Thoughts about magic

 Magic 

Magic seems connected with someone's living environment lacking wisdom of feelings and high skills in wise ways. So if one runs into something made with good spirit, wisdom of feelings, social eye or wisely according to an old tradition, it appears as if a piece of another kind of way of living with it's skills, values, ways etc. 

So magic is a question of who dedicatedly does what and with how high skill level. So it is connected with people choosing their jobs according to what they like and value, maybe even love. And it is connected with certain areas having a tradition of such jobs, having peace, good possibilities, high skills, lots of wisdom, wisdom of life and skills of passing such wisdom of life, values and skills to the younger generations and to the newcomers, in those kinds of jobs and hobbies around such ways of living and skills. 

And so for the ordinary person it is often a question of there being many kinds of good quality products in the shops and of one having enough money to buy with dedication to the area of life but not so much socially commanded that one would be careless or without personal values and own characteristics guiding in buying. And a question of one living in an area whose values, skills, skill levels, wisdom of life, favourite professions etc one enjoys and values. 

An example of a shop's product: a lila Elvis Presley "Romantic" ukulele that I bought from the music instruments' shop Soitinkulma in Savonlinna 

Ukuleles are from the Paradise Islands of the Paciric ocean, and seen to teach how to build paradises symbolised by the colour of the ukulele. I have liked this one very much, but it leaves a somewhat unpractical flat view of life, which is a big drawback. I bought from Soitinkulma also another ukulele which was said to offer summer cottage life, but I haven't had that possibility. It was brown like some foreign wood and maybe had been made in China, since it brough diahhorea and made me feel continuously every day somewhat ill (so I soon returned it, or did I give it to a second hand hall) so that a Chinese in China maybe would have instead of going to one's work stayed at home and played ukulele on the porch all days long. 

Later I also bought from Musiikki-Fazer www.f-musiikki.fi in the internet a red Diamond Head ukulele, hoping that it would help me to regain sporty ways with senses open. I had difficulties in tuning it, and then it seemed to teach Vantaa like study achievements for a career maybe in an orchestra, or for some career that one oneself compares with such, but without regard for the values as an idea in it, but just reaching for points, so I did not feel like playing it. 

Cher - Dark lady

In my twenties I read books about Zen Buddhism and other New Age books. I searched for a new kind of profession and had hobbies that were in a way toward something better in my life, read also poetry and listened to rock and pop in the radio. It was wonderful to find more spirited life, more worth living and wiser too, giving one more wisdom of lufe and finding higher skills, even though demanding individual understanding, own roads, which often means that safety precautions are needed. 

About black magic 

Black magic means that the effect is harmful as a whole, typically harmful at the level of the whole world and as an effect on the ways of living and values followed in the society. Typically the effect is stolen from something else which is natural as a part of the world and does have that much or stronger effect even though not only momentarily. People who like black magic like it usually because theh want to murder people or animals or be kn some other way too unfair toward them and the values that they cultivate in the world and because of which they are valuable, like a wild animal for example cultivates skills of living the weathers and seasons in a nature environment, and so animals in their own way support humans in basic life, for societies to be good to live in.

 Similarly the different professions are needed even if one oneself would prefer one's own kind of company. So it would be needed to keep distance to adult relatives and other social contacts of one's younger years when one oneself is already an adult and would prefer more distance. Black magic is often a question of someone or something being classified personally close and wisely cultivating one's good, when it is not st all so, not at all true, like an old relative thinking "Now quit!" and kicking the other one away when someone else classifies the behaviour as loving and caring in the sense of making nice things that do not require reaction or noticing from the one kicked. Similarly people often seem to say that when their children were a few years old or right after the birth of a baby, they still had they old ways of flirting and being social but they no longer could stand any new spouce candidates, even thpugh they started out of habit and an old liking like as younger, and so they at some point during the evening just murdered the new sexual contacts. It seems that similarly one can at some point choose some new culture or type of profession or a wide way to live so strongly that one cannot stand other ways of living, especially not those of one's younth. So it isn't at all ok to always admire only a certain cultural domain but to insist living in another. 

Likewise if one is always charmed by the ways of living of another climate, culture or type of place, one typically tunes one's life to learning such ways of living : their rythm, their emphazies on areas of life, interests, values and skills, while one does not tune so to one's present living environment's ways, and so one is in practice tuned only to the ways of living of the districts that one admires. So one should at once move to live there, since other options do not make sense. One would fit in there but not elsewhere, where ways of living are different. Like thete are differencies between summer's ways of living and rythm and of those of winter, likewise there are differencies between climates and cultures and areas specialised to different types of jobs, in what the ways of living need to be. 

Black magic somewhere or as an interest of someone, means that there is something wrong with the magic's effect, so there is danger, which is typically a danger of murders or of ruining ways of living so badly that life in the society becomes impossible, like when people no longer in practice aim at the same way of living, like if the town were bombed a lot and planned to stay as ruins. So since there is danger, one ought not trust and one should live according to one's own wisdom of life, trusting only sure sources of information and keeping distance to the harmful influencies. But since trusting one's own wisdom is what most young adults need, black magic as a subject sounds interesting if it allows keeping distance and trusting one's own wisdom, without giving up following civiliced values. And since humans are capable of more than just things interesting all of the same age, magic interests, how to find charming things of value that suit one's own life. But in that there is the possibility of danger, and so black magic kind of warns of such dimensions. The danger is not always in what happens or what one loses, but instead in the effect of abandoning wise civiliced values, especially if many do so because of paying attention only to much smaller scale interests.

