[Help] Anyone make up their own recipes for spellcasting or do you go by the book?

[magick&psionics]

I've been wondering this for a while now. And this question kinda has become from a psychic heckler thats been saying my practice isn't real because I come up with mostly original stuff.

So Ive been wondering if anyone of you actually come up with your own original practice? Or if anyone of you create your own recipes/directions for ritual spellcasting? Or come up with ideas(so long as it correlates with the original intent) as one would go along their ritual(freestyling a ritual)? which is how I come up with some of my own rituals

 

[Robert Ramsay]

In my own case, I spent thirty plus years finding out a scientific explanation of magic, so, having some idea of how it works means I can make up my own stuff to my heart's content.

Plus, there's a big difference between going through an established ritual by rote because you're not connected with it, and getting deeply into something you created yourself, that you really relate to.

 

[querent k]

Oh, absolutely DIY here. And I would say even the most go-with-the-program follower got to make their system-fundamentalist rituals and spells part of themselves somehow. That´s how you learn stuff for real, make it yours... not like cramming for exams (forgotten everything the week after). Also I simply haven´t got the head for systems, never get it...probably scatterbrained

 

[magick&psionics]

Oh, absolutely DIY here. And I would say even the most go-with-the-program follower got to make their system-fundamentalist rituals and spells part of themselves somehow. That´s how you learn stuff for real, make it yours... not like cramming for exams (forgotten everything the week after). Also I simply haven´t got the head for systems, never get it...probably scatterbrained

That's hella real. Thank you for that.

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In my own case, I spent thirty plus years finding out a scientific explanation of magic, so, having some idea of how it works means I can make up my own stuff to my heart's content.

Plus, there's a big difference between going through an established ritual by rote because you're not connected with it, and getting deeply into something you created yourself, that you really relate to.

Right! That's awesome. There has to be a personal connection to the practice of witchcraft and magick, otherwise It won't be authentic. Thank you for your response