• @jamie_oliver@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Oh lol yeah. I did “magic” once and it freaked me out so bad I never tried it again.

    So I was a bit of an edgy person and fascinated by religion. I bought a book about black magic on ebay or some shit, it came with a drop of blood from the previous owner I realized when I got it in the mail, which was kind of creepy bit you know, authentic?

    So yeah, I am reading and it is fascinating stuff. I love the overall concepts and the metaphysical implications, but you know, I don’t actually believe in that stuff, so I decide to try it out…

    The next day I go to work in a factory, we built trucks/lorries or what it is called in english. I try the techniques I read in the book, about highly specific manifestation and willing into existence. I visualize a sort of trade, and specify the factory will stop for an extended period of time, but not enough to cause any irrepairable economic harm or loss of employment, and certainly no physical or great emotional harm, only economical at a level far removed from the average floor worker. About an hour goes by, and everything stops. Apparently, the engines have not arrived from Germany, due to some delivery chain issue. We cannot continue the line as we are out of engines and they can only be inserted at one specific point, so everything stops until we get more. We all laugh and start just chilling around the factory, there is nothing to do anyways and we already cleaned everything imaginable the first 30 minutes or so (you would not believe how fast cleaning gets done when over a thousand people are ordered to clean because “well we can’t just have you standing around”). Now I want to make clear no big stop like this ever happened in my entire time there, especially not because of something that wasn’t a big fuckup by someone on site. I got kind of freaked out and never really touched that book again lol.

    I have some other ones, but no one else was around for those so they are easier to just blame on me not being very mentally stable at the time.