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weird (adj.)

c. 1400,

• "having power to control fate", from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes,"

• from Proto-Germanic wurthiz (cognates: Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"),

• from PIE wert- "to turn, to wind," (cognates: German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"),

• from root wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus).

• For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."

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This is just a small idea that I will throw out there. This is for any of you who have aspirations to perform harder and more blatant types of magick and who also like my ideas.

Firstly, you have to realize that as far as it concerns the malleability of shapes and structures everything is your will and is united in your will. Even the so called 'othered' aspects of mind are your will in terms of their malleability. But that's not enough.

Secondly, you have to develop appreciation for how weighty the conventional patterns can be. If you want to mess around with those at will, you have to know the mental level of these conventional patterns. To know it means to appreciate it.

So how can you learn to appreciate it? There isn't really one way. One way is to just bang your head against the seeming wall of the phenomenal reality until cracks appear. That's one way you can learn to appreciate what you're dealing with. Another way, and I like this one in particular, is to ask yourself "backwards" questions.

So what do I mean by "backwards" questions? I'll describe a typical scenario how this contemplation works.

Say I want to move a cup on my table with my will, and it doesn't move. After it doesn't move, I ask myself "Wait, what if I wanted to manifest a reality where I couldn't casually move things around with my will? How would I do that?" That's the backwards question. This backwards question is very important, but don't take my word for it.

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[–] syncretik 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"The weight of the pre-existing, crusty patterns."

Originally posted by u/mindseal on 2016-05-02 11:51:01 (4hdcrj).