This is a generic template to avoid being too repetitive when talking about magick rituals in other pages. Coming soon.
Are magick rituals possible?
1: No. Magick is bullshit (modern western "rationalist" perspectives).
2: Yes, but this page won't teach you those. The philosophy section of this website:
2.1: Is all bullshit. It's literally just a random person online listing random possibilities.
2.2: It's not all bullshit (e.g. when the website talks about sociology or whatever), but the magick part is.
2.3: Some of the "magickal" information written in this website may be true by accident, so don't blindly believe it.
3: Yes, and this page can teach you that!
3.1: (Very similar to 2.3 in content but not in attitude) Only some of the "magickal" information written in this page may be true (by accident), but nonetheless, it can help you gain inspiration, if you know what you're doing.
3.2: Most of what is written in this page is true.
3.3: All of what is written in this page is true. However, due to the various options contradicting each other, it's not like they're some sort of "absolute truth", but rather, each option is a tool that has different consequences, different characteristics, and different purposes (chaos magick, "beliefs as tools"). So, a more correct way to say it, instead of "all of what is written in this page is true", would be "all the options listed in this page are valid tools you can use, though they have different consequences, and are used for different purposes".
3.a: But it's dangerous and provides no benefits, don't do it! (0/100)
3.b: It can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. Mostly discouraged (25/100).
3.c: It can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing but can be helpful if you know what you're doing. About 50/50 in terms of benefit/danger ratio.
3.d: It can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, but the benefits outweigh the dangers, and the danger is kinda rare (though it can happen). 75/100
3.e: It's beneficial, totally recommended, no danger whatsoever! 100/100
The types of effects magick rituals have.
1: None, magick is bullshit.
2: Just psychological effects, fully explainable by secular psychology. The "occult" facade is either bullshit or just for aesthetics.
3: Psychological effects, at least some not explainable by secular psychology. Some involve entities which may or may not be conceptualized as "part of oneself".
4: Societal effects. Magick rituals affect reality itself.
4.1: Non-idealistic view: The world is made of matter, perhaps some form of energy or spiritual entities, but it's NOT a conscious being itself! The magick rituals have some "supernatural" characteristics but the "baseline" (i.e. the "natural" world) is more or less the same as the secular one. The "supernatural" stuff is simply "added on top" of a world conceptualized in the same way that materialistic atheists do.
4.2: Idealistic/panpsychist view: the entire cosmos is a conscious entity. Everything is consciousness. By performing magick rituals, you are altering your mind, which is part of the larger consciousness of reality, and therefore you are altering reality itself. There is no "separate" reality from consciousness, as everything is consciousness.