I was recently asked by a reader what I thought about the word energy. He noted that I’ve used it sometimes and I have used it. However, I find the word energy to be terribly imprecise and I have become more and more reluctant to use it, because I don’t feel that it really captures the experience of what I’m trying to share. If anything what it does is create distance from the experience. I mentioned this to my reader and went on to share a statement I’ve been using lately: Challenge what you know by discovering what you can learn. I say this statement a fair amount and there’s a reason I make that statement. It’s because I favor experience over conceptualization, experiential learning over models that abstract and distance us from the experience.
I want to share with you why I don’t care for the models of magic approach that some people use to try and categorize magic, and why instead I prefer an experiential approach to magic. The problem with the models of magic is that they’re an attempt to categorize magic and fit it into a neat little box that says this is what magic is. But I’ve found you can’t easily fit magic into a box and when you try to what ends up happening is that you lose something essential to magic.
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