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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i always like your imaginations..because you make us to dwell in a place between the fantasy and the reality and make us to forget all our troubles :)
I think I must live in that place, between fantasy and reality! Welcome to my world ;)
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There is always some truth to the magic and even some scientific evidence shows that something that was considered a magic before, now it is a common thing.
Take the electricity, planes, rockets, even scuba diving... lol. As of the pure magic, I like to incorporate the same into my stories, I have no deeper knowledge of the subject so this was very interesting to read.
I tend to think that magic is a science that has been hidden from public through fear, but I imagine that someday it will be better understood.
I do not like to discuss anything magic or magical or any kind of an occult, not because I am highly superstitious but just because it gives me a weird feeling. If the magic was a school subject, I think I would fail 1000 times. I don't think there are the ghost or anything like that, but bad energies do exist and they can be extremely disruptive to the human health.
I think that weird feeling is not from the information about occulted knowledge, but that the subject has intentionally been made frightful so that most people will never come to understand the movements of energy from our minds into the world. I believe that bad energies exist, and can be called forth, yet at the same time there are good energies that are called forth just as easily, depending on our mindset and emotional state.
I think that magic is real and we are surrounded by it. Harry Potter movies are an interesting but childish representation of the same. I watched them all be honest. I don't believe that a person can be cursed or that ghosts wear chains and howl in the night, never heard or saw anything. But, in my place, we have a woman who is told to be a 'real witch'. She does know and sees things, and she is very nice in fact. I think she is maybe born with this capability ( or capabilities), but I am not sure if everybody can do magic, maybe only some people, yes?
I think that we all have magic powers, but have been trained to fear them, and to ignore the evidence of such things. The 'witch' has probably just learned how to focus and control that energy that is generated from living in the world, something that we could all do if it was more accepted in normal society.
"What would human beings make if they weren’t constantly being commanded to make money?"
I think this is a profound question! I am going to raise it over in that ThinkTank called Facebook and see what responses I get ... LOL. I will certainly share them here with you as well.
I can nearly predict what Groupthink will offer as an answer, if they answer at all.
Here's what I got ... tea (Abbi who has opened her tea shop), art, food/water vessels/shelter, happiness, humbleness, smoked trout, homes for those without them
And ... It depends on the hearts of the people. You would have those who only make things for themselves and those who would make things for others.
Great stuff - it does all seem to be linked to "something" that underlies all of it.
I really haven't figured out what that something is yet, or where that something operates from, yet.
thanks for getting back - looking forward to your work. Out of curiosity, is your username in reference any way to the Beatles? thanks again
haha yes I just made a post about that Paul the other day: https://steemit.com/funny/@therealpaul/a-real-paul-tinfoil-crown-comic-strip-liberating-the-kingdom-of-earth-one-laugh-at-a-time
sweet, I've dabbled in the PID stuff a bit too. The Bridge Over River Kwai was loaded with a bunch of PID synchros...looking forward to reading it tonight
Magic religion and science have been applied in the customs of other societies that have been developed in Western culture that represent a category used to study religion and social science to define different customs and concepts to be considered separate, especially those which are being judged this way .......
In this series I've been generally approaching the issues with sort of an overview of the group mind, and not so much the individuals in the group. I consider the individual human potential to be limitless, and superior to any organized religion, culture or custom, and this is written not to discredit any institution, but to instead inspire humanity into that potential.
Very informative post, thanks for your sharing to us, i one of your loyal follower, dont forget to me brother @therealpaul
I appreciate it!
Thanks you very much for your kind brother @therealpaul
I love this! And you talk about the ritual of voting.
There is magic everywhere and people don't realise it because we are taught that it doesn't exist, yet we learn to crate magic the minute we learn to spell.
Yes the ritual of voting was the most dangerous spell I could think of as an example of such mass ceremonial magic.
It seems that we are taught how to spell, while we're also taught which spells to cast into existence, trained from our youth to be creators, but to then credit someone else with that creation.
Exactly.
Well, I heard that the Elite do such rituals every year at opportune times of changing, around the Equinoxes and the Solstices. It is a pagan tradition to build energy during times of fluctuation, but they use it for manipulation. They take the good from ancient religions and corrupt it. Ixnay on the uperbowlsay.
You have a minor misspelling in the following sentence:
It should be separated instead of seperated.Life is magic!
The hint's in our religious documents about creation are evident and also confirmed by our science. God said let there be light and there was! Clearly our science shows us that everything is light bound by sound. So God vibrates the universe into existence. When we speak we are speaking into reality and creating a force (vibration) that interacts with the environment and has an effect however small.
It all points to a who? Which is always interrupted by programed conflict. When we stop being liars to ourselves and love ourselves the conflict rolls off our backs like water of a ducks back. LOL
Dang! My blurry-eyed scouting for great posts and illuminated minds has paid off! Glad I found you. Just so you know @reddust resteemed. She is a great gal by the way. As far as I understand occult knowledge and practices went underground, into hiding, during the Middle Ages ( in Europe at least) to avoid the Inquisition, and then later to dodge religious zealots who loved burning witches and the like at the stake.
I was raised under similar close minded circumstances but was able to break out of it later in life and now am actually a practicing Astrologer, which thing amazes me. I also was fortunate to find a spiritual path that in my earlier days I'd have absolutely shunned as a result of early religious conditioning.
Did you know the ancient Persian Magi's were almost to a man, astrologers? Some believe the Three Magi were even led to the Christ Child through the use of astrology. Stars after all were illuminating objects in the Magi's world.
Anyway, appreciate your post. Best regards.