Have a Magical Weekend - Here is How.
I often wonder about people who see the world in a materialistic way. They miss so much of the subtlety of reality and they don’t appear to understand that often being proud of their narrow view of reality. Me, I was born seeing magic everywhere.
I recall a slightly older girl I knew as a little boy who took me on a cycle trip up our street beyond the edge of where I dare go alone. Those lands were called black gang locally and it terrified me that there might be an evil gang of kids out there waiting to assail us. We cycled miles and miles and miles and eventually found a building with a high wall that we climbed over. Inside was the garden of eden in all its magnificence. I felt like some strapping and brave adventurer journeying to the center of the Earth but pretty soon, I knew I should go home - it was tea time and I was hungry.
Years later, I revisited the area and re-discovered that building. It was about 350m away from my home - a couple of blocks. The wall was about 4 feet high and the building was an old folks home. The garden of eden was a small lawn with a fishpond at its center. I marvelled at how magical it had seemed to 6-year old me.
These days at 64 I know that how you see things - the lenses that you look through colour reality. If the world is a cold, material place for you then that is what you see. If you see magic then magic happens. There is of course an explanation for this that comes to us from the magical world of quantum physics. The observer essentially colors reality for real. Your expectations matter and have impact in the external reality. As my Dad used to tell me - I have no problems parking anywhere - I simply expect there will be a convenient space for me and there always is.
If you are reading this and wondering about my mental state don’t. You take magic for granted everyday as I posted a week or so ago in another substack. I shall repeat them here -
The Placebo Effect – defined as follows by Wikipedia – “Also called the placebo response. A remarkable phenomenon in which a placebo — a fake treatment, an inactive substance like sugar, distilled water, or saline solution — can sometimes improve a patient’s condition simply because the person has the expectation that it will be helpful.” The problem I have with this definition is the word ‘fake’. There is nothing fake about the magical power of the subconscious mind! Magic works on faith, belief and imagination. The more that you believe something to be so, the more it will become so. This is why, in magic, we conduct rituals and act out a part, why we dress the part and convince our deep selves that we are the part….
Visualisation – Again, we can use the imagination to convince ourselves that some outcome will occur and magically, it does. Don’t believe me? See this article. Many top athletes pay small fortunes to learn how to visualise their success.
Expectation – How many times have you expected not to find a parking place and then not been disappointed? How about trying it the other way around? Expect a parking place and you will find one.
Music – Have you ever noticed how a particular song can evoke a specific mood? Combine this with ritual and dance and you get something like the famous Haka of the New Zealand Rugby team…..
Yes - how you see the world is important for you see what you expect to see.
Try an experiment. Something I did a few years ago and was blown away by the results. Think of something now that you couldn’t possibly think of seeing and then as you go through your day, expect to see it. I did that with idea of a pink bus and later an elephant. The results were staggering and it resulted in one of my worst selling books called The Pink Bus in which I used short fictional stories to give a magical view of the world. Plainly, I should have had stronger expectations about the books sales!
The magic will shine through though if you approach life with magical expectation. Look for the coincidences - the synergies - the strange linked events - and when you start to experience that know you are on the path…to magic. I also wrote a trilogy about a recent magical journey I undertook called the Magic of Connecting with the Land that I recently issued as a single paperback version (It is also available as three books - Chasing the Shaman, Chasing Dragons in Moravia and Chasing the Goddess). I even found myself on a restaurant’s menu - but thats a story you will need to read my book to learn more about.
Have a magical weekend!