When you think of psychic spells, you might think of someone sitting with their eyes closed and hands waving in the air. Maybe you envision someone conjuring up a ball of light and then throwing it at someone or something. Or perhaps you think of witches standing around a boiling cauldron, adding all manner of plant and animal guts, and chanting while they do so.
Psychics and psychic spells inspire a great deal of fascination pretty much everywhere. You see them in entertainment, and you hear about them from people who practice them. You also hear about them from those who consider such things evil. Psychic phenomena even stir a lot of debate among experts, including arguments about whether such things are even real.
What Is a Psychic?
According to Merriam-Webster, a psychic is someone who is sensitive to supernatural influences. They have an unusual, even mysterious, sensitivity to the world and people around them.
Spells vs. Hexes
Psychic spells come from the mind of a psychic, and they have the power to change the heart of another. While that may sound nefarious, spells are considered positive. When you hear the term “casting a spell, you might imagine the stereotypical witch casting a spell on someone to hurt them.
In general, you probably know good spells and evil spells. However, there’s another word for evil spells, which is “hex.” Spells are positive. Hexes are harmful.
People use spells to protect themselves and others, as well as change their lives for the better. One tidbit you may not know is that psychics often use their abilities to cast spells to calm their minds, enhance their focus, and clear them of negative thoughts.
Who Believes in Psychic Powers?
Many people believe in one type of psychic power or another. Some feel that psychics can contact the dead. Others assume these powers involve precognition, which is the ability to tell the future. Then you have some who expect that psychics can read your mind.
You also have people who think of psychic powers as an ability to use the mind to control events, and that’s the basis of psychic spells. If you think about it, using a spell to change someone’s heart amounts to controlling how they feel about something.
With a belief in psychic phenomena so common, it’s no wonder people associate psychic powers with some type of control. Look at the world in which we live. It’s full of chaos and uncertainty. We tend to reach for anything that gives us even an illusion of control.
Keep in mind, however, that psychic spells don’t just control others. Psychics also use them to control themselves and their thoughts. In a way, they use their spells to help manage their environments.
Casting Spells
Some of those who cast spells liken them to prayer. Some use things like herbs, incense, and crystals in concert with their spells.
Those who cast these spells, regardless of what traditions to which they adhere, tend to have a robust system of ethics because they believe in karma. They can use their spells to control others. However, those who understand that karma will come back to them will never do so without the permission of the other person involved.
In other words, they require consent. They don’t just go around casting spells without people’s knowledge and consent. The only spells they cast without permission from another person are those that only affect them, and nobody else.
What Kinds of Spells Are There?
Psychic spells exist for pretty much everything. They include:
- Spells to improve your psychic powers
- Third-eye spells (for enlightenment or help in seeing a bigger picture)
- Dream spells (especially dreams of the future)
- Spells to find lost items
- Protective spells (protecting your home, your loved ones, and others)
- Love and soulmate spells
- Glamour spells (mostly for helping to enhance your looks)
- Inversion spells (removing a spell or hex from yourself, similar to protective spells)
You’ll notice that many of these appear only to involve yourself. However, practitioners may use these spells on behalf of others to help them. For instance, someone might cast a protective spell for a person facing a bad situation in their life. They might cast a soulmate spell to help a person find their true love.
Again, nobody who practices spells ethically will do so for someone else without that person’s permission. In that regard, their ethics are akin to the Hippocratic Oath. They believe in not harming others or themselves.
Religions and Belief Systems That Practice Psychic Spells
We tend to associate psychic spells with those who sell psychic powers in shops. However, those who are members of specific pagan belief systems are those who practice genuine spells, as opposed to what you might think of when you hear the term “psychic spells.”
What Is Paganism?
Historically, “paganism” refers to any polytheistic religion that predates Christianity. The ancient Christians took the Latin word “paganus,” which refers to rustics or country dwellers, and called them pagans. In short, anyone who didn’t practice Christianity was a pagan.
Today, the term “paganism” encompasses several different ideologies. However, they all have the following things in common:
- Reverence for nature and the Earth
- Belief in multiple deities
- Belief in feminine and masculine divinity
- Men and women are equal
Many different pagan paths have roots in the Earth, and many people who follow these paths are environmentalists.
Which Religions Are Pagan?
You might be most familiar with Wicca since that’s the most popular form of paganism in Western society. However, pagan religions aren’t religions so much as they’re paths to follow. They include:
- Witchcraft (including Feri, Dianic, and yes, Wicca)
- Druidry (based in ancient Druid traditions, rooted in “the green earth.”)
