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  • @syncretikOPMEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Just one more question about this if you don’t mind

    I have an expectation now that a certain meaningful act took place and this expectation toward results is precisely the way it operates.

    Is “expectation” really the right word for it? It gives off the impression that there needs to be some kind of positive attitude for it, or a forcing of feelings. With the idle tides of passing moods mixed with sometimes lingering physicalist ideals from years of conditioning, sometimes it’s hard to “expect” results a few days after intending or even a few hours after. I find that even if I do doubt myself, I experience some results. I don’t know whether manifestations being fully realized have to do with my “expectations” or it’s just the fact that I’ve only just begun practicing this. And when I say doubt myself, I mean doubt my ability to assert facts into my experience.

    I do like the “planting the seed” metaphor. That resonates a lot with the way I tend to look at magick/intending.

    Originally commented by u/WrongStar on 2017-08-11 08:42:57 (dlg60jr)

    • @syncretikOPMEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Is “expectation” really the right word for it? It gives off the impression that there needs to be some kind of positive attitude for it, or a forcing of feelings.

      Or a certain kind of knowing and understanding.

      With the idle tides of passing moods mixed with sometimes lingering physicalist ideals from years of conditioning, sometimes it’s hard to “expect” results a few days after intending or even a few hours after. I find that even if I do doubt myself, I experience some results.

      Intent is never truly lost, and so even if you have some contradictory intentionality, your pro-goal intent is not lost in the face of anti-goal intentionality. That’s why it’s possible to experience some measure of a positive result even despite doubts, etc.

      I don’t know whether manifestations being fully realized have to do with my “expectations” or it’s just the fact that I’ve only just begun practicing this.

      Be careful what kind of causality story you spin. :) You have many options, but some causality stories are weaker than the others.

      Don’t forget that deep down you are secretly omniscient already. Of course you shouldn’t take my word for it.

      And when I say doubt myself, I mean doubt my ability to assert facts into my experience.

      But you cannot doubt your ability to face all your doubts. Even if there are 10 thousand doubts, each one a demon in its own right, you can “stand” (not literally) there and face them. Your heart should be able to overwhelm countless universes. Never mind this tiny and pathetic universe right here. Consider your heart as an infinite gale storm, or a vast expanse, and this entire universe is just a tiny grain of sand that’s helplessly caught in the expanse of your heart.

      Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2017-08-11 12:29:53 (dlgh3kl)

      • @syncretikOPMEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        even if you have some contradictory intentionality, your pro-goal intent is not lost in the face of anti-goal intentionality

        I feel like there’s an addiction to physicalism, and the response to that is to re-manifest the undesirable situation. I guess then my goal is too rid my mind of physicalism but I’m not too sure where to start.

        Also what is a “past spells honoring and remembrance” ritual?

        Sorry for all the questions, there isn’t exactly a lot of literature (that I know of) on this stuff, other than LOA, but I’m not to fond of the ‘energies’ and other terminologies that are usually brought up. But if you do know of some good books I’d be happy to hear :)

        Originally commented by u/WrongStar on 2017-08-13 06:21:27 (dlj6a1w)

        • @syncretikOPMEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          I guess then my goal is too rid my mind of physicalism but I’m not too sure where to start.

          I would start by paying attention.

          Also what is a “past spells honoring and remembrance” ritual?

          It’s literally what it sounds like. A ritual that remembers and honors the spells you’ve cast in the past, especially the spells that are still active.

          Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2017-08-13 19:00:42 (dljytlq)