![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
witchscauldronI'm away this weekend, so chances are I'll do both Saturday and Sunday's memes when I get home Sunday night.
My Definition of Love
I don't know how to answer this. Love is ineffable, in my mind, and frequently contradictory.
Love simply is.
Magic, spellcraft, mysticism and woo stuff
I have a bent towards the mystic. I am inclined to seek my own answers, and not take others' word for it. I like to experience things beyond my current horizons.
I'm also a fairly grounded person, not given to flights of fancy or wild bouts of imagination. I like to verify things with lore. If I do end up purely in the realm of personal gnosis, I don't ask or expect other people to accept it.
These two things can be...conflicting. My sense of wonder, over time, has definetely suffered for it. Much of the time I'm left wondering if I can get it back...or if I need it back. I sort of miss the feeling, but at the same time find it unrealistic. As it stands, I am not an active mystic at the moment. I have been a traveller of secret ways, but at the moment my life doesn't include these practices actively.
I've always believed in magic, in some form or another. Magic is an act of will, shaped and coloured by intent. Focus will, shape intent, gather energy, imprint it - then send it out. There are plenty of ways this can be done. As far as I'm concerned, magic is simply a force we don't understand yet, through scientific means. It doesn't mean that someday we won't.
Spellcraft is something I enjoy, but it's also sort of a measure of last-resort. I don't cast often, and it's usually after everything else that's been done on a mundane level hasn't helped or produced the desired result. I pretty much don't see the point in spells for things that mundane acts of will can achieve - I mean, pyrokinesis? Whatever. I can will myself to get a lighter and use it. Telekinesis? I'll just get up and move the thing.
It's not so much spells I enjoy, as the -crafting- aspect. heh. I know I can do without the bits and bobs associated, since I'm well proficient in energy work on its' own. I just like giving myself something to do.
Woo stuff is...different. I have stopped having a lot to do with particular communities, since the overflow or simply illogical things in the name of "woo" was just too much. I don't have much tolerance for people who refuse to think critically, or apply critical thinking to everything but themselves. I'm not interested in 'woo' stuff too much anymore, and seem to be doing my best to ignore my own - refer back to my comment on lack of wonder. That doesn't mean that it doesn't happen to me, or around me, or that I nescessarily deny all of it. I've just put my foot down, and refuse to let it affect my life at all, dramatically or otherwise.
There's a balance to be maintained here, like with all things. I try not to swing too hard to one side or the other. Too mundane just as bad as too magical. My path is one with a foot in both worlds.
My Definition of Love
I don't know how to answer this. Love is ineffable, in my mind, and frequently contradictory.
Love simply is.
Magic, spellcraft, mysticism and woo stuff
I have a bent towards the mystic. I am inclined to seek my own answers, and not take others' word for it. I like to experience things beyond my current horizons.
I'm also a fairly grounded person, not given to flights of fancy or wild bouts of imagination. I like to verify things with lore. If I do end up purely in the realm of personal gnosis, I don't ask or expect other people to accept it.
These two things can be...conflicting. My sense of wonder, over time, has definetely suffered for it. Much of the time I'm left wondering if I can get it back...or if I need it back. I sort of miss the feeling, but at the same time find it unrealistic. As it stands, I am not an active mystic at the moment. I have been a traveller of secret ways, but at the moment my life doesn't include these practices actively.
I've always believed in magic, in some form or another. Magic is an act of will, shaped and coloured by intent. Focus will, shape intent, gather energy, imprint it - then send it out. There are plenty of ways this can be done. As far as I'm concerned, magic is simply a force we don't understand yet, through scientific means. It doesn't mean that someday we won't.
Spellcraft is something I enjoy, but it's also sort of a measure of last-resort. I don't cast often, and it's usually after everything else that's been done on a mundane level hasn't helped or produced the desired result. I pretty much don't see the point in spells for things that mundane acts of will can achieve - I mean, pyrokinesis? Whatever. I can will myself to get a lighter and use it. Telekinesis? I'll just get up and move the thing.
It's not so much spells I enjoy, as the -crafting- aspect. heh. I know I can do without the bits and bobs associated, since I'm well proficient in energy work on its' own. I just like giving myself something to do.
Woo stuff is...different. I have stopped having a lot to do with particular communities, since the overflow or simply illogical things in the name of "woo" was just too much. I don't have much tolerance for people who refuse to think critically, or apply critical thinking to everything but themselves. I'm not interested in 'woo' stuff too much anymore, and seem to be doing my best to ignore my own - refer back to my comment on lack of wonder. That doesn't mean that it doesn't happen to me, or around me, or that I nescessarily deny all of it. I've just put my foot down, and refuse to let it affect my life at all, dramatically or otherwise.
There's a balance to be maintained here, like with all things. I try not to swing too hard to one side or the other. Too mundane just as bad as too magical. My path is one with a foot in both worlds.