- Shamanism (historically, a healing practice, but today refers to the spiritualism of indigenous peoples)
- Animism (a belief that everything in existence has a soul, living or not)
- Reconstructionism (reconstructing pagan beliefs of the past as opposed to modern pagan paths, like Wicca)
- Ceremonial magic (establishing a balance between male and female, separate and different from witchcraft)
- Heathenism (rebuilding relationships with ancient deities from pre-Christian polytheistic beliefs)
- Polytheism (belief in multiple deities, as opposed to monotheism like Christianity)
There are also neo-pagans, which are modern pagans that don’t follow any of these paths but feel a deep connection to nature.
Also, not all pagans practice spells. You’ll mostly find spell-casting among those who practice witchcraft.
What Is Witchcraft?
The terms “witch” and “witchcraft” bring up images of old women casting hexes, flying brooms, and turning people into animals, bugs, and worse. The stereotypical witch wears black clothing and spends most of her time bent over a cauldron of foul-smelling, boiling liquid aiding evil in its work.
In reality, witches and witchcraft are very spiritual and ceremonial but have nothing to do with evil regardless of what you may have heard. Witches do use incantations, crystals, talismans, and even mixtures we might call potions, yes. They perform rituals. Ultimately, each of these things plays roles in casting psychic spells by helping the practitioner focus their minds and spirits.
Whether a person casts spells to create a specific outcome for themselves or someone else or merely to increase their spirituality depends on the practitioner.
Witchcraft is merely one form of paganism, but it’s the path on which most who practice psychic spells walk. It’s important not to confuse witchcraft with other types of paganism, and especially not with commercial psychics.
Are Psychic Abilities Real?
There are a lot of different schools of thought regarding psychic powers. Many times, we believe we’ve had some type of psychic experience when we dream about something that later happens, or when we just “know” something before it happens.
Sometimes, you also know what someone else is thinking before they say it. Does that mean you read that person’s mind? Or was it a fluke? Perhaps you just know them well enough that you know how they’ll respond to something before they do.
None of this means you’re psychic, though, at least, not in the stereotypical sense. Many times, people think they’ve seen the future or read someone’s thoughts and conclude that they have some psychic powers.
The truth is, though, that people tend to ignore all the times they’re wrong about the future or what someone is thinking. We only tend to remember the times we were right.
Science, however, has found little evidence to support most incidents of psychic phenomena.
What About Empaths?
Empaths are real, but although they may appear to be telepathic, the truth is that they’re just very susceptible to the feelings of those around them. They can’t read your mind or your emotions like a book.
Empaths can pick up on subconscious signals that indicate what someone is feeling at a given point and absorb it into themselves. They’re also very good at putting themselves in others’ shoes, which is how they know what you might need in a given situation even if they’ve never been there themselves.
What the Experts Say About the Effectiveness of Psychic Spells
Psychologists and other mental health experts have long shown interest in people’s beliefs in paranormal activities, particularly psychic powers. One of the issues they run into is the definition of paranormal beliefs. The term “paranormal beliefs” is broad-ranging, so it’s difficult to pin down a specific set of traits that could make someone more susceptible to such beliefs.
In one study, participants of various belief systems reported a stronger belief in psychic powers after a magic show that made heavy use of psychic routines (such as contacting a dead person).
Adults tend to deny any belief in the paranormal, including psychic powers. However, the study showed that people with paranormal beliefs tend to base their reasoning on misunderstanding things like natural law.
Magic Shows and Demonstrations
In general, magic shows increase people’s beliefs in paranormal phenomena. Anecdotal evidence suggests that even skeptics can start believing in paranormal phenomena after seeing a magic show.
Whether people’s beliefs in psychic powers following magic shows changed had little to do with the views they held before seeing the show. Even education doesn’t seem to have anything to do with it. There’s little evidence showing that education affects whether people’s feelings about paranormal phenomena change in the face of a demonstration, psychic or otherwise.
Psychic Spells in Pop Culture vs. Real Life
Those who don’t practice witchcraft or other pagan traditions involving spells tend to view psychic powers and spells through pop culture. Take a look at the entire Harry Potter series. You might find it easy to believe that the things in which the characters of that series engage are how paranormal phenomena work in real life.
Harry Potter
For example, look at the Divinations class in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. That class involves reading tea leaves to determine someone’s future. It’s the same type of thing we imagine when we think of psychic readings. Psychic spells do include things like this.
The characters also use magic wands to cast spells and hexes. In other words, the Harry Potter series takes the stereotypes of witches and wizards that we tend to hold in our minds and brings them to life.
Family Guy
Seth McFarlane’s animated show sort of deals with psychic powers, too. The episode “Extra Large Medium” shows Peter Griffin acting as a psychic medium, while Lois goes to visit her psychic to learn how to protect her family, among other things.
However, the show portrays psychics the way you might think of those with storefronts. Peter conducts palm readings and tries to read people’s futures in that stereotypical manner we all imagine.
Lois’s psychic tells her the future, such as Stewie growing up to be hugely successful. Brian, the dog, believes that the psychic is merely taking Lois for a ride.
Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time is entirely fantasy, but portrays magic and spells in another commonly held view. Witches like Regina Mills (The Evil Queen), Maleficent, and others, use their spells for evil. In other words, they cast hexes upon their rivals and enemies and use such things for their own benefit.
On the flip side, there are characters on that show that have magical powers, including forms of psychic abilities, who use them for good. Some of them even use their skills for both good and evil.
For instance, both Regina and Emma Swan use their powers to deactivate a stone that amounts to a bomb capable of destroying everything.
The show also alludes to psychics who are con artists bilking people. A character known as the Ice Queen visits a psychic when she enters our world from her own, believing that the psychic is a sorceress. It turns out that this psychic is a con artist and successfully cons the Ice Queen.
Star Wars
While the Jedi do not use psychic spells, per se, how they use the Force to control the minds and actions of others are very much like psychic spells. Neither the Jedi nor the Sith has anything to do with real-life witchcraft or other pagan traditions, though. They are fictional belief systems.
Despite that, Jedi and the Sith get their powers from different sides of the Force, which you could view as a form of animism. The Force surrounds and binds everything in the universe, and harnessing it in specific ways gives the Jedi and the Sith their powers.
The main difference is that, according to the overall storyline, the Jedi use their powers for good, while the Sith use them for evil.
Psychic Spells in Real Life
In real life, though, none of this is how it truly works. It’s fun to believe that psychic spells and powers work this way, but it’s just not so. Anyone who practices witchcraft or follows other pagan paths is likely to tell you so.
When you look at the available information, though, you’ll see that psychic spells and powers aren’t the same as magic. You’ll also understand that magic tricks aren’t the same thing as the types of magic certain pagans practice.
Magic tricks are just that – tricks. They aren’t spells, hexes, or anything else along those lines.
How to Know If a Psychic Is Taking You for a Ride
If you decide to see a psychic, you should know how to get that for which you pay. People are leery of psychics who sell their services and for good reason. There are many con artists out there who will charge you an arm and a leg for a bogus “reading,” and they have policies that make getting a refund nearly impossible.
You can find legitimate psychics, though. Look for people who do the following:
- Present specific information without a lot of prompting
- Don’t ask a ton of questions
- Do not usually have storefronts, let alone storefronts with neon signs saying “psychic”
- Decline to remove hexes or spells from you since that’s not what they do
You should know that these psychics also don’t cast spells. They consider it their job to provide you with information, not cast spells or hexes for you or remove them from you.
Is It Possible to Learn to Cast Psychic Spells on Your Own?
Do you want to learn to cast psychic spells? You can, whether you get a teacher or not. You can learn to cast simple spells easily with just a few things you already have around your house.
You should, of course, read some material on how to cast spells. You should also learn about which path is best for you since not all pagan ways (including witchcraft) are ideal for everyone.
Learning to Cast Spells on Your Own
The first thing to keep in mind is that spells with a specific purpose make the most successful spells. You also need to center yourself, so you’re as calm as possible before you even begin working on your spell. Otherwise, you’ll get chaotic results.
You don’t need expensive talismans and crystals to get started with casting spells, either. You can use things like cinnamon, black pepper, sugar, and more, that you can use in simple concoctions while you’re learning. Herbs like these have considerable power, and you can find them everywhere. You probably already have them in your house.
To learn how to cast spells on your own, do some reading. Find some good books and articles that explain different traditions and religions, and how to get started with spells.
And remember, repetition is vital. Not only is it essential to write down and repeat the focus of your spell, but you should also practice the things that go into a spell multiple times to hone your focus and abilities.
Karma
Avoid learning spells to harm others. Most pagan traditions (and other philosophies) believe that you’ll bring bad karma upon yourself and possibly others when you intentionally hurt someone.
If nothing else, you shouldn’t learn to cast spells explicitly to hurt others. You want to learn spells so you can use them in a way that helps you and those around you.
That’s one of the things you can use to tell con artists from genuine psychics. If you’re thinking of seeing a psychic, ask yourself what, exactly, it is that you want. Remember, psychics work with spirituality. They won’t cast a spell to remove a spell or hex from you, nor will they do so to hurt anyone regardless of what happened.
Final Thoughts on Psychic Spells
People who practice psychic spells belong to any number of groups, but in general, are followers of pagan traditions. The most common form of paganism in which you’ll find spells is witchcraft, like Wicca.
Witchcraft is not what pop culture and religious myths have taught us, though. Neither is any other form of paganism. A person casts a psychic spell to do good for themselves and their environment. They do not cast spells on others without that person’s permission.
You can learn to cast your own psychic spells rather easily if you so choose. The practice is increasingly common and involves spirituality and connection with the Earth. If that’s the direction you want to go, then go for it.