Um, let's see here. Yes, I've run across this phenomenon, and yes it can result in some really crazy ideation!
I am reminded of a phrase from a couple of years back when the idea of "spiritual suicide" was going around in some circles. A psychotherapist friend of mine talked about it with me after a client of hers talked about this and she was learning about it. She said it meant that some people become so involved and invested in their own sense of "spirituality" (according to their own definition of spirituality, of course) that they became much more narcissistic and closed off from their ordinary reality and the practical needs of their daily lives and of the people around them.
These people tend to rely on manifestation and magical thinking, affirmations, potions, invocations, etc. and all kinds of "new age" and "spiritual" practices to get what they say they want in life. But they take this to such an obsessive (often arrogant) extreme that they don't pay attention to and stop taking practical action while waiting for their desired outcomes to magically manifest.
Thus HW could narcissistically be relying on her spells and curses to shape her life and aspirations, but isn't really taking the practical, nitty-gritty actions to work towards achieving her goals. She believes the rules just don't apply to her because she is "spiritual" and understands the "hidden forces" in the universe... ahem (cough, cough).
But all the intentions for manifesting in the world won't come true unless you act in accordance in the real world to work towards them.
And yes, this kind of spiritual arrogance and narcissism can make a person judgmental and condescending and mean towards other "undeserving" people, and keep the practitioner from living a productive and grounded life.
Is this the kind of thing you were asking about, @Dyna-X? There's some not very good stuff out there on the internet iirc, but I don't remember anything at this moment that was really worth looking up.
I haven't heard this phrase in a while now, it took me a couple of minutes to dredge it up from my foggy memory banks.
This is
exactly the pattern I was talking about. She does do some things in the physical to help things along at times, the limited success actually has given her a feeling that when she decides to so something it can't possibly be wrong and all who care to disagree will get a short argument followed by a
ghosting. Nearly everything is polarized along these lines. When she is wrong about something she will blame others, ghost them as well then punish herself and any practical remedial steps to fix the problem will be short lived.
The only one in her world who carried any weight was Art. She viewed him as a demi-god or saint. Hence the methodical preservation of such mundane items as printer paper and cups of pencils. When anything in the studio breaks she is more traumatized that it is an Art-ifact than by the hassle of needing to get a new one. She doesn't even mind needing to use a broken item as long as it is original. Even Ceiling Ghost Art is a continuation of the belief that he can advise and protect beyond the grave. Being deified, I don't think she ever accepted that he could fully accepted the possibility that he could die at any time like anyone else and refused to even consider this in her planning.