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That is not an accurate explanation of a dimension. A dimension can be thought of as type of enumerable set, pretty much. When I enumerate a set of natural numbers, for example, I get one-dimension as follows n={1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9...}. 4 is between 3 and 5, so if I say n[4], I mean 4. We can think of...

To start with, you've completely misread what I said. I said NOT getting from Newton to Einstein, but reducing Einstein down to Newron. I'll reply to the rest when I can read this on something bigger than my phone, since this site is blocked at work. I did not misread it, for I addressed it. You re...

I was under the impression that Relativity can be reduced down to Newton. That is what I meant by "contains". Thus it is possible to ignore any magical aspect to Crowley's statement, and take it at face value as a description of how we interact normally with the world. No. I am going to u...

This seems like a lot of discussion for a simple question that was resolved by the scientific community during the 1970s with the collapse of the parapsychology field. Magic (however you define that term) can't be hypothesized, let alone theorized, because it is unfalsifiable . Being falsifiable is...

When people talk about theories of magic, they normally actually talk about models of magic. i.e. a system that helps/allows them to do magic. The words theories and models are not interchangeable. A theory, in the purely logical sense, is pretty much a set of statements from which one necessarily ...

magic is metaphysical That is not necessarily correct. I'm not saying that there aren't some that hold that belief, but there are some that don't. To say it short and sweet, it says something about things, which is enough to make it metaphysical. These statements, though, are not empirically meanin...

My post is off topic, but you've made me curious. I'd be interested in hearing your reasons (maybe in another thread) as to why you think there can be no theory for magic. I am pretty busy with my life, right now, but when I have time, I plan on writing a blog post that tackles it. I'm going to giv...

corvidus wrote: My post is off topic, but you've made me curious. I'd be interested in hearing your reasons (maybe in another thread) as to why you think there can be no theory for magic.

My response can be found here:
http://www.occultforum.org/forum/viewto ... 17&t=39310

I've been very interested in incubi and succubi, sexual demons, for a few years now and looked at a few things regarding summoning them. However, I've never been able to do this but mostly because I'm not sure if they exactly exist. The thing with incubus and succubus is that they don't just repres...

Hello, I've never really been good with introductions. I mostly have been lurking on this forum without registering, and will probably still lurk. I've been practicing various forms of metaphysical arts for roughly 19 years. Educationally, I have a background in Genetics, Information Technology, Com...

To claim that a second is not a contrived device for measuring time is to say that the measurement device we use that we call time is not something we ever developed, which is also incorrect. A second is not a contrived device to measure time, for when one has an angle, one says something has degre...

The math you use is also a contrivance, the definition of contrivance being 'a scheme, device, strategy or tactic'. I think you may have misread what I wrote to mean that I'm suggesting time itself is a man made thing, and this isn't the case - not even the measurement of time is illusionary, its a...

Ok, I think I understand just enough of what you are saying to reply :-) I wasn't specific enough. When I said "timeless universe" I didn't mean a universe without time - that would (as you quite rightly say) be nonsense. I meant that there is no *passage of time*; no dynamics. There is a...

Still - if you want to talk about transcending time, then a good place to start in science is the Wheeler DeWitt equation. What this basically says is that when you combine quantum physics and relativity (something that has not yet been achieved to everyone's satisfaction), then what you end up wit...