Do You Believe in Magic?

Life is much more fun when it is magical.  Most of us experience magic one way or another.  I love creating my own magic.  I also love other people’s magic.  Music and literature and religious texts are full of magic. One of the leading authorities said, “Greater things than these shall you do.”

Most of us are conditioned to believe in magic until we are about 4 or 5 years old.  Then we are steeped heavily in not-magic.  Much of this is highly valuable stuff of the intellect; rationality, logic, careful analysis.  But it’s not the whole picture.

Fortunately, the magical, subjective stuff bleeds through this rationality training.  My cousin doesn’t believe in things he can’t see, but he experiences love in his life despite his inability to see it.  In the days before ultrasound, women would go to my grandmother to learn the gender of an unborn baby.  Was she psychic?  She said not.  When I was waist deep in a methods analysis job, I could accurately tell you what was going on behind the scenes in the office, from politics to romance. 

These are all flukes, right?

That assessment itself is pretty irrational.  What makes them happen at all?  I’ve always wanted a flukier life.  That stuff is fun, and valuable, and a little mysterious.  Besides, I’d like to be able to see behind more of the scenes.  I’d like to face more coincidences for pure entertainment value.  And most importantly, I’d like to have much more of what I want in life.

There’s a reason that indigenous cultures saw certain members as shamans and sought their help.  When I was very young, I could manifest a hula hoop, a rare finch in my yard in the city, a pink bracelet, a best friend… I let that all go and learned statistics, biology and some literature.  There was plenty of magic in those subjects, too, but we pretended otherwise.

I’ve spent a chunk of my lifetime connecting the dots, learning to make the magic more consistent.  Why does magic seem to appear out of the blue?  What things make it more likely to happen?  

First, start treating your inner gifts as real.  Pay attention to the magic in your life.  Give some scope to your subjective mind.  It’s like any art, really.  You can learn the tools of art and create it but attempts to figure it out will give you a headache.

So what are the tools of magic?  Start by turning your attention away from the mental chatterbox.  If quiet and meditation haven’t worked for you, I urge you to practice every day as if it’s really important, because it is.

Tune into your body and its feelings.  Develop a nodding acquaintance with your feelings.  Even those you don’t like will pass quickly and they leave you important messages on their way through. You already know how to do this. It keeps you alive.

Get out in nature.  You’re still pretty much a resident of earth.

Take this part of your mind seriously.  Tell it what information you want.  Repeatedly.  You will begin getting answers if you’re quiet long enough to listen to them.

When you value your subjective mind as much as you value your logic and intellect, you will have access to intuition, hidden information, skills you did not know you had.  You can create amazing things, enjoy magical surprises and coincidences