What made you believe in the existence of magic?

[YandereKun]

Do you have any stories?

 

[hollowglasd]

I started with tarot learning about its system and correspondences. Later much later I began energy work which convinced me of its reality then I took a long break but came back only recently
I also had a tarot deck that was stolen from me I accepted the loss then the very same tarot came back to me I got it back only to have it recently stolen again . I guess that deck wasnt meant for me. Now I’m back to the beginning with the raider white smith deck and keep it locked up and safe

 

[ZanySpirtist]

I am energy sensitive. I've observed subtle energies operating in my body/being physically, and thus I came to the conclusion there's more to this world than just the material and thus magick can work.

Later on I became a bit of a psychonaut in the psychonalytical vein - a lot of magick is also concerned with that.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

I started with studying paranormal powers from a scientific point of view (telepathy, clairvoyance, etc.) and eventually discovered that they are all subsets of magic.

I didn't need to 'believe' it as such; I was studying it.

 

[Morell]

When I started practicing, I was even surprised that there is something like a book on learning magic. I felt silly to myself. Then it started to work.

 

[Emperor Time]

Always believe in it since my mom always raised me to believe in the paranormal. And I also did my own research into the paranormal as well. It eventually lead me to have an emphasis on the Occult and became a believer in magic from all the reading and research and the like that I did on the subject. So been a believer since 2007 on if I remember correctly.

 

[faust]

I was really into studying rural cultural beliefs as a kid and then that kind of progressed into being a teenager who was really into nature and eventually the occult. Now as an adult I practice more and the results I see continue to confirm my beliefs. to be fair, my family practiced southern witchcraft and I always found it to be really cool.

 

[Thelemexite]

Born with psi abilities. clairvoyance, energy sensing, finding astrological synchronistic alignments with why I have the abilities I do. Remembering past life memories. Much....much more. Seek and you shall find, prerequisite is you must have a pure heart and intention or else the universe will provide.

 

[abernathy]

by first getting a proper haunting: moving bed, banging noises, lights pulsating, things in the house moving. that was first validation - but it opened up pandora's box of looking into other things.

 

[Hypsistos]

It Starts with Dreams... There are certain Herbs that make Dreams even more memorable. Then when you realize it is a new kind of Work, like training an invisible muscle, you will realize that Magic is real without a doubt. That's when the fun begins.

 

[embitca]

I think I always believed in it, but the proof for me was always fast results. Not everything I do works smoothly, but much more than 50% of the time, I get positive and very timely results for things that can't be attributed to coincidence (which is often the case I think for when someone does a ritual and then six months later they get what they want). For me, the result needs to be within a week or two at the most before I attributed it to magic.

 

[Amadeus]

I started questioning things as a kid when things I wanted somehow manifested out of nowhere. I remember thinking of a cash note and soon finding it somewhere. Then other things started coming. Kids can have weird goals... I desired cigarettes, found them, wanted something specific and then it came somehow to me. I always called it manifesting, couldn't understand how it worked but I knew it had something to do with extreme focus and desires. I recognized it as some kind of magic.

This all got boosted by my impulsive overly aggressive emotions. I was always either very angry or overly happy. Main emotion being extreme anger caused by hating the school system and some other reasons. I hated every single thing about the school system, until the very end. Also physical pain and some people made me furious.

Bigger turning point came after I noticed one can get into interesting states through meditations. Motivation increased by a thousand %. Things started making sense even more.

 

[𝕳𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖊]

I had a lot of very disturbing paranormal experiences when I was a kid. I've seen magickal things with my own eyes. Some of those experiences where horrifying. I talked about them on a forum and received a dm from an anti cosmic Satanist. He talked to me about magick, MLO cosmology, psychic abilities and the black flame. I met another Satanist soon after. He was into Joy of Satan and gave me some links from their website. I've basically been studying and practicing witchcraft since then.

