"Parents are wise in telling their children magical stories because such stories introduce children to enchantment, a state of being that serves is in all sorts of practical ways. Without enchantement, it's hard to create, hard to learn, and hard to have the kind of hope that keeps life fresh. It is even hard to do science."
~ Christine Wicker in Not in Kansas Anymore http://www.christinewicker.com/
Sociologist Mark A Schneider defines enchantment as encountering events or objects "so peculiar and so beyond our present understanding as to leave us convinced that were they to be understood, our image of how the world operates would be radically transformed."
Enchantment brought us running water, flushing toilets and solar panels!
Many years ago, when I started my intuitive work as the Enchanted Eye, I wasn't aware of these verbalizations on the subject of enchantment... yet I was clear that my work was, and still is, outside the margins of what would be labeled as known or practically explainable. Enchantment brings people in to talk about the why, what, when, where, who of everyday life. I have the priviledge of working in the enchantment zone - where the imagination of what's possible but not yet clear meets the functionality of the senses and verbal communication. Enchantment allows the capacity to reach beyond what I know is true or what is familiar to me. It creates the space for me to connect with someone else's reality, one that although I may not cognitively understand, I can feel their place in the process and allow guidance to show up.
In my own life, enchantment provides for growth, development and a continuing connection to otherworldly energies. I don't quite know who or what I hear sometimes, yet when I can listen beyond what is "reasonable" I experience connection with ideas, solutions and creations that I never would have encountered in my everyday beingness. It all begins in the magical realm in which all that is cannot be see or categorized... and where it ends is beyond what we can imagine at this point.. if it truly ends.
We all know Enchantment - how do you use it? I'd love comments on your enchanted experiences!
Blessed be~
