[Opinion] Why do you study and practice magick?

[asteraltair11]

Hello, everyone! This is my first post here on Wizard Forums, and I'd like to talk with you all about magick. I found this website while searching for a PDF. Since I started practicing, I've met a few people on this path, mainly because I chose the Left-Hand Path. I've always known it is a solitary path, and I am perfectly fine with that; however, I've always been curious about why others choose it as well.

In this community, I'm looking forward to discovering new perspectives and discussing what made you fall in love with magick, witchcraft or esoteric arts. I am looking to connect with others and gain new insights into the craft.

For example: I recently started learning about Hoodoo. It opened up a whole new world for me, and I'm currently studying the history and social movements surrounding it. It's incredibly interesting.

That is all for now. Thank you, and have a wonderful day.

Tl;dr: What drew you to the study and practice of magick?

 

[Veracity]

Hello and welcome!

I’d say I went down the rabbit hole of spiritualism and into magic specifically because of my childhood and later life experiences with spirits or entities. I needed to prove to myself through the shared experience of others that I wasn’t crazy haha. Many things that come along with sensitivity to spirits are pretty similar to what is considered schizophrenia, but I was never once not in control of my faculties nor did I not know which was reality and what was just something more. The automatic knowing, the hearing things that hadn’t been spoken aloud, the seeing things that weren’t perceived by others (or at least no one for the most part) had all led me to this point.