Do Jehovah's Witnesses practice magic?
I think this is a question most people will see and go, "what is he talking about?" The thing is when scientist have studied cultures and seen how their Shaman have practiced magic, they have found that in many ways the men have used forms of meditation and prayer that relate close to the Christian prayer form. Let's take a quote from a typical Jehovah's Witness prayer about someone who has left their organization ...
"... Jehovah please allow them to see the error of their way, let the world show them that it does not have anything to offer, so that this brings them back to your organization ..."
... so basically they are communicating with their higher power to do a few things. One, to have your life become terrible and desperate. They are asking their higher power to bring hardship from the universe upon you, so that you will return to what they have directed as the safe haven they have set up for you in their mind. Two, they have asked that their higher being blind your mind to your own wants and desires and place in it the desire to return to the very thing you have left.
So are the Witnesses practicing magic? Well magic at its basic form is a means of asking energy, to direct or do what you ask of it. The ritual you use to do that, the deity you title that energy with, or the way in which it is phrase can vary across many forms of magic. The fact is though, the Witnesses are casting upon you things that you should be aware of. They are not just doing this on a one on one basic, but in circles of friends that agree to the terms when they make statements in prayer in group setting.
So perhaps the answer to the question, are Witnesses practicing magic? Has a little more meaning to us now. Those little elder warlocks ;)