This is not the academic highly opinionated open mindedness nor the spiritual quite non-committal open mindedness and especially not the tin-hat open mindedness but a ever more aggressively testing boundaries and assumptions while being firmly kind and compassionate as I go through life open mindedness. As a teen I choose to make time to explore all models of reality I could find whether it be philosophical, religious, spiritual, economic, and a few views that defy classification. Around my mid twenties I began to get a handle on the commonalities that all views have and began to share with those around me what I noticed. At this time I began to notice that there are understandings in universe that I call treasures that allow us to affect our lives but are not understandable through reason. To those who love reason these treasures do not exist but even most who are adherent to reason do use a treasure or two without even realizing it.
Sometimes you will be talking with someone and you will refer to some idea or concept clear to you and your buddy will ask you what you are referring to. You will describe it for a while surprised how it seems to elude a precise definition but then your buddy says something to the effect of, "Oh, yeah, ok. Go ahead." What has actually happened is that you can see something real but outside reason and you take it for granted. You cannot pin it down when you talk about it but if you keep focus on it as you attempt to describe it, your buddy is likely to create their own window out of reason to see what you are seeing. When they do, they acknowledge it and ask you to continue so they can also take it for granted as well. Even if you do not believe these kinds of definitions are real, they really affect the way we reason and thus the choices we make so they do effect our lives directly.
The use of the word "affect" was quite intentional. The view that keeps arising is that there is an affectual reality that directs the randomness of the casual reality. We experience this randomness in many ways including the randomness in our brains for randomness is another word for information. And so I was that I kept finding myself face to face with Entropy, Chaos and Information theory. For this reason I will refer to what people do that has affect on the effect they experience to have "a kind of magic." This can be any kind of magic from dance to programming; wishing to bitching; worry to loving; kindness to assholeness; and so on.
So to be more specific, I am a Taoist and a Programmer. I committed to Christ before most get anything that resembles pressure to do so but refused to judge any other beliefs. So after I found myself a Taoist (a result of committing to understanding how "Sun Tzu's Art of War" could help me resolve conflict in my life when I was a teen) an Atheist made the claim that you can only be an Atheist or a Theist. Well, tell a Taoist this and the Taoist sees a new duality to explore. What is, that which Theist and Atheist make a duality. And so I explore each so I may understand what treasure can be found between them yet beyond their middle. Considering the nature of the conflict between these two, the underlying truth should prove to be a powerful treasure.
Treasures are not always easy to share for the other must be able to inflate from your words their own window to see the treasure for themselves. The fact that these treasures can be so hard to share is one reason many deny the reality of these treasures. However the reason these treasures are hard to pass on to others has to do with one very powerful treasure known as Attention. These treasures are the mysteries of the universe and understanding the mysteries of the universe starts with understanding the mystery of attention. However, Attention is a mystery for another blog.
There are many things we do that affect the course of our life experience. Any one of these, whether you acknowledge those things you do or not, are "Spells That Actually Work."
Thank you for reading,
Thomas Southern
Find time to explore your kind of magic.
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