I'm probably not the right person to ask about this. From earliest childhood, I felt that the dead world of matter that I was taught about by parents, teachers, and the media was a lie. As a child I was fascinated by anything and everything that strayed outside the materialist consensus -- I was an expert on werewolf trivia at age ten, for example, and crazy in love with fantasy fiction -- and when I found my first manual of training in operative magic, I felt as though I'd come out of a dark cold room into sunlight and springtime.
I'd make two suggestions. The first is to put some serious time into reading mythologies and folktales instead of modern "serious" books. The second is to consider taking up some kind of magical practice. Actions speak louder than words, in this as in other contexts; it can be very frightening to actually do the work, but that's the best way I know of to shake off the "mind-forg'd manacles" that Blake wrote about.
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branchandroot
Re: Unlearning, mourning the loss of a living mind/earth
Date: 2017-12-26 03:41 am (UTC)I'd make two suggestions. The first is to put some serious time into reading mythologies and folktales instead of modern "serious" books. The second is to consider taking up some kind of magical practice. Actions speak louder than words, in this as in other contexts; it can be very frightening to actually do the work, but that's the best way I know of to shake off the "mind-forg'd manacles" that Blake wrote about.