Jamadara,
Right, then: so what's (sic) reachable with re to magic? That maybe all I have really asked here (critically, perhaps, but I feel no shame for that).
I like the question of what is reachable in magic.
What do I think?
Doing magic could be defined as any conscious decision to attempt or create deviation from the chance of something to occur random in favor to something to occur in the direction of a wished result.
With no other tool then mind and body.
In other words to cause a directed anomaly in a dynamics of causes, based on the observation
that these anomalies do belong to the possibilities, because they happen random or spontaneous.
The wished result would be an intersection of mind [conscious/subconscious] with matter/or other minds or itself , (conception) which immediate or with time ( pregnancy) leads to effects ( birth)
Now what we so far know is that what we call conscious has little effect in creating an anomaly alone.
So for an anomaly to occur we have to engage the subconscious as it seems not only to retrieve information from the environment , but also to insert information into it in a way that we could call subliminal.
For that we need an interface that enables interaction of the conscious with the subconscious
and arouses ( Sex) it in such a way that it comes to an anomaly of the insertion of information into itself and/or into the environment ( matter/other minds) to such a degree that it causes intersection (conception). In the wished outcome of the effects will be a correlation between the effect and the information inserted into itself or the environment, but the results are again indeterment.
We can however safely assume that those who will reach a higher occurrence of anomalies
are those who are disturbed and those who can disconnect from full conscious and can allows mindstates in which the subconscious contributes more then the conscious.
We also can safely assume that only the latter will create anomalies who’s effect are in favor of wished results.
Questions that still need to be answered is what makes intersection with the environment possible.
But I regard it as less important in the creation of anomaly and it’s success, then the interface between conscious and subconscious.
Now in this process of creating anomalies anything is possible from zero effect to mind-blowing surprises, but I wouldn’t necessarily attempt to move mountains with it, nor would I let perfectionism judge the results, or look for proof through an attempt to clone results.
Concerning mass, I can imagine that a hundred very skilled magician can create a common abnomaly with an effect that leans toward a wished result, but not that a hundred people who try to create an anomaly with consciousness and belief alone will have any other effect then random occurance including the spontanious anomalies that occur too.
So they can be lucky, but not more then that.
