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Magic

Most people don’t understand magic. They think it is about tapping into a natural and perhaps older reality. Magic is not about tapping in to anything, because there isn’t anything to tap into. There is no reality beyond the one we create. To understand magic one needs to understand what creation is. Creation is the power to create the world by force of will. By claiming, by imagination, by faith. You can’t change anything because there isn’t anything there to change. There is only the world you create for yourself. The world is endlessly open. It is only limited to the borders you set for yourself.

I can try to illustrate this by using the concept of probability. If we roll a die an endless amount of times, then probability works as a concept, but only if no one looks at the die and no one starts rolling it. If we, for example want to manipulate probability we need only to start recording and probability it broken. Lets say you decide to roll a die 19 times and the first two sets of rolls turns out to be fives, now the chance of hitting a new five has significantly dropped. If we didn’t set a start or stop on the count the chance would always be one in six that the die turns out a five.

Now, what we do is not manipulating reality, but rather creating it.

In more ancient times people seemed to have a better understanding on how the power of creation worked. Nowadays we have a different view on the concept of creating. What used to be creating has now become discovering. Discovering something gives the illusion of that you find something true because you believe you tapped into something that was there but no one had seen before. By discovering you tap into a reality that exists separate from the concept of consciousness, an objectively true reality.

By creating you make something exist for the first time, and this the realists call make belief.

It is not possible to make a claim about something that exists beyond the concept of consciousness because you need a conscious mind to make such a claim. There can never be an objective reality.

The only reality that is possible is the one you can make a claim about, the one you create.

This is magic, understanding how reality is made, how to make something real.

There is still hope

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