rainbowlen
03-03-2002, 02:27 AM
a piece from oversoul 7 (jane roberts) lifted from getrealabe2, which
was....
lifted from the sethnbeyond list
"each life is charmed, yours and everyone else's, and you must never
forget it. the instant you're born, you're charmed, because life
itself is a charm. each being is charmed into existence itself, and
given everything it needs to operate in the environment. your body is
charmed, too: it's a magic part of everything else; springing up from
all the things you see about you. atoms and molecules go singing
through the miraculous air, forming themselves into rocks and trees
and dogs and cats people, too. you are magic. you charm the air so
that it thickens into your body wherever you are.
"when you want to move, you think the air ahead of you into becoming
your body, and the air behind you then stops being you body ... all
very magical indeed. you move your arm just one inch to the right,
and the air to the left one inch stops being part of your arm. but it
all happens so quickly, your snatching of the air and making it turn
into you body, that you never notice it at all, and take it quite for
granted. which is why it works so well, you see.
"but your life is charmed. and there is a secret, a very simple one.
really, it's not a secret. but you have to remember that your life is
charmed. people who forget can't use their magic nearly as well as
they did before, and they have a tendency to get angry at those who
can. so, often, they pretend that no magic exists at all. then they
evolve great philosophies to prove it, which is itself magical, of
course. but they can't see that, because they're so convinced that
magic doesn't exist.
"and many people forget how simple and natural magic is, so they
evolve long theories, and methods that are supposed to make it work,
when you and i know, and everyone else really knows, that magic
happens by itself, because that's what magic is.
"but people are also very creative ... magic again! ... so they make
up gods of this and that, and realms and spheres, and maps to chart
out in advance where magic might be taking them so the don't get
surprised, which is silly because magic goes where it wants to, which
is everywhere. and when you try to map it out in advance, your really
cut yourself short.
"because a characteristic of magic is that it automatically turns
into whatever you want it to be. you create your own reality with it,
so whatever maps you make are real. and if you forget what magic is,
then you're liable to think that your map is the only real one, and
all others are false. you get in a terrible bind, fighting over which
way is right, which road or map, while all the time magic is what
makes the maps. and a great variety of maps can appear in the
twinkling of an eye!
"particularly when you grow up, many people will tell you that there
is no magic. if you believe them, then you'll forget too, and you'll
act as if you aren't charmed and bring unmagic into your life...
which is magic too, you see, but magic that doesn't know itself. then
you'll create things that go with unmagic, like sorrow or sickness,
and you'll have to deal with them at that level until you remember
that your life is charmed again.
"so in the meantime you'll feel nasty and unloved and angry, way
beyond what is natural, and have to worry about sad or fearful
emotions and what to do with them, when magically, you'd know. they'd
just come and go exuberantly like summer storms. but anger and hate
and sorrow are all magic too, and left alone, they'd lead you back to
the knowledge that your life is charmed. because hate is love looking
for itself every place but where love is, and love is what you feel
for yourself when you know that you are where you're supposed to be
in the universe, and that you're lovely just because you are, and of
course, charmed.
"not only that, but you're also the magic maker; the inner living
part of you that forms your life. but consciously you have to know
this, accept and acknowledge it, and let the magic of yourself
happen. that way, you're directing the magic of yourself. but it's
even more fun just to let the magic happen as it wants to, because
it's your magic, and that way it keeps telling you more and more
about your magical self. then the magic flows through you with
unimpeded delight. if you keep saying, 'i want it this way and no
other,' then you may be limiting your physical experience, because
there's no doubt that your magical self knows more about your
potentials than you do. and it will tell you quite clearly, if you
only listen.
"to many adults, all of this sounds too simple and unintellectual,
because unfortunately many of them think that the mind is just
something to say 'no' with, and to keep out magic. nothing could be
further from the truth.
"but if you use your mind to say no to magic, then it's like closing
doors to your own charmed existence, and refusing to use the full
power of your life.
