Magic: A Conjurer’s Trick? A Force of Will? Or A Life in Balance?

In order to realize the real potential of magic we must first define it and believe that it is possible.  Magic is produced in our world every single day but most of us do not realize it as such.  Every day you use it.  When you pick up your cell phone and text someone, when you turn on your television or when you microwave your dinner you are making use of magic because it is nothing more than harnessing the elements available to us in the universe and making them manifest in a way that serves us. 

We are fortunate that there are so many people who were able to utilize the gifts that the universe has provided us with and make fantastic and wonderful things with their mind.  Yes, their mind.  We call it science once we are able to grasp it’s truth, but it all starts with a mind that believes these things are possible.  And that, my friend, is magic,  pure and simple.  We only run into trouble with this truth when we start to work with elements of mind and spirit.  These are the things that people fear because they do not see a material world way to use or destroy that kind of magic. It can go on behind our backs and possibly make us do things that we do not wish to do.  It scares the living hell out of us to think that someone might have power over us even though we give that power away every single day of our lives to people who can screw us up in monumental ways and even kill us.  Somehow, that doesn’t frighten us.  It should.  We hand over our bodies to physicians who say it is a good thing to cut out parts of us and prescribe poisonous chemicals but we recoil in terror if someone tells us that something common in nature, such as a flower or a weed might destroy a cancer inside of us or that a change in our diet, like  giving up meat, might help us control an illness that we have.  We are afraid of psychics knowing our true selves and being able to read us but we do not fear giving away our personal information for free on the internet which can be used against us in ways we would never have imagined a few decades ago. We are vulnerable to cyber attack and financial ruin. Teenagers are bullied and harassed day and night.  Home used to be a safe haven for them once they were away from school but the bullies can now get to them no matter where they are. This is so commonplace now that many of them have committed suicide, seeing no escape from the torture. Information about us is given to the undeserving and undisciplined constantly to use as they please and we are paying a terrible price as a result. I could go on and on about all of the ways that we are being controlled and enslaved by those who have obtained information on us and are using the “magic” of modern technology to wreck lives and gain undeserved power.  We gave it to them because we were having fun and delighted by our new toys.  So much so that we ignored the ways in which our fun could harm us.

So here we are, enjoying our freedom to communicate at any time and any place.  I think that it is a wonderful thing just like everyone else does but you must realize, as does the character of Rumplestiltskin on the tv series Once Upon A Time;  “All magic comes with a price.” That price, is taking full responsibility for our actions.

Those who acquire magic legitimately and through balanced means are not the culprits here, as (believe it or not!) many people today still believe.  The magic of the mystic, which is you, if you are striving to be a whole person who uses all of the power that was given to you when you took your first breath, is the power to manage your life when you are being challenged by whatever may manifest in your world.  It is the power to tap in to the source of all life and receive your personal answers to your personal needs.  Where we mystics tend to get in to the most trouble is in the area of “reading” others and keeping our health with natural healing.  This shouldn’t scare people the way it does, but that it does is the reaction of the phony who has created such an ungodly facade of himself that if anyone were to know his true self they would be floored by the lies.  It is also a huge fear to the people who make large sums of money by tricking you into believing that they have the power and you don’t. Truly, they would be floored if they could see themselves in living color the way that many psychics can.  I’m not saying that handing your personal information over to another person, even a mystic, doesn’t have the possibility of being abused. It does by the unscrupulous, but no more so than the unscrupulous users of your personal information gained through the internet. One should always be aware of whom they are dealing with.  Not all psychics are created equal, as I said in my post,  Check Your Ego At The Door, back in September. 

Mystical power has (most of the time) been gained through hard work and mental discipline. I cannot tell you that every last one of the people who have been able to harness that power is a wonderful and altruistic person any more than I can tell you that every priest, doctor, lawyer, minister, politician or fellow human that you meet is going to be.  We all have free will and the freedom to be a liar and a jackass if we want to be, but I am talking to you, right now, and I am going to assume that you would not be a seeker of your own personal power if you did not intend to use it to free yourself and not to abuse and enslave others.  The life work involved does not come quickly and easily and if you have the time to gain it for yourself just to turn it on others you have way too many problems with who you are and what you are to ever make much use of it.  That kind of false power is normally gained by being a criminal and you should go to prison for it, if indeed, the universe lets you get away with it without making a serious hell of your life. I hope it does if your ideals are that askew.  We as humans are in serious peril now.  We are finding it increasingly more difficult to manage a life with any true meaning and those who would stand in the way of us achieving our full potential and maintaining a peaceful existence should be purged.

The magic that you are seeking as a potential mystic is your birthright and you have access to it by first recognizing that the possibility exists for you.  Personal power and freedom are attained through recognition of our true selves and doing away with everything that stands in the way of that goal. Do not confuse those two abilities with what it tends to mean to the uninitiated.  It is not the power to manipulate others.  It is the power to control yourself and your life in whatever situation that may come to you.  Self control normally makes the desire to control others something that no longer has relevance.  That we can read the mental realms is a skill that is only available in the context of what we may need to know to control our own environment or as an ability to help others who have not found their own personal power to heal themselves or to solve a problem.  Not all information is available to us at all times.  Much of the time it is strictly given on a need to know basis.  Nothing is given that shouldn’t be.  If I get in a reading that a person is engaging in illegal drug use it is only because that person is in danger from it or is a danger to others.  It is not being given to me for any other reason than I and my client need to know it. If I read that someone has an ulcer or some other health problem the information is only given to make sure that they have the opportunity to return to wellness again if they choose to take the necessary steps toward making that happen.  Anything that is beyond your or their expertise will be told to you.  This is power. This is magic.  Knowing the unknown.  Seeing the unseen.  Creating life and possibilities with what you were born with.  You have a spirit, a brain, and god-given talents to make some damn great magic.  Learn to use it.  Use it for the best possible reasons; to make this life worth so much more than most people would ever believe is possible.

I also hope that you can learn to pull a rabbit out of a hat, if that is your sort of thing.