Limiting Beliefs?

[NeutralLion]

I am new to all information relating to magic, and from what I gather, belief plays an important role. I suspect that I have many of them. Is there any point to or any benefit derived from practicing magic without belief? How do I go about identifying and dismantling each belief in a practical and systematic step-by-step formula?

 

[Beyond Everything]

This is actually an enormous topic that isn't much touched upon because most occultists know very little outside of memetic tropes passed down by other people of questionable esoteric merit.

Beliefs aren't just beliefs. They are thoughtforms on the individual level, and they can hook one up to egregoric 'streams'. These can be very limiting factors. These are real energies that impact one's entire complex.

Introspection is a must. Altered states of consciousness are useful for ferreting out beliefs. Again, these are real energies and can be treated and dispensed with as such.

Ideally, one's beliefs should come about not from books, orders, or the emotionalized pressures of egregores (ie, religion) but from direct, clean perceptions of higher dimensions and working out an individualistic practical regimen.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

The way I look at it, belief is how you access the mechanism of magic. You have to alter your viewpoint at such a fundamental level to match up with your successful outcome, that the interface that you use for this is belief. The key is that you are trying to reprogramme your unconscious mind, where the changes occur, but the intent has to begin in the conscious mind.

As they say in chaos magic, it doesn't matter what the belief is, as long as you believe it. Why else would such a wide range of different magical systems have equal amounts of success?