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Just got this, I'm completely ignorant on the subject of magic, will I be able to cast spells and levitate after I finish it?

>> No.15279073
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>>15278947
Hi, somebody from the cognitively deficient board /x/ here. I think you know the answer to the latter is no. As far as casting spells goes, you can do it but they don't really work. The only spell I've seen sort-of work work was a spell my mother (an old drunk that looked like a witch) cast on someone who had a tenuous grip on reality; he scared himself into having intermittent blindness in one of his eyes that went away after my mother told him she lifted the spell.

If you do develop an ability that seems magical but only because how it works yet, look into remote viewing but stay away from the Farsight Institute; the guy who runs it left a group of remote viewers because he couldn't take criticism for bad science and started his own group where he could do things his own way.

Skilled remote viewing works in the sense on average it's better than random but better than random doesn't mean you can rely on it. It's far from a substitute for doing boots on the ground investigative work.

>> No.15279091

>>15279073
My god, the number of mistakes in my post just makes me feel more stupid.

Anyway, for clarity:
*... if you do WANT to develop ...

>> No.15279113

>>15279073
>Skilled remote viewing
whats that?

>> No.15279159

>>15279113
I guess I mean trained in a method that is recommended by the CIA or IRVA.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00787R000300110001-8.pdf
https://www.irva.org/index.html

>> No.15279186

>>15279113
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R002200070001-0.pdf

>> No.15279412

>godwin's continual attempts to cast pearls before swine
why confuse the pashus

>> No.15279552

>>15279412
As a utilitarian, Godwin should have known that pearls had no worth to swine.

>> No.15279572

>>15279412
what?

>> No.15279573

>>15278947
There is no such thing as magic. Grow up.

>> No.15279586

>>15279573
>There is no such thing as magic
wait until I finish the book, I'll make you shit frogs.

>> No.15280608

>>15278947
In the end all these modern books about "magic" like pic related boil down to "magic" just being something that you experience in your mind. Basically just internal psychological phenomena. They might as well just say "maybe the real magic was the friends we made along the way".

>> No.15281601

>>15280608
alteration of consciousness is the precondition for doing anything else in the magical paradigm.