THE MAGIC UNIVERSE
MAY 25, 2011. When you throw off the myths and fairy tales and diversions and distractions, when you offload the various cosmologies and religious superstructures and hierarchies, and when you stop being hypnotized by science and its speculations on origins, you are left with a sense of relief, because you no longer have a compulsion to fall back on the idea of The Sacred.
People who are devoted to some notion of the Sacred…well, they’re hooked on that. They firmly believe it is an existential category, and without it everything would disintegrate or spin into chaos or suddenly shrink down into incomprehensible babble. That’s what they think. They’re operating from a basis in which they simply don’t understand the range of imagination and what it offers.
They’re really taking one tiny slice of what imagination can produce and blowing it up into a unity (“the Sacred”) that is for them the whole ballgame.
Sacred is the basic umbrella they walk around under all the time, and it’s the ultimate backup when they have to find a backup.
But Sacred is simply one INVENTED idea/feeling.
It tends to decay over time, and then universe becomes a fetish. Qualities are ascribed to it by puerile minds.
I say all this because magic is definitely not the same thing as sacred.
And people have them confused.
Magic, vis-a-vis the universe, is all about the ability to make changes in space and time, so that what appears to be a billiard-ball cause-and-effect system opens up into a reflection, confirmation, and fulfillment of desire. One’s own desire. And this happens in an uplifting expansive way.
Charting the course of a person’s life can be done in myriad ways, but one way is by discovering how his desires change over time. However, there is a missing element: what does really and most profoundly and expansively desire?
And does he ever discover this?
Or does he skim across the surface?
And if he does discover this, does he then create action that will lead to the fulfillment of that desire?
These and other related questions lead you toward magic vis-a-vis the world.
JON RAPPOPORT
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