"everyone works with magic, whether they realize it or not. beliefs
are magic, too, you see. many people think that one particular belief
makes everything right; or makes magic happen. and as long as they
believe that, they're all right for a while. but if they start
doubting that belief, and don't find another one to replace it, then
they think that they've lost their magic, or that life has. instead,
of course, the magic is there all along.
"but people love systems, so they use all kinds of beliefs... some of
them quite handy... as aids. and they travel through belief systems,
sometimes going to considerable trouble to do so, when all they
really have to remember is that they are magic themselves, and their
lives are charmed without their having to do anything about it at
all.
"and your conscious mind is magic, too. its workings are mysterious
and complicated, and simple and clear at once, like air is. your
conscious mind looks out through your eyes, and knows parcels of air
as its body, and smiles through cheeks and skin the same way that the
moon shines through the wide skin of the heavens. see how clear and
mysterious it all is? so, in a way, it's silly for the conscious mind
to question magic, because ?- well, it's so magical itself.
"but systems of magic are silly, too, and all of them are really
based upon doubt. magic is considered so tenuous that someone has to
be at it all the time, making spells or paying someone else to do it.
and the spells all have to be done right, so people concentrate on
how to do this spell or another. this gets very complicated, and many
adult books deal with the subject.
"but everything is a spell. your words and thoughts are spells.
science is just another system that tries to discover what certain
spells cause certain effects. usually, of course, scientists don't
understand magic any more than priests do; and they all get caught up
in their own complicated methods.
"there isn't much basic difference between muttering a lot of
different phrases or drawing magic circles to protect yourself
against illness, and taking handfuls of pills given to you by
doctors. both methods work if you believe in them, though the
practitioners of one method will never agree that the other way works
at all, of course. and unfortunately, neither side really understands
magic, which is behind all of the spell and methods and formulas.
"spells work if you believe in them; only you don't need spells at
all. everything happens by itself. you happen by yourself, so does
the world. and the principle behind all is magic. and magic is the
beingness within and behind all things."
-- oversoul seven's little book, the charmed life, from the further
education of oversoul seven by jane roberts, originally published by
prentice hall, 1979. ãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ムâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ãƒâƒ ã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚â© robert f. butts, all rights reserved.
was....
lifted from the sethnbeyond list
"each life is charmed, yours and everyone else's, and you must never
forget it. the instant you're born, you're charmed, because life
itself is a charm. each being is charmed into existence itself, and
given everything it needs to operate in the environment. your body is
charmed, too: it's a magic part of everything else; springing up from
all the things you see about you. atoms and molecules go singing
through the miraculous air, forming themselves into rocks and trees
and dogs and cats people, too. you are magic. you charm the air so
that it thickens into your body wherever you are.
"when you want to move, you think the air ahead of you into becoming
your body, and the air behind you then stops being you body ... all
very magical indeed. you move your arm just one inch to the right,
and the air to the left one inch stops being part of your arm. but it
all happens so quickly, your snatching of the air and making it turn
into you body, that you never notice it at all, and take it quite for
granted. which is why it works so well, you see.
"but your life is charmed. and there is a secret, a very simple one.
really, it's not a secret. but you have to remember that your life is
charmed. people who forget can't use their magic nearly as well as
they did before, and they have a tendency to get angry at those who
can. so, often, they pretend that no magic exists at all. then they
evolve great philosophies to prove it, which is itself magical, of
course. but they can't see that, because they're so convinced that
magic doesn't exist.
"and many people forget how simple and natural magic is, so they
evolve long theories, and methods that are supposed to make it work,
when you and i know, and everyone else really knows, that magic
happens by itself, because that's what magic is.
"but people are also very creative ... magic again! ... so they make
up gods of this and that, and realms and spheres, and maps to chart
out in advance where magic might be taking them so the don't get
surprised, which is silly because magic goes where it wants to, which
is everywhere. and when you try to map it out in advance, your really
cut yourself short.
"because a characteristic of magic is that it automatically turns
into whatever you want it to be. you create your own reality with it,
so whatever maps you make are real. and if you forget what magic is,
then you're liable to think that your map is the only real one, and
all others are false. you get in a terrible bind, fighting over which
way is right, which road or map, while all the time magic is what
makes the maps. and a great variety of maps can appear in the
twinkling of an eye!
