Maybe we are all great magicians, performing our miraculous feats with our every breath.
The idea of magic has been around for thousands of years, and while the names and language may change over time and vary throughout the world, the idea of hacking the physical world through some hidden science called ‘magic’ has persisted continually to this very modern day.
Beginning With the Words
To begin to understand how we human beings interface with the physical world, it may be helpful to examine the common words and language being used, the words which vibrate into the world and ultimately form our perception of things, influencing our actions and emotions.
The Occult
First we have the word 'occult.' While it simply means 'to hide from view', or 'hidden from sight', the word is often associated with dark ceremonies which occasionally slip out into the mind of the public, and is invariably associated with frightening thoughts for most people.
Meanwhile, the real reason that this occulted knowledge is hidden from our direct view and obscured with fearful images is that humanity could collectively use such knowledge to not only improve their own world with their own power, but to defend themselves from the dark practices of others.
Upon a closer look at the English language, we may discover that powerful magic could be hiding in our very imagination.
IMAGInation
The word ‘magi’ can be found in the structure of the word ‘iMAGInation’, and when separated into parts, ‘I, magi’, that word could even suggest I, magician, or that we all imagin-ate things, as if we were all magi, born to be imaginers.
The Magi
What then, is a magi? That word often suggests wisdom, and perhaps knowledge of esoteric secrets, and even magic, while the term officially means members of a group of ancient Persian priests.
A magi may even be called a sorcerer.
The Sorcerers
In it’s general use, sorcery is a word that most often implies dark rituals with evil intent, and yet we all know that our imaginations contain both good and evil concepts and images, and it is the will of an individual that matters most when consciously imagining, and imaging, a world.
The fields around us are always rebalancing into a neutral state, it is our intentions that determine if our influence in the field is right or wrong, good or evil.
Thankfully, most of us humans are good in our natural state, and most beings would prefer to voluntarily create a hospitable world for themselves and others.
Life Itself Could Be Called Ritual Magic
Magic could be described as the combination of an individual’s will and their imagination having an effect on matter in the physical world.
A magical effect may simply consist of our intentions and goals acting as a sort of whirlpool in the fields surrounding us, entraining the shape of matter using the value of our attention as a paddle to stir the energetic pool into coherence. This is, of course, what we do all the time anyway, as everything in the world begins with the imagination, in reality.
Cultural Magic and the Group Mind
An individual who combines their own will power with their imagination in a ritualistic formula might be called a sorcerer, while a nation of individuals who have been taught to delegate most of those same creative powers away to an unseen entity are usually called ‘voters’.
Delegating Our Power Away Through Ritual
Through the spells of words like ‘freedom’ 'peace' and ‘liberty’, entire populations can be taught to deny their own power, and instead attempt to be part of something bigger-- to become an active member of society-- and that through certain rituals they can collectively create a tool that takes all responsibility away from the individual by going through the voting ritual.
In this dark ritual called 'voting', each individual in a congregation is given the formula for the ceremony’s success: ‘pull this lever, and by your will, you and your fellow priests will empower and unleash a mighty demonic entity into the world.’
Such rituals as the empowerment of a government-- no matter how that ritual might evolve over time-- are successful because the practitioners of the ritual are the unwitting population of magi, who would certainly use their magical abilities in other ways if not for their own decision to give that ability away.
The collective spell of this population of enchanters is powerful indeed, and by the number of deaths that are associated with this incantation called government, it is almost certainly a black magic ritual that these populations are engaged in, while being largely unaware that they have performed this deadly sorcery.
A government is perhaps the worst example of what a group mind can create by combining their wills and imaginations through rituals and ceremonies, and is certainly the most dangerous incantation that has been manifested on Earth yet.
Just like organized religions, to remain relevant, the formulas for that dark practice of government must be fed daily into the mind of the public in order to continually divert their natural energy away from the individuals, the families, and even away from the local communities.
Natural Magic
What would human beings make if they weren’t constantly being commanded to make money? What ceremonies and rituals would overtake the collective mind if left alone for a minute?
The kitchen is a good place to find such natural ceremony, as each being will find a way to make a daily habit of eating something.
With habit comes ritual, and with repetition comes mastery, so that in a natural setting, the beings are naturally going to combine their will power with their imagination in order to prepare a breakfast, and the emotions that come with sharing that food with other humans acts as the fuel for the will, and opens the door to imagination even further.
Beyond the Basics of Physics- Superpowers
Our emotions-- tools for consciousness, are thereby tools for changing the physical world. The feeling of excitement is more than imagination; it can be sensed as an electrical tingle along the spine, perhaps even raising a hair or two.
Stories of ordinary people performing ‘superhuman’ feats while under emotional duress are not uncommon, but these feats are again a combination of the being’s will and imagination changing the physical world in ways that can be focused and controlled. The matrix was designed to be hacked, it would seem.
Magic by Various Names
When a mother rips the door off of a car to save her child in a seemingly superhuman display of might, the source of that power might be called by different names in different cultures.
The term ‘kundalini’ might be used to describe a charge of energy coiling up the spine like a snake climbing a staff, and this charge can perhaps be directed to a desired task, or perhaps to the hands for healing purposes.
‘Qi Gong’, or Chi Gong is a term describing the Chinese practice of moving ‘chi’ around in the physical world in ways that modern science and medicine dare not venture into. The world seems to be made of the residue of this life force in it’s ever-inward quest.
This chi, life-force, or prana, whatever the name, is really just us, consciousness, pouring inwards in it’s ever-spiraling path to examine itself, and the vortexes of this dynamic enterprise of consciousness are what make up the microscopic to the macro in form, always changing, always moving at the speed of light, and yet it is always us.
We, the Most Powerful Magicians on Earth
Unless we willfully hand our powers away in ceremony and daily prayer towards some distant entity, we humans can breath a world into existence without trying-- it’s what we do naturally, as creator beings-- and by remembering our power, we might become conscious practitioners of our potent magic, imagining a world and ecosystem that is suited for us, and by our collective will, we should be able to manifest such a world.
Instead of using our magical powers to create and maintain a centralized government, we might use that same power to create and maintain humanity each day, until it becomes ritual.
We might even make a habit of sharing food, stories and inventions each day rather than sustain the spell of scarcity and combat, and maybe we can make a ceremony of the miracle of our co-creation as the new magi, the modern wizards that we are.
Previously in this series, ‘Training the Modern Slave’:
Part 2. The Imagining of a Government
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