Magick is real, but it’s so obscure because of skepticism.
It’s not that nothing happens, it’s that most of what happens is personal, contextual, and hard to reproduce on command for an audience that’s already expecting it to fail.
This isn’t new at all. In the past, if someone lived on the outskirts of a village in a cabin full of herbs, most people wouldn’t call them a wizard (no pun intended) and accept that they practiced magick. They’d call them an odd healer, also a part time counselor and a diviner people visited when they were desperate and needed help to fix their problems. Even if that person mixed herbs, spoke incantations, and performed something in front of them, they would not call it magick.
Another reason magick stays obscure is that the existing systems are contradicting with each other. That doesn’t automatically mean any of them are wrong. It just means they each hold a piece of the pie, and that multiple routes can lead to results. That includes my personally built system developed over many years of practice. If a system consistently gets you where you’re trying to go, it’s hard to dismiss it just because it doesn’t match a popular framework.
To demonstrate that my method works, you have to deconstruct what you think you know about other systems. Skepticism kicks in immediately, especially when you can point to famous authors who have sold millions of books and say, “why should I believe some random person online?”
That leads to another question. Do those authors actually practice magick, or are they compiling and translating what already exists? And if a system relies on ancient, original texts, how confident are we that the translation preserved what mattered? Even small, incorrect translation errors can change everything. That could explain why certain rites seem to work consistently while others seem to be noticed by many to fall flat. The issue is that it’s hard to convince people of this from the outside. If a practitioner says “hey, that ritual is flawed because of the translation,” skepticism will usually dismiss them, especially if the ritual is famous or comes from a respected source. And you don’t even know if any of it is flawed even if you know magick, since it’s somebody else’s rituals. This is why magick is obscure, even when it’s real.
Even in a community like this where we practice, you’ll still find some members who don’t believe in an ounce of magick. They treat accounts of us as entertaining stories rather than evidence of anything occult.
My point is to do magick, be magick, whether anyone else believes in it or not. Magick isn’t one narrow highway, it’s more like a tree with countless branches. I just hope more people will look beyond the handful of popular paths and explore the many other branches of magick out there.
