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Do you believe in magic? If so, what is it?
Some say that magic is everywhere...
This week's Spiritual Newsletter is all about the unexplained and, perhaps, the inexplicable.
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When I was a child I loved the type of novels in which a boy or girl is called (often by a wizard) to save another world. For some reason, the child is the only one who can defeat the forces of evil. On their journey in this new and exciting realm they’ll meet magical creatures and make wonderful friends. I longed for the day when I was called. I had a backpack at the ready.
I was a little older when I first read the Harry Potter novels, but I still wanted to receive my owl and start studying at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Despite its dangers – like three-headed dogs, moving staircases, broomsticks without so much as a saddle (ouch) – it seemed amazing to live and study in such an environment. I could heal people! Be easily healed myself if anything went wrong. I could become an Animagus and turn into another species at will!
There are still times when I’d love for magic to be real. Especially for the ability to heal. Life’s tough and illness is awful, and an easy way to make people better will naturally appeal. Even fictional magical worlds have their downsides, though. It’s not all unicorns and cooking spells. In the Harry Potter universe, you wouldn’t want to be a muggle (non-magical person), for example. Muggles are treated with complete disregard, even by non-evil witches and wizards. It’s seen as no big deal to mess with their brain and alter their memory, and witches and wizards born to muggles are frequently discriminated against.
In our own world, I know people who believe in magic. They believe that it is possible to do spells and perform rituals with real, observable outcomes. It’s not something that I have personally explored and, therefore, I do not know how it’s done or what those outcomes might be. I can only say that I have never experienced magic, at least not knowingly.
I do know that the belief in magic can be powerful, and have real effects on people. I knew someone who was absolutely convinced that she was cursed, and this had a detrimental effect on her mental health. Fortunately, when she eventually moved out of the area and away from the people who she believed to be responsible, she brightened right up. What was truly behind her fear? I guess it could be a combination of factors.
Throughout my lifetime, I have seen and felt and experienced things that I cannot explain. For several years of my childhood, each night when I went to bed I’d feel a cat jump onto the mattress, spin around a few times and curl up against my leg. Except, we didn’t have a cat during those years. Nor was there anything visible when I looked at the spot where the cat was supposed to be. At first, I was spooked by the sensation, but as time passed it was quite comforting. When we moved home, and there was no more invisi-cat, I actually missed them. Thankfully, I got a real cat.
Also during my childhood, I had a dream that my mom walked me to school. As we turned the corner into my school’s street, I watched one of my friends cross the road and get hit by a car. The next day, my mom walked me to school. As we turned the corner into my school’s street, I saw one of my friends cross the road and get hit by a car. I still remember this. So does my mom. I’d told her about my dream that morning, and she’d reassured me that it was just a dream, and then it happened.
There have been other strange occurrences over the years, and most people I speak with have had incidents and encounters that they cannot explain. There are likely to be perfectly rational explanations for most, if not all of them. We just don’t know it yet. Some people have tried to tell me that the invisi-cat could be sleep paralysis, for example, though I do not believe that to be the case. I have experienced sleep paralysis and the invisi-cat was nothing like it. It was most nights, for years on end, and I could sit up, switch on the light, speak, reach out… and still feel it. I guess I’ll never truly know what caused it.
When asked, then, if I believe in magic, the answer is that I currently don’t, but I am open to the possibility of something like it existing. It’s unlikely to be anything like the stories, but we live in a vast universe that we’ve only just begun to explore and who knows what is out there, and what is possible? Of course, some of what we are capable of now would seem like witchcraft to those living hundreds or thousands of years ago. Imagine going back in time and pulling a device from your pocket that can take people’s photographs – even videos! It would surely cause a stir. Our knowledge expands every day… yet there are some big questions that remain.
They are unlikely to be resolved within my lifetime. Perhaps they will be in yours.
Do you believe in magic?
Kit
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