Introduction
A magical world view
Imagine that you put on a pair of colored contact lenses. When you look
at the world it then seem to be colored in the color of the lenses. After a
while you get used to seeing the world like this and you do not notice the
color anymore. Our beliefs about our selves and the world are metaphorical
equivalent to the color of the lenses, we are so used to how the world looks
through our beliefs that we rarely stop to wonder how the world really is or if
it could be different.
The teachings of The Magical Faculty offers another set of metaphorical
contact lenses, that gives an opportunity to work with our life and experience,
thought and feelings in a magical, creative and in my opinion funny way.
The teachings of The Magical Faculty are to be seen as a work model for
creating your own life experience, not as any absolute truths.
What is magic?
Magic: a secret or mysterious power through
fantasy and will.
The secret and mysterious power is mind, and though inexplicable not so
secret, because the mind field is really that which contains our
experience of our selves, our lives, our bodies, and our experience of a
physical world as thoughts, feelings, sensation and memories.
There are plenty of ways to do magic and a lot of different underlying
world views in the minds of magic doers. The view promoted on these pages might
eventually offer an explanation to why it works, and a lot of ways of doing
magic can work with this view.
There is often made a distinction between 'black'' and 'white' magic.
That distinction is not made here. Magic is magic, but my own personal moral
viewpoint is that I only use magic for my own purposes in a way that does not
seek to take control over other beings life and/or property unless it is a
conscious made agreement. (as an example: when healing other people they
allow me to briefly take control over their energy field and body trusting my
intention to help them. And they’d made a conscious agreement with me about
this, but even so you really can’t take control over any other person unless
they are willing to be the victim of your control).
Why work with a magical world view?
It might be that the physical world works like natural science suggests,
but the world of the mind works differently since we can both fly and meet
mythological creatures and do lots of other stuff here, that is not
commonly considered as being normal experiences in the physical world of
consensus.
Even in the scientific frame work of today, is it obvious that the world
is affected by our thoughts, at least in the sense that our actions in the
physical realm are guided by our thoughts and choices. Computers as an example
would not have been a reality, unless a lot of thinking in the minds of lots of
different people took place, and a lot of actions were taken because of this
thinking.
I will go a little further than that and claim that it is possible to
affect the physical world with our mind alone in ways that are not described by
science or at least only is theoretical ideas. I will also claim that what goes
on in our own minds is as valid as reality as is what we call the physical
world. I will not philosophically discuss these claims but only make a work
model for magic in the realm of the mind and treat the physical world as a band
with of mind that works under certain rules of consensus, because it is a joint
creation.
I do not know whether the world is best described as matter or mind or
as both, but the view that the world consists of matter is practical when
working with one area, an energy field theory is practical when you work in
other areas and a magical theory can be practical when working in the area of
the mind. The point is that the intention of this magical world view is to make
a work model for an area of human life that affects all other areas. The point
is not to state the truth, since I have no idea whether there exists a simple
truth that can be understood fully through human language or not.
Our thoughts can effect the way we feel, and vice versa. When ever we
think thoughts that diminish the quality of our lives, because it calls forward
an unwanted sensation, emotion or feeling, we can work with our thoughts and by
that change our emotional state. The other way around we can use our emotional
states, sensations and feelings to actually change the structure of our living
experience.
In our minds we can therefore work with our experience of our selves and
our lives in a way I will describe as magical.
Practical use of magic
There are many ways of working with magic. The method introduced here
works with the basic idea that our beliefs structure the world we experience
and our feelings and emotions is the energy that fuels and colors our
experience.
We attach emotional states to our beliefs and our beliefs will, when
repeated over and over in our minds, causes the emotional states, attached to
the beliefs, on a continuous basis. If the emotional states we are experiencing
diminish our life quality on a continuous basis, we can cause other states of
emotionality by changing our beliefs and thereby also the structure of the
world we experience. A belief can be seen as a spell, and the process of
changing believes as a counter spell.
