POWER AND MAGIC
AUGUST 18, 2011. The power to manifest deep desire and make it come true in the world is not a timid thing. It does not come walking with its hands in its pockets full of self-effacing apologies.
This power is not aching for compromise. It is not trying to please everyone everywhere and gain acceptance from the group.
This power is a force.
With that as a prelude, some people would conclude I am talking about a thing that is intrusive, immoral, overbearing, and decidedly anti-social. Against all norms.
But actually, this power (magic) would never step on the freedom of another person. It has no truck with that. It doesn’t attempt to diminish or cow anyone.
And as an incidental spillover effect, it benefits other people.
The accelerating socialization of planet Earth, in which the population is taught to be one mass of “people giving up everything to serve each other,” is, at bottom, an agenda of control over the individual, and so naturally propaganda is going to be employed to convince one and all that power, any kind of personal power, is bad.
When I consult with a client in my practice, I’m fully aware that, sooner or later, we’re going to meet up with the issue of power. And more than simply a topic to discuss, power needs to be created and experienced.
To do anything else is to detour around a high mountain and pretend it isn’t there.
Power has many features, and one of its side effects is its ability to act as a kind of air-blower, cleaning out the dust, cobwebs, blocks, and doldrums of a lifetime. It literally rejuvenates the cells of the body and the electromagnetic field around the body.
Power has its paradoxes, too. The more of it you have, the less you need, in order to make things happen.
Here’s a rough metaphor to explain power as it rises to the level of magic:
Joe is taking an acting class. The teacher is having the students break up into pairs and do the same short scene from a play. Joe brings off his scene perfectly. He knows his lines, he doesn’t miss a beat. Yet each time he does the scene, the teacher doesn’t gush with praise. Joe is puzzled. Finally, one day, it all comes to him. What’s missing is sufficient depth of feeling. He’s giving a very clean performance, but he isn’t projecting the twists and turns of feeling his part requires. So that is what he works on, and lo and behold, he discovers something about himself. He can inject deeper and deeper levels and layers and energies of emotion into his performance. And when he does, he comes alive. He experiences being alive in a way he hasn’t ever felt before. His whole world and space opens up for him. He’s got energy running through his body. It’s as if his cells have been eagerly waiting for this moment. He knows what efficiency is all about, but this is way beyond that. He’s crossed a line. He’s broken through. Some sort of abundance is flooding into his veins. He hasn’t solved a problem consisting of numbers and equations. He’s blown the walls off his boundaries.
And if, in that moment, you asked him whether he felt power, he would say yes, without hesitation. It wouldn’t need any thought. If you asked him to describe this power, he might say it was the exhilarating confidence that he could use and direct and even inhabit great energies to move in any direction he decided to go, toward any objective.
He might say this was genuine illumination.
He might say he could now project his subjective world into the physical world.
He might say this was magic.
And he would be right.
It’s a new leap along the great road of magic.
Power, as it rises to higher levels, paradoxically acquires a “centered fluidity,” an ability to manifest the fulfillment of individual desire and, simultaneously, spill over with spontaneous generosity.
Jon Rappoport