Do you believe in magic? Perhaps your answer depends on what I mean by magic. Do I mean conjuring a rabbit our of a hat by slight of hand? Or do I mean the magic of miracles, like walking on water, or curing the sick with prayer? Well, it's none of the above. I don't believe in that kind of magic at all. The kind of magic I am talking about happens all the time - and you are the magician.
The rabbit in the hat is a metaphor for something appearing out of nothing, rather like the way our universe appeared out of nothing. All human thought, ideas and beliefs appear out of nowhere. We conjure them into existence. We create thoughts from nothing. Creating something out of nothing is not just the work of artists, who take an idea or a feeling and make it into something tangible and real, like a painting or a sculpture or a song, but it is the profession of us all. Whether you like it or not, you are fundamentally an artist and the fact that you call yourself an accountant or shopkeeper is an insult to your talents. All acts of creation are magical, in so far as they make something out of nothing and we are creating constantly - in the thoughts we have, the interactions we partake in, and in the very act of living itself.
You are an artist, get used to the idea. Don't shrink from being as great as the stars.
The real question is whether or not you wish to share this amazing ability to quite literally create something out of nothing with those around you in a positive and conscious way. The world is not as physical as it seems. Rather it is a sea of thoughts, feelings and ideas that all of us interpret in individual ways. Once we understand this, we can become master of our destiny.
i wonder:)
ReplyDeletei think of this, energy can not be created nor destroyed. i think of the world as the whole. it is quite perfect (and perfectly malfunctioning, too) left on its own. i'm not sure that any of us creates anything out of nothing. everything already exists, ie, all energy. (by the way, i don't know if any of this is true.) rather, it seems to me, we are conduits to the energy that pulses unending around us. does that makes us any less important? why should we be important? artists? perhaps. but to me the fisherman sitting at his window in his shanty shack smoking his pipe and watching the sky is an artist. he is entirely important.
masters of our destiny? ian, what the farq is this? truly. tell me.
xo
erin
... the weight of philosophical discourse supports the theory that freewill is something of an illusion, and that we are determined in nearly all we do by biological imperatives, and also by what I call cultural imperatives, this contributes to feeling hopeless, angry, fearful, and like victims ... however, if we see that the world is not as physical at it seems, that it is also a 'sea of abstract notions that are brought forth out of nothing by conscious witness' then we not only create ideas out of nothing but can also create a destiny ... we have far more power over our choices than determinists suggest ... although it's true that energy and elemental matter cannot be destroyed only transformed, I don't think that ideas made material by man are explained by the law of physics ... and rather like the universe itself, are quite literally created out of nothing ... in so far as they take form as an extension of a notion, and that notion is the spark that has no form ...
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