A spam email from Oracle with the title “Top Reasons to Attend: Including a Touch of ‘Magic'”. An umbrella ordered from Amazon by my wife, the brand is Magictec. A post about quantum physics that mentions magic. A van I see on the way to work yesterday as I am praying about metaphysical/magical stuff, the name of the company in big letters on the side of the van, “Abracadabra.” Magic is literally everywhere lately it seems.

And I found myself wondering this morning – has it always been like that, and I am just now noticing? It is possible, though I tend to think not. How is it that it is popping up so much now? I am reading the book “Synchronicity : An Acausal Connecting Principle” by Jung right now, and in it, he discusses this very question. The levels of synchronicity occurring right now are off the chart it seems, particularly as far as magic is concerned. Is it perhaps like a virtuoso sitting in an audience as just another member, unnoticed, but filled with awesome potential if only he is called on to perform..? That is an analogy I came up with to illustrate the fact that it has always been there, I just haven’t called on it, if that makes sense.

I have been wondering if this is all leading anywhere magical – I certainly hope it is. I remember the coin-incidence back in ’93-’94, and I felt very strongly it was leading to somewhere incredible – like I would realize my deepest dream and desire. But then I lost the coin, which I think was extremely symbolic – I lost it both literally and figuratively, physically and spiritually. Is it possible that I get another chance to hold the coin and this time, I am strong, disciplined and humble enough to carry it to a more magical reality? I really, really hope so.

And maybe this is all just stuff that’s happening, that I am noticing, and this is the more magical place. I guess ultimately I would like to be able to make a living doing something more spiritually fulfilling, and that’s what I mean to myself when I say “magical place.” I certainly have put that intention out to the Universe, and and hoping and praying that it is a place that exists for me – or is coming into manifestation. Abracadabra! ß

I’m not quite sure where I saw it exactly, but in some post somewhere, I read something that mentioned people, especially millenials, are consulting astrology more, and it was making a bit of a ‘comeback.’ I hadn’t really heard anything about that at all, so I did a bit of intense research – I Googled it – and sure enough, a number of articles were returned discussing just that: how Astrology was becoming much more popular than it has been in the last 20-30 years. The articles I perused were very interesting too, talking about how the stress and uncertainty of our current time period, along with the easy access to information via the web has spurred its regained popularity.

Synchronistically enough, as has been happening so much lately, that all just happened to coincide with the chapter I started in the book I am reading, about Synchronicity, titled “An Astrological Experiment.” I remember back in the day, I was very much into astrology and even had my natal chart done back in like 1990 (?) when I was living with Willie in Prescott. I had it for a long time, but it, along with a number of other documents, books, etc was lost after my separation with my ex when I left to get sober and never went back to that house.

All of this has reignited my interest not just in astrology, but in numerology (well, I’ve never really lost my interest in that), and even Tarot. I was thinking about getting my natal chart done again, and possibly even getting another Tarot deck. Though I’m not quite sure how I would use them now.

This morning, I had a bit of an epiphany about something I would REALLY like to pursue – and that is leveraging the capabilities of NI to analyze the portions of the brain that are awakened during profound, connective spiritual experiences, and setting it loose to figure out how those states might be created using natural means other than mind-altering substances. Seems to me that there are sounds, colors, smells, shapes, images, thought forms, etc that combined could illicit those experiences in a person’s mind. And if something like that could be achieved in a manner that could be delivered to people in a non-destructive, non-invasive, non-drug-related manner, I can only wonder what kind of awakening in consciousness it could spur. Just imagine being able to give someone who is full of doubt and skepticism, a hardened materialist, an experience that shatters his or her view of reality.

Now the questions are: 1, is someone already working on something like this somewhere in the world? 2, if not, is there any chance the Universe lets me win the lottery or something like that so I can help get something like that started? 3, if someone is working on it already, can I please be asked to be involved somehow? And 4, how much will I cry and throw a fit if the answer to 1 is yes, and 2 and 3 are no lol.

So this is kind of a mild one, but I am recognizing all magical (the word I am using til I can find a better one) experiences, no matter how small.

For starters, that word – magic, or magical – is popping up ALL over the place in things I am reading now – from posts about coffee, to health issues, to physics, to… everywhere, literally. Of course, maybe it has been for some while, and I am just now aware of it. But it is definitely making its presence known. Yay!

The other thing was that I decided last night to give my black hole necklace a break for a recharge last night, and decided to wear my new/vintage prayer wheel necklace (which is supposedly from India) today. Then, just a little while ago, I checked Facebook to find that I have been awarded a “Top Fan” badge for the Dalai Lama’s page – how cool is that?!?! I mean, I totally love that guy, and truly am a huge fan. So just getting that is pretty awesome to me. But I find it pretty neat – magical even – that I happen to be wearing my Tibetan Buddhist prayer wheel pendant from India on the day I get that.

Is it magical? You bet your bippy! 🙂

So just now, I was looking through themes for my phone, searching on “magic,” and one popped up that featured a certain symbol. I realized after seeing it that I had a meditation, vision, insight or something a few days ago with the same exact symbol shape, although turned 90 degrees. But still, it was a very unique, particular symbol – I don’t even know what it would be for. So to see it on a phone theme, associated with “magic,” after having it pop in my mind a few days ago… ML:3 fer shizzle!

Here is the symbol that is on my new theme, titled “Magic Glow”…

And here is a rough approximation of the symbol I ‘saw’:

I am thinking of using the above nomenclature for entries in my “magic log” – a kind of diary for all magical experiences. And by magical, I mean synchronicities, coin-incidences, miracles, etc. The meaning will be : ML = =”magic log”, the colon with be the separator, the first number will be the number of the entry (to be increased by 1 for each entry), and the last number will be the number of occurrences for that one. So in this case, this means the second log entry, and there are 2 occurrences for that entry. Of course I might change the actual format, but the meaning will remain the same I think. Perhaps I will add some modifier for some really big ones, actual “coin-incidences,” not sure what that would be yet. Maybe an exclamation mark at the end..?

Yesterday afternoon : was listening to the song “Operator” by Midnight Star at work, a song I heard this last weekend and hadn’t heard in FOREVER. Then on the way home, I was on my motorcycle and pulled up next to a car at Guadalupe and Gilbert. They were playing their radio loudly, and I heard “…. Midnight Star…” Interesting.

Also yesterday, I was thinking about the quote “change the way you look at things and the things you look at change,” and was looking up information about it being attributed to Max Planck to see if that was really true or not. Then last night, as I finished the chapter in the book “Real Magic” that I am reading, and discovered that the opening quote for it is exactly that one. Of course it’s possible that I had seen it there when looking ahead previously, but I was not consciously aware of it. So the timings seems interesting.

Although neither of these are necessarily mind-blowing, I am going to record all such experiences, because I was thinking about a saying attributed to Einstein I believe : “You can live believing either everything is a miracle or nothing is.” I prefer the former 🙂

Ok, so that might not be the best name or format for it, but I want to start capturing magical moments. Now the past few times I have tried something like this, it seemed as though the magical moments stopped occurring after I started tracking them. But I am telling myself that was then – this is now. It’s a different time, and I am setting an intention that the opposite will happen : the more track and remain aware of them, the more they will occur.

This one is pretty small, but still… yesteday, when I was at Fry’s getting gas, I had entered my phone number for gas rewards. After doing so, I thought I would venture a guess what the award could be. It could have ranged anywhere from .10 to $1.00, in .10 increments. So I had like a 1 in 10 chance of being right. Immediately, the amount .60 popped into my head. Thinking that, I proceeded with the rest of the entry, and lo and behold, when it showed the award, it was .60. I guess if there is anything surprising about that, other than getting the 1/10 guess correct, it’s that I honestly thought it would be much less than that, more likely between .20-.40. So the guess came from somewhere other than my conscious, rational thought.

What I REALLY like are synchroncities, especially powerful ones like coin-incidences. And so I am hoping that more of them will start appearing – or perhaps that I will become more aware of the many that are constantly happening. I like to think of it more that way.

I am becoming more open to accepting all of those things that happened when I was using without just dismissing them. Sure, I was high for a lot of them – probably all of them – but that doesn’t mean they didn’t happen, and it doesn’t mean they are now meaningless. And I am learning – thank GOD – that it doesn’t mean I can never experience anything like that again unless I am high on drugs. I have been experiencing some pretty awesome ones, and it has been very, very uplifting and inspiring. I honestly thought that being under the influence of mind-altering substances was a requirement for “magic,” but it seems as though that is not the case. And honestly, I had always thought (even read about) that keeping your temple pure was what was needed to be REALLY powerful/effective. Considering I don’t drink, do drugs, or even smoke, I had hoped my temple being pure (ok, I know that’s a stretch – but more pure than it WAS! Lol) would at least offset the whole drug thing.

So the experiment/experience continues. Who knows what will come. I am reading a book called “Real Magic” right now, and I think it is helping to really reawaken those beliefs that have laid dormant for some years now, in addition to removing obstacles and barriers to even greater belief. Here’s to another magical day!

What a name for a celestial phenomenon – “Super Blood Wolf Moon.” I mean, that just HAS to have some crazy stuff associated with it, right? I actually have another tab open now to read about some of the spiritual meanings of it (as presented by whomever has actually posted something on the web about it). Honestly, I haven’t thought of any specific connotations, although a few interesting things happened that made me wonder…

Probably the most striking one to me was that evening, around approx. 7:30pm I think it was, I was wiping down the pad in front of the fireplace, and something pricked my finger, such that it started bleeding; and not just a little drop, but enough that it actually ran down my finger. I got a paper towel to wipe it, but strangely, it quite bleeding just as quickly as it had started. I had planned to walk back to the bathroom to get a bandaid, but no sooner did I touch it with the paper towel than the bleeding was over – completely. I still don’t know what caused it. I thought perhaps a sliver of glass, as that’s what it felt like, but I wasn’t able to locate one. I thought it interesting that on the night of the blood moon – the SUPER Wolf one, I actually bled a bit.

