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Yes, I have titled this article as opposed to theory, discovery, or question as most other threads here are titled. Why? Simple- because this doesn't quite qualify as a discovery, it's beyond theoretical, and there's no question involved. This is a collection of knowledge on a subject for the sake of reading and review, and also to enlighten people on the subject and maybe arouse some questions.

First, I shall explain what I mean by "enchantment". The term is used loosely and many people will find different ways to use it. Some people use enchantment to refer to any construct (a psionic force which does as instructed but requires constant concentration from the caster to remain intact). Some people, however, think it's more of a spell which boosts one's abilities (maybe a healing trick or something to make you stronger). I refer to the previous two examples as just those- constructs and spells. I shall define now what I mean when I say 'enchantment' in this article.



Enchantments have always been something that fascinate people. Some know how to make them, some want to know how to make them, and some don't think they can be made. An amazing magical device that will always remain active. Sounds amazing, doesn't it? 3nodding But they're actually deceivingly simple, and disturbingly dangerous. In the following article I shall details the basic description of how to make an enchantment, how enchantments work, limitations on enchantments, and warnings about enchantments. I shall also record my experiences with enchantments.

The basics of what enchantments are:

Later in this article I shall define more in depth how enchantments work and exactly what they are. However before you begin, you must know a couple of facts about enchantments.

Enchantments require an energy source. There's no such thing as infinite energy. Enchantments gather their strength from somewhere. They must constantly be pulling energy from a source that the caster defines.

Enchantments require an item. It can be an article of clothing or a love letter or your pet cat. Whatever you choose, this will become the being around which the enchantment is focussed. The entire essence of the enchantment exists within this object, and this object becomes the home of the enchantments power. To destroy this object destroys the enchantment, and to destroy the enchantment you must destroy this object. There are difficult methods of "de-programming" an enchantment, but I do not know them. If you wish to learn these methods (if, say, for instance- you used your cat) then ask in the forums and see if someone can help you.

Also- enchantments depend on knowledge of their power. It sounds cliche and you've heard it a million times before, but if you don't believe it'll work, it won't work. Don't try to use this as a method for de-programming an enchantment, though. I guarantee that once you've witnessed an enchantment in effect you won't be able to just not believe it'll work.

The making of enchantments:

The making of enchantments is no difficult matter
At first you might say that I'm mad as a hatter
[/rhyme] ninja

Enchantments can be made in a number of ways. The most common of which is a ritual involving the item you wish to enchant, candles which help spell out the item's new purpose, and a mantra. There's also methods which require none of these and merely need the will of the caster. Both of these shall be outlined.

The candle method:
The candle method is commonly used in magical practices. People often relate it to spell-casting and Wicca. Many times you can find such enchantments "recipes" (if I may call them that) online or in a book. The average enchantment will have instructions similar to "at the full moon, lay out 3 white candles and chant the phrase 'blah blah blah' 7 times". Upon completing this task, the enchantment is made, and whatever item it is that you've used will be magically enhanced now.

The other method:
The other method is one that I discovered on my own, although I'm sure I wasn't the first to do it. You need merely "assign" something a power. Suppose I wanted to make a lucky amulet. I could look at the amulet and whatever shape it takes, and I could, in my mind, recognize that shape as the shape of luck. I could also look at a near-by object which, to me, represents luck and I could use pseudo-psionics (the art of manipulating imaginary energies) to extract the "luck-ness" from it and put it into my amulet. Note, though, that when using this method the limitations of enchantments are increased several fold. You must be concise in your definition of what the enchantment will do, as it must be some activity that you can sum up into a single concept or thought. It cannot be an enchantment with some difficult or complex task that you need to spell out.

Amazingly, that's all there is to it 3nodding If you can do either of these, you'll have an enchantment. Magical, powerful, and nifty whee

Limitations on enchantments:

As I stated before, enchantments have limitations. Especially ones made with the second method. The biggest of these limitations is lack of definition. One can easily make the following enchantment:

"This amulet will heal those who touch it"

But one will find great difficulty in making an enchantment like so:

"This amulet will heal anyone who touches it and has brown hair and green eyes, but will hurt people with blond hair, and will leave people alone who have red hair. It'll also make people without green eyes blind."

I don't know why you'd want an enchantment like that, but that's just an example of the kind of thing you can't do confused Why can't you? Because it's too specific. Enchantments may only be a single thought in length. Enchantments made with the candle method may be more well-defined because the recipe will be the "single thought", and the recipe will in its own right define the workings of the enchantment. With help from the candles and other objects you use as well as the mantra, you can take a more complex task and convert it into something you can think of in one thought. The second method for making enchantments, however, is something done without a pre-prepared "recipe", and therefore to make such a complex enchantment would take days of training yourself to recognize the entire enchantment's use as a single thought.

