There are two interrelated reasons why prayer with personal identification might be more powerful. The first concerns the ways that prayer intersects with magic. There is always a tincture of magic in prayers, and the personal information helps with that. That is to say, it's not only the divinities involved with prayer, it is always in part the will of the practitioner. In every religious tradition there is the idea that different people have different talents in prayer.
The second reason is that when a person gives personal information, they are obviously more fully engaged with the process than if they are masked or veiled behind a pseudonym. The more that a person works to make the prayers manifest in their own lives, the more effective the prayers will work. That is to say, the more actively engaged and willful a person is with grounding out their prayers in their lives, the more that the prayers can have an effect.
Interestingly on the metaphysical level, I have gotten the sense that pregnant women receive prayers more readily than perhaps anyone else. The reason for this is, in part, because according to folk magical traditions pregnant women are far more psychically involved that most nonpregnant individuals. Pregnant women exist far more than most humans on a the higher planes, since a big part of the gestation process involves higher plane activity which the subtle bodies of the woman are involved with. It's for this reason, too, that there is the idea across traditions that pregnant women are so vulnerable to curses.
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There are two interrelated reasons why prayer with personal identification might be more powerful. The first concerns the ways that prayer intersects with magic. There is always a tincture of magic in prayers, and the personal information helps with that. That is to say, it's not only the divinities involved with prayer, it is always in part the will of the practitioner. In every religious tradition there is the idea that different people have different talents in prayer.
The second reason is that when a person gives personal information, they are obviously more fully engaged with the process than if they are masked or veiled behind a pseudonym. The more that a person works to make the prayers manifest in their own lives, the more effective the prayers will work. That is to say, the more actively engaged and willful a person is with grounding out their prayers in their lives, the more that the prayers can have an effect.
Interestingly on the metaphysical level, I have gotten the sense that pregnant women receive prayers more readily than perhaps anyone else. The reason for this is, in part, because according to folk magical traditions pregnant women are far more psychically involved that most nonpregnant individuals. Pregnant women exist far more than most humans on a the higher planes, since a big part of the gestation process involves higher plane activity which the subtle bodies of the woman are involved with. It's for this reason, too, that there is the idea across traditions that pregnant women are so vulnerable to curses.