(09-03-2016, 08:25 AM)Jebusfathead Wrote: (09-03-2016, 08:22 AM)Satanica Wrote: (09-03-2016, 08:20 AM)Jebusfathead Wrote: (09-03-2016, 07:58 AM)Zaiken Wrote: I've actually heard of this but I think it's just a mind trick tbh. Like you will be better which makes you believe you will be better.
The placebo effect. When you believe something to an extent your mind can actually force your body to do it. For example there have been trials where doctors have given people with a common cold a 'miracle drug' guaranteed to work etc etc and it worked for some patients. Except the pill was just a sugar pill.
The placebo effect does not apply when the spell has been cast on an unknowing subject and it still comes true. 
But then you could be subject to researcher or experimenter bias
Not possible in certain cases. For example, when I was new, I cast a spell on this dude who stole $400 from me, that he would experience immense pain and fuck up his brand new car. 2 hours later, phonecall from a mutual friend that he got in a wreck, totaled his car, and broke his collarbone, both his arms, and fucked up his neck muscles.
Another example, 2 weeks ago I did a spell to gain an extra $500. Next day same dude that stole $400 from me called me up, apologized, and mailed me a check for $500 exactly - $100 extra as compensation. Got it 2 days later and cashed it without any problems.
Pretty sure when you have 'coincidences' like such as often as you do as a practicing magickian, it raises past experimentation bias and goes straight into logical explanation. One or two of these events maybe but when you have hundreds of entries in a magickal journal with a 99% success rate, it goes past possible bias and straight into, as I said, logical explanation. :^)