The Bones of a Magic System
Focused Potential
The unlimited, wordless potential is fine with us limiting and defining our access to it. Much like someone deciding they have to have a certain thing, or be in a certain situation, to be happy. All they’ve done is place arbitrary limits on a state of mind that has no requirements and can be voluntarily enjoyed. Happiness is right there, waiting for us to take the limits off and change our perception. The unnamed potential is like that, waiting to have the limits we place on it removed.
Let go of the need for a safe and stable definition of our reality and embrace the scary, undefined mystery. Accept that it works and move on. Use your words, self-affirming chants, positive reinforcements, mantras, etc. with focused intent. The saying, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, is true, but incomplete. The road to wherever you’re going is paved with intention. Intention is how you focus potential.
Understand, any limits you choose to accept are real, and when applied, prevent you from accessing the potential available. These limiting beliefs are strong in society and reinforced at every turn. Conversely, unlimited being can be reached. If you can realize that the rules or requirements controlling you are imposed by belief, your possible would be without limit, but not without accountability and consequences.
Wait…what? Be aware, thoughts and emotions trap you just as they affect the situation or person toward whom you direct them. As you understand how to use your word to tap and focus the vast potential within you, a responsibility for your creative actions must be accepted. You shape your reality with every thought and word, so be kind, especially to yourself. Responsibility demands restraint and an understanding of your power as a creator.
Proving Yourself
If someone questions what you know to be true, it’s not a requirement you show your work or prove anything to them. Potential, from which everything rises, can seldom be proven or defended. Happenings of wordless knowing leave little proof behind, and the logic associated with things defines only a part of these happenings. The wordless potential is the soup from which the logical things rise and return.
This concept frees your consciousness from the need to justify yourself. It does come with a requirement, to not only accept responsibility but, to stay open to different viewpoints. You must truly listen to what the creator in others has learned. We are all creators and it’s your job to continuously upgrade and improve the filter through which you act and react in the world.
Listen without agenda. Unfortunately, most people are arguing proofs with themselves. They listen only for the opportunity to make their points and if you truly listen, you can hear the hollow echo of someone else’s words in their mouth. They are reinforcing a set of opinions and theories they have accepted, adopting them from one group or another. These groups argue points, reinforcing what is already believed, making members feel safe and correct.
Nine out of ten times, a person parrots back a theory or belief they heard and have already accepted. Their arguments seek agreement, to be validated in their thinking and reinforce the way they see the world. This is a way to maintain the safe, self-limiting structure their conscious mind and society has spent so much time building. Defending this foundation of personal and group reality is the root of most fear and hatred.
The in-depth conversations with these folks will rarely help them see your view of the world, but are engaged in for undecided seekers on the edges of the discussion. Unless someone is seeking change or growth, a well-constructed filter only allows each individual to justify their view of the world. If someone hasn’t formed a solid opinion, they may hear something that causes them to reconsider a part of their personal definition of reality.
Very seldom is your listening attention rewarded, but that conversational jewel is worth the effort. When a true exchange takes place with someone who has done the doubting necessary, it is obvious. They have asked the right questions to see something from a unique perspective. This makes listening and in-depth conversation worth the trouble.
Doubt is the Key
Who says we need to doubt? Well, questioning is a route to the clarity of knowing. We all remember young children beginning their whys. They are attempting to sort conflicting information. This is the way they begin to define their world. Some folks are very patient with the toddlers and answer the whys, but eventually the little questioner wears everyone down. They’re encouraged to accept with fewer questions by lesson givers and society as a whole. This is the ordering of facts and where each of us begin to become invested in our beliefs being right. Quite a few of us never lose that surety of being right and only begin to doubt when the structure stops hiding the vast unknown that waits for each of us.
Get a jump on life and start doubting now. Doubting is what takes us past opinions, into shadow and darkness. The not knowing or cocoon period starts when we lose faith in the beliefs we accepted as children and begin the recognition of truth. Your truth is discovered as doubt causes accepted opinions to fall away, leaving what’s left to resonate with your potential. This type of doubt helps clean layer after layer from the filter you use to see the world. Those things not-true for you break and fall away. If you doubt and question the validity of all statements, only your truth will be left standing.
Instincts extinct?
Sometimes you can’t put into words why something fits, it just feels right. We’re taught to discount that sense we are born with, to doubt its accuracy. When you were a toddler, you knew something was hiding under the bed or in the closet. Reality, through folks you trusted, convinced you how foolish it was to listen to your imagination. The fix was in and you began to close off your inner awareness of…things. But did that make the energies you sensed go away, or simply adjust your awareness (filter) so you wouldn’t perceive them anymore. You began to believe and accept what the world told you and stopped believing the creator within. What parts of your perception do you believe if you can’t trust the way you feel? This questioning of our internal instincts is what leads us to the conclusion that answers from within are suspect and truth is always outside ourselves.
The problem is the possibility that what you felt was valid. Others, in trying to convince you it wasn’t, may have warped your ability to listen to, or even hear, your inner creator. Some fight the programming, clinging tenaciously to their intuition, their gut feeling. These folks grow up to just know, to have a feeling. Often, they can’t rationally explain the chaos, the magic of reality, or why they believe what they do. This inability to put the wordless into words is frowned upon. It’s considered unfounded and ignorant by those who want everything to fit into its own neat, explanable box.
Our society has adopted well-structured psychological and sociological explanations so we can feel we understand the whys of individual decisions. These structures shouldn’t invalidate a person’s choice, although that’s how society often uses them.
