Fairy Tales & Magic:
No More Wicked Witches!
An Essay about Fairy Tales & Magic
by Silvia Hartmann
When we are young, we are told fairy
tales - about evil witches, mostly older women, and
wishes that lead to disaster; about magic gone wrong and
full of dire warnings to not stray from the straight and
narrow or else terrible things will happen. These things
sink into a young child's neurology and there they stay,
and there they sleep, and there they wait until the
moment comes when an adult might want to make a wish, but
all of sudden and seemingly from nowhere, there's fear.
There's doubt. There's confusion. Bad things happen when
you make a wish ... don't trust that genie in the bottle
... magic leads to no good in the end ... And that's a
magic reversal in action, old programming that is just
the same as brain washing or cult control, but here the
cult is the Spanish Inquisition, reaching across the ages
through the medium of fairy tales and affecting people in
their millions, still here and right now.
If we are seeking a new world, a better tomorrow where we
are more respectful of all of Creation and where we may
live in harmony not just with the world around us, but
also with each other, we really and profoundly do need
NEW FAIRY TALES.
It is not just the children who need new fairy tales, but
it is at this time especially the adults who need an
antidote to the "evil witch programming" they
themselves received when they were children.
The programming of fairy tales is DEEPLY sub-conscious
and it cannot be undone by counter examples or by
thinking or talking about it in every day language. It
just doesn't reach that deep; it doesn't make any changes
at that level.
In order to undo the original subconscious programming of
fairy tales, you need to go back into that country,
"once upon a time in a kingdom far away", and
it is THERE we need to make the changes, have new
experiences, ADD NEW STORIES to create a better balance
all around.
Many women as they grow towards menopause and beyond are
greatly influenced by the negative "evil old
witch" stereotypes; and that ripples back through
the timelines to the young women who don't want to grow
up to be warty and evil and eating little children,
either.
Women especially do not step into their full powers of
reality creation, and you may call that what you like,
until after menopause; the "evil old witch"
horror they are entrained to have await them, should they
buck societal trends and start having their own ideas of
relationships, of healing, of creating a more holistic
life that is more in tune with the invisible realities
that do exist and that do pervade our every day and
night, there is always that hideous face of the wicked
old witch staring at them and warning to turn back, lest
they should be ostracised and stuck on the bonfire with
all the other evil witches of the past ...
But also for men, the stereotypes of the evil magicians
who go power mad in their own solitary towers is just as
damaging and just as limiting.
Personal power is what magic is all about. Taking charge
of one's own life. Talking to spirits directly and not
through the medium of a paid priest. Making choices and
developing one's own future, an unknown journey through a
pathless land for a single individual, as it should be -
and not the "cradle to the grave, one size fits
all" sardine factory that is prescribed for the good
citizen, no matter what society they live in or how
exactly that is defined.
There is nothing to be gained for societies from
frightening little children away from personal power and
magic by telling tales of magic horror.
The truth is that all societies NEED individuals who are
aware, who are wise, who have learned the limits of their
own power, who are in tune with the world, themselves and
the people around them, who are creative, who contribute,
who serve and who role-model lives of splendid joy,
satisfaction and achievement for the younger generations.
The truth is further that without magic, NONE OF THIS IS
POSSIBLE.
Without magic, the world is dead, life is meaningless,
hard and painful, and it's all over when we die.
Without magic, there is no legacy, no contribution, and
THERE CAN BE NO CHANGE.
We need magicians.
We need witches.
We need them in every possible area of human endeavour to
bring new solutions to entrenched problems and creative,
positive, proactive change.
No-one can be expected to do "clean magic"
whilst they are still full of swirling fear and old
entrained terrors that were transmitted through the
stories of the past.
We do NOT want the past to be repeated.
One Spanish Inquisition was quite enough for humanity,
indeed.
And so, we need NEW STORIES.
For only new stories can heal what the old stories caused
to go wrong.
It is an interesting challenge, and a wonderful one.
I am hoping that soon, more will heed this call and start
to write NEW stories too, stories of hope, joy and beauty
which after all is the real truth of our enchanted,
wonderful, unbelievable, endless and totally amazingly
splendid universe, and our lives within this, granted to
us by the great Creative Order, who made us all.
And in this spirit, I offer "The
Golden Horse & Other Stories" - my personal
collection of 16 brand new fairy tales for the magical
child within, the part of us that knows there's more to
life than death and taxes, and who, if it will awaken and
join us here in these our incarnations, has the power to
bring back the wide eyed amazement, the unlimited
creativity and absolute awestruck wonder of our world,
our life, we once knew and now, need to remember.
Silvia Hartmann
October 2007
The
Golden Horse & Other Stories
16 NEW Original Fairy Tales
For The Magical Child Aged 9-99
"Bedtime Stories For The Angel
Child"
Published by DragonRising Publishing, United Kingdom,
2007
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