Introduction

Preface:
I have personally experienced many contradictory things. Therefore, I believe that there are still many unexplained phenomena that go beyond standard explanations. However, I have not found any concrete proof.
In various clinics, there are repeated reports of doctors thinking patients should die, but they live on, even when they should have been dead long ago. (One could explain this with fallacies and misjudgments.)
Personally, I wanted money and had opened a crypto wallet and made investments. Out of nowhere, a large sum was transferred to me. The exchange does not offer bonuses or rewards, and the investments had nothing to do with it.
I once tried to manifest something in an institution. I wanted a complete stranger to approach me out of the blue, without me speaking to them first. After about a year, no one had approached me. Therefore, this manifestation is superstition (medieval thinking).

Approach:
Here, I want to discuss practical real “external-altering” “magic”.
For example: esotericism; religion; spirituality; superstition; rituals; magic; grimoire; spell books; incantations; demons; occultism; sorcery; witchcraft…
I want to find practices that actually work and are not just theories and empty promises. Much of what is out there is made for tourism, designed as entertainment, a lie, created from fallacies, developed from outdated thinking, constructed for manipulation, or invented for other reasons.
However, I wish to proceed differently. First, I will research and test whether something works (preferably with evidence), followed by the practical application, and then the theory with references (including a comment if necessary). However, I will pay little to no attention to practices that do not work.
Obviously, all rituals that harm living beings, use dangerous chemical substances, or could lead to dangerous consequences are excluded. Such practices will not be examined and will not be listed.

Psychology:
Theoretically, everything can be explained by psychology.
Confirmation Bias¹ is when only information that fits one’s own beliefs is perceived (consciously or unconsciously).
Selective Perception² is when only instances are perceived (consciously or unconsciously) that were explicitly (or indirectly) mentioned beforehand.
Thought Filling / Thought Foam (This is a neologism; it is an invented word; an approximate meaning is “the brain fills in the gaps”)³ describes the phenomenon where the brain fills missing knowledge with arbitrary thoughts to create a connection.

Time:
You need a fixed time frame. Because if you don’t have one, you think it must take longer. In the end, several years may have passed and nothing has happened.

(d=day, w=week, m=month, y=year)

I recommend trying the experiments for a minimum of 1 week and a maximum of 1 month. This way, progress can be better observed and it’s easier to determine whether something works or not. I would not recommend more than 1 month, or even 1 year, because then you wait a long time without anything ever happening.

Evidence

However, there are phenomena for which science has no answers. And there are sources that show that more exists than is visible at first glance.

Placebo Effect – How the brain creates a positive effect through belief in a treatment without an active ingredient.
Nocebo Effect – The brain generates harm through the expectation of harm.
Quantum Physics – Particles behave like waves; probabilities instead of certainty.
What is Consciousness?
Abiogenesis – How could complex cells arise from simple molecules?
Millennium Problems – In the year 2000, CMI published a list of unsolved problems in mathematics.
Unsolved Problems in Mathematics
The Hierarchy Problem – Why is gravity so incredibly weaker than the other fundamental forces?
The Fermi Paradox – Does extraterrestrial life exist, and where are they all?
Theory of Everything (TOE) – A physics theory that unifies all fundamental forces (gravity + quantum forces) in one model.
Measurement Problem in Quantum Mechanics – Why does the wave function collapse from superposition to a single result upon measurement?
Problem of Time – Is time a fundamental property of the universe, or a phenomenon that emerges from a deeper, timeless level?
Remote Viewing – The practice of extrasensory perception of distant or invisible targets.
Light Spectrum

Rituals

Successful

Ambivalent

Hope

Object:
When you hope, the chance that it maybe happens, but there is no guarantee.

Procedure:
Hold on to hope despite uncertainty.
If after about one week (or one month) nothing has happened, you should set the hope aside and pursue the goal strategically instead of passively waiting.

Self-test:
One day I hoped for rain. It remained dry.
I hoped to find 100 euros. Visualized it and believed strongly. I found 1 euro on the street. Partial success? Or just coincidence?
I strongly hoped for a free parking spot and found one. The next time I hoped for a free parking spot, there was none.
Therefore, I think hope is unstable and not reliable.

Theory:
Hope provides motivation and strength to continue.
The brain subconsciously searches for opportunities to realize the hoped-for outcome and to use those doors.
But it can also be a trap. The brain unconsciously seeks justifications to see the hoped-for goal as true, even if it isn’t.

Curt Richter’s Hope Experiment is an animal experiment in which rats are forced to swim in a water-filled container with no exit. They drown after about 15 minutes due to giving up. If hope is given to them (saving them just before death, drying, holding, then again ins water), they swim for up to 60-80 hours.

Hope greatly extends motivation and activity.

Comment:
Hope makes people extremely susceptible to manipulation. “Hope for X”, “Trust only me”. This is exactly what happens in religions: “Trust the holy book. Do not question. Obey!”
Thus, trust, hope, and religions are used as tools for brainwashing to prevent critical thinking and to justify violence, terror, and manipulation.

Alternative Names:
Hope; Faith; Trust; Optimism; Religion; Christianity; Islam; Orthodoxy; Judaism; Buddhism; Hinduism;

Model:
H = Hope
E = Event
P = Probability

H → P(E)

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Intuition

Object:
Protects against dangers, reveals opportunities, and tries to guide optimally through life.

Procedure:
You feel an inner signal, urge or warning about certain activities.
This signal can appear as a voice in your head or as a strange feeling in your stomach.

Self-test:
One day, intuition told me not to take the elevator. I went anyway, and nothing happened.
Another time, intuition whispered that I should stay at home. I stayed home, and again, nothing happened.

But on another day, intuition mean I check the website where I had been looking for an available appointment almost daily for months. It was always fully booked before, and I hadn’t felt anything special about it. But that day, suddenly, I had this feeling that I should check now, and this time, an appointment was actually available.

That’s why I’m not entirely convinced about intuition.

Theory:
It is assumed that the brain unconsciously processes information that helps us handle situations more quickly and perhaps better. This processing is based on countless stored pieces of information, experiences, patterns, and observations.

Some researchers see this as an evolutionary survival strategy. In early human history, it was better to flee when feeling uneasy than to be eaten by a predator. It is quick to avoid dangers, but also prone to errors.

And yet, sometimes intuition seems to know things that a person could not have known.

Alternative names:
Gut feeling; Gut decision; Inner voice; What the heart says; Instinct; Foreboding; Sixth sense;

Model:
(Conscious info is optimal)
UI = Unconscious info
CI = Conscious info
D = Danger
C = Chance
I = Intuition

UI ∧ (CI ∨ ¬CI) ∧ (D ∨ C) → I

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