A NEW Book on Magic
By StarFields:
Magic, Spells & Potions
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Magic, Spells & Potions:
MAGIC IS JOY
by StarFields
I am half East Prussian Romany, and half German.
So I've had my share of parts conflicts - lol!
I can't remember a time even as a small child
when I didn't see and hear and sometimes knew things that other
people just didn't.
I have always been strongly drawn to magic.
But the truth is that every time I tried to
enter into what there was being offered as "learning about magic" I just wasn't happy. Either the
Romany half went on strike because what was being offered just
wasn't proper "magical" in the sense I feel the living magic inside of me;
or the German half went on strike because what I was being
presented with was just so TOTALLY nonsensical, downright
illogical and CRAZY, it wanted NOTHING to do with any of that.
The last time I tried with "organised magic,"
someone looked me in the eye and told me in all sincerity that I
would never be able to be a proper magician unless I started the
study of Hebrew which would take me the rest of my life.
In that moment, both my ancestral lines finally
came into agreement, entered into a grand conjunction probably
for the first time in my life, and I thought to myself, "That's
IT! You have GOT to be kidding me!!!
"I've HAD it with strapping antlers to my head
and stabbing knives into chalices!! I've HAD it with your
so-called trees of life - it's a stupid labyrinth you people
really need get out of and step into the real world, how about
it!
"I've HAD it with your stupid, meaningless
sigils and BORING, BORING, life draining rituals, and badly put
together, headache inducing spells!
"I've HAD it with your APPALLING medieval
iconography of grim reapers and goats and horn tailed demons and
divils and legions and ALL THAT CRAP!!!
"I've HAD it with the ineffectiveness and lack
of provable results, lack of ANYTHING worth having - you are
WASTING my precious time!!!
"I've HAD it with the incomprehensibly IDIOTIC
idea that by studying some ancient language for 60 years and
spending my days up to eyeballs in dusty scrolls SOMEHOW magic
would become revealed!
"Magic is ALIVE. It is REAL. I FEEL MAGIC
TINGLING IN MY BODY!
"Magic wants to dance, it wants to flash like
lightning, it wants to play, and most of all, it wants to
express itself right here, right now!!!
"Magic is JOY!!!!"
And I walked away from it all, I never looked
back, and did something else with my life instead.
Something practical, and something magical.
That was in 1979.
And here we are, 30 years later.
I've calmed down a little since then. I'm not as
fiery as I used to be. I brought up two children, ran all sorts
of different businesses, taught a trick or two to a few million
people on Planet Earth and I've learned a heck of a lot about
THE REAL WORLD in the process.
I've always done "my magic thing" only I've
disguised it and turned it into self help techniques, and animal
training programs, and all sorts of systems and patterns to help
people find that spark within, to live better lives that
absolutely run on pure magic as the dynamo behind the scenes, in
all ways, in every way.
In 2004, my yearning for coming out of the
closet as a magical human being living in a magical Universe got
to the point that I bought myself a new website,
http://magic-spells-and-potions.com .
It's funny to note that it must have taken me
all of 25 years, a quarter of a century, to get over the
disappointment with the existing systems magic to a point where
I wanted to have another go!
But right from the start, I loved this site.
I LOVED visitors asking questions, and me
finding out that I knew the answers to those questions. If I
didn't know, I knew where to find them - and that wasn't in an
ancient scroll written in some ancient language by some random
guy in sandals 6,000 years ago, either!
I loved everything to do with it - apart from
one thing.
This was the never-ending stream of visitors
asking me to teach them magic or to recommend a "good magic
school" they could go to, further fuelled by the Harry Potter
explosion near that time.
Now I know that there are truly LOVELY people
out there, doing their own thing with magic and with witchcraft,
and their heart is in the right place, and they're doing good in
the world.
I truly mean no disrespect to any HONEST worker
of magic on this planet, alive or dead; I wouldn't and I
couldn't disrespect such a person, not for all the tea in China.
But honestly and deeply in my heart, I could
also NOT recommend to anyone at all to study these medieval
systems of magic that are filled with all these old negative
metaphors and convolutions that were picked up along the way;
and the worst of all that dark-ages style Christian obsession
with Satan, evil and hellfire which weaves its way through every
thing, visible and invisible, and that just makes magic SAD, and
helps no-one at all.
At the same time, to write up my own system of
magic seemed like a pretty impossible task - where would you
start?
You'd have to start from the ground up - from
the basic human being, as they're designed to be by the Great
Creative Order, as they are, right now.
