It’s Magic You Know: marc gafni
Eros is Magic. The Magic which we have lost.
The Magic we once thought was true but our hearts were shatterred time and again.
To reclaim life is to reclaim magic is to reclaim magic. But from a higher and deeper place.
Not pre-personal magic
but transpersonal magic.
It is this magic that a child intuitively understands. Psychology dismissively refers to this childlike intuition as magical thinking and sees maturity as the triumph of the rational mind over magic. Yet the mystic insists that the child is at least partially right. It is not for naught that the magical Harry Potter books swept the world with such speed. Children who had never read before were suddenly reading hundreds of pages — volume after volume. The children were saying — ‘Finally you give me something that is true to my spirit’.
Eros is another word for magic and enchantment, the knowledge that everything is alive and intertextured — interwoven and filled with meaning. The experience of sin is the feeling that things, and you, are not holding together, that you are falling apart. Eros is the drive to wholeness and thus to healing and health.