David McWilliams - Days of Pearly Spencer 

In a climate of four seasons, when the leisurely lived and much liked summer draws toward it's end, it is time to change to more sportily moving ways of living and pay attention to heat production and avoiding losses of warmth from the body. That means that a rational understanding must overrule one's likings for summer time ways of living, and so the change is supported by school and studies starting in the beginning of autumn. Such is also the case when there is some other danger of death. If one has enough skills maybe one can enjoy such life, since after all such is ages old, but if one does not have enough skills one dies, or if one is wise enough one moves to warm lands before the danger actualizes. 

Many words for snow https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2021/10/short-melodies-of-snow.html

The build environment and nature

I do not know if you can notice it from the pictures, but if the houses would be one storey lower than almost at the level of treetops, the trees would shelter the area and also the houses, while almost at the level of ordinary treetops shelters a little bit, whike just the houses topmost leaves the area as if bombed. The trees are natural and very complex to look at, so trees around make people wiser, happier and more skilled than living in a place without trees. 

With the trees are complex natural phenomena understood with wisdom of life, while only build things catching attention makes some or even all people somewhat enhineer like in understanding, rigid and stuck, without cultivating thibgs well for life for all fairly. 

Tvere is in Russia, maybe in Russian Carelia, a place called Konnevitsa, which name brings the association that the existence of machines in the world is a major catastrophe.  It has a view that one ought to figure out a way to live without machines, only pure unfractured nature in one's way of living and in those of the world. It is a view like birdsong at the edge of small woods, and like aiming at wild bird's wisdom of life, with it's tough realism and with it's beauty, with it's wisdom in the wide world. See in Skills of Christmas gnomes 2. About Kalevala, see B38. at https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2020/01/some-observations-about-gnomes-and-like.html (it is in the first book of the "Christmas Gnomes Internet Institute", see www.amazon.com/author/khtervola ). I know nothing of Konnevitsa, but it is famous for it's chrurch bells. 

There is a dream that without machines there would be original wisdom of nature in the ways of living, even magic.

Of machines one of the problem are the square stuck nonreactive ways of thinking of engineering. To be wise lne should observe more and do things in ways that are good for the world and good for oneself and one's living environment, in healthy natural ways that have wisdom of life like music. Such makes natural wholes work well together and so one gains more force and more wisdom, and one's understanding and that of the group encomoasses more areas of life, is wiser so. It is also more natural, so all are happier and more at ease, even though there are many sides to lufe, and like is the idea in being a living being, lufe situations vary and so one lives with emphazis on dixferent sides of lufe according to the situation. And likewise there are many kinds of individuals, sowhat is detailedly describing good for one often isn't good for another, even ghough at a general level the optilns would be the same, the same ages old wisdom guiding. 

One problem with build environment is that it often leaves one fractured, without a natural way to mive and wander in the town. But if there are some trees etc, it helps to notice that one ought to look at them from the point of view of those who planted each tree, for example by the walkway to shelter and to make the place nice and atmospheric in nature's way, a miljo good to live, simikarly of those who plsnned, made the materials or buikd each small space & other parts of the houses etc. They thought of the near environment and of pleasant meaningful ways to live there for people and maybe some animals who feel that they suit such a place. But they were not able to plan the trees etc so well for the larger environment, at least nit in ways that taste so much lije life, so one must see the landscape as consisting of several much smaller miljoos, for example of apartment houses with theirnear environment, somewhere a big motorway leading people from work to hobbies, home and places they want to be in, making life much easier to bear, making lufe more worth living by allowing possibilities to change living environment. 

The nature environment is good for the youth learning : there are many kinds of shapes and structures, colours to look at and uneven terrain to wander in, lots a variations and shades, for one to get vocabulary for observing, understanding, moving in natural ways and using the senses. And it all is from the point of view of ages old life with full capacity and natural goals in lufe. 

This song or more like it's lyrical part (after the pictures of young birds) tells of the dream of the natural wisdom of the ages of old nature of humans and of the animals & the wild nature, some day conquering in the world, winning the world to better wiser life for all, but of course varied according to the natural environment.

" Oh, Finland, look: your day is dawning.

The threath of night has been dispelled away.

And the morning's bird sings in the brightness,

As if the whole sky would sing.

The powers of night are being won by morning's lightness. 

Your morning has begun, oh Birthland.

Oh rise Finland, lift high your head

With it's headband of great memories.

Oh rise Finland, you have shown to the world

That you drove away slavery

and that you did not get bend to under opression.

Your morning has begun, oh Birthland." 

If the world is of spirit

Some sides of magic are results of the world being of spirit. Such is often seen in people going different ways because choosing different things to tune themselves into. But the effect is larger than that, as if each person really would live kn a different world, each quite like their own character, like someone mostly keeping company to the nearest ones, while one more skilled in work like skills would seek possibilities to individually do something meaningful and share the viewpoint of some profession or the like. So much depends on how wise and charming those viewpoints are. Anyway, a different focus of attention creates different things, like for example most have noyiced each person in their habitual social emvironment having a style that seems to be typical to them, for example a certain way to be social and think of social kind of things, certain areas of life liked and used a lot in certain ways, a certain view of finery, moral, literature, practical matters, ways of doing etc. So one kind of wanders along those areas of lufe and meets different things. So even places are different for each, kind of exist much more for some, like for example does one fit the culture or social group or not. 

Canadian timber wolves   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ierbJoNgfw8 

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29th of October 2023   I collected these texts and the short melodies of snow to a booklet "Thoughts about magic", which ught to be available at www.amazon.com in a few days time.

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