The majority of people who are new to spell working may at times acknowledge that for them common sense backed up by practical action is normally more productive than theoretical or mystical thinking.
In magical working, as in everyday life, when we have to handle a wide range of circumstances, common sense in dealing with them will normally produce the best results.
However, when we are confronted with the unusual or difficult or are faced by extreme anxiety, even the most practical-minded among us will theorize in order to make sense of what is happening.
We have not moved such a long way since those times, in the distant past, when our ancestors and people around the world routinely believed that if the crops failed then the gods must be angry.
Practices carried out then are still with us in the form of many of the festivals and feasts, which still have relevance in the societies where they began.
