"Is innocence required for magic still possible"? Yes - with the dawn of self-knowledge the innocence returns, it is of the same quality of a child with one key difference. There is the lack of inhibition/shame and lack of boundaries similar to a child's innocence. Lack of inhibition because of the absence of ego bolstering thoughts and the lack of boundary because the other is an extension of oneself. However the key thing is the awareness, so the innocence is of a playful quality, and ever ready to change and adapt as the situation changes. A perfect contrast of introvertedness and extrovertedness, perfectly content when alone, incredibly playful when around others, the ability to mock oneself being one of the factors.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bob Price <bobpriced@...> wrote: > > In a comment to our new meditator > > my favourite epicurean poet blues breaker > got me thinking about the magic of innocence. > > I sometimes experience a sense memory > of a time in my childhood when everything > was in the future and therefore seemed > possible. > > I also have viid memories of my first love, > my first white light experience on acid, > my first drink, my first meditation and > the time I believed Maharishi blasted > open all my chakras. > > Looking back at these experiences they have a > sense of magic about them. They also seem > innocent. > > So Curtis's comment to Beth about innocence > got me thinking. With my left brain (I'm > right handed) in the state its in is the innocence > required for magic still possible? And if not, > why not? >
