Ooooo, I’m All Wobbley
Back in the late 60s one of the spokespersons for the Great Transition (the Hippy movement, Counter Culture, The Psychedelic Awakening, Yippy Culture, etc), by the name of Stephen Gaskin, identified the 11th Commandment as “You do too know what I mean.” I would bring that up to date by rephrasing it – “You do know.” I’d guess Gaskin would amend that to ‘You do know and you know you know.’
That some people will look at this and remember that only a few days ago I also said something to the effect – ‘Knowing is the enemy of learning.’ Still true. The only way this boggles the mind is our insistence that if one thing is true the other must be false. And this takes us back to our conversation about dialectics. Duality is one of the strongholds of denial. Us vs. Them, This or That, Either/Or. These syllogisms run our lives and rob us of true and deep joy. I can’t even begin to enumerate the ways in which this carries on. So, I will stick with the topic at hand…Detecting Magick.
Many people believe that magick is antithetical to logic and rationality. It is not. It IS a larger set than rationality AND it does NOT exclude rationality. Mages must have an excellent and exquisite grasp of rationality to move forward or at least to not die. They must also be profoundly in touch with their intuitive, vaporous and fluid mind and emotions. Emotions are not bound by rationality. If you don’t know this for certain, you have not yet perceived yourself with an adequate rationality…It means you are overly balanced toward your emotion (an irrational need to appear more rational than you are) and have not addressed your intuition (where you would see the inter play between this oil and water set.) Does that bug you?
Either or?
You don’t need to sit with your chin on your hand to try to figure this out… just GET it… you can sense that this is so. You really do KNOW…but believe me, the mind in most humans is dead set against seeing this. Which brings me to the next point –
YOUR MIND IS NOT YOUR FRIEND
Well that speaks to a sacred cow of the intellectually well endowed. Your mind is no more your friend than that ‘pet’ tiger of Roy Horn’s was his friend. Roy was quoted as saying “Montecore is a great cat. Make sure no harm comes to Montecore.” I’m sure he was fond of that cat even as he lay bleeding in transit to the trauma unit…but I’m also sure he knew this cat was not his friend. In the moment your ‘friend’ shoots you, because you pissed him/her off, you may realize this is not your friend. Likewise our mind has many, many reflexes that do not serve us. Like a giant cat or a random meeting with a dragon, we do well to keep an eye on the mind; because this trickster has been known to be the cause of most suicides; almost universally perceived to be a logical decision by the subject. Don’t think too hard on this… you do too know what I mean.
Magick is alive and well in this world. It has been shape-shifting into a variety of paradigms; again, I can’t enumerate them. One of my favorite ‘hiding places of Magick’ is marketing. It’s most often a hiding place of “Dark” or “Black Magick” which is a type of magick that usually involves some form of eviscerating free will. In lieu of the EXTRAS usually found at the end of these conversations, in this release I will simply include a relevant experience as follows:
DETECT THIS MAGICK
Note the Polymorphing (many forms) spells or Shape-shifting spells used to affect human thought and perception in the example link below. Polymorphing spells are used to change the form of oneself, an object or other living being, to cause it/them to look, feel or otherwise become recognizable as something or someone else. Shape-shifting usually refers to a magickal person or being who changes themselves; often as disguise or to gain the ‘power’ of the thing they’ve become. The practice of “passing” in the old South is an example of shape-shifting. Some shaman are noted for shape-shifting abilities and are reported to become various animals.
In the links below is a powerful polymorphic spell at work… see if you can detect the magick being done here and what kinds of effects it may have. Does it seem to play at the edges of eroding free will? Has anyone died, or suffered quality of life in the process? Does it effect many or few?
Detect –
Upworthy version vs YouTube version. (I’m joking here…forming a duality/competition). This is a VERY short piece so no excuses for missing this doorway out of the dungeon.
This stuff would never work on me.
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