The Magical Human: How Everyday Humans Practice Magick
*The following article is written in two sections. The first is by Zzenn Loren, followed by Elizabeth Blackthorn’s segment.
“Magick happens when you step into who you truly are and embrace that which fulfills your soul.”
― Dacha Avelin
Most people are unaware of their natural intuitive abilities, and even less aware of the powerful energy within them. The forces of the unconscious mind—emotional memories held within the body—are often dormant, yet they still trigger our subconscious reactions.
Humans are inherently creative beings, with an inner world full of thoughts, feelings, and memories. We are all dream weavers, magicians, and enchanters at heart, using these abilities every day without realizing it. What sets apart the mystic or the self-aware individual is simply a conscious awareness of these inner powers.
For many, the concept of "magic" has been dismissed and relegated to the realm of fantasy and superstition. Yet, could this dismissal be a simple misunderstanding? We are constantly influencing the world around us in subtle ways. We cast spells with our harsh judgments. We wield black magic through psychological projection—the powerful charisma of a leader and the healing warmth of an embrace both weave sorceries and enchantments.
“In this lifetime we are like Superman who must remain disguised as the nerdy newspaper journalist Clark Kent, or Harry Potter and his friends who are not allowed to do magic while they are on holiday, away from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry... but even Harry Potter and Clark Kent get to tap into their ‘special powers’ once in a while, especially when the going gets tough.”
― Anthon St. Maarten
This dynamic is also evident in religion. For example, when Christians invite Jesus into their hearts, they use the power of their own invocation to bring a tangible, spiritual presence into their lives. Jesus is invoked. They build a personal relationship with this spirit. Talk to him. Beseech him. They might not realize their own deep imaginative powers, attributing the strong, internally-generated energy “feeling-sense” around them to this Holy Spirit.
Unfortunately, this same power can be used to mislead. Some charismatic figures spin incredible tales about supernatural worlds, wrapping incantations around the curious and vulnerable. They may unwittingly—or intentionally—use the desperation and desires of their followers to their own advantage.
This is not meant to dismiss intelligences that could exist in alternate dimensions, but to highlight the hidden psycho-spiritual powers within unaware human magi.
“There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.” ― Luis Marques
People use dark psychology to manipulate others, often without realizing the full extent of their influence. On the other hand, some become "light workers"—empathetic, compassionate individuals who uplift humanity through their words and actions, as seen in the example of Mother Teresa.
Many remain trapped in the illusion that powerful abilities and virtues are reserved only for spiritual leaders or occult figures. This misunderstanding keeps them from exploring their own potential and can lead them to judge those who do.
The crucial point is this: humans perform this "magic" every moment, unconsciously shaping the world. Because this process is unconscious, it often fosters a victim mentality, which then gets projected onto those striving to create positive change. The endless waiting for an external savior—be it a religious figure or advanced alien—can become a form of magical thinking that avoids the hard work of self-responsibility.
For real change to happen, the answer has to come from within. The key to this journey is starting a quest of self-reflection and deep self-honesty. You must learn to stop deceiving yourself by acknowledging what you're actually thinking and feeling in every moment and circumstance. You must become an observer of your life and pierce the illusions you hold about yourself and reality. This is a process taught on the Wizard's Path.
Until people become self-aware, open their hearts, and tap into their innate powers, they will lack the insight to become the "seers" with the wisdom to help transform humanity into a conscious civilization.
—Zzenn
To discover the inner path, read Zzenn’s biography for a profound journey on the esoteric path - unSpirituality: A Spiritual Journey.
Continuing the stream by Elizabeth Blackthorn
While Zzenn names the unspoken and drags unconscious magick into the light, I want to slow down and breathe with what he’s offered. Sit with that for a moment. There’s something ancient living between the lines of what he’s written. Something that is bone deep and reminds me why I chose this path in the first place.
Magick isn’t something you wake up one day and decide to do. It’s already there inside you, woven into the quiet mechanics of your existence. Always humming and always influencing. You don’t just begin practicing magick; you start noticing what your energy has been doing all along. Most people are casting spells with every thought, every emotion, every deeply embedded belief, but they’ve been trained to call it something else. They think they’re venting. They think they’re coping. They don’t realize they’re shaping the field around them in real time.
