Awareness as Magick

We find ourselves in an age where words like mystery and magick are met with furrowed brows and Aristotelian rhetoric. The great occult mystery schools of the past termed phenomena and certain knowledge as esoteric, occult, "mystic", or magick. Even ideas of construction and architecture, which are now firmly part of our culture, were once highly regarded as the greatest of occult secrets.

Magick, in the truest sense is enacting change in the external or internal world, by means of willpower and intent. Many techniques are used depending on one's time period, culture, and other such variables, but one thing is ubiquitous, and that is the importance of awareness. Awareness OF consciousness. Some practices recommend single pointed awareness, like a laser, while others say the broad awareness, like a flood light leads to higher knowledge. The truth is both extremes will take the practitioner to higher levels of understanding. Awareness can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven. What do you focus on? What are the narratives playing in your mind?