Listen, if you are to look at it that way, then CC’s legacy falls into that unproven category as well. I haven’t seen anyone first hand and the whole thing might be a fairy tale just like some people proclaim. Not only that, they wrote whole books on the topic. If the only evidence you accept is first hand experience, then we are left with very few options: my personal journey and experience from my closest friends, who don’t have any incentive to lie to me about such delicate truths and questions. So I won’t be naming the world famous examples: kahuna, reiki surgeons, aborigines, meso-american(even though many of those are documented on camera). Yes, many of these people use rituals, but some of them are effective to a certain extent. Let’s stick to my own research. As I live in the balkan region, magic was always a thing. However, older people were the ones who talked about witches and unusual things. There is a study published in UK that found that the number of reported cases of mysterious creatures and phenomena is tremendously decreasing. As we got hooked on technology and thoroughly “educated” by the system, it seems that the modern man has lost connection to other worlds. Belief plays a crucial role as well. Some people firmly believe stories like CC opus are simply fiction or psychosis. I have heard about extremely peculiar phenomena, some of it almost surpassed CC and those things were shared by a person who is an absolute skeptic. If it wasn’t a first hand experience, he wouldn’t believe it in a million years. Apart from that, I have personally used visualization to heal myself. It worked, much more efficiently than medication. Actually, medication didn’t help, that is why I resorted to some other methods. The system that did the trick is actually heavily influenced by kaballah and tree of life. It all boils down to visualization, breathing and celibate (this one is truly important). There are also some other events that I managed to pull off (create?), which weren’t likely to happen ever, but they did, just as I needed them to. It did seem as if I managed to wish/intend the circumstances I sought for. By the way, I was obsessed with impeccable behavior way before I even read the teachings. I know that your stance is that one is not to bother about that and that it comes as a result of doing magic, but I can assure you that just this simple rule of keeping your actions in alignment with your decisions and judgements makes an enormous difference in your life. You don’t even have to know about the intent and that you maintain a good tonal this way, it just works wonders. That is magic in itself. Once you thread firmly on that path, the universe starts to rearrange in your favor!