To somehow go right back to even before Square
1, because Square 1 *is a part of the game board* - and start
completely at the beginning.
As I thought about how to do something like
that, I had a vision.
It was of a monkey being, one of the first
humans, or perhaps THE first human.
They were by the side of a river in a hot
land, and where they walked and stood, they made footprints in
the wet clay that filled with water and sparkled in the
sunlight.
And I saw the monkey being looking at
that, and then hunkering down and drawing their hands over that
footprint, in a touching gesture.
As they drew their hand over the wet clay,
they made a line by accident.
They saw it.
They saw what they had done.
They stopped still.
It was as though time stood still.
And then, very slowly and deliberately,
the being drew a second line beneath the first.
That was the moment when the whole
Universe changed, the moment when a being on Earth discovered
magic for the very first time.
I was awed by that vision, deeply so; and yet at
the same instant I KNEW that this moment happens, over and over
again, TO EVERY HUMAN CHILD, in some shape or form, when they
too discover FOR THEMSELVES, and feel it in their own bodies,
that they can change reality, that they can MAKE THEIR MARK,
make symbols, that they have the power to DRAW REALITY into
being.
And then I knew how I could possibly make a new
system of magic.
It was easy.
All I had to do was to go back to the original,
primal magic of human kind, and start from there; and then I
couldn't go wrong.
From that place and time of my vision, we could
all start afresh, have a second chance at a clean magic, a new
magic, one that has nothing to with anything that happened
before and instead goes right back to the dawn of humanity - AND
extraordinarily, at the same time to each and every human
child ever born who discovers themselves in context of the
Universe.
EVERY ONE OF US was this child once.
EVERY ONE OF US still has this child inside of
us, and EVERY ONE OF US remembers this, on some level.
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This quest to make a new magic was not
about making another huge labyrinth of numbers and letters
and lists and correspondences and charts and hierarchies of
all sorts of entities - it was about awakening the magic
INSIDE a person, the real magic, the true magic, the AMAZING
magic we were given by courtesy of the Creative Order, by
the very structure of our design.
That was my job then, that was what "teaching
magic" would entail.
And so I spend five years with primal magic.
I had to find my own way back as well, because
I'm just as full of all the old ideas, and brainwashing, and
installed limitations, as anyone else on this planet today; but
it wasn't difficult, because although the journey to go back to
the original, primal magic was made convoluted by all these
false beliefs and such, there was ALWAYS THE HEART OF MAGIC -
das Zauberherz - shining at the very center of the
labyrinth, guiding my path, guiding me home.
I had to make myself some tools to help me on
that journey, because the tools I needed did not exist; they
never did, because everyone else had always tried to build on
the foundations of their ancestors, no matter how shaky or
rotten those foundations may have been or had become as time
passed them by.
I found that some of the most important tools I
already had - Project Sanctuary, of course; and EmoTrance to
prevent burn out, but most of all, to stop FEAR from de-railing
my structure in magic.
That's when it became clear just WHY all these
ancient magical systems were so convoluted and nonsensical!
Of course - the people who had originally build
them, and then all the others who had translated and added over
the years, EACH brought their own "stress stupidity" into the
game. They made faulty assumptions, coloured through the mad
spectacles of fear, and then computed badly based on those
faulty assumptions. This caused endless theoretical and
practical paradoxes and problems, for each of which more
convoluted "fixes" had to be put into the systems, until they
were just the kind of mess we see today, where good, intelligent
people can "study" them for decades and never get anywhere
whatsoever!
Once you took fear and stress out of the
equation, logic can prevail, and the true beauty of the Creative
Order becomes revealed - to ANY HUMAN BEING, once again, by
virtue of design, for free, unconditionally so, because we are
all built for magic, and the only thing that stops it from
manifesting as it should, is fear and stress.
Simple, really.
Amongst the tools I made were the Far Journeys
album to assist me in my quest to re-cover the real magic of
human beings; the Apollonius Quartet (very helpful!); the
Magician (incredible!); and then I was ready to actively enter
into the experience of the oldest and the youngest magic -
primal magic.
Working with simple stones from the beach. With
twigs that became real, original magic wands once more, allowing
you to reach out and touch something that would ordinarily be
beyond your reach. With a little river clay, shaped into the
form of a human being, making everyone who does this into a
creator in their own right, and a tiny reflection of that
glorious light that made the Universe. Working with fire - oh
my! What MUST it have been like for those ancient humans to look
into the fire, to see one of their own MAKE FIRE - we cannot
conceive, but even reaching out to touch that teaches you so
much!
