Finding Magic Subleties

"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact"
Thomas H. Huxley

We have made it through some quiet information together. Life has been a wonderful journey for this wizard. This wizard will be honored to share the continued journey. The following words are magic. True magic.

Does magic have to be complex? According to sources, these words have some significance "Let there be light". Half the world owns these magic words. Scientist's say, "Big Bang". I magically extrapolate this to mean 'no words'. Is this bigger magic? The universe was created with no words, or they just don't know the words. This wizard works on a smaller scale: One word at a time, One problem at a time.

Your first magic tool is small; one word, an easy one and a powerful one. With this word we start moving boxes, and making space to look farther, expanding, lightening burden, getting ready to open our eyes inside our abode.

Here is the gentle word. END or is it AND? Just one letter different and both words are pronounced alike. With only this subtle difference, shouldn't they be very close? NOT! Obviously they are different. For our journey we will just change from one magic word to two magic words. Let's look at our two magic words END and AND.

You will END . You will die. You will face 'close calls'. This wizard guide's journey involved life's 'close calls'. When one second, one thousandth of a second could have terminated my existence, my END. Friends were terminated. It was their END'.

Now you ask, "How could this be fun?" Is the excitement of facing the END fun?

Not exactly!

Spouting another of those official khool tools. Why not "Live long and prosper". Oh piddly pot; been used huh?! "I'm been relegated to one liners".

I absolutely know in the next second I may END'. At least once each day, I think about what happened that day. I look and say, "Have I completed this day. Am I ready for the END now." I look, I ask. "Was it a good day?"

AND is one my most favorite words. You've used it all your life and didn't suspect that it was magic. Well it is!

And that is only on a bad day. On a good day he thinks he's God.

Aristotle said, "A thing cannot BE and NOT BE in the same way and in the same respect". He was a really khool ancient magician. As you know, he was a Greek and teacher to Alexander the Great. I'll let you work with the above quote. The part I wish to work with is 'same way' and 'same respect'. Anything can be more then one thing if looked at in a different way or different respect. And I am a great artist and I am a poor artist. Just remember a different way or a different respect (time is a respect).

The way in which we look at things, makes our lives.

AND is a tool at how we look at things.

For some very wonderful noticeable experiences, try this; every time you use the word BUT change it to AND.

Your guide's son Allan asked, "Why do you seem to be able to do things intuitively? Last month you couldn't write and this month your writing and poems are laureate quality to me. Reading your poems really moves me. You did the same thing with painting."

Well we won't say anything about his tastes. Now let me show you my private gallery some time. My art hung in the museum at Abol Central Congo for two days.

Your guide reflected. Life is both easy and hard for me. Teamster Boss came to me and said, "If you don't slow down, you'll disappear from this job". I have also heard from someone else; "You're as lazy as mud". I can agree with both statements and can deny both. I can be both and I can be neither.

The guide's Sorceress Mother is a very close friend and she tells me Roland whom she calls Raleigh, spent countless hours honing his magic. I have been watching and never really considered him much smarter then my pet toad. He is just lucky I created computers for him to play with. I personally called the Word God of Spelling to sit on his shoulder and show him how to spell correctly. Word God is constantly complaining of all the work he has to do. "I corrected him at least 100 times on bueatiful or was it beautiful. Now I'm even spelling it wrong. #!?*", He snarled.

Subtle, subtle, subtle little differences. Did you know that you can see over 100 shades (hues) of blue. A small change in the color of the sky and you know the approximate time of day, just with your peripheral vision.

Words create connotative meaning. With our new magic word connotative we will look at our first group of words.

Killing
Starving
Mutilation
Dismemberment
Rape

Connotative feelings are extremely strong with these words. These are slam words. They shout your feelings. They throw us against a wall.

Let's look at our second group of words.

Peace
Love
Tranquil
Relaxed
Endearing
Heavenly
Beautiful

These are light words like a light sky. Like light clouds on a hazy day. Slam words are like a black vampire against a bright day sky. Light words are much harder to see, and we do see them. Did you notice we used "AND we do see them." I could have used BUT. There is a Subtle and significant difference. BUT excludes, separates two ideas, divides into two separate feeling, creates exclusions.

Life flows continue, like AND. Subtle, flowing, giving your life more flow AND sees and smells the roses along the journey.

BUT is like a buttress, it stops flow, it interrupts.

AND is like an arch, it connects, it continues the flow.

We are connotative, we feel, we move in an emotional stream being pulled this way and that. Our feelings, like the flow of a stream are comfortable when flowing, flowing. AND bridges my thoughts, flows my being and keeps my load light. Subtle yes and subtle no. When I feel closed in, when I feel low, when I look inside, I know.

Small things, important things, life important. Maybe. Your guide has deliberately used AND. I have corrected written sentences. I change BUT to AND. After using BUT in a phrase, I start the phrase over and emphasize AND. AND has been very important in this guides life.

Try it, you'll like it.