There's another limitation, though. The user must know what the enchantment does. If you made a good luck amulet and gave it to your friend without saying that it'd grant them good luck, they'll receive no fortune. This all has to do with how enchantments work. To put it simply for now- unless you know what it does, it does nothing.

How enchantments work:

This is the biggest question. People wonder this often. First, let me explain how a normal trick works- then how this differs.

Normal tricks involve the conscious use of the user's energy to manipulate the energetic world.

User -> thoughts -> energy -> change

Enchantments, however, use the user's knowledge to subconsciously do tricks that are too powerful to ever be consciously performed.

User -> knowledge -> subconscious spell-casting -> energy -> change

You may think that now that you understand this you can easily perform any spell that an enchantment performs. Not so. You see- enchantments can be made to perform advanced level spells, which the conscious mind has insane amounts of difficulty performing. To perform much higher-level spells we must recognize that spells do nothing, then make them do something despite the fact that thinking they do nothing makes them do nothing.

Doubt makes spells not work. This makes us doubt. So how do we make a spell work? We have to over-come this doubt. If we know that an enchantment works, regardless of whether or not we can cast the spell it performs, we can subconsciously casts that spell since we have no doubt that it'll be cast. Using this method you can make enchantments to heal broken bones with enough practice, and even if someone has difficulty making a psi-ball they'll be able to mend broken bones with this enchantment because they know it can mend broken bones. They have no doubt that it will. In fact- they'd be freaked out if it didn't.

That's really the only magic in enchantments. It's the elimination of doubt. An enchantment gives us something that we can rely on to "cast the spell for us". This way we have no doubt that the spell will be cast and we subconsciously are able to cast it despite thinking that we, ourselves, can't cast the spell. This is also the reason for the limitation in enchantments. If you don't know what it does you can't subconsciously do it, and if you don't believe it'll work, it won't. Also, we need something that can be summed up in one thought because otherwise our subconscious would have difficulty processing it.

Dangers of enchantments:

This is the most important section in this article you'll read. If you skip the rest, READ THIS.

I said before that you may only define an enchantment in a single thought. However be sure that in this thought you manage to define exactly what you want in the most concise manner possible. Saying "absorb energy" may steal energy from the user or people the user is fond of. You must re-word it to something along the lines of "absorb energy from the earth" in order to prevent disaster.

Should you happen to create a dangerous enchantment like this, destroy is immediately. Destroying the enchantment, as I said, ends its effects.

My experience with enchantments:

Twice in my life I've had interesting enchantment experiences. Once (a while ago) a success, and once (very, very recently) a massive failure. Both of which will be cited here for reference.





Anything else:

If anyone has anyone questions or anything they'd like to ask, feel free to post here. If I don't know the answer, maybe someone else can help you or we can do experiments to find the answer. Also, if you feel I missed anything feel free to tell me. And if you know of any other methods of creating enchantments, please share them so that we all can learn something new ^_^

^^;; I'm sorry. I wasn't aware that the writing section was meant for articles like this. I assumed it was for more generic writing ninja

If a mod would kindly move this, that'd be great ^^;; Thank you.

woah. You're on a roll huh?

Ah, I'd never thought of calling that 'enchanting'. I've done something that seems to fall under that description for a while now.

The intent CAN be more than a thought long- but that is more difficult. The easiest, of course, could be summed up in one or two words: protection, luck, ect.

After practicing a bit with other things- and allow some time to get used to it, direct manipulation can be tricky- try getting something simple (say, a crystal) and decide what you want to do with it. Do you want it to absorb excess energy, and then use that energy to protect you from minor attacks that aren't worth your time? Put the one that you want to be more important- the absorbing, as it will be the more common one- and wait until you are sure that that one is working.
This may take a week, or just a moment. Then, put a stipulation on it: for example, if a psychic or emotional attack of a low-enough intensity that I wouldn't normally notice it hits me, deflect it. Don't overpower the previous ability- remember, you want both to work.
If you want to, you can try another one in addition: add a stipulation that if the attack depletes the energy, the crystal will notify you in some way (becoming warm, you suddenly reaching in your pocket, ect) both of the attack, and of the lowering of energy. This is a useful thing for protection objects, as they will sometimes 'sacrifice' themselves in protecting you - that is, using themselves up until they break. I actually had a piece of jewelry break this way, which was upsetting as I was rather attached to it.