On the waking world, which only appears that way. . .

[chromatomancer]

I keep meaning to share this!

Sometimes when you read certain books together they form a resonance that neither alone could create. . .

Case in point: Marie-Louise von Franz's On Divination and Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance, and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (which I was reading due to my pleasing encounters with a

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[houseboatonstyx]

Ooooh, take a look at the opening of George MacDonald's LILITH, at Gutenberg.

[chromatomancer]

ooo -- wonderful. . . another resonant text!

[caprine]

According to Grant Morrison's "Pop Magic", magical consciousness is much like a waking dream.As a first exercise in magical consciousness spend five minutes looking at everything around you as if ALL OF IT was trying to tell you something very important. How did that light bulb come to be here exactly? Why does the murder victim in the newspaper have the same unusual surname as your father-in-law? Why did the phone ring, just at that moment and what were you thinking when it did?

What's that water stain on the wall of the building opposite? How does it make you feel? Five minutes of focus during which everything is significant, everything is luminous and heavy with meaning, like the objects seen in dreams.
I found my own waking dream experience to be rather like enacting a magical ritual without any knowledge of what I was doing.

[chromatomancer]

Wondrous! And wondrous strange! I've only had a similar experience once or twice. . . the most memorable time involved spiders. They appeared in response to a thought. I summoned them, but did not believe they arrived in response to my summons until the number of spiders that appeared in my living room, crawling across my book and laboriously commuting across the thick carpet, became absurd. The final one was bright yellow. I've never seen another such spider. I entered into some other state of being while I observed them.

You're right, it was exactly like an unscripted magic ritual, and had that same air of significance and heaviness. I must try this excercise!