5 Ways to recapture the essence of magic
Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 11:13AM Magic is a topic that evokes all kinds of emotions. Human beings are often at a loss for words to express the power and influence of this concept on their everyday lives. Consider these five ways to recapture the essence of magic now;
1) Magic reflects hindsight. One view invites you to reflect on the evolution of perceived triumphs of modern Science. Post the seventeenth century, the umbrella of Science absorbed much of what was assumed to be mystical. Magic has become a synonymn for areas of 'imprecise' Science not fully grasped, like astrology, parapsychology, quantum and metaphysics.
2) Magic demystifies nature. Another view suggests magic translates into correspondences among natural phenomena. These include universal laws like polarities, cause and effect, and degrees of energy vibration. Certain mathematical, spatial and multisensual analyses are purported to help control nature. Such unchanging principles help to explain what you are and why you exist. Learning to align and harmonize actions reveals natural abilities you have always had yet, choose to forget.
3) Magic invites confrontation. Another view prompts you to revisit unexplained concepts and the psychology of misunderstanding. Some people prey upon fears, gullibility, and preconditioned beliefs of others. Ask yourself why you would believe or disregard certain happenings that appear to contradict your own conditioning. What prompts you to reduce something that evokes discomfort in you to logical inquiry?
4) Magic explains supernatural miracles. Another view is raises awareness of human abilities to read energy vibration, to employ psychokinesis, telekinesis, and to dialogue with spirit who have passed over. What if your own view of an extraordinary event in the physical world does not surpass all known human or natural powers? What is presumed to be linked to a supernatural cause is a common or normal thing for beings who have reconnected with their inner selves.
5) Magic awakens you to masks of ego. Another view is that magic brings to light the possibility of experiences that contradict and reinforce ego. That is, magic offers a platform to launch fragmented and distorted thinking about illusions through black magic. It also enables you to become more conscious of all your attributes. In the latter, you grow to rise above thought and in the former, you fall beneath it.
Reader Comments (12)
I like magic. As a child, I had a magic kit and I would perform "wonders" for kids in the neigborhood. I still have a few tricks up my sleeve when I am around children. If they only knew how I did those tricks?
I also used to drive past The Magic Castle - a huge mansion in Hollywood for magicians surrounded by mystery. Magic does evoke wonder and awe-inspiration and I think we lose a little of that as adults.
I have always loved magic as a child. I can now see there is nothing really supernatural about magic. It is only our limited perception of what natural really is, so we call it "supernatural." As beings of consciousness, we have so much power in potential. People from 200 years ago might marvel at the "magical" place we live in today because of technology. It's all perspective.
Great post!
Peace
My teacher once prevented a car from starting and said it was because a friend and I were going to be in a wreck. He then later in the evening told us to go out and turn the key and hold it turned and observe what happened. It did nothing for about 4 or 5 seconds and then began to turn over. I have never seen this behavior of a car before or since.
When I asked him how he did it, his reply was, "Dimensional overlap. I simultaneously held two dimensions in focus, the physical and one with different rules, then I applied those rules to the physical dimension."
He was able to rationally explain it. He could do these things at will. I participated with him in many of them. I now have opened to my own capabilities in part because of his help. Question: Do you consider them magical?
I do emotionally. But, another part of me thinks this is how everything is done.
The capabilities you describe shape your understanding of "normal." If you believe magic is an art that enables you to harness power imperceptible or misunderstood by others, then you do practice magic. However, if you believe magic is something else, then you would have another view. Ego has not place in self-mastery. Buddha's apparent final words were: Work out your own salvation with diligence.
My experience has led me to that beautiful paradoxical understanding of a magical universe in which the normal has limitless boundaries and the mundane becomes magical. I marvel at the wonders of just being, sharing, perceiving, participating. What you are encouraging in people is truly magical in itself.
As widespread fear dissolves, terms such as "paranormal" will someday cease to exist. What you begin to describe cannot be seen by the obscured eye, and words cannot clarify it either. Consciousness is diverted because it prevents the development of those very things you exist in physical form to explore and defy. You are the dreamer and the dream. The physical world is a place where forms take shape and dissolve. As you notice you effect that, you are re-aligning, moving to spaces beyond thought.
"The truth is not reached through the senses, or by austerity or sacred actions. By the grace of wisdom and purity of mind, He can be seen, indivisible, in the silence of contemplation. This invisible Atman can be seen by the mind wherein the five senses are resting." Atharva Veda