What is Magic

#todo _my thoughts on this have changed, I now believe magic to be a living art just like dance or painting or any other mundane art. It implements common techniques (A taxonomy of Magical Techniques Magical Technique Private or Broken Links
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) to achieve various goals both practical and aesthetic. Its modern practitioners push the art forward and are in conversation with the practitioners of the past see Magic as an Academic FieldMagic as an Academic Field
Aleister Crowley famously stated that Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will. I am not sure I entirely agree with him. Does magic necessitate chang..._

Magic is a word which describes any process through which a non material form is made manifest into material reality

#todo _my thoughts on this have changed, I now believe magic to be a living art just like dance or painting or any other mundane art. It implements common techniques (A taxonomy of Magical Techniques Magical Technique Private or Broken Links
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) to achieve various goals both practical and aesthetic. Its modern practitioners push the art forward and are in conversation with the practitioners of the past see Magic as an Academic FieldMagic as an Academic Field
Aleister Crowley famously stated that Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will. I am not sure I entirely agree with him. Does magic necessitate chang..._

My personal theory currently is Magic is the art of making a true DecisionMagic is the art of making a true Decision
 …I think what I am mainly saying is that if you want something, then all you need to do is decide to have it or do it- the ritual is just symbolic of that decision - not causal

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Many magicians have answered in different ways but we can see certain patterns emerge:

We can see that magic involves some sort of change to the external environment. And that Magic is an expression of the willMagic is an expression of the will
Magic is a tool through which The Will of the magician can be expressed into the world.

To express the will in the world can be very simple- I am thirsty, I will to have water, I stand and... .

Magic, intuitively stands against secular culture, but on closer inspection we may find that there is little within magical practice that is inherently superstitious or uninformed. In fact, we see many originally "occult" principals on full display within secular society but they have been sanitized of cultural understanding and rebranded to be instrumentalized by capitalism and The Cult of ProductivityThe Cult of Productivity
Repurposing the tools of self mastery towards the ends of maximizing "productivity". There is an intense pressure to "produce" in capitalist culture because that production is the life blood of cap...

If we can narrow in on what the Goal of magic is- then we can perhaps answer the question Is there a fundamental Magical Process Private or Broken Links
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? I suspect there is. While the aesthetics of magic may change I do believe there is an underlying phsycho-physiological process that occurs during successful ritual.

References

Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will

–Aleister Crowley, Book 4, Part III

Magic is but one's natural ability to attract without asking

Austin Osman Spare, The Book of Pleasure