Magical Thinking

Magical thinking has been around since thought first established its foothold in the human mind. Monastic traditions fall on both sides of the issue: some recommending magical thinking and some vigorously enjoining against it. We find in early Christian monastic disciplines a warning to avoid the temptation of "beauty". Perhaps a better word in modern parlance would be "glamour". This "beauty", this "glamour" includes visions, voices, representations of the unknowable: all of those intoxicating elements that might imply a subtile aggrandizement of our spiritual existence.

However, things are the way they have always been. There is nothing new or magical in magical thinking. Magical thinking creates a fertile field for the exploitation of mind by chaos, anarchy, and frivolous self absorption. There is no particular reason to go there.

Existence is just as it is and always has been. The intoxication of mind with "glamour" is a distraction that traps the individual in an historic pattern that is antithetical to the evolution of awareness.

Meditate.