Last year, I made a conscious choice to use the term energy instead of magick.
Why? Among magick practitioners, it's clearer. When I said magick, I always meant, "techniques using energy." But other people use magick to mean, "Acting on one's true Will," "Mystical experiences," "Anything not currently understood by science," and more. It was simply to easy to believe we were talking about the same concept, when in fact we were merely using the same words. I've found it clearer to just say energy.
Among energy practitioners, the benefit is obvious: They already accept and value energy, and mean roughly what I do by the term.
Even among laypeople who dismiss energy as woo, at least they know some people who have had good results (if only, they believe, from placebo). Magick sounds like it came from Harry Potter.
And in a way, the term did. When I was 11, a friend who loved fantasy novels told me that he felt energy from trees. I tried, and felt a warm tingling. I have no idea if it was energy or just imagination, but that's where it started. And, drawing from his young adult fiction, he called this experience magic, and I followed him.
I explored energy every day, but (partly because of the stigma associated with the term) I rarely spoke about it. In my late 20s, when I began blogging, I still called my explorations magic. I added the k to help Google understand that I was talking about energy, not slight of hand, and started writing.
For some time now, magick has felt off-brand, even awkward. I've dropped the word from my speech, and it's time to drop it from my website, too. Moving forward, I'll be writing on mikesententia.com. Check it out and let me know what you think, especially Home and About.
Magick of Thought will stay up indefinitely, so you'll still have access to all the content here. Thank you to all my readers, I've enjoyed talking magick with you, and I'm looking forward to talking energy with you too.
I liked reading about your findings and I think this page is very valuable. Does this moving on mean,you will take the Page down?
Thanks! This page is staying up, just all my new content will be on mikesententia.com. Everything here will stay though. Enjoy!
Hi Mike, very nice new site/blog and you are so handsome too! Hot!
Tell me, will you have dated posts on the new site? I will move over there once you close this one down, but I don't see how recent your writing is up there. So I came here to comment.
All the content on Magick of Thought will stay where it is, and I plan to keep this site up indefinitely as an archive. I'm not planning to migrate the content to the new site, though I will take some key posts, update them, and post them to the new site too. The new site will have all my new work — my weekly posts, and some new stuff I'm planning like videos and podcasts. Right now, there's only a couple posts up on the new site, but more will be coming soon.
Thanks for the vote of confidence! And for the years of sharing and commenting and friendship. I tell people, all I want is to create a new field of science, revolutionize physics, biology, and medicine, and make death optional. Is that so much to ask? We'll see how far I get.
Just wanted to thank you for the info and I signed up for your new website also. I just love how you explain everything. I'm somewhat new to this and you make easy to understand.