I may have written about this before, but I like the concept and I’ve been thinking about it. I think I like it cuz it’s kinda sciencey and therefore helps me explain magic to people who look at me like a freak when I mention it.

We can look at magic as shifting the probabilities or “ the odds” from one outcome to another. “There’s a 50% chance of rain tomorrow,” or “The odds against that happening are ten to one.” In such a statement, there are two factors: the probability and the improbability. If the odds are ten to one against, the probability is one and the improbability is ten. But the thing is, in such a case, if you do it ten times, then the improbability drops to one, and the probability goes up to ten. Once more, and the improbability becomes a virtual certainty. Even if the odds are a million to one against, like in winning the lottery, if more than a million people play, then at least one is virtually certain to win. This could explain why there are so many coincidences and synchronicities. In an infinite universe, all improbabilities must be finite. Nothing we can imagine truly impossible. The only real question is, what are the odds?

In this context magick as “probability enhancement” consists of increasing the odds to favour of our desired outcome. It’s like piling rocks on the high end of a seesaw until the balance shifts, and the other end goes up. Every bit helps— not only large boulders, but even small pebbles and grains of sand; it just takes more of them. When both ends of the seesaw are off the ground and level, the balance is 50:50, and it hinges on the fulcrum (balance point). At that point, it doesn’t take much to tip the balance one way or another—or even to pivot the whole thing into a different alignment entirely.

The trick is to find the cusp. A cusp is an intersection between fields of alternative probability. At such places the potential as to which of these alternatives the probability wave will collapse into is in delicate balance—things could easily go either way. At a cusp, it takes little energy to move between the intersecting states, and “probability enhancement” can have very large impact because of a domino effect of probabilities changing outward through space and time like ripples in a pond.

I didn’t write this. I can’t remember who did, I cut and pasted it, okay I ripped it off, but I’m willing to admit it, so I don’t screw with anyone’s copyright. I liked it and felt like I needed to post something to balance out all this Jesus talk that’s been happening around here.