The Weaver Mind

“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’

I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”

Lewis Carroll

I’ve been thinking about a thing that I call The Weaver Mind. Peter Carroll talks about choosing to believe as a magical practice. I describe that mental state as the Weaver Mind. Now the key here is that I am not suggesting you should believe that the sky is green or that gravity pulls up. In the first place, I do not think you could actually believe something like that. And as a result, in the second, I do not believe you could achieve that belief as a magical act.

Instead, I suggest that you choose what stories you believe and how you choose to incorporate them into your own life. This may seem like a cop out. But think about how much power the stories we tell ourselves have over our lives. If we can change stories, we can change the world. And isn’t that magic?