Aleister Black Quotes

I believe in magic, psychics and all that.

I have friends who practice witchcraft, and I study tarot myself. I guess, to be specific, I don't want to believe in a world without magic.

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

The 18th century, which is usually held to be the most "materialistic" of epochs, was, in fact, a most "spiritualistic" one; in which ghosts, demons, quacks, philosophers' stones, enchanters' wands, mysteries and mummeries, were as fashionable—as they will probably be again some day.

For my part, I have ever believed, and do so now, that there are witches.

The occult - what do you mean, Jesus? That's occult to me. It's so far-fetched, it's ridiculous.

I don't really want to go on about my personal beliefs or my involvement in magic. I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to.

I would like to do a role that has something to do with mysticism or even a supernatural one.

I'm not, like - what's the word when you believe in a lot of magic? Superstitious.

I can't explain witchcraft.

I love mysticism - it's such fun.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural.

Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know, lying on the ground and trying to have my spirit leave my body - which never happened; still working on that bit.

I really don't believe in magic.

I definitely believe there is more than what can be seen. I don't know if it's anything that you'd consider omens or signs, but yes... I believe in something more.

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s.

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown.