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English Audio Request

Anton_Rich
136 Words / 1 Recordings / 1 Comments

This reminds me of a story.

Goethe, one of Germany’s greatest artist, wrote a poem ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.’ In it, an apprentice of a mighty magician is tasked to clean the floors while the master leaves for the day. The young man, in his arrogance, casts a spell he doesn’t fully understand on a broom to do his chores for him.

The broom comes to life and begins fetching pail of water after pail of water. Soon the apprentice sees the room is flooding. He doesn’t know how to stop the broom. In his fear, he cuts the broom in two, only to find, like a Hydra, there are now two brooms fetching water twice as fast.

The master arrives just in time to save the boys life. He disenchants the brooms, and the poem ends.

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  • The broom comes to life and begins fetching pail of water after pail of water ( recorded by Rebeccabogardus ), US (Oregon)

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Anton_Rich
July 11, 2022

I want to add that this is not the full story, and Erick has an interesting point of view on this story. I will leave a quote for his blog, "Magic is real. Language is magic. Journaling brings awareness to your language. Therefore, Journaling is how one teaches oneself magic."

"The reason language is magic is because it changes consciousness; and the reason I’m writing this post about teaching you how to journal is because we are all writers.

We are all magicians.

Physically, you send hundreds to thousands of texts a week. You email, write letters, and post social media comments. Mentally, you’re generating up to 60,000 thoughts a day (most of them negative, and most of them repetitive). You are swimming in a sea of language you’ve created unconsciously."

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