highly sensitive power

I’ll tell you about this book even before I’ve finished it. Carol S. Pearson, author of the best-seller The Hero Within, writes about archetypes and how they can guide and help us. She and Sharon Seivert wrote Magic at Work, referred to on the cover as “A Guide to Releasing Your Highest Creative Power.”

Magic at Work explores the Magician archetype and has me thinking a lot about sensitivity. Rather than review the book further, I’ll give you a few excerpts and let the authors speak for themselves:

“Society today is experiencing a major shift in consciousness as people switch from thinking like Warriors to thinking like Magicians. The Magician is that part of us that manifests the highest and greatest potential in any situation.”

“The Magician archetype is emerging today because it can help us thrive in a world without superpowers, stable borders, or right/wrong answers. In a time of global interdependence, it may, in fact, take miracles to help us learn to balance conflicting needs and attitudes, and be willing to learn from those different from ourselves.”

“Magicians always have been masters of the space between – times like sunrise and sunset, when the boundaries between the worlds are not firm, when gods can walk the earth and humans can touch the sky, and when the line between life and death is permeable.”

“In the In-Between, we are challenged constantly to come alive by letting go of old habits, old methods. To progress we must, metaphorically speaking, die and be reborn into new experience. If we fail to rise to this challenge, we begin to feel like the walking dead, going through the motions of life without intensity or joy.”

“We get caught in the hallway of the In-Between until we heal whatever traumas or limitations are holding us back from being truly authentic and alive. After this is accomplished, we move into the next world.”

“The magic of the In-Between holds the potential for exponential growth. The pain we feel is a result of our attachment to the old ways, even though the old world is too small and limited for what we are becoming. Magic emerges when we let go of that to which we are accustomed so that we can grow into a world large enough to accommodate who we can be.”

“Magic happens not just because of what we do but because of what we are willing to become.”

What do you want to create? Find keys to ease the process in the role model of the Magician. When we trigger the deep knowledge of archetypes we access zooming power.

Flickr photo: Street Magic, by a_whisper_of_unremitting_demand.

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