Understanding Magical Thinking and Re-Enchanting The World [Repost] (#89)
Let's learn about magical thinking, carefully tease it apart from deep psychological insight, and discuss how to healthily integrate it.
Know that we all pass through a Magical period in our early childhood, the Magic stage of development, and come out the other end at age 4 or 5.
From then, all the way through adult life, our relationship to magical thinking can go one of two ways: we become completely allergic to it and be unable to consciously integrate any of it, or we remain addicted to it.
In spiritual communities and personal-development circles, I often see an addiction to magic and a…
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