Have you received any magic ideas from books or tv shows or media that you applied to the real world?

[ChaosMarc]

For example, I just finished The Black Company book series and I highly recommend it. Spoilers ahead.

Spoiler

Throughout the series, there were a few magicians that used crows and shadows to attack and information gather. One guy was able to create or find (Not sure) hundreds or maybe thousands of shadows that had enough intelligence to know not to constantly attack everything and because of this, he knew every move his enemies made and every conversation they had. I don't need to attack anyone but I could absolutely use some servitors (At least that's what I think our equivalent would be. Feel free to talk about your ideas on this) that could communicate entire conversations to me that specific people have had or are having. Although, I think you would have to put some if/ then statements or trigger on/ off words in their "programming" so you don't spend 16 hours a day listening to the 90% of the conversations that wouldn't be useful to hear

Most of the time when I'm ingesting information meant to entertain (Like the show The Magicians, or the book series The Wheel Of Time <---Also Highly Recommend) most of it is fun fantasy, but I find 2 or 3 possibly useful "spells" or uses of magic that I can think of that could actually work.
I want to hear about things YOU have found out there that you think we in this reality really could do and that would be useful.

And I would appreciate people not saying "Everything is possible, the limits to your magic are the limits to your imagination".
I don't have 15 years to spend learning how to cast this spell from The Magicians:

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. Instead of hammering a nail through a surface this spell extracts it.

I mean sure, that might be possible. But 15 years to take nails out of surfaces? That one wouldn't be worth it.

 

[Noth]

I really need to get back into Wheel of Time. A lot of Jordan's channeling and the way its structured reminds me of Bardon.

I get a lot inspiration from Magic the Gathering, and Warhammer 40k (hence my PFP). I actually do interact with the machines at my job as though they have animating machine spirits. When I am alone and need to work on equipment I play the soundtrack to 40k's Cult Mechanicus game (the adherents to the Cult of the Machine) and let my mind probe what I am working on. There's a reason I'm so good at my job.

MTG's circles of protection were what I based my first wards on, and I still have the old sliver thoughtform template stored away in an old notebook. Early on I tied each of the five colors of mana to an emotion for better use in spellcraft and would use that to focus my mind and draw more of that emotion to me. It works great imo.

 

[Diluculo_DelFuego]

Nope. All my ideas were my very own.

 

[Roma]

All my ideas were my very own.

Most humans cannot distinguish their own thoughts from incoming thoughts.

 

[Roma]

magic ideas from books or tv shows

I rather liked the three seasons of the UK series Ashes to Ashes

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It progressively deals with interconnection of timelines - without giving answers. It feels like progressive understanding.

It is on torrent sites

 

[stalkinghyena]

I played D&D a lot back when they said it could make you a satanist or drive you insane. I did try the former and managed to skirt the latter, but the game was never more than just a game to me. I read novels like the Dragonlance series and such. There was a time when I was frustrated at the utter lack of instructions in the occult books I had at the time, so I tried to use Player's Handbook to chart out types of operations because of classifications such as "Conjuration/Summoning", "Abjuration", "Illusion" etc.

I have found divinatory/numerological uses of D&D dice that seem promising, though I haven't played any RPG's in decades.

I like fiction and movies mostly for the mood it may confer. Case in point, a movie like The Skeleton Key gets me in the mood, though I have no taste for body hopping. The works of Carlos Casteneda, which I consider ultimately fiction modified from a real experience, were very helpful in an instructional sense.

There was also that scene from Conan the Barbarian where Thulsa Doom turned into a snake - that tickles something in my astral receptors, but I can't say why...

 

[Sage]

The Magician's tutting reminds me of the Kuji-In/Kuji-Kiri.

The OA's Five Movements dance seems like a good way to enter a state of trance.

Many wuxia/xianxia novels actually inspire me when it comes to Qigong practices.
ATLA/LoK also worked in that aspect with their "bending the elements" view.

I tend to usually take most inspiration from games though.
From TTRPGs like Promethean and Mage(from the World of Darkness series) up to videogames like Mass Effect, Destiny, Halo, Second Sight, etc.

Inspiration is really the best tool for one's practice.

 

[Diluculo_DelFuego]

Kuji Kiri and such I barely got introduced to while taking To Shin Do (Quest) classes for three years just receiving red-white belt. So halfway through.

 

[Diluculo_DelFuego]

Back to OP ... When I was 18 and taking religion and anthropology classes. I guess I would later take a shamanic approach to my rituals. Low Magick all the way for me.

 

[UnlikelySith]

Mostly Star Wars. Mind tricks work on weaker minds

 

[William66]

The topic name reminds me of supernatural the series = the crossroad demon = the black hen, something?

