Many people believe in the muse, affirmations, words of wisdom, amulets, good luck charms. Taking it a bit further, do you believe spirits of those who you knew or Angels or gods, goddesses, can be summoned at your request? Do you believe this is separate from religion?
Mods - I have no idea where this should go.
Thanks for resurrecting this - I thought it would be an interesting subject to discuss but without your OP I had no idea where to take it
My own belief (I post in a few New Agey-type forums) is that by doing such 'magic' you are communicating with the unconscious or irrational or non-verbal part of the psyche.
Basically, we have our rational, logical, verbally-dominant brain, but then sometimes another part takes over our emotions, is responsible for our self-sabotaging, or creating negativity around us etc.
Even when we
know what we're doing to ourselves, we keep on because that rational side of the brain can't communicate to the 'irrational' side. You need non-verbal symbols to do that.
From my own experience, these rituals and so on are the means to communicate to that side of the psyche. I've found it works.
As for summoning Angels, my understanding is that's largely 'be careful what you wish for'. But again, if you are concentrating your mind towards something, it has ways of manifesting, just not in a way you might really want it to.
