The film “Ink” by Jamin Winans contains a letter-perfect example of a coincidental-magick Effect.

In Ink, the character Jacob literally orchestrates a sequence of events to accomplish something he could not normally do. To every person involved, those events seem perfectly natural, if a bit strange in combination. Nothing about them screams MAGICK unless you know what’s going on. Yet together they have a profound effect.

Go watch this scene on YouTube. It’s there. We’ll wait. Go ahead.

That’s how a mage often works – manipulating an existing set of forces until they do what he or she wants them to do, preferably without tipping anyone off about what he’s doing.

Sure, there’s a time for more obvious magick… As a demonstration of coincidental magick, however, it’s hard to find a better example.