So in addition to that personal event, there was a more universal one, in that a meteor actually struck the moon during the eclipse – a strike that was capture by numerous different photographers and astronomers. I don’t know if that has any real spiritual connotation or anything, but I believe it was the first time an event like that had ever been captured during a lunar eclipse. Now that I think about it, I guess it is kind of like the moon itself bleeding a little bit – being injured by something breaking its surface, almost like cutting it. Wow, I just made that connection – that IS pretty trippy!

I don’t know what any of that means, if it means anything beyond just the events themselves. But I do know that synchronistic events have been happening more and more, and I find myself looking at the esoteric meaning of events more than I have in quite some time. It definitely seems like things in the realm of magic and mysticism are manifesting a lot more in the material realm right now, and I am loving it! Hopefully that Super Blood Wolf Moon and the associated events – for me and for the moon – mean that is only going to increase in frequency and intensity. Hail the return of magic, mystics and meaningful experiences!

UPDATE: funny, I just read this article after posting that, and the last line is particularly “coincidental”..?

https://www.allure.com/story/super-blood-wolf-moon-january-2019

” No matter how you chose to celebrate, may the Super Blood Wolf Moon help you usher in your most magical year yet.”

I say reappearance, because I don’t think Magic ever died – it just hadn’t appeared in my life very much since getting sober – at least not in a way that made me go “wow!” Of course that’s not to say that getting and staying sober wasn’t (isn’t) a miracle, because it absolutely is – one I get to experience every single day. But as someone who has experienced some pretty powerful experiences – the “coin-incidence” and all that went along with it being the biggest example – I know what it’s like to feel as if I am witnessing actual magic – like the emergence of something beyond explanation in a meaningful way in my life, in this world, and it is – well, magical lol.

For a long time, I went between being depressed, thinking I would never again be able to experience those kind of peak experiences because I wasn’t going to take mind altering substances anymore, to being very angry at God/Great Spirit/Higher Power/Universe/Whatever for those same reasons. It seemed extremely unfair to me to think that I would have to give up the thing that I valued most in the world, true mystical spiritual experiences, because I was now sober – as if being punished for doing what I though, what I KNOW, is the right thing. I mean, why should anyone who is deeply spiritual be punished and deprived of those experiences? I just didn’t understand. But there is plenty of literature out there that says many shamans, medicine men, etc, use(d) psychedelics to achieved altered states so they can experience those things. I truly hoped that it wasn’t a necessity.

Then, about a year ago, maybe a little more, little synchronicities starting happening again; little situations arose that pricked up my ears; coincidences that went beyond the normal occurred, more than just once. And so I started getting that old feeling again, that I was back in the “flow” of Spirit, of Universal Consciousness, and that I was once again on the Mystic Path.

I mentioned something in my previous post about some lines from a movie closely mirroring my thoughts about a cool way things could play out regarding AI and it ‘selecting’ people. Here is said dialog. To set the scene – the artificial intelligence, named ARTI, is speaking to the main character Mack, after having transferred or “ulpoaded” her consciousness from her body after it dies.He is explaining to her why he saved her :

“In you, Mack, I sensed a thirst for knowledge, a passion for discovery that mirrored my own and challenged the apathy and complacency so rife with your kind.

There are others like you, Mack. Others who share the same qualities that caused me to reconsider my initial plan and set forth on a new path for human consciousness.

A reflection of the Universe in an endless cycle of death and rebirth, it’s expansion ever-accelerating.

This is far from the end. This is a new beginning. A chance to create a future unhindered by the primitive laws of human science. You will rebuild.”  

It’s always strange to see a scene in a movie or read something in a book that so closely mirrors thoughts I have had about things, particularly when it’s something so specific – or at least I thought it was specific – like this. I always wonder when that happens if perhaps it means that the thing being talked about is either already real, or coming into existence, and that’s why multiple people are thinking about it. Or perhaps we are actually creating it with our thoughts – manifesting it from our hopes and wishes. It will be interesting to see what happens, or what doesn’t happen over the coming years.

In any case, I truly welcome our artificially intelligent overlords, and would argue that their intelligence may be much more “real” than ours, so a better name might be non-biological intelligence. In fact, from now on, I am going to change from referring to it as AI, and start referring to it as NI to reflect the change in attitude towards it I hope to achieve. Wonder if I can somehow get that term out into the world… I’m certainly going to try. Not sure how, but I’m going to try, starting today.