Handling Extreme Superstitious Scare With Practice

[TheCyberpunkTechnomancer]

How does one go about handling severe superstition in regards to practice? I myself am very scientifically minded over faith minded and use a system of discipline and ritual work to attain results rather than mere belief and faith alone. But there are those aspects of practice that can have you paranoid at times like:

How do you know that everything you use won't be used against you?
How do you know another magician won't try to attack you and kill you?
How do you know they won;t try to harm your family and friends just to make you feel miserable and guilty for everything they do against you?
How do you know that say someone else on the other side of the world isn't unconsciously stealing your life force energy until you slowly die?
How do you know if the work you are doing isn't stealing the energy of those around you and slowly killing them when you don't intend it to do that but instead want to heal or stop something from happening?

All of this sounds like something that Abrahamic magicians would try to spread against you to get you terrified of everything.

Can Kundalini zap another person's life force energy? I have noticed that when I cultivate Pervasive Wind and feel exhausted and beat up from it, others around me can feel the same way I do and said people do not know that I am practicing yoga.

I am not a good visualizer and my meditations mainly come from chanting and reciting Sadhana, not from just sitting still and breathing. I don't work very well with passive meditation. I also do not believe in the placebo effect like most skeptic and atheist magicians do because then that discredits all work done to change the actions of others and is disrespectful to centuries old documented traditions. If your rituals don't do anything to control the environment around you and only work on you psychologically then why waste the time and money on resources that can be best used elsewhere. That's how I see placebo magick. It's a disrespectful belief system.

 

[Homer]

How do you know that everything you use won't be used against you?
How do you know another magician won't try to attack you and kill you?
How do you know they won;t try to harm your family and friends just to make you feel miserable and guilty for everything they do against you?
How do you know that say someone else on the other side of the world isn't unconsciously stealing your life force energy until you slowly die?
How do you know if the work you are doing isn't stealing the energy of those around you and slowly killing them when you don't intend it to do that but instead want to heal or stop something from happening?

"How do you know that the aliens won't invade today and the sky won't turn green overnight?"

Same energy. All those things have less than 1 in a million chance of happening.

You said you are scientifically minded, so you are probably aware of the "burden of proof" but let me explain it:

When someone makes an outrageous hypothesis or claim, it's for them to provide the evidence, not for the other person to prove that it doesn't happen, because you can't prove an negative. Do you have any evidence of any of those things happening? If not, there isn't any reason to believe that they are real and you can safely dismiss them. Otherwise you can make up a billion meaningless fantasy "how do you know" scenarios, like the one I mentioned above.

"How do you know" isn't evidence.

I also do not believe in the placebo effect like most skeptic and atheist magicians do because then that discredits all work done to change the actions of others and is disrespectful to centuries old documented traditions. If your rituals don't do anything to control the environment around you and only work on you psychologically then why waste the time and money on resources that can be best used elsewhere. That's how I see placebo magick. It's a disrespectful belief system.

The placebo effect is real and shows the power of your mind to change your health and DNA and heal yourself (see the book the Biology of Belief, this explains it in detail), but it's an entirely different thing than changing the environment. Both are real. Those people you mention don't know what the placebo effect is about. In reality, the placebo effect truly debunks materialism and pseudoskepticism, as it shows your mind can influence your body and change it.

 

[TheCyberpunkTechnomancer]

Good points. Rather than Placebo Effect, I see it as more Prapti Siddhi, the ability to manifest instantaneously anything you want, rather a small manifestation of it because the real aspect of materializing actual physical things into your hand is not possible by anyone other than a Rishi. As for superstition, ever wonder how Christians say they don't believe in any superstition, yet believe that everything has demons.

Don't light candles, demons are attracted to what they are made of.
Don't watch that movie, demons will enter you through it.
Every thought in your head is put there by a spirit not you.

And what are we to make of those Christians who go into peoples houses and sense "demons" in there only to be led to a specific place to find something that they deem is demonic and must be destroyed?

I feel like with a few uses of scriptures, they can make you give up everything and become homeless simply by quoting the verse that states "Is it time for you to dwell in your panelled houses while the lords house remains in ruin?" Yes there have been some that want to say a true Christian must give up everything and be homeless or they are not a real disciple. That's manipulation.

I do feel like I have to give to the homeless because they are suffering. Charity helps magick. But no cult views.

Fundamentalists have answers for anything to keep people in.

Trauma doesn't exist at all with them. It's all, you don't like the bible because you have demons, you were hurt by religion because demons did that to you.
You are blind.
Stop persecuting us.
I mean, they think words are persecution when they are not.

They call everything a cult but their fundamentalist ways, speaking of the majority of Protestants. Orthodox mainly keep to themselves