Muratus Lecture III: Magic in Modern Days
Ask.
<Question: are there any specific examples you can give?>
Yes: the one I gave today.Of course there are LOTS of others.Anywhere you look, there is something to help you get deeper into what magic is.
<Interjection: following that train of thought, everything is a form of magic.>
In a way, yes.There are different levels of understanding and using magic, so don’t confuse teleportation with a minor illusion trick. But basically, they are all on the same path, made out of [the] same bricks, so to say.
<Question: Would say…the power of positive thinking be such a thing?>
That’s also a name given to something to pull it out of the stigmata of magic and make it accepted by most.I can take almost any minor magic and explain you its uses on an advanced level so that you can see that common-day things can be related to advanced magic things. Then you understand it’s just a difference of level, but it’s actually the same thing on a different scale.
The fact that you put your hand to your mouth when you yawn, for example.Do you know what history it has?
<Answer: The soul leaving the body.>
Yeah, or evil souls entering it.That’s fucking magic for me.
Here i’ll share my toughts of “modern days magic”, and I want to clear at first: these toughts aren’t a criticism of the first five page – just pure fresh sight of magic itself.
<Question> – What’s the difference between Traditional and Modern Magic?
<Answer> – The ONLY difference is the way we see it.
For an example: As you could read on page four “magic is just the unknown”, page five says “everything is a form of magic”.
<Question> – If everything is a form of magic, how could it be unknown?
<Answer> – In my opinion magic isn’t unknown, becouse we can tell several forms of it, only the borders of magic are unknown.
<Question> – What makes the borders unknown?
<Answer> – There are two things makes them unknown.
The first thing is hard to understand: that magic itself isn’t the thing we learned to be ‘good’.
For an example: Whenever a child go to school, he/she will learn the ways of our life. Technically that you must be communicative (share your problems and the things you don’t understand with others,and don’t even try to think about it’s true or false on your own…), so to say he/she ‘have to be’ someone whose toughts are accepted by the community. If he/she isn’t became the one we accept (thinking in other ways than normal – i call this “Magical thinking”), then he/she is crazy, psychyc or just childish. There’s only one form that the community accepts as the kind of “Magical thinking”, we named it “belief”.
<Interjection> I could have call it fear. That’s why most of us fear to be alone, and a fev more ugly things we ‘fear’ came from this kind of teaching of the whole community. It’s just sad… Anyways there was huge “thinkers” such as Einstein who was actually tought Magical, and he fought with the community to accept his toughts.
Secondly we are asking the wrong questions or incorrect questions in incorrect sequence about the borders. Usually we ask firstly that: “Where they ends?” But who could answer that question? Would be none.
What if we ask: “If we say the borders are endless, then what makes the difference between all of the magical forms?”. Answer could be: US. The way we see this subject. I very much agree that magic isn’t parts of things we can name (like witchcraft, illusion, trick and so on…). Magic is a whole. Only we want to tare it to small pieces to understand it, becouse we don’t know a better way to understand things we dont know (witchcraft, illusion, trick is one and the same things).