Is magick real? Yes. Don’t be dumb of course it’s real. But does it work? Yes it always works but not in the way you often think it will. Magick is about focus, energy, and action. If you mean can I do magick for money and have the money just come to me without work? Anything is possible but I have never accomplished such a feat. That said, magick helped me focus and apply my energy to money making endeavors. So you could view it as a kind of funky mindgame that helps you get shit done. But sometimes weird things do happen. Things you can’t exactly explain. During an invocation of Hecate, I saw candles light themselves and one of the participants became possessed in some strange oracular way. Sometimes the Tarot or the I Ching or some other divinatory method tosses up an image or theme and then you see that very thing in your actual physical life. Sometimes the spirits talk. Or move tables. Or throw things. Those weird things indicate that something beyond my wishful thinking is at work. This said, many people will try to halfheartedly do a sigil or do some recipe style spell and nothing will happen. Magick is a practice. Like Yoga, meditation, martial arts, writing, or music. Banging away on a piano for ten minutes doesn’t disprove music and your lack of skill at the art doesn’t disprove magick. If it’s real then why doesn’t anyone research it? Because I could walk into any university holding hands with Bigfoot and a Black Eyed Kid and no one would look at either of them. There is no will to investigate the paranormal in academic circles. There’s no funding for it. And to even consider the evidence can cost you your reputation in serious research circles. I was once told an anecdote about a neuropsychologist who discovered a curious phenomenon. His clients helped their depression by changing their handwriting. It wasn't a cure or anything like that but it was a weird phenomenon he noted. He brought this to the attention of his colleagues and they nodded with interest.