If anyone can manifest anything

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What keeps the world from becoming totally whacky?

Surely there are some who can manifest things beyond agreed-upon reality?

Are there lots of miraculous things going on in private?

Some shaman can turn into wolves I hear.

I don't know if it is quite so simple.

The mass mind makes reality very solid, because that is the mass agreement of what exists -- the unconscious ratification of group consensus. For some people reality *is* totally whacky. But the racial mind (society) will call those divergent realities not real. So yes, in personal reality, many people experience anomalous phenomena.

It's a bit like modding a game that you play online. You can mod the game all you want, but unless others have the same mod installed, they are just going to see the original content.

Some souls get really good at luring others into their so called mods though, and this is really what magick is. One example of this is charisma, which is a loop of consciousness that continuously associates every other consciousness and thought it comes into interaction with its personal reality and/or belief system. When this action is repeated thousands upon thousands of times it becomes like a kind of inductive trance structure, which continues to attract, influence, and reinforce, in others, the same mental patterns of the "cult leader" we might say. I bring up cult leaders because they are a prime example of what happens when someone with innate magical talent attempts to start a following. These people have a sort of irresistible charm that makes you want to keep listening and investing your emotions into their thoughts, beliefs, and motivations. You get stuck in their reality in other-words.

While I understand your use of cult leaders as an example I would like to point out that there are also positive approaches to group organizations and not every case of one person with strong ideas is a case of a budding cult. Many of the spiritual masters we enjoy the works of today had many followers. Hell, we don't call the Dalai Lama a cult leader, right?

I know you were just using an example so I just wanted to fill in the other side of things.

Imagine the Buddha cult aha I partly say this as a defense of magic because perhaps unintentionally you have implied that all magic is of the makings of cults. I'm sure you did not mean that but just to clarify.