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Wu Wei, Descent, and Living Mythically
Stop Trying To Master Your Life
The gospel of “you can create anything you want if you align your vibration” is beginning to unravel on a planet increasingly marked by ecological collapse, social upheaval, and religious and spiritual scandal. The idea, popularized by works such as The Secret, promotes the notion that reality bends to our mindset. With the right thoughts, we can attract perfect partners, abundant wealth, and endless health. We will set aside for a moment the ethical quagmire of applying this worldview to a grieving parent or a war refugee. But even in less extreme cases, affirmations eventually ring hollow, full moon rituals lose their sparkle, and every religious or mystical experience slides quietly back into folding laundry. This is usually the moment when the call to adventure slides into your DMs.
Contrary to modern thought, the existence of what many call magic, of living in a world that responds to our requests for help, is not a worldview passed on through modern psychology or even spirituality. It is carried primarily through myth. Myth is not primitive storytelling, nor is it “just a metaphor.” It’s a mode of knowing, a symbolic framework revealing a world dripping with meaning. Myth names the invisible forces shaping us — love, death, grief, renewal. It insists that surrender and shadow are not failures…
