The Direction of Intention

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This story fragment is worth repeating. The speaker stood in front of a large crowd packed into the pews of a church. He talked about the word, “spell,” and told us that, to people in the USA, this word “spell” implied voodoo and magic. He was from another country and he had an entirely different understanding of the word. He said, “tell a little girl she is fat and you will have spelled her forever.”

I almost fell out of my pew.

Language is powerful. To speak beautifully is powerful – it is to weave a spell of beauty. To speak violently is powerful – it is to weave a spell of violence.

There is an important concept that connects to “spells:” when someone attempts to spell you, when they tell you that you are fat or ugly or stupid, you have to agree to take their violence into your body. Children do not know that they have a choice to agree or to let the violence pass through so they take the spells into their bodies. They incorporate the spell into their identity; they incorporate the spell into their story.

Becoming aware is to recognize that what others say, the spells that they cast, are not something you need to take it into your body. You have a choice: agree with the spell and it will stick in your body. Or, know that their perception has nothing to do with you and the spell they cast will pass through and disappear (it will only live in their body).

Simply do not agree to participate in the violence.

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