Water too - so simple, so basic, so ENORMOUSLY
POWERFUL.
And all of those so very CLEAN if you go right
back to them, touch them in that primal way, just YOU and THEM,
learning about each other, stepping into the true magic, so
FREE, so POWERFUL.
When you interact directly with a fire or a
stone, letting go of everything you've ever heard, ever been
told and SEE WHAT IS REALLY THERE!!!!!!!! instead, THAT is when
your own true magic wakes up inside of you.
It's a like a school kid, fast asleep, dreaming
about the playground outside will come back into the room, back
to life, when the teacher, instead of talking about an egg,
brings a real egg into the classroom so it's really there, and
you can touch it, feel it, see it, hold it, KNOW IT.
That little kid who goes to sleep when ancient
symbols are being presented in the schoolroom and who wakes up
when we give a simple pebble to play with, that's the heart of
magic, das Zauberherz, it is "the magical child within," for
real, it's probably YOUR SOUL.
You wake that up, and the rest, as they say, is
history.
So it wasn't really so difficult to write that
new book on magic, after all.
All I had to do was to write SOME THING that
would wake up people's souls and their own magic powers.
I could write about anything, really; I could
use words that people think they understand, such as fortune
telling, spells, sigils and so forth and use those as metaphors
and movements to set people's own magic free.
But there was still one thing missing.
People do need something to hold on to;
something to guide the conscious mind in the right direction.
The way we used to do that was by playing
Project Sanctuary; and that is still in my opinion the most
overall profound method to - do anything at all, really.
But Project Sanctuary set the bar pretty high as
to who would want to get involved with that.
People would have to already understand that
they have power and faculties they weren't using to see the
reason for not just buying the book, but playing the games and
LEARNING SOMETHING in the process, EVOLVING in the process.
Something more easily accessible was needed; and
when I was working with the primal magic, with stone, wood,
clay, fire and water, I found the Genius Symbols.
I know they "came through me" and my endeavours;
but those things are pure genius, really they are!
So complex.
So INCREDIBLY multi-dimensional.
So advanced and interlaced.
And yet SO EASY A FIVE YEAR OLD CAN MAKE THEM
WORK!
How cool *is* that?
Now I had my last set of "building blocks" that
tied it all together and gave anyone who wanted it a good chance
at making magic work - easily: a true "magic machine".
Yay!
There was only one thing left that stood in the
way for me to finally answer that endless stream of cries of,
"Where can I learn REAL magic?" with, "Here! I got a book that
can teach you!"
And that was my own stress on the whole issue of
tackling a field of human endeavour that has quite practically
driven the best and brightest to distraction and into insanity
for a hundred thousand years.
Can I?
Dare I?
Who am I to ...?
There is a truly fabulous scene right at the end
of the long running series "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" where a
single young witch goes back in time, confronts three old men
from thousands of years ago, and re-sets the "rules of magic"
because those three old men where exactly that - ONLY three old
men, nothing more, nothing less.
Who am I to ...?
Well, ladies, gentlemen and all others, I happen
to be ...
... a human being!
And as such I don't only have THE SAME right as
any old Egyptian, Greek, Indian or Aztec who ever walked the
Earth to make and declare a system of magic, I even have THE
DUTY to be doing so if I believe the existing systems to be
faulty.
I found great solace in that, and a great deal
of joy.
And so, here we have it.
Magic, Spells & Potions - the StarFields way.
Magic that sparkles, laughs and dances; magic
you can feel in your own body; magic that takes your breath
away; a beautiful magic that protects and enriches everyone who
touches it; magic that really does stuff, and reliably so,
whether you are telling someone's fortune, making a protection
charm, procuring higher forces to act on your behalf or creating
a powerful custom made spell for any occasion!
Now I have something that I can recommend to
people - even to youngsters - to have a go with, try it out for
themselves, see, feel, hear and experience how they like it,
something that is immediately accessible, grows with them, and
immunises them against people who will try and take their desire
for real magic for a ride.
Something that encourages the magical child
within to wake up, come out, and FINALLY get to play in the
sunshine!
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the
visitors of http://magic-spells-and-potions.com
, my powers that be, my
friends and all the helpful beings far and wide, and those quite
close to home as well, for their material assistance in getting
me to the point where I could write "Magic,
Spells & Potions - with all my heart.
Thank you!
StarFields, June 2009
A NEW Book on Magic
By StarFields:
Magic, Spells & Potions
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