There needs to be a serious study done to try to test for objective effects of ceremonial magic, or magical/mystical practices in general.
We already know that it does something on the psychological level; but how, specifically, do these processes work; and what is the objective outcome of these processes? It would go even further, when you consider psychosomatic illness. In such an illness, there is no physical cause. It’s all in your head, but, and that’s a big but, there are very real, objective, physical symptoms. How far can these, purely rational, effects go?
One thing that quantum physics suggests is that consciousness has an effect on reality, at least at the quantum level. As far as I know, we don’t know how far these effects go, and they may not be restricted to the quantum level. Since everything is made up of these tiny particles, effecting them could, theoretically, bring about larger changes in the system as a whole.
Now how much would effecting our entire state of consciousness, our entire lives, in the pursuit of a single goal, effect objective reality? What about thousands, millions people; entire world religions, praying and performing their religions rituals? I imagine it shapes our very reality.
What if life never became conscious and self aware?
Then I wouldn’t have reblogged this awesome post I guess