Magical Approach Session Thirteen

Session Thirteen: Rob Using the Magical Approach.  Precognition.

September 24, 1980

If you had first read the article of which you have been speaking, and then in semi-dozing state created your idea of a novel, replete with the characterization of the mother, then you would say that cause and effect were involved.

Science might admit that the novel idea itself was highly creative, an example of the mind at play as it used experience as a creative raw product – but of course you had your experience before you read the article.  And when that kind of thing happens science then proclaims that the two events are not connected to each other at all, but are instead the result of coincidental patterns.

In your terms, whether a minute or 10 minutes, or an hour or two hours were involved, you reacted ahead of time to a headline that you had not as yet physically encountered.  You reacted creatively, using the precognitive story as a basis for a fictional endeavor.  You turned it to art’s purposes.

As you lay there you were aware of the fact just beneath consciousness – usual consciousness – that you had not brought in the paper before your nap, as is your habit, and almost at a dream level you idly wondered what stories it might contain.  Your inclusion of the hospital mix-up in the tale was, as you suspected, connected with the medical ideas you have been dealing with of late (in extra notes for Mass Events, and the book by the physician) – and here was an excellent fictional idea, you see, that could, among other things, bring those ideas into prominence.

The idea, then, of the novel came from past and future events, though you were to catch up with those future events very quickly.  Your mind intuitively organized all of that material, and put it together in a completely new fashion.  Sometimes when such events occur, the precognitive trigger is not even recognized when it is encountered physically, because it happens too far ahead of time.  (To Rob): You organize mental and physical events in a creative manner.  In this case a novel was involved because the concept, while strongly involving images, carried a time span that would make narrative necessary.

You used the magical approach.  You caught yourself in the act of acting naturally, of demonstrating abilities that your society to a large degree does not admit.  That same kind of lightning-swift organization goes on within the body itself constantly, as it deals with probable scenarios to which you may or may not end up reacting to.

The events themselves discussed in the newspaper article point up the same kind of magical affiliations.  The cells of the young men in question were always in communication, and all of those elements needed to bring about such a reunion took place at the magical level of activity.  Consciously, intellectually, the boys had no idea they were triplets.  You live personally in a world of lush creative ideas.  Your intellect is aware of that.  It is used to working creatively.  The focused intellect can indeed activate the intuitive abilities – and the healing abilities.  You get what you concentrate upon.

The intellect is a vital organizer even if it is not aware of the magical levels of activity from which often its best ideas emerge.

This will be a very brief session.  When you look at world events, however, the present world situation for example (the war between Iraq and Iran, which began a few days ago,) try to enlarge the scope of your intellectual reach, so that you consider world events as living multidimensional “novels” being formed in the present in response to both future and past triggers.  The impact of the future on the past, in your terms – or rather, the implications of the future on the present – are highly important, and such precognitive reactions are as vital, numerous, and real as you ordinarily think that the reactions to past events are.

This puts present world events in an entirely different perspective.  Men act, then, in relationship to events that have, historically speaking, not yet occurred – but those events happening, say, in the future, in certain terms cast their shadows back into the present, or illuminate the past according to the event’s characteristics.  There is always more going on than ordinary sense data show.

In your comparatively simple experience, you can see, however, the implications of such activities.  Men may react to future events by unconsciously translating them into art, or motion pictures.  They may react by unconsciously taking certain steps of a political nature that seem at the time either unreasonable, or even incomprehensible – steps whose logic appears only in hindsight.

The same occurs, of course, in all areas of human behavior, as well as the behavior of animals and even of plants.  This future shadowing the present, or future illuminating the present, represents a vital element in the formation of events as they are perceived in time.  In a fashion the triplets were reacting in their past to a future event that has now caught up with them, so that each of their actions in any moment of that past happened as a result of a tension – a creative tension – between the event of their original separation and the event of their future reunion.

I do not mean that the reunion was inevitable or predestined, but the vigor of that probability, you might say, magnified the original tension.  I want Ruburt to apply all of this to his own situation, both in terms of creative endeavors and his physical situation, so that he begins to understand that he can start to react in the present to a future recovery.

He can see how important periods of letting go are.  Your experience happened when you were nearly asleep, but merely relaxed, not worrying, with your intellect in a kind of free flow.  You were not hampering it.  It was momentarily free of limiting beliefs, and it naturally used – and chose to use – the magical approach to answer what was a very simple, now-forgotten intellectual question: What might be in today’s newspaper?

The usual answer, or the usual method of obtaining an answer, was at the time inconvenient: You were not about to get up, go outside and get the paper, so on its own the intellect pressed the magical-approach button, you might say, getting the information the quickest and easiest way possible.

It did not give you the bare headline, however – even though that and the story were perceived far too quickly for you to follow.  What you were aware of were your own creative reveries in response to that information.

Now left alone, the intellect will often solve problems in just such a fashion, when it is allowed to, when you forget what is supposed to be possible and what is not, when you forget that your mind is supposed pedestrian and parochial.