I recently read a blog which claimed that the author's magick was improving because he was witnessing increased synchronicities in his life. Is this a valid point? Well, I have to answer both yes and no. Yes, his magick is increasing but not in the way his blog implied. Blinded With Science? Today, the concept of "do a ritual and get a result" doesn't satisfy all practitioners of magick. We've become more scientific and simply getting a desired magickal result isn't good enough. We want to know how the magick actually worked: The ritual caused x, x caused y, y caused z and z caused the result. Without knowing xyz we end up doubting that magick took place. "Perhaps," we think, "it's just a