A Christmas story. Like Jung, Jeanne and I had no heartfelt attachment to any spiritual tradition but, with raising children, felt the responsibility to embody the magic of life through participation in some spiritual tradition. Like many befuddled parents we brought Spirit to life in living the myth of Santa Claus with our young children.

One of our sons was so deeply living the myth of Santa that he was impervious to the inevitable growing doubts of his peers, who were experiencing the primal wounding to their innocence, that right of passage, that ushers in the ascendence of the rational mind with its logical protection of the self from future deceptions and woundings.

As I recall, after a Tae Kwon Do class, when the truth of Santa had broken through to my son, he pointblank asked his mother why she had lied to him? Without skipping a beat, Jeanne explained that, though Santa was a myth, the magic was real, and that Christmas honored the truth of that magic, through Santa, for children, until they were ready to take charge of the magic within themselves.

So what is the magic? Christianity projected a divine savior for humanity onto the God/human personhood of Jesus Christ. The New Thought philosophical tradition came to understand this story as the awakening in humanity to the fact of our own divinity, ready to be claimed by taking charge of the relationship between our conscious and subconscious minds.

The human mind is divine. The magic is that everything we believe becomes suggestions to the subconscious mind, which then has the power to manifest those beliefs into the actual ‘flesh and blood’ of our lives. What we believe always serves as the architect of our ongoing lives.

To take conscious command of those beliefs is the key to abundance, in all areas of existence. To exercise that ability for the greater good of self, and all, is to fully ground one’s divine potential in truth.

Whatever we believe, good or bad, is an exercise of our divine power and will lead to actual manifestation. However, to fully benefit, one must be in alignment with truth; versus the errors of illusion that manifest in chaos, such as is grossly evident upon the world stage of now.

Last week, my blog pondered the question, “What is the matter with me?” The answer was, and is, the spirit, or thought, that is behind the matter, or current physical manifestation, of my life. The answer to this week’s question—”What is right with me?”—is the prescription for positive manifestation.

Every time I answer the question—”What is right with me?”—I define for my subconscious mind the fullness and brightness of self that I intend to manifest, via suggestion, to my magical subconscious mind. It is equally possible to reinforce a more limited version of self, through reciting and reinforcing negative beliefs about myself, those which I might habitually repeat daily. We are indeed magical beings, capable of manifesting either our heart’s desire or our greatest fears.

The trick is to consistently convert those limited habitual thoughts of self into expansively positive and life-enhancing thoughts of unlimited possibilities. Best to exercise the magic in emphasizing what is truly right with me! In this way, the magic still lives on in Santa’s gifts to self!

Ultimately, it’s all good. We will grow from all we manifest, and eventually find our way home to the fullness and magic of self.

Enjoy the magic,
Chuck