Oz Magic: Perfect Synchro 4 - gagablog 160

I was just talking with my lover about becoming amazing fiction writers and writing fairy tales. I mentioned the Perfect Synchro  in the last gagablog - catching the frisbee at the peak of his leap - that inspired Ultimate Frisbee 50 years ago, and other versions from sports, as an analogy for the same mentality, being in the zone, for a writer. It reminded me of another news report, of a baseball player hitting a walk-off grand slam, but an "Ultimate Grand Slam" - I think it is called, though I hadn't noticed that connection, Ultimate, until now - and he hit one the other day and was on the radio for it because the last one to be hit was like 1938 or something.

Then I came inside, mildly considering writing one of these to talk about Perfect Synchro /The Zone from the athlete /writer analogy  - how to manifest a Perfect World - and turned on Antenna TV and it was the Benson episode about holding a seance for the old Governor who is haunting the mansion. This is another way to discuss Synchro Magic that will be easy if I stay focused, but it convinced me to go ahead and write this again while I have an hour or so.

But mostly I want to write fairy tales myself - I was reminded by facebook of a fairy tale I wrote and shared a year ago and it really inspired me and encouraged me to write more. Then last night I shared a story about Verizon being greedy and restricting phone access for firefighters during the recent California fires and Facebook kept censoring it and removing it as "spam" when I shared it, even suspending my account until i verified things as if I had been "hacked," the first time. This makes me conclude that the best things I can do are My Own - but I'm so grateful for these reminders from the world.

My lover is writing fiction and I'm so proud and happy for her, like a world that only she can find and she's starting to discover it. Our conversation reminded me of that news story, about the baseball player. He said he had to "always think of himself as the best" - to have that attitude and approach "Unless you happen to be the Good Fairy, Dwayne, then you can turn this into a gown and this pumpkin into a coach!" - Shirley on What's Happening!!!, just now. It's the same winning attitude that many, if not most, star athletes have some version of. Star athletes even have some performances that are better, more impressive or legendary than others - and every athlete, at every level, has a chance to have a taste of that. You know what I'm talking about I don't want to get too much into the details  - there are all sorts of language for it, examples of it. Mostly you know that everyone feels it, watching it on TV or at a game, everyone feels the perfection of the perfect pass, the perfect catch, the perfect shot.

Its not perfect "in itself" - its a perfect culmination of everything, the wind, the cheers, the attitude, the ability, the effort, the play - everything. But it's everything coming together - like magic.

A star player expects, envisions, knows these things can happen, has the feeling and beliefs that make them happen - and of course they have to do things, to play. But having that belief, experience, and expectation makes it more common, and just playing, giving it a chance, IS a chance to have experiences like this, to feel like, then become, a star.

The same is true with every activity we undertake, especially writing and art, playing music or playing on the stage - the more you believe in yourself - and the magic that makes everything come together - the more you get into it and the Better you become, the better "you" and magic makes it, for everyone, through the role you play.

Trump is kind of like a bad version of this - this is how bad it can get if you believe in yourself So Much but most of what you believe is Wrong - you might have the whole world to disprove you. "Ceasar Chavez did it, Martin Luther King did it, and there's nothing wrong with it" Roger just said to Shirley   - but I don't want to get bogged down in that, I want to say Good Things. "How's the fish today?" "How do you think it is, Dead!" - Shirley, to the bank guy who got her fired, after she gets her job back.

There was discussion on the Mandela Effect group about the grateful dead and I was going to say the acid could be a reason for a lot of these effects but my comment got cut off by the censorship episode. I do think it's important to mention, here, to credit the psychedelic and musical agents of magic that have this same effect. And the synhronicity of blocking that actual comment from going through and the immediate experience of being cybercensored, even though it was about "something else."

The Zone experience that athletes, and video game players, etc, too, lets face it - experience requires a belief in it but also enhances and expands that belief to others. Amazing things happen in games that you just have to see, but when you do you feel the same magic. It works.

And the same is true for writing, you have to at least think you are a writer, you have something to write, to even get in the game. But if you just try you discover things in the world of ideas, of words, of magic - you've reached out to meet it and will find it when you do.

And just like the Ultimate player, the first catch that inspired the whole game, finding and feeling that moment, and expressing it some way, opens that world, unlocks it for you and for everyone, opens up whole worlds of possibility.

That's why "Just Do It" is an effective phrase, from Nike, named for the Goddess of Victory. Whatever you do will be met and rewarded by magic. Bad stuff will even be rewarded, but ultimately defeated, because faith in the power of Good Things, and joining with them, is where true Victory lies. We all have the ability to sense good things we can do, we just need to overcome our self-doubt and fears that hold us back.

In "today's" (rerun) episode of Benson they know there was Ghost of a past Governor haunting the mansion -they knew because of incidents that happen that he is upset about something, he keeps making things happen: knocking a picture off the wall (I tuned in midway through.) When they hold the seance multiple things happen in synch with what they say to show the ghosts presence: Window blows open, lightning strikes, Klaus goes into a trance, they say"contact us" and the phone rings- but they still doubt and get frustrated and quit and contact is not made. But when the ghost shuts a door, I think, and makes the water tank bubble Benson just starts talking to it, asks it to have a seat. The Governor comes in and he has him take a seat, too - not there, where the ghost is sitting. He starts off by telling him he doesn't believe in him - but if he IS there he wants to talk with him. He intuits the ghost is upset that a park will be named after his successor, who might have poisoned him. So the solution is to just call it Governor's park. At the end of the episode you believe all is okay - and the ghost was real. Benson also tells the ghost to "talk it over with his people" - a funny "government" joke but also suggesting a Ghost World, not just lonely ghosts here and there.

