"Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands....." ~Johnson
Yesterday I ran across an old journal that I had written in but never filled all the pages. For some reason I had put it on a shelf and forgot about it. On finding it I thought I should finish filling it. I had not recorded anything since 2007. A lot of time had passed. I read one of my entries from August 2007 - five years ago. It seems I had done a meditation that summer morning on my patio. I had been working in some kind of spiritual workbook and was contemplating the thought: "What do you want?" Interestingly, I really didn't know what I wanted. I began to imagine what it is that I might really want. I gave myself Reiki as I did this. What I imagined on that morning I had no hope of attaining at that moment in time. But now 5 years later I am astounded to find that I have attained exactly what I imagined on that summer morning 5 years before. After all I have read about intention and energy I should know this is possible and I shouldn't be surprised. But I am. And that is probably just fine - it reminds me that there is still mystery and magic. Leonard Cohen said it well: "God is afoot, magic is alive....magic never died."
And so I continue to journey in the mystery. I practiced QiGong on Thursday - no feeling Qi, no fun, just moving through the motions. On Friday I practiced yoga - the stretching and breathing felt wonderful. Sitting afterward in lotus was serene. On Saturday I practiced QiGong again and was able to feel the Qi moving - very pleasant. Today my meditation was listening to Bach's Mass in B Minor. Nothing marvelous has happened..........no levitating, no apparition......just traveling on the road, wondering about magic and mystery.
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