 

[Sage]

Mostly Star Wars. Mind tricks work on weaker minds

A lot of things work on weaker minds.
Temptation, threats, tricks...

 

[ChaosMarc]

Mostly Star Wars. Mind tricks work on weaker minds

What kinds of mind tricks do you have experience getting to work on weak minds?
Telling a cop "We aren't the criminals you are looking for"?

 

[ChaosMarc]

The topic name reminds me of supernatural the series = the crossroad demon = the black hen, something?

I'm a big fan of the supernatural series, I feel like it really shows that angels can have their own personalities and may not always be full of love and light. If I ever need to kill anything supernatural, that's the series I might reference

 

[ChaosMarc]

MTG's circles of protection were what I based my first wards on, and I still have the old sliver thoughtform template stored away in an old notebook. Early on I tied each of the five colors of mana to an emotion for better use in spellcraft and would use that to focus my mind and draw more of that emotion to me. It works great imo.

Nice, I played a lot of Guild Wars back in the day and the casters would sometimes have a circle of a different color light up on the ground around them when casting a spell. That's definitely helped me imagine the circle of protection I cast when doing some spells but for the most part, I prefer less rigid, spontaneous going-through-the-world castings. I don't do a ton of work with spirits, so I don't feel the need to cast a circle.

I never got into Warhammer, but I am extremely interested in merging magic and machines somehow. I have read about Psionics and Uncle Chuckie a lot, but I couldn't figure out how RNGs would be good for anything besides divination. And from what I read, the divination side of RNGs didn't work very well.

 

[ChaosMarc]

Back to OP ... When I was 18 and taking religion and anthropology classes. I guess I would later take a shamanic approach to my rituals. Low Magick all the way for me.

I wish my anthropology classes were as interesting as touching on shamanism or low magick. All I learned about was how dead Chinese societies were structured .

 

[Diluculo_DelFuego]

I think the University of Michigan set the tone for anthro in neighboring schools. Very heavy on Ojibwa and American Indian archaeology subjects. Enter religion and we find shamans.

My grandfather was chair of Near Eastern Studies and had displays of finds written about, in time and life magazines, regarding mount Darius.

I would say I find what nature, not Hollywood, gives me. I then take and use it. Example ... Wands and a staff.

 

[Öwnchef]

All I learned about was how dead Chinese societies were structured .

I just finished Dragon Bones from Jan Fries. Boring 1000 pages of Shang Dynasty without him understanding the magical importance of that time. Zero inspiring, just a list of a million cut-off ears. Dang, I could have done better

 

[Diluculo_DelFuego]

For example, I just finished The Black Company book series and I highly recommend it. Spoilers ahead.

Spoiler

Throughout the series, there were a few magicians that used crows and shadows to attack and information gather. One guy was able to create or find (Not sure) hundreds or maybe thousands of shadows that had enough intelligence to know not to constantly attack everything and because of this, he knew every move his enemies made and every conversation they had. I don't need to attack anyone but I could absolutely use some servitors (At least that's what I think our equivalent would be. Feel free to talk about your ideas on this) that could communicate entire conversations to me that specific people have had or are having. Although, I think you would have to put some if/ then statements or trigger on/ off words in their "programming" so you don't spend 16 hours a day listening to the 90% of the conversations that wouldn't be useful to hear

Most of the time when I'm ingesting information meant to entertain (Like the show The Magicians, or the book series The Wheel Of Time <---Also Highly Recommend) most of it is fun fantasy, but I find 2 or 3 possibly useful "spells" or uses of magic that I can think of that could actually work.
I want to hear about things YOU have found out there that you think we in this reality really could do and that would be useful.

And I would appreciate people not saying "Everything is possible, the limits to your magic are the limits to your imagination".
I don't have 15 years to spend learning how to cast this spell from The Magicians:

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Description: This is the opposite to the

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. Instead of hammering a nail through a surface this spell extracts it.

I mean sure, that might be possible. But 15 years to take nails out of surfaces? That one wouldn't be worth it.

Actually, yes. I lost my mind partially, using kuji and Kiri in during high points of rituals. Projecting energy through them. Unwise.

 

[ChaosMarc]

Actually, yes. I lost my mind partially, using kuji and Kiri in during high points of rituals. Projecting energy through them. Unwise.

I'm not familiar with Kuji or Kiri, it seems a quick google search would show that Kuji-kiri is a system of 9 Japanese mudras. Interesting, although my experience with mudras was been uneventful. Maybe I wasn't moving enough energy LOL. Looking at IIH, looks like mudras are part of Step 4 so I will wait until then to experiment.