Magic
Lake Tahoe, California
Tahoe is more like an ocean, I think, than a lake — an ocean that’s 6,000 feet above sea level.
I’m at around 6,000 feet at Lake Tahoe, and today I’m going to talk to you about magic.
Magic. What is magic? Life is magic. Death is magic. Time is magic, space. Magic is the ability to perceive beyond the surface. We say that something is magical because it’s not logical.
Magic is our awareness of the timelessness of time — real magic, that is.
There’s another kind of magic, which is really a science. It is the ability to move awareness and to do literally anything with it. What can you do with awareness? You can change yourself, you can change someone else, you can change the universe, anything. But in order to really practice magic, you need to study in the school of awareness for a while.
The school of awareness is the school of mysticism. Mysticism is the experience of eternity, of that which lies beyond the physical phenomenal experience.
Magic is beyond logic. It is beyond time and space. In order to practice magic, you need only one thing — awareness, what we might call power.
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Magic has a lot to do with parallel realities. Parallel realities are everywhere. Something beyond that progression, that is the totality. The totality is our existence. All magic comes from the totality. Your ability to peruse the halls of magic, let alone to participate in it, to use it, is really very much dependent upon your ability to experience or open yourself up to different aspects of the totality.
Beyond all worlds and all conditions, we have the totality — nameless, formless, colorless, odorless, tasteless — complete being, beyond conception.
Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality. This particular world is not really a world, it’s a perception that you’re having at the moment. The alteration of your perception will create an alteration of the world. That is magic.