Magic

[e_compass_rosa]

I've been feeling my LiveJournal world shrinking, as I seem to desire to share my thoughts (or at least some of my thoughts) with fewer people these days.  If I seem sparse, that may be the case.  On the other hand, the writing is my way out of many things, so it must happen, and in so doing I also feel the need to open myself up more than close

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Me too

[ankh156]

I have a tendency to think that way, and have abandoned the more formal aspects of it in recent years. I studied the Kabbalah and the Tarot for years in an attempt to discern if there were (are) any visible aspects to the 'mechanism' of coincidence. I did Philo and anthropology at university in the same spirit. I have many opinions on the subject I think, for instance, that because of the counter reformation and ecclesiatical persecution, 'science' took a 'wrong turn' in dissociating itself from ethics and morality. Before the church burned (for example) Giordano Bruno (1600), Nature was seen a 'revelatory', and understanding it was seen as a kind of 'dialogue with god'. Man was understood as the way in which creation 'understands itself' which I find to be a poetic and rather inspiring idea. 'Officially sanctioned science' concentrated on impersonal mechanisms and minute chains of causality which, has led us to where we are today, where it's just about 'equal' whether a scientist researches to cure childhood cancer or to develop a

Re: Me too

[e_compass_rosa]

I'm both drawn to and resist the urge to study the more formal aspects of this. I think if given the time I would, but since that does not currently exist for me, I'll attempt to immerse myself in it through other means -- principally creative, self-introspective, etc. I'd like to develop a better articulation (just saying 'magic' somehow doesn't feel sufficient to me) of this deep and complex phenomena.

Re: Me too

[ankh156]

It's the acknowledgement that we are all (each) part of an integral system which is capable of 'communicating with itself' (this sounds loopy, but what are we doing when we 'think' ?). There was a medaeival belief in something called 'the doctrine of signatures', which I find fascinating. It suggests that the whole of nature has a revelatory and communicative aspect. One feels this very strongly under the influence of psychotropics and hallucogenics. (It's not to be taken lightly, as many empirical psychologists think this way lies madness... Fuck 'em !)

[johnny9fingers]

May the magic in your life continue to direct you towards happiness, fulfillment, and contentedness.
May you connect with the awesome in a way that suits you.

[e_compass_rosa]

I'm working on it. Thank you.

[artfldarknbuzzd]

yep.

[e_compass_rosa]

I knew you'd get it.

I knew you'd get it.

[artfldarknbuzzd]

I do. A couple days ago I wrote something similar.
There's rarely anything rational about our journey quest.
I simply know and have known for many years that there
is a reason,..purpose--both great and small for each of us--
both on an individual walk...and to be a part of the greater connectiveness. Often it's extreme-personal and unexplainable.
Sometimes we find we can share it.
I look forward--in the next phase of existence--
whatever it may be--
to see how well I did along the way in this one. :-)

Magic.

[shimmerdance]

call it magic, intuition, the universe, God, or pork rinds. It is so obvious to anyone who bothers to open her eyes. Philosophers throughout the ages have talked about it. My favorite, though is the following:

Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: 'Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.'" --W.H. Murray, of the Scottish Himalayan Expedition

[e_compass_rosa]

Someone gave me that quote a year or two ago, and it has been hanging on the wall in my office ever since!

[shimmerdance]

it has traveled with me for many years. I really do love it. Glad you do, too. Maybe just a tiny bit applicable in your own life.

[roadnotes]

"Shifts happen, windows open, and I realize how much more fully myself I can be. Maybe this isn't magic, but I know that since I've started to open myself towards, and even seek out, these connections I am a different person -- more joyful, more empathetic and compassionate, more creative. I put myself out on a limb, reveal more than is necessarily prudent, with some sort of trust in where that magic/fate/intuition/coincidence will take me."

Yes. O, very much yes. This is part of what I was thinking/feeling yesterday when I posted that the world is full of miracles. Despite everything else going on, it is -- but you have to be open to them.

[e_compass_rosa]

Yes, you have to be open to them. For most of my life I wasn't, perhaps couldn't be so. Now, I am.