What is Magic?

A good intuitive description of what probable realities are all about is found in the Seth books by Jane Roberts:   

            “In your daily life at any given moment of your time, you have a multitudinous choice of actions, some trivial and some of utmost importance.  … It seems to you that reality is composed of those actions that you choose to take.  Those that you choose to deny are ignored.  …  If you wanted to be a doctor and are now in a different profession, then in some other probable reality you are a doctor.  If you have abilities that you are not using here, they are being used elsewhere.  …  These probable selves, however, are a portion of your identity or soul, and if you are out of contact with them it is only because you focus upon physical events and accept them as the criteria for reality.”⁴ 

Practically everyone has experienced bleed-throughs from other probable realities into this one at one time or another, without realizing what they were experiencing.  Wistful longings; quasi-memories or presentiments; events which produce a deja-vu-like sense of connectedness to another “me” in a similar but different reality; are often feeling connections with other probable realities.  Once when I was deeply in love with a certain person, I went to a party expecting and hoping that she would be there.   While she never came physically, I could feel her presence there beside me the whole time.  My guidance later explained this sensation to me as follows: 

                        “What keeps you glued into one track or lifetime is the sense of familiarity.  To break that track is to feel all your lifetimes and probable realities at once, just like you felt C.’s presence at that party in another probable reality.  That’s an example of how you can have two different memories of the same event:  going to the party with C., and going to the same party without her.” 

Me:     “Did the same things happen at both parties?” 

“Yes.  Eduardo sang at both parties, but not the same songs.  What do you think, stupid?  Of course different things happened at both parties.  That’s not the point.  The point is that life consists of feelings.  You can only get to those feelings directly by getting past the screen of thought forms of importance and familiarity that hide them.  There was a feeling at that party.  Remember when you suddenly felt that you had to return immediately, and you jumped up and raced out of the party without even saying goodbye to anyone, and when you got to the pier – by a weird turn of events – you missed the last boat back to Panajachel?  And the next day you learned that it was at that precise moment that C. had left for