The Difference Between Magical Thinking and Magic
An 8 Minute Mini Secret Podcast
Hi Secret Mythsfits!
In this podcast, which is a cute 8 minutes long, I share the difference between Magical Thinking and Magic (at least in my mind), do a bit of bibliomancy, and talk a little bit about synchronicity.
I hope this serves you well. There are a few little glitches in the audio - but nothing too wild.
I really would love to hear what you think in the comments.
This is a temporary project in honor of my course Create Your Cosmology, so please take a listen/have a ready to what interests you, because I am going to be taking this down when CYC starts on March 22nd!
The Mini Podcast on Magical Thinking
*Mentioned in the pod: The Sign of the Serpent & David Bohm
Transcript -
Honestly, it's so wild how long it takes us to really get used to things in life being easier than we are used to. And in creating this course, among everything really that I've created in the last I don't know actually since I opened my shop and 2014 there has been this element of what people normally call luck. And I think we can't luck because we can't explain it. It's something outside of us when things just line up for us.
And if you're raised in the American education system, or really most modern education systems, there is this belief that being skeptical and being smart are partners that when you believe in things that are beyond the logic and reason of the brain that you are not a very smart person. This is just something that underlies our film and television. You know, I'm thinking about the character Phoebe and friends or there's always a character in every sitcom that's the crazy zany one that brings this fun and this levity but everything they're interested in is a joke. And I think that with the course that I created, along with some of the businesses I've created, while there have been a lot of challenges that have come through birthing things that aren't known in any way, things that you can't have any way of predicting. There's also been a lot of magic there have been stories of me finding the exact right book, teacher or reference at a moment of total exhaustion when I'm in the middle of making something in fact, I had to start like a list of all of the synchronicities that came while I was creating this project, and one of them is a book that's called the sign of the serpent and I'm going to just read to you do some Biblio Mansi at this moment, so I can share with you how magical this book is. So let's see what he has to share with us right now.
David Bohm proposed that Consciousness is basically in the implicate order as all matter is and therefore it is not that consciousness is separate from matter but rather that consciousness manifests in the explicate order as those all matter. He sees consciousness as a more subtle form of matter and movement and the source of what we perceive both the external world and of ourselves, our so called inner processes lying in the non manifest pre physical realm.
Consciousness or life where it is being increasingly seen by Western thinkers as an expression of a higher more subtle and seen and therefore unmeasured spiritual field before universal and human consciousness are one in the same in nature. The only difference being that individual consciousness is experienced as limited or restricted in its operation within its physical media.
The activity of the mind is that of consciousness itself as our feelings thoughts, emotions, intuition, creativity and imagination.
Consciousness exhibits many faces which are in reality only categorizations received by our intellect
you know, I
really believe that if we allow ourselves to understand that creating magic it is both about knowing when to paddle your boat so to speak, when to take the reins of your.
And her knowledge and sensibility of when it really makes sense to surrender this understanding of that moment when the universe meets you halfway, this ability to hold both the responsibility of taking action and the trust that there is something bigger than you. That's the difference between believing in God and believing in. I'm having what therapists call magical thinking. And when I first started working with my current therapist, maybe it was three years ago, and honestly, finding this person was another thing that was full of synchronicity. And just feel so incredibly faded in some ways to meet someone who understands me so deeply who I can talk to about all of my spiritual perspectives.
Who by the way, also was an entrepreneur who left one job and pivoted to another.
I really used to be insulted by this idea of Magical Thinking and really confused about the difference between how I was thinking about magic and magical thinking and I realized this thing it is this idea of meeting the universe halfway. Magical thinking is often ignoring, denying and suppressing the reality before you and also for me was usually entangled with a rescue fantasy.
So that the wishes and intentions i would have would often really be the narrative of the universe or something coming to save me. Instead of understanding that while yes, in my perspective, we all have a spiritual team or a higher self, whatever you want to call it, something that connects us all to each other, that there's a bigger, larger choreography to life and just the mind and discrete matter.
That we are also part of that Source consciousness. And so what that means is that we are always giving and receiving and the difference between magic and magical thinking is magical thinking gives all the power to something outside of us. Whereas magic asks us to tune into the frequency of life that allows us to swim with it to catch a stream, ingenuity or right timing to like really, I think the best fit for something I've ever done.
I greatly admire which is surfing, you know, to know when your wave is there and to trust yourself to navigate it and want to understand surfing where they presence and relaxation will total awareness, you know, to be in your body but at the same time to be absolutely trusting of something something you are creating things in. So sometimes I'm stumped on something like that if you are negotiating the space between handling really hard to catch your wave even when sometimes you just relax and ride the current, then I think that looking at your belief system is a really, really fruitful important endeavor.
And I invite you to keep following along with this secret newsletter. And of course I hope you'll join me for create your cosmology when it launched when it when we began on March 22 My course but I do also hope you get something out of this and that you find a way to take what I've just shared with you and to work with it in the next 24 hours, give it a test, give it a test run. See what happens.