The weather showed little mercy this year for our Calgary Outdoor Show. Senior’s Tuesday was the best day yet when Elisabeth and I were walking the grounds. I heard that admission was free on the last Stampede day, yesterday!

Last Saturday Shirley and I met at the Eleventh street Good Earth cafe, which is the one from which it all started 25 years ago.

Last Saturday Shirley and I met at the Eleventh street Good Earth cafe, which is the one from which it all started 25 years ago. We had a good long chat, which had not happened for about a year. On Thursday we plan to take in a Shakespeare play, which we also did last year. This time it is Hamlet’s turn, which I have neither seen nor read.

I have a book titled ‘The Magic’ by Rhonda Byrne, referred to me by Gabriella, but which does not fit well with my customary style of books I read. However, my intuition urges me that this ‘Magic book’ will set off a spark that I need to fire up my motivation, which is quite low these days.

I did read a few pages last week when I picked it up from the library, but put it aside again, since I found it too pollyanna like. It is also much like an elaborate application of Emmet Fox’s idea of the “Mental Equivalent”. The idea that gratitude alone would be your guide through the vicissitudes of life feels inadequate to me. But, I’ll expand a little below on why I will still continue exploring ‘The Magic’.

My intuition would not let up in its urgings to let ‘The Magic’ into my life as an unlooked for force, which has come to me through the event of Gabriella’s talk. It is scheduled for the 31st this instance and I will chair the meeting. This means I’ll do the meditation and this let to Gabriella’s suggestion to have a look at Rhoda Byrne’s book “The Magic“. I did, but was not impressed or encouraged, not knowing how to place it in my activities.

So, again this morning I just picked up this little book in question, even with the thought that I might buy a copy! Heaven forbid? May be not! Anyway, I scanned for the umpteenth time the book’s back cover invitation to recall the magic of my childhood.

Anyway, I scanned for the umpteenth time the book’s back cover invitation to recall the magic of my childhood.

As I thought back of what I can recall of my childhood, the item that stands out is not so much my experiences as a kid growing up, but rather something that I have recalled again just recently. This is a first memory of being born I presume, either that or the first experience of being conscious.

… find reconciliation of religions, while maintaining their integrity … .

That recalled experience was old, in the sense that it would just occasionally enter my memory over the years gone by. However, this last year it was more or less present regularly and last Spring I said to myself: ‘Then what is the purpose of knowing this memory? What could be its message?’ As I entertained these questions this new awareness emerged: “ … find reconciliation of religions, while maintaining their integrity … .” This new awareness has stayed with me since then as a valid insight, but with no way forward as to what to do with it or how respond to it.

This morning I made a connection between the mentioned early memory and the invitation to get in touch with my childhood magic, as printed on back cover of the mentioned book. So, I do have a connection to make with my child hood, but my type of magic differs from that of the author. All childhood experience are different and you have to go back what is significant for your self, as I see that.

This whole process reminds me of some “Inner child” seminars I took back in around 1991 at the urgings of Ina, my wife then. That ‘child work’ technique was quite popular at the time and I was engaged myself with a process of getting in touch with my feelings by means of the left_hand drawing process that I invented in 1991. See my website.

Yet, to have an awareness of this sense of purpose is important for your personal well being, what ever that purpose turns out to be.

Fundamental too in all this is the importance of finding the purpose of your life as I live it, which can be quite different for each one of us. Yet, to have an awareness of this sense of purpose is important for your personal well being, what ever that purpose turns out to be. It must however be tested against our ethical values to prevent us from stepping on the path of evil.

So, here I am, with my newly discovered urge to let magic do its work in my life, opening doors to new energy and actions:-)!
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