Belief-Belief
Nov. 29th, 2022 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
troll_huldrenThanks to reading Lee Morgan’s _Standing And Not Falling_ a few years back now, I’ve got a refreshed perspective on belief.
Belief NOT as merely the acceptance of something’s existence or truth. To the witch, to paraphrase Terry Pratchet, gods and mailmen are equally real. But that’s a passive acceptance. That’s not what is useful. It’s a noun, a possession. “Having a belief.”
Belief AS IN one’s active participation in the re-enchantment of the soul through the Storying of the world and engaging in mytho-logic in the day-to-day. It’s belief as being “all-in” to the endless possibilities of magic and sinking into the lived reality of a spirit-filled world. It’s not play-acting or only believing something true or actual when convenient. It’s a verb. A doing. A commitment to wholeness.
Sexy! This is what Andrew Chumbley meant when he wrote that sorcery is the meeting place of belief, desire, and will.
Belief NOT as merely the acceptance of something’s existence or truth. To the witch, to paraphrase Terry Pratchet, gods and mailmen are equally real. But that’s a passive acceptance. That’s not what is useful. It’s a noun, a possession. “Having a belief.”
Belief AS IN one’s active participation in the re-enchantment of the soul through the Storying of the world and engaging in mytho-logic in the day-to-day. It’s belief as being “all-in” to the endless possibilities of magic and sinking into the lived reality of a spirit-filled world. It’s not play-acting or only believing something true or actual when convenient. It’s a verb. A doing. A commitment to wholeness.
Sexy! This is what Andrew Chumbley meant when he wrote that sorcery is the meeting place of belief, desire, and will.
