Charmed
As Jane Roberts says in “The Charmed Life” at the end of The Further
Education of Oversoul Seven: “Particularly when you grow up, many
people will tell you that there is no magic. If you believe them,
then you’ll forget too, and you’ll act as if you aren’t charmed and
bring unmagic into your life... which is magic too, you see, but magic
that doesn’t know itself. Then you’ll create things that go with unmagic,
like sorrow or sickness, and you’ll have to deal with them at that
level until you remember that your life is charmed again. “So in the
meantime you’ll feel nasty and unloved and angry, way beyond what
is natural, and have to worry about sad or fearful emotions and what
to do with them, when magically, you’d know. They’d just come and
go exuberantly like summer storms. But anger and hate and sorrow are
all magic too, and left alone, they’d lead you back to the knowledge
that your life is charmed. Because hate is love looking for itself
every place but where love is, and love is what you feel for yourself
when you know that you are where you’re supposed to be in the universe,
and that you’re lovely just because you are, and of course, charmed.”
Education of Oversoul Seven: “Particularly when you grow up, many
people will tell you that there is no magic. If you believe them,
then you’ll forget too, and you’ll act as if you aren’t charmed and
bring unmagic into your life... which is magic too, you see, but magic
that doesn’t know itself. Then you’ll create things that go with unmagic,
like sorrow or sickness, and you’ll have to deal with them at that
level until you remember that your life is charmed again. “So in the
meantime you’ll feel nasty and unloved and angry, way beyond what
is natural, and have to worry about sad or fearful emotions and what
to do with them, when magically, you’d know. They’d just come and
go exuberantly like summer storms. But anger and hate and sorrow are
all magic too, and left alone, they’d lead you back to the knowledge
that your life is charmed. Because hate is love looking for itself
every place but where love is, and love is what you feel for yourself
when you know that you are where you’re supposed to be in the universe,
and that you’re lovely just because you are, and of course, charmed.”