"particularly when you grow up, many people will tell you that there
is no magic. if you believe them, then you'll forget too, and you'll
act as if you aren't charmed and bring unmagic into your life...
which is magic too, you see, but magic that doesn't know itself. then
you'll create things that go with unmagic, like sorrow or sickness,
and you'll have to deal with them at that level until you remember
that your life is charmed again.
"so in the meantime you'll feel nasty and unloved and angry, way
beyond what is natural, and have to worry about sad or fearful
emotions and what to do with them, when magically, you'd know. they'd
just come and go exuberantly like summer storms. but anger and hate
and sorrow are all magic too, and left alone, they'd lead you back to
the knowledge that your life is charmed. because hate is love looking
for itself every place but where love is, and love is what you feel
for yourself when you know that you are where you're supposed to be
in the universe, and that you're lovely just because you are, and of
course, charmed.
"not only that, but you're also the magic maker; the inner living
part of you that forms your life. but consciously you have to know
this, accept and acknowledge it, and let the magic of yourself
happen. that way, you're directing the magic of yourself. but it's
even more fun just to let the magic happen as it wants to, because
it's your magic, and that way it keeps telling you more and more
about your magical self. then the magic flows through you with
unimpeded delight. if you keep saying, 'i want it this way and no
other,' then you may be limiting your physical experience, because
there's no doubt that your magical self knows more about your
potentials than you do. and it will tell you quite clearly, if you
only listen.
"to many adults, all of this sounds too simple and unintellectual,
because unfortunately many of them think that the mind is just
something to say 'no' with, and to keep out magic. nothing could be
further from the truth.
"but if you use your mind to say no to magic, then it's like closing
doors to your own charmed existence, and refusing to use the full
power of your life.
"everyone works with magic, whether they realize it or not. beliefs
are magic, too, you see. many people think that one particular belief
makes everything right; or makes magic happen. and as long as they
believe that, they're all right for a while. but if they start
doubting that belief, and don't find another one to replace it, then
they think that they've lost their magic, or that life has. instead,
of course, the magic is there all along.
"but people love systems, so they use all kinds of beliefs... some of
them quite handy... as aids. and they travel through belief systems,
sometimes going to considerable trouble to do so, when all they
really have to remember is that they are magic themselves, and their
lives are charmed without their having to do anything about it at
all.
"and your conscious mind is magic, too. its workings are mysterious
and complicated, and simple and clear at once, like air is. your
conscious mind looks out through your eyes, and knows parcels of air
as its body, and smiles through cheeks and skin the same way that the
moon shines through the wide skin of the heavens. see how clear and
mysterious it all is? so, in a way, it's silly for the conscious mind
to question magic, because ?- well, it's so magical itself.
"but systems of magic are silly, too, and all of them are really
based upon doubt. magic is considered so tenuous that someone has to
be at it all the time, making spells or paying someone else to do it.
and the spells all have to be done right, so people concentrate on
how to do this spell or another. this gets very complicated, and many
adult books deal with the subject.
"but everything is a spell. your words and thoughts are spells.
science is just another system that tries to discover what certain
spells cause certain effects. usually, of course, scientists don't
understand magic any more than priests do; and they all get caught up
in their own complicated methods.
"there isn't much basic difference between muttering a lot of
different phrases or drawing magic circles to protect yourself
against illness, and taking handfuls of pills given to you by
doctors. both methods work if you believe in them, though the
practitioners of one method will never agree that the other way works
at all, of course. and unfortunately, neither side really understands
magic, which is behind all of the spell and methods and formulas.
"spells work if you believe in them; only you don't need spells at
all. everything happens by itself. you happen by yourself, so does
the world. and the principle behind all is magic. and magic is the
beingness within and behind all things."
-- oversoul seven's little book, the charmed life, from the further
education of oversoul seven by jane roberts, originally published by
prentice hall, 1979. ãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ムâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ãƒâƒ ã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚â© robert f. butts, all rights reserved.