Different things work for different people - how come?

[süsü_]

I was reading a post on shem hamephorash ritual on here and the question was about if one method could work better or nah or whats up with that and the answer was "try one and see if it works" and "different styles of magic work for different people"
And I see this same response almost everywhere
But why, how come different styles of magic work for different people? Based on what?
If it were only about the psychological side of the story I would get it like some people probably feel better using more a serious approach or prefer more lighthearted ways of doing stuff and the person manifests it better that way or whatever thats general chaos magick is about but what about the other side?
A type of ritual that is not about manifesting the result by the "person's own power" but using external forces like angels' help or anything similar should not have a variable of personal compatibility

 

[Robert Ramsay]

My opinion is that there is a physical mechanism behind magic, but there are an infinite number of ways of implementing it, which depend on the psychology and experiences of each individual practitioner.

When you talk about 'external forces' you are assuming that those things function independently of the practitioner. I don't believe they do. You can get them to act as if they do, because that's how you treat them. The more you treat them as independents, the more independence they will display. This, IMO, is the difference between a god and a servitor. If you treat it like a god, it will behave like one. And the same for a servitor. Peter Carroll set out to create a goddess, Apophenia, but he used the same kind of methods as you use to make a servitor or an egregore. The difference was how he and his group treated her.