Spells

There are a lot of different arts that could be called spellcasting from Native American ceremony to Buddhist chanting. But they all have things in common, and all have the same general sort of impact. People constantly cast spells. Spells are simply you spelling out reality to yourself, but spells are not just self talk. For those who would actually do them on purpose, they can do much more.

We all cast spells, but we don’t do it in a crafty way usually. Before we take up a craft, we don’t make actual use of the process. You are ultimately trying to achieve one of two things in spell casting. Unity with the divine and service to it. Or to attain the power of it and to serve yourself whether with wisdom or not. I myself view both ways as legitimate.

“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it” Emily Dickinson (American Poet who has been called the New England mystic, 1830-1886)

“Some of mankind’s most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases” James Bryant Conant