Dear Ian,
those are two good questions.
I believe in magic.
I don't really know what that is, magic, at the end of the day. I use the
definition for myself as follows.
Magic creates change in the world by use of non-physical means.
I don't believe in flying around on broomsticks, or telekinetically juggling
large rocks or such.
But there are many aspects of magic which are quite real and I have experienced
personally, as well as others that I have observed and which are documented in
history.
There are invisible things that a magician can learn to see, and can learn to
interact with. And can learn to use to their advantage - like you can catch a
fish to eat it if you know how; you can catch and train a horse and ride it; you
can use the wind to blow your ship to a destination of your choice and many
other things of that nature.
And here we come to the "how has magic helped me" part.
Now we could talk about financial success or getting rid of people you don't
like from your life and such, but that's not really why *I* do magic.
Magic reveals a whole world that coexists side by side with the hard world that
most people inhabit and where they walk around blindly, running into all kinds
of obstacles and going "ouch!" but they don't even see them.
This is a fantastic world, sometimes scary, sometimes wild but absolutely real
and intensely exciting, amazing to behold and even more amazing to be a part of
once you learn a few lessons on how to conduct yourself there.
It is more than having twice the life AT ANY TIME compared with those who have
no idea these realms even exist, it is more exponential than that.
To learn about that world of magic is a lifelong fascination, far beyond "love
spells" and "health potions", far, far FAR beyond in every sense.
It is a total challenge to our capacities as a human being and forces tremendous
change, re-appraisal of old ideas, and to re-learn to use talents that were
never used before. It's like starting again at the beginning, as a child.
Finally, those magic realms make the world complete again. It's a world that is
far beyond all those stupid ideas of suffering and valleys of shadows. The world
becomes this amazing place, sparkling, alive - and that seeps into you, the
magician, it wakes you up and it makes you both incredibly happy as well as
totally awed by it and humbled.
To find that world for a human being is to discover themselves.
That's why I do magic and encourage others to start looking deeper, further,
more closely at reality to really see what's there - how much more there is than
most people will sadly, ever know or discover before they die.
Thank you for writing and asking those questions; I enjoyed writing this and I'm
going to post it to my website as my "magic manifest".
Blessed be, always,
SFX
PS: I wrote an introduction to the worlds of magic, called "The Enchanted
World", which is available FREE. It is subtitled
"A
free book on healing" and it is; but in essence
what I'm seeking to heal most of all is that dangerous divide between the
physical world, and the magical world, to bring them back together into one REAL
world - The Enchanted World.
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