weirdway

Everything that follows is meant to be a useful illusion to help you develop understanding. Do not take it or anything you read ever to be true or false. It is, at best, ornamentation in your dream-reality.

Magickally deciding what someone else will do is seen by many as a necessary metaphysical violation of their free will. Many magickal traditions hesitate to accept or even oppose tampering with the activities of others. One common fear is that everyone will become drones of your will and extensions of yourself if you change your perspective so that they can be controlled. Most people at some level want to keep seemingly autonomous others in their world, so this would be unwise for them.

However, it is metaphysically possible to directly control the activities of others as much or as little as you'd like without sacrificing their free will.

First, consider that even in a highly conventional perspective, you know very little about other people's motivations. You can try to figure out their motivations by watching them, but that gives you very little. Especially since people often hide their true thoughts and feelings from public perception. It can turn out, quite suddenly, that someone you never suspected was in love with you or was a serial killer or is a master of divination.

Now, begin to consider the infinite possible ways that anyone you know could turn out to have literally any set of motivations that you never suspected. I think it's pretty amazing when you really start to imagine that broadly.

In this context, consider the idea that every possible reality manifests for those who participate in it. Consider that there are realities where versions of everyone else exist who vary in a range from almost identical to extraordinarily different in terms of motivations.

Imagine then that in these infinite realities, the various versions of the individuals you know making different decisions and having different motivations are free.

What I suggest, in context of these ideas, is that the other-realities you encounter depend on you. That is, at some level, you are always manifesting one of the infinite possible sets of motivations for everyone you meet and you are choosing which free others you are living with in your reality (if you are choosing to live with free others at all).

By implication, you can force it to be the case that someone falls in love with you freely, or becomes lucid freely, or commits suicide freely. You can choose to shift into the reality where that is already happening in their intent and in the process of unfolding. Similarly, others can do the same to you. If the decisions they force aren't in line with the decisions you are making, then they will diverge into an alternate possible reality with an alternate version of you that does make those decisions, and you will have a different version of them that decided not to force you to make a decision different than the one you are making. There is, in this sense, nothing for others to fear from you, and nothing for you to fear from others. Yet, we are all tyrannical lords of our realms and of others in our realms.

If you view everyone as a god or goddess, then there is nothing you can do to them against their will, and yet you can do anything you please to them. Similarly they to you.

This divergence and convergence of the infinitely variant divine subjective minds in the infinitely variant realities can be called subjectivity divergence and convergence.