Expectations

["Daniel Gutmanas" <noxerus@...>]

Dear friends,

In your opinion, do you think that reading about the results of a 
certain exercise (not even specifically magic) and expecting them is 
helpful to your practice? Detrimental? Irrelevant?

I have been thinking about it earlier, and I couldn't reach a 
definite answer; on one hand, obviously one should know the expected 
effects of whatever he is practicing, otherwise he is just stumbling 
in the dark and can hurt himself. On the other hand, from my 
experience, if I read about the expected results to an exercise I 
expect them too, and desire to experience them myself as quickly as 
possible (to verify them) - and for some reason I intuit that this 
desire is actually very harmful to my progress.

Any thoughts on this?

Sincerely,
Daniel