Why, in 2007, do I see people on here asking for advice on casting spells/psychic crap?

Question

What is this, Salem back in the day?

If anyone is offended by this question, please use your powers to obtain my phone number and give me a call.

I don't believe I said anything about Wiccans.

I've just seen people ask about casting spells to make others do this or that...people representing themselves as having some sort of paranormal ability.

All I'm saying is...if you're going to hold yourself out as having it, be willing to throw down and give me a call.

Oh yes...I'm atheist. Again, this is just directed at those who misrepresent themselves as having paranormal abilities.

Answer 1

Because it is human nature, especially when young (like under the age of ten), to want to believe in

1. absolute justice
2. infinite mercy (for themselves; not for people they don't like)
3. a "Big Daddy" (or Mommy) in the sky who will always love you, will always hate and punish your enemies, who has immortal, supernatural powers YOU can control via prayers and spells, and who allows bad things to happen to you only for your own good.

Fortunately for some people, they grow up and grow out of this. Unfortunately for all of us, most people do not.

PS: One of my great-great (times 13) grandmothers was hanged at Salem. She was an old woman with no kids in Salem to defend her; the sheriff and the accuser (whom we believe owed her money) wound up with her property. Her accuser had been whipped in the public square for perjury the year before. Her testimony, which mentions this, is one of the saddest things you could ever read.

Answer 2

Well let's see. As I understand it spell casting is not unlike prayer. Some people attempt to evoke God's favor others attempt to evoke natures favor, etc.

I wonder if anyone has ever examined this from a scientific point of view (oh wait they have). Larry Dossey, M.D. has provided evidence that the practice of prayer helps people heal faster. Many studies have also correlated good health with spiritual beliefs. This of course does not prove God or Spirits but it does provide evidence that practices like prayer can be beneficial to your health.

What about all that other psychic crap: The Parapsychological Association (link below) was elected an affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (link below) in 1969 and was thus officially recognized as a legitimate field of science.

I suppose people ask these questions in 2007 because they have not bothered to look at research between 1969 and 2007 (or as far back as 1882 when Cambridge University professors founded the Society for Psychical Research) on these subjects.

Michael John Weaver, M.S.

Answer 3

Sometimes old traditions or so-called "truths" do not die. Also, its pretty easy to take these things lightly today. A few years ago, I am talking as in this very decade, I knew someone who was really into the occult and magic and said she believed vampires existed.

Today she is going to college for art and while she still says some of that, clearly she is just either having fun or being so, if you get someone from another country (or just a backwater area of the US), you can still find people who really do believe this exists. Imagine if you were in a box for a thousand years: when you get out, the world would seem much different right?

Try this: take a drive out of your city or suburb to rural America. You will find people who still think DVDs are a new thing and have never heard of Blu-Ray, HDDVD or HDTV. To them a Cell Phone is still considered somewhat of a luxury not a nessecity, and the fact that Ford may release a new F-150 when its "only" been out 4 years? *shock*

Being disconnected from the rest of the world has that effect. I can still find people, not Amish people but people who drive cars, have phones and refrigerators, who think that a laptop is an outrageously new concept. These same people often think I am rich and well connected because I know people who work at the State Department or Bear Sterns. I try and tell them these people I know are just secretaries or mid-level managers.

Also, consider how different the world is from just 100 years ago. To some people change at the rate we experience it now is just unheard of. That there is an Ipod, let alone today they refreshed it, is astounding and confusing. "Weren't CDs the next thing 10 years ago?" they ask me, only for me to reply that the world now moves much faster than changing every ten years. We change at the rate of year by year if not faster. Where as once upon a time it might take a team of architects a month to design a building, that same building can be designed by one grad student on a laptop in a week today.

100 years ago, there was still some belief in spells or super natural. Little scientific discoveries that have disproved them or just a cultural shift away has not hit in all places yet.

Answer 4

First off.....Salem had no witches. It has been proven over the years that women who were comopletely innocent of anything having to do with Wicca were burned at the stake - due to fear and ignorance and intolerance of the others.

Secondly, Wicca and other alternative religions are older than Salem anyway - as is Christianity and other religions. All religions are "old".

Comments like yours just once again prove the close mindedness and bitterness that some poeple live with daily. Get some Xanax from your Dr. and you should be fine. Either that, or I can light a black candle tonite, do a ritual for you, and put you out of your misery permanently.

Answer 5

I would say the reason is very simple...
People nowadays, especially the younger ones are trying to reconnect themselves with what the ancients had before the invention of mainstream religion, and I make no apology about the word invention, as man did invent God and therefore he invented religion...

As far a spells are concerned~~~A spell is mealy a manipulation of energy, to bring about a desired result...
Just like wishing or praying, but far more powerful...
We are all psychic, we all have that elusive 6th sense, but only some people can use it as most have been "conditioned" not to use it as the conception is that it's the work of Satan, another invention of man...

We are evolving and in 2012 hang on to your corn-cob pipes as all will become apparent, it will be the end of religion as we know it....
Blessed Be... )O(

Answer 6

Your question is also your answer.

Despite your beligerant tone you're seeking answers. That's what people are doing asking those questions, they are seeking answers about things that worry them, their hopes, their dreams and whether or not they are on the right path.

A lot of these people don't really understand what psychics and empaths can do. We try and help them see things a little bit the way we do, and often times offer some practical but hard earned advice.

You don't really understand what we are about either, and from the tone of your question you couldn't care less. That's great! You're as entitled to your views as I am to mine.

There are a great many things I could type here but I don't think it'll make a blind bit of difference.

Blessings for you and whatever path you're on.

Answer 7

Q: Why, in 2007, do I see people on here asking for advice on casting spells/psychic crap?

A: Mostly they ask because they don't know that people who know enough to get the job done aren't about to give them an answer.

Answer 8

I'm not offended by your question, because it's simply ignorant.
To actually answer your question, it's because people are more aware that they do have psychic and other powers that are capable of being developed, and no longer believe that it's a devil-worship thing from the past. Also, in spite of your attitude, there's a wide-spread recognition that all religions deserve respect nowadays, and that there is less (your question excepted, of course) disrespect shown openly than there used to be. So people are more open about their beliefs than they might have been in the past.

Answer 9

We who are in tune with the Lord and the Lady, the Goddess and God understand there is more religions out there and not all of them cator to Christianity.

The Bible is only a guide and not an absolute of law as some would believe.

Being wiccan or pagan doesn't automatically damn you to burn in a nonexistant fire pit you call Hell.

Answer 10

Same reason you see people on here preaching the bible in 2007. Some people prefer to trust and believe in things that can't be proven, others, like me, choose to believe in science. To each his own. Why is what other people believe any of your business? Don't like mysticism, then get off the mythology and folklore board and you won't be bothered by it.