An example is worth 1000 words of theory. Before we get into what magick is, how it works, and how to learn it, let’s start with what real-world mages do.
Here are 3 useful magick skills drawn from my ~20 years experience creating magick techniques and working with mages from many styles. I’ll show you what you can learn in your first year, practicing 10-30 minutes twice a day, and what an experienced mage does.
Links to learn these skills are at the bottom.
Sensing and Influencing Emotions
The Skill
A person’s emotions change the type (or signature) of energy in their head. By reading that signature, you can feel the person’s emotion. By changing the energy signature, you can influence their emotions.
First-Year Version
With about 1 month experience, you’ll be able to sense a partner’s emotions just by sensing their energy, blindfolded and without talking. It’s a great way to prove to yourself that you’re doing magick. To do it, have them recall an emotional memory while doing an energy meditation. Touch their neck, feel the energy and identify their emotion.
A bit later, you’ll be able to nudge peoples’ emotions. Make energy with the signature of a calm person, send it into a friend’s head, and your soothing words will be more effective. You can also make a relaxed person even more so, or increase sexual pleasure by making energy in the signature your partner has during orgasm.
Advanced Version
Instead of gently nudging emotions, you’ll learn to jump between dramatically different emotions, letting you calm someone who’s much more upset. I routinely use this on myself to find the right mental state for writing, and on my girlfriend when she can’t relax because of exams.
Communicating with Spirits
The Skill
Each thought causes a slight change to the signature of a person’s mind. By reading your mind’s signature, a spirit* can listen to your thoughts. By influencing that signature, a spirit can whisper thoughts into your mind. By communicating with spirits, you can get training and help with magick effects.
*Spirits are like people born without bodies. Don’t confuse them with ghosts.
First-Year Version
In your first year, you’ll learn to communicate general concepts with spirits, and reliably receive answers to yes/no questions. You’ll be able to make friends with spirits, who will train you and help with things like shielding, healing and finding the information sources that psychics use. With the communication skills you use with spirits, you’ll be able to talk with these information sources and develop psychic talents.
Advanced Version
As you get better with communication, you’ll receive complete sentences, instead of getting a few words and filling in the gaps. This lets you ask more general questions, get better details, and lets spirits explain novel concepts you wouldn’t have thought to ask about. Psychic intuitions will become more precise.
The difference is dramatic. When a spirit knows you can receive detailed messages, they explain a lot more. Recently, a friend was learning about medical intuition. She had a spirit that wanted to teach her, but wasn’t able to. I relayed information between them, and the spirit explained how medical intuition works, how to learn it, and helped us connect her with the right psychic information source.
Energy Healing and Deeper Healing
The Skill
Changing the signature of the energy inside cells changes their behavior. You can stimulate faster cell growth and the dissolution of scar tissue, and make nerves stop reporting pain signals. You can use this to numb injuries, heal them, or both.
First-Year Version
In your first year, you’ll learn to channel energy from outside sources, like Reiki healers do, to numb inflammation and similar injuries quickly and accelerate cellular healing over time. You’ll also learn to attune yourself to those energy sources without hiring anyone to help you.
Advanced Version
There are several layers between energy and physical cells. Advanced energy healing acts on these deeper layers, producing faster, more dramatic healing.
I routinely heal ligaments and tendons in friends’ knees, shoulders and backs. Without magick, an inflamed tendon takes a week to heal, and a torn tendon takes months, or sometimes never heals. With my help, an inflamed tendon will feel better instantly and heal in a day, and a torn tendon will feel halfway better instantly and heal over several weeks.
My most dramatic results come from healing nerves. In 2009, I met a woman in her 30s with a slipped disk in her spine. It was pressing on the nerves that go between her legs with her brain, making her legs weak and numb. On good days, she walked with a cane; on bad days, she used a 2-handed walker. I shifted the signature of her nerves. Her feeling and mobility came back to her legs in minutes, and she could walk without assistance. Unfortunately, the slipped disk continued pressing on her spine, re-injuring it. I healed her several times with the same pattern: Dramatic short-term improvement, but the bulged disk re-injured her spine, preventing long-term improvement.
Next
Now that you know what mages do, read about what magick really is.
Learning These Skills
First, finish this intro series. It will show you how to learn the core skills behind all magick, so you can quickly learn the skills we just discussed.
Then, follow these links to learn the skills from this post:
- The class on sensing emotions, and the advanced post on influencing them.
- How to structure your questions for easier communication, and an advanced post on sending messages into someone else’s mind.
- Here’s a series on mastering energy healing, and a series on using similar techniques to integrate your conscious mind with your unconscious drives.
- What Mages Really Do (This post) (October 11, 2010)
- What Magick Is (October 7, 2010)
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