The whole reason Benson, and the audience, come to accept the Ghost as real is because his actions keep synching up with what they are saying, his way of getting their attention when they are saying something about him, to respond. This is always happening, whether it is Ghosts or other magical beings, even each other - it's the Magic world.

This Ghost World is something I've been writing a book about -aliens, angels and fairies, too - but the simplest way to put it is that all of these magical worlds are real - all part of the same magical world - and we are too. But we are the ones insisting on being outsiders, and live in a fake, non-magical world, supposedly, but magic is ready to break out and take us to the Real World, and will, if we just go for it.

 And those who deny it the most, who act as if money is everything instead of the other way around, that people and life and nature and relationships are everything - money is a tool that can be used to make all of those things better, for everyone, or can be used wrongly to only make things better for some. That "magic" works to make more money, but the real magic, of sharing, will eventually take over and change those structures, those fortunes, and all we have to do is believe in that and act accordingly, that frees us from the non-magical world by letting us out of this world of lies, and we find each other, and worlds of help, waiting for us when we take a step, action, or belief in that direction.

I hope this will encourage you to consider the next time you notice or feels some magic and see what it can mean to you.

The Ultimate idea  is that a world of peace, harmony, and happiness, Oz, is waiting for us, sending us messages and messengers, even ourselves, to take us there, and it happens in so many ways. Gaga is one of my favorite examples of this, but I've gotten out of touch, myself, and with myself - I know I need to write fairy tales. But I had to come to believe in myself again, and maybe don't need others to validate me as much as I need to recognize myself "People like you, you're gonna make it!" someone just said to Nell on Gimme a Break as a wrote that.

But actually writing stories, making songs and art, actually going through with it and expressing it to the world, gives people a way to like you - "If you would have stayed with the Doo Wop Girls, you wouldn't be here for us to love." Sam just told Nell - but opening up the magic world of music and art, in the way only You can, actually makes more worlds to love, opens up the world of Love to More people.

Thanks, Gaga, for doing that for us, I'm eager to follow and help in the same way  - there is still so much division and suffering it becomes hard to believe in things. I believe in a world where everything is free, everyone provided for. "You seem so far away" or somethings, the Doo Wop Girls sang as I wrote that - it DOES seem far away but then again its both "inevitable" and necessary - and really we only need to get rid of a few things to make it happen, War, Greed, Hate, etc. It's simple - and while I can't just Get Rich and Give it to everyone, just like that, I can reach out, in the magical way I know, through fairy tales, art, and music, and bring us all closer by getting closer to the Magic World, myself, and more connected to the rest of the world, too.

We can all do that. We grow up hopefully with our needs met, for a time, then are disappointed and have to learn to expect disappointment and denial and rejection and all of these things and build our psyches around those methods and defenses. But there is  magical world, and the future, where we are not held back by those concerns. We can get tastes of it, and do through synchronicity and other simple, natural magic, and we can go for it, when we do "would you like anything else, like a bread crumb?" Mary just asked on 227  - and we Will find the Magic World waiting to show us, all of us, the way in, the way out of suffering and hardship. We make it real by believing in it, and believe in ourselves by experiencing that reality, in every way we can - between us in relationships, through inspiration and fairy guidance in art and imagination, in performance and activism and expressions, even on social media, though quests for justice, through honoring the dead, through alien contact and angelic guidance, channeling, everything in every direction that all leads to Ulitmate Goodness: The Magical World. The World we are in but let ourselves, and others, get caught up in a net of lies, a false world, instead. We might get caught in it again, but we always have Ways Out.

In the abundant world, the Magical World, it's no surprise to ask and you shall receive. But we are shocked or surprised by even the smallest examples of Grace - if we really believe in them and go for them we will find they lead to greater and greater abundance - because the lack of abundance is just the network of lies "You want to borrow a wife?" Jack just asked Mr Roper. Earlier Mrs. Roper told him she is a homemaker not a housewife - that housewife implies the woman is her husband's possession, a sexual toy. He says he can see why she wouldn't like that and she says "I'd Love it!" This is the basic irony of possessions - we think they make us happy but they don't. We want connection, especially belonging, which is the kind of "possession" we crave - sharing. And we CAN live in a world where enough is shared for everyone, where everyone belongs. We can believe in it as a world, to make it happen, we can believe in it for ourselves, in our own relationships, and for ourselves and our artistic, magical natures, ourselves and within ourselves - but going within, into imagination, is the way into a larger world for everyone. Because we all have goodness inside us but we've been trained that there is "not enough" - all we have to do is believe in it, believe in magic, and you find more. You find more by sharing what you have, by expressing your ideas, and realizing the magical connections that draw us all into the same abundance.

We're trained to accept deprivation in a way that is so deep we do it to ourselves. Yes, it is necessary to have basic needs met to even be able to write or draw or sing - and everyone having everything they need is not only possible, imagine how much art it can liberate? - but we can meet those needs for ourselves and take that chance to go for something even greater, something magical, that can lead to make it easier for others, or even to challenge the systems that keep folks deprived.

it's just our best challenge to the system is within ourselves, to find something to express, and a way to get it out there. To do this we have to get over the way we have internalized deprivation and "I knew she felt like she was holding people back" they just said on the dental implant commercial - and liberate ourselves, from ourselves, in order to best help others. Synchronicities are reminders that this magical world cares about us, is paying attention to us, and the more we respond the more we see and believe and can do, the more we become the Stars we are destined for.