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Your most impressive magickal feat

15:53 / 20.02.05

Now I know this is a stupid question and I know that this is an invasive topic, so please be gentle with me here!

I was daydreaming today and mulling over the tumultuous events of my life over the last year. I have been very very tentatively dabbling in magickal practices for the past 18 months to two years and this has, as mentioned, only really dipping my toes in the water, so to speak.

In hindsight, the most impressive thing I have achieved or that I am conscious of achieving, is to help two ladies with whom I work, go the toilet more regularly. Even this has stopped for one of the ladys' so my success is pretty limited (though the other woman has been bemoaning that she is fed up with her bowel movements as she is still un-used to them!)

I have blamed lust for results and non specific goals for my lack of BIG results (I have actually asked and aimed for bigger and more impressive results with little success)

I am now in a position where I believe in Magick but not as much as I used to or I should say in my own personal efficacy in Magickal matters.

So here goes (sorry for the longwinded introduction and boring history, I just wanted to lay out my stall in a hope that it would give this thread a little bit more credibility)

What has been the most impressive magickal act/working you have done?

What scared/impressed or shocked the bejeezus out of you?

Obviously, I am asking out of purely selfish motives, as like most humans, i need an occassional reassurance or 'feel good' story

All I ask is that if you care to share your story, you tell the truth and nothing but the truth. I appreciate motiviational stories but I would prefer factual stories, which would inspire me more, even if they are less fantastic than 'I won the lottery' or any such claim

though obviously, if you have achieved such or fantastic healing in yourself or others, I and I presume others would be most interested. Even better, if you could or would be willing to give even a brief outline of the methodolgy you employed (again if you care to share) then even better

thanks

Joe

17:00 / 20.02.05

I dunno about impressive, but the most dramatic instance of it working that I recall was back in school, years ago now, when I had an exam I was unprepared for.

With little hope of passing without decent exam grades (not in a course I had skipped all semester anyway), I knew I couldn't cram it all before the next day. So rather than spending my few remaining hours studying I threw myself into brewing a storm, invoking angry sky gods and the like for a whole fevered night...and right on the nose, freak storm blows up and ices the whole city, lake effect flurries bury everything, town is shut down for three days - schools, businesses, churches, everything.

I know weather magick is old hat, but when I looked out the window and saw those huge black mountains of cloud sailing overhead, just blasting out freezing rain, and there were these terrible thundercracks in the winter... I was floored - deeply impressed - awestruck and more than a little frightened of my teacup-tempest.

That one has stuck with me.

17:28 / 20.02.05

You say weather magick is old hat but I would be mightily impressed (and shit scared) if I did the same

Thanks for sharing and remind me never to piss you off

Never 'done' weather magick but the closest I have had was a collaboration or more accurately a calling upon the power of Thor, who is known as a weather God

When I was first and I mean very first even reading about Magick and discussing such with a friend, I had lost about 25 pound (£) gambling on a slot/fruit machine. I was pissed off and wondering how to explain my losses to my girlfriend

I was mighty hacked off and on my way home, I decided to (via a flash of inspiration) to visit another pub, about a quarter of a mile away. I just had this sense that this other pub would allow me to recoup my losses.

It was freezing this night and the walk was lonely and cold. I called upon Thor (the Marvel comics depiction)
and 'threw' his hammer , as instructed by a pagan friend of mine who said, one should feel the weight of the object etc and call upon the powers

I did what was instructed, I imagined the weight of the hammer in my hand, flet the power build and physically and mentally threw this hammer into the ether, hoping for results

I walked into the other pub, bought a bottle of beer and played the fruit machine

I won all if not a bit more than my money back within 1-2 pound of playing

I got greedy and lost about 5 more pound in another machine (ergo and I blame this on me having broke the agreement)
but I still went home much better off than I would have if I had not made the journey.

It has never worked for me since when I have been gambling but to be honest, these 'forced' gamblng efforts have never had the same intuitive/ magickal 'click' that I had that night. Even before I attemtped to re-negotiate with Thor, I had the sense that this was different and that one time was special

Either my innocence........Thor getting pissed off with me trying to repeat the agreement or some other factor, has always made repeated attempts fail and me lose out in gambling

but that is my own fault and I fully accept my own stupidity in these efforts

Thankyou sine for a great story and for inspiring me to remember another case where Magick 'worked'

ONLY NICE THINGS

19:41 / 20.02.05

Gosh. Did you pass the paper when it was rescheduled, sine?

20:08 / 20.02.05

Yeah. I got a 66 on the exam after spending the three days cramming and cramming and offering thanks to every spirit involved and then cramming some more.

Minor bits of weather magick became a fairly regular thing for me for a couple of years after that (tying winds into knots and then saving them for kiteflying days, cloudbusting for good picnics and so on) but I don't think I ever got a result quite as - overwhelming, I guess - as that first time. I suppose the sheer need wasn't there to fuel it.

08:08 / 21.02.05

at this very moment, i am creating the detailed illusion of an infinite 3-dimensional cosmos, and updating in real time. it's mad cool.

16:07 / 21.02.05

dizfactor: took me a second to get your drift. Duh me. Brilliant post.

22:51 / 21.02.05

Yea. Fab!

08:26 / 22.02.05

*goes back up the mountain* OMMMMM...

*giggle*

solid~liquid onwards

20:27 / 22.02.05

I trained myself to have out of body experiences a few years back. It was pure mad mental. Wish i had the time to get back into it but its a real mind fuck.

22:45 / 28.02.05

I managed to grow an extra foreskin once, was awesome but tbh I wasn't so happy with it coming out of the side of my face.

23:57 / 28.02.05

I can balance astral plates. A few of them spinning away at one time.

Charlie's Horse

01:08 / 01.03.05

Those majestic saviorish figures throughout history... The Buddha? The Christ? Elvis - the King?

Me. And I have the smile, stigmatta, and hip-grinding to prove it.

- Charlie

(OM's coming out of my ass)

05:41 / 01.03.05

19:09 / 10.03.05

I'm all tooled up on all the right drugs, having danced in a spontaneously created ritual of purification, and as on top of it all as I ever get. I'd been experimenting with sucking kundalini up my spine with hyperoxiginated breathing and giving myself amusing explosions of bliss in my brain for it. I tried an experiment. Taking a big hit of NO2, doing tantric breath sharing with it with a friend of mine, while running the kundalini trick I had been doing earlier.

Then everything when white, and I was Somewhere Else for an eternal moment of a fraction of a second, and a glass pipe exploded next to me as it was being passed from one person to another. Spectators claim they saw a bolt of purple energy jump from me to someone I am very close with, hitting the pipe along the way. I don't know about that, I wasn't really there at the time. But I kept half of it as an alter piece, and as a souvenier of experiments in high energy metaphysics.

16:46 / 11.03.05

Lets stick spoons on our monitors and at 8:00pm (uk time) on March 16, all on mass will them to do nothing. It will go down in history.

23:17 / 11.03.05

And if they all suddenly bend we can put it down to apathy amongst the Templites.

That or a very melty batch of spoons.

05:54 / 12.03.05

thanks cusm, fantastic story

akira......can I use a plastic spoon?

13:29 / 13.03.05

Only if the nurses wont let you use metal.

17:45 / 14.03.05

that's true

never thought of that

20:43 / 14.03.05

Cusm: Wow.