 

[rice candy]

I had a near-death experience as a sickly child in the hospital. My fever was too high and I wasn't expected to make it that night, yet I was visited by Archangel Raphael in my fever dream where he hugged me to cure my condition. I woke up completely cured. The doctor calls it a "medical mystery" but I call it a miracle. It wasn't the experience that made me practice magic, but I did believe in it afterwards.

 

[zhen42]

I had success with Buddhist sadhana

 

[DoctorBij]

From my childhood to teen I have always liked the supernatural and all the things related to magic from the movies and stuff. What really got me into studying more about it was watching the series The Vampire Diaries. I was so focused and amazed by the series that I started searching in the internet if witchcraft was real, or just magic in it's own, also about vampires, but I've always been drawn more to witchcraft than vampirism.

I also have had a time in my life where I just kept having these weird dreaming incidents like astral projection, sleep paralysis with a little girl staring at me from my door and dreams where I'm flying (basically all of them). The thing is that these have suddenly stopped from happening and I'm trying to get back into it by some practices regarding my mental, energetic and spiritual bodies. They were such amazing and also scary experiences looking at in a different way that it lead me to explore more about it.

I'm new to all these stuff, but have always felt like I have the discernment and previous memories from past lifes about the occult and mysticism, as It's really easy for me to just comprehend what I'm reading without any issues in maybe not believing in it or just because it's a lot of information that I have never thought were existent.

 

[trefuego1]

From my childhood to teen I have always liked the supernatural and all the things related to magic from the movies and stuff. What really got me into studying more about it was watching the series The Vampire Diaries. I was so focused and amazed by the series that I started searching in the internet if witchcraft was real, or just magic in it's own, also about vampires, but I've always been drawn more to witchcraft than vampirism.

I also have had a time in my life where I just kept having these weird dreaming incidents like astral projection, sleep paralysis with a little girl staring at me from my door and dreams where I'm flying (basically all of them). The thing is that these have suddenly stopped from happening and I'm trying to get back into it by some practices regarding my mental, energetic and spiritual bodies. They were such amazing and also scary experiences looking at in a different way that it lead me to explore more about it.

I'm new to all these stuff, but have always felt like I have the discernment and previous memories from past lifes about the occult and mysticism, as It's really easy for me to just comprehend what I'm reading without any issues in maybe not believing in it or just because it's a lot of information that I have never thought were existent.

that's soo funny because i had the exact same experience, with sleep paralysis the small girl in a white long dress standing at the door and the walking up to me and when i closed my eyes and opened them again i could see her standing next to me in my peripheral vision i have also lost the ability to experience sleep paralysis for a long time now. i have African ancestors and i grew up around those type of environments and hearing stuff but i don't really believe in magic yet since i have not experienced it first hand or seen it. IF you have something that can change my mind pls tell me.

 

[querent k]

To me, it came the other way around: looking at how society ´´works´´ and thinking, how can that possibly be anything other than total war between memes, ideologies, personality/social-bond strategies, oversocialisation, etcetera ... aka egregores. ´´Magic´´ is rather anti-magic, micro magic against macro magic

 

[MagisterHermes]

In childhood, I had a few rare experiences,
But the experiences were very vivid and, being a child, frightening.
At that age, I had no idea about magic.
And these experiences, like the rest of life's experiences,
It taught me that there are strange and powerful dimensions, beings, and forces.
And from a very young age, as my mother and other relatives tell me, I was eager to learn more about it, and it was astonishing to everyone because they say you talked about things that, if we had even told them as a bedtime story to our children at that age, they would have had bedwetting!
Later, I found out that my mother, in her youth, was the (spiritual) daughter of one of the city's witches, who was considered a saint-witch, and she had seen me several times as a baby.
Now, the descendants of that woman have succeeded her and are very close and dear friends of mine; we are like family members to each other.
And for over 15 years (since I was 15), I have studied various esoteric sciences under great masters.
Magic is a part of my daily life, and I have lived it and felt it deeply.