From the category archives:

Learning Magick

Results vs Mechanics

by Mike Sententia on January 31, 2012

Tweaking techniques can improve results. But disassembling techniques lets you solve new problems.

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Secrecy Destroys Knowledge

by Mike Sententia on January 18, 2012

SOPA has me thinking about magick’s tradition of secrecy. The damage SOPA will do to the internet, we are doing to ourselves through secrecy.

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Learning Magick is like Learning Spanish

by Mike Sententia on January 16, 2012

You struggle until it’s useful, then get good without realizing it.

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Is Your Cold Magickal or Mundane?

by Mike Sententia on January 14, 2012

Ever wondered how to tell the difference between a non-magickal “feeling sick” vs a magickal “my energy is off / a spirit is draining me / someone cursed me”?

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Why Feynman Can’t Explain Magnets

by Mike Sententia on January 11, 2012

It’s the same reason I can’t explain magick.

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Should Magick Be Easy?

by Mike Sententia on December 22, 2011

Given the world we observe, should we expect magick to be easy or hard?

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How to Get People Interested

by Mike Sententia on December 1, 2011

What I’m doing to get more people involved in direct magick.

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8 New Ideas on Testing Magick

by Mike Sententia on November 17, 2011

From years of experience, I know how to test new models. But I’ve never expressed it in words. Here’s my first attempt.

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Is Your Idea a ‘Might Be’ or an ‘Is’?

by Mike Sententia on September 22, 2011

How to tell the difference between an accurate understanding, and an idea that might be.

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How to Practice

by Mike Sententia on September 1, 2011

Practice makes whatever you’re struggling with become easy. Here’s my best tip to make that happen.

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