Quote:
Originally Posted by Solumina
Charity and volunteer work are magick? I'm a witch!
|
In a sense, yes. The most recognisable version of 'magick', however, are the activities that can only be interpreted as magickal and nothing else.
Much of this works on the principal of focusing and channeling the will, or causing alterations in consciousness using the methods of ceremony and ritual, etc, the efficacy of which eludes scientific inquiry and must be decided upon by other means or left as an unknown.
There is a long history of magic which I won't go into now but some of the more recent incarnations draw on older traditions while having interesting parallels with the schools of metaprogramming and metacognition, and the theories of image-based psychology.