Charms

Charms are recitations or materials, meditations or symbolic actions taken to draw something to you. Charms are in a sense a language of “diplomacy”. What your attention is on will be attracted to you. With charms you are reducing the brains perception of contrast, the difference between me and thee, between poor me and prosperous me, by representing what you no longer want to have as a contrast in your environment. Make it “already here” if only symbolically.

“Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow.” John Keats (English Romantic Poet. 1795-1821)