Blog 3594 – 09.09. 2025

Do You Believe In Magic?

I particularly like the second definition that the dictionary gives of the noun magic:

First let me say that people believe a lot of crazy things, especially religious or superstitious people, and those two words are used as synonyms in the book of Acts where the Apostle Paul comes across the statue to the Unknown God in Athens and says, “I perceive that you are a very religious/superstitious people and I want to tell you about this unknown God that you worship ignorantly.”

Other people’s beliefs often seem like ignorance to outsiders. Many highly educated people today are atheists or at least agnostics and I tried very hard to be one for many years at least as hard as I tried to be a Christian and for about the same length of time, twenty or more years. But having given both religions a fair shot I think I have settled somewhere in the middle – not without faith entirely nor yet blindly believing in a dogma that does not work for me.

For a couple of year I tried to memorize and follow The Code – Ten Intentions for a Better World and I found some good stuff there especially the Second Intention: “I follow my inner compass and discard any beliefs that are no longer serving me. I go to the source. I seek truth.” I believe that there are nuggets of truth to be found every where even in the Bible and the “guilt religions” but I will not be made a prisoner to beliefs that no longer serve me and so with the help of my loving and infinite source (my higher power which is for me my higher best self) I came up with my own code to follow that works for me.

You see I no longer believe things like “Would he devote that sacred head for such a worm as I” nor do I buy entirely the opposing belief that there is a scientific explanation for everything and that we live for a while then just die. I believe that there is magic in the world and that I am the master of my fate, the author of all I survey, also that this life is but a dream from which we will awake someday. And like one of my favorite songs, Teach Your Children Well, I believe that “we who are on the road must have a code that we can live by.” That code must be our own and all those beliefs, I think, must serve us or be discarded, dreams too, for we only want the best and brightest to come true.

All the best to you, my fellow pilgrims, and sweet dreams.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Teach Your Children (Official Music Video)

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Teach Your Children (Official Music Video)