Hunker

[degringolade]

 

It seems to me that there needs to be greater discussion of the gathering of senses.  I think that maybe trotting out the timeworn phrase "Sixth Sense" and dusting it off and thinking about it might be worth doing.

In my consideration of "magic" I have taken the step of allowing the supernatural, non-mundane into the mix inside my head.  I probably should have done this sooner in my life, but I was busy and otherwise occupied.  Truthfully, the complexities of the mundane world alone were almost too complicated to navigate, and it appears to be getting worse.  So throwing something like "magic" into the mix was just too much for me to deal with.  Something had to go.   

Now, the hard part will be as I go along, how not to be a dick about it.  

Look, one of the reasons that I stayed away from a religion/spiritual/magical way of looking at life is that, even more so than the worshipers of the mundane and materialists out there, the folks who think about/practice/fret over/obsess on magical thought tend to be dicks.  As a group, they have a pronounced tendency toward tribalism and sneering.  These two trends are bad enough in regular society, but among the "spiritual" the tendency becomes almost insufferable.

So, I am going to spend today working on the problem of opening myself to the "other" and see how that goes.  Who knows, maybe I aren't cut out for the magic thing. 

Still might be worth trying.