Editorial

Everyday Magic

by Tracy Marshall

I woke up dreaming of the advanta tile —a pattern in the form of a window— on the morning of the trip to Madrid for the Kryon and Tobias channeling event last month. A couple of days previously I’d woken up dreaming of sevens, and had packed Oversoul Seven by Jane Roberts to read on the train. There were a few window incidents that day: mainly windows that I was unable to open and couldn’t, such as the window on the hot and stuffy train, and the window in the hotel bedroom. I unpacked, and opened Oversoul Seven at random, which I hadn’t read on the train after all.

“Window! Window!” Proteus cried. I had forgotten that there was a character in the book called Window, and this seemingly random and trivial synchronicity cheered me, silly and inconsequential though it might seem, as I struggled to acclimatize to the huge hotel. A little bit of my own everyday magic.

There were many topics covered at the Kryon Event, and one of them was orbs. Lee Carroll showed ‘before and after’ photographic evidence of conjuring up orbs during meditation, with a suggestion that the audience try it. The next day during a stroll through Madrid’s Retiro park, we chanced upon an exhibition of glass sculptures in the Crystal Palace glass house. The place was full of orbs —real physical glass orbs. We had created our orbs. Real physical orbs, not elusive photographic orbs.

I missed one of the talks, by Dr Todd Ovokaitys, about whale sounds and the use of sound in meditations and so on, while I was looking for my phone. While I was up in my room, I heard a strange sound underneath my window. Somewhat bizarrely, it was a magpie, which was a personal synchronicity with a collaborative fiction project in which magpies featured. I missed the lecture on sounds while creating my own little sound incident.

Tobias, channeled by Geoffrey Hoppe, was a guest at the event. I’d been attempting telepathically to get Tobias to say the word ‘watermelon’ during his monthly online live channeling for six months or more, just for fun. Somewhat disappointingly, Tobias didn’t say watermelon despite my best efforts to project the word to him, but after the event was over I saw Geoffrey Hoppe in the hotel foyer and approached him, saying ‘Say watermelon!’… And it worked! He immediately replied ‘watermelon’ —several times in fact— and told me that he had mentioned watermelon the day before to his wife Linda in the hotel dining room. ‘Don’t forget your watermelon’ he had said. ‘She loves watermelon.’

Once again, I couldn’t help but appreciate mundane everyday magic. There’s something marvellously magical about creating real glass orbs, certainly no less magical than creating photographic orbs by more esoteric methods. It would have been wonderful to create Tobias channeling the word ‘watermelon’ for sure, but how much more magical to create an actual slice of watermelon in the dining room and have Geoffrey remark on it, and to have an actual physical conversation with him about it.

There’s no doubt that the Kryon Event was a fantastic experience, not least meeting new people, but the best part of it all was a renewed sense of appreciation for my own mundane and everyday playful magic, and a reminder not to discount or overlook the delights of the physical world in the search for ‘enlightenment’. The outer physical world is our playground, a perfect reflection of the seemingly elusive inner self.