood preternatural phenomena which may initially appear to be "magick" in the traditional sense? In some of your posts, you've mentioned things like auras or energies brought about by pheromones and/or personal changes you've made in your life that may have affected others at a distance through mechanisms you can't discern. This is strange topic for me, because I am typically very analytical and rational, but the end result of this is that I refuse to immediately discard ideas like those you and I have described, simply because I know there is an absurd amount that we do not yet know about the world (and I don't know how much it is that we don't know, obviously). Thus, when you and others describe or mention such ideas, I don't think "WITCHES AND MAGICK SPELLS AND INCANTATIONS AND GHOSTS" but I do think "correlations, causations, unknown and unexplained forces which may be illusory but may also actually exist." There is room in my mind to accept the possibility of some as-of-yet vague shaping force powered/influenced by thought."

If anyone would like to express their thoughts on this, you are more than welcome to do so.

-Ratotoskr