But noticing isn’t the final spell, so to speak, it’s just the first spark. Awareness without integration becomes spiritual bypassing. It’s easy to label yourself conscious while still acting from old wounds. The real magick happens in the slow, messy work of shifting those patterns. Of embodying what you know, even when it’s inconvenient. Even when it costs you.
Every person walking this earth is an energetic force in motion, radiating influence, bending outcomes, sowing seeds into the soil of their future. What distinguishes a witch or a conscious practitioner isn’t aesthetics or language or the presence of ritual tools. It’s the decision to become lucid in the dream. To witness the mechanics of their own inner world with precision. To feel the ripple of their choices before they unfold. To recognize when they’re leaking power through old patterns and decide to reclaim it, breath by breath.
Here’s how I see it through my own lens as a witch, a ritualist, and someone who’s held too many offerings at too many crossroads to believe in coincidence. Life doesn’t just happen to us. It always answers us. It reflects what we speak into it, what we carry in our bodies, what we won’t allow ourselves to name. Every wound we ignore becomes a spell still casting. Every intention we plant becomes a prayer. The world shifts around the way we inhabit it.
It’s easy to blame systems. But it’s the energy inside those systems, the fear, the control, the refusal to feel, that creates the most chaos for us. People curse each other with the language of righteousness and then can't figure out why the air feels heavy. They confuse dominance with safety. They label projection as discernment. All the while, their unresolved pain is scripting the next scene of their lives without their permission. Or so they think.
Psychologically, most of us are running in loops. Emotional memories stored in the body, tied to early patterns of survival, become the architects of our unconscious behaviors. A single moment of rejection can turn into a lifetime of overcompensating. A suppressed truth becomes a thousand unsaid things, all of which vibrate in the field like tiny detonators. That’s magick, too. It's just magick left unattended.
I’ve seen women light candles for the dead and call it grief, not spellwork. I’ve seen men whisper over the heads of their children and never realize they’re weaving protection. I’ve watched love bloom between two wounded people and tear a hole in the veil. I’ve walked into rooms and felt the crackle of unspoken tension like a circle already cast. None of this gets called magick.
But it is.
Magick isn’t theatrical. It isn’t loud. It doesn’t need to be adorned. The most powerful workings I’ve witnessed came through breath, through choice, through someone finally telling the truth their body had been holding for years.
I don’t believe in chasing power, but I do believe in remembering the power that never left. I believe in the kind of magick that smells like wet dirt and open wounds and the ozone bite of a coming storm. The witch doesn’t return to center stage because she wants to be seen. She returns because she remembers what’s been forgotten, and refuses to stay silent about it.
There’s a quiet terror in waking up. Because the moment you see yourself clearly, you can’t unsee what you’ve been doing to the world around you. But there’s freedom, too. There’s a kind of sacred authority that comes with being able to hold your own shadow and not collapse beneath it. The ones who walk awake aren’t trying to manipulate the world. They’re harmonizing with it. They know the difference between reaction and resonance.
They know when something is echo and when something is truth.
But not everyone wants to wake up. Some people are deeply invested in their illusions because illusions feel safer than the raw truth of their power. Denial becomes its own form of spellcraft. A way to stay small while convincing yourself it’s the world keeping you there. Waking up means owning your own impact on the world, and not everyone is ready to stand in the fire of that responsibility.
Your body is already performing rituals. Your nervous system is already a spellbook. Your thoughts are crafting magick, whether you call it that or not. Magick is in the way your heart remembers how to beat, the way your breath adapts to silence, the way your mind spins stories around your pain in an effort to survive. You are already the altar. You are already the offering. You are already the one who decides what this life becomes.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” — Carl Jung
Zzenn is right. The future we long for won’t be brought in by messiahs or motherships. It will be shaped by those who turn inward and do the untangling. It will be shaped by those who can feel without flinching, who can speak without performing, who can be awake and kind and dangerous in the most sacred way. The ones who understand that heaven isn’t a destination. It’s an orientation. And that living with awareness is the most powerful spell of all.
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