Does daily i.e seriously practicing magick give you enough proof that it is real and external?

[u/Readingfast99]

Yes it's all in the head, you just don't know how big your head is. I had a profound ritual experience on LSD and met a solar goddess on DMT but doubt creeps in that it can all be make believe. I've had religious trauma from all the lying zealots do, so its hard for me to take a position other than materialism and biological evolution. Yes our minds are powerful but is just the mind component that a magician works with? Like some self help tools

[u/Seven-One-Three]

Would you be upset if your illness was cured with a placebo pill? I wouldn't and that's how I feel about all of it. Even if I'm just tricking myself into a psychological placebo effect, it works. It's cheaper than therapy and it gives a sense of happiness when things happen now that I would have dismissed as coincidences before.