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Originally Posted by cylon  To me IM means returning to that allowing state, that we had when we were younger and less cynical. |
When I was about 4 or 5, living in the Southwest, my folks got me a toy drum from a Native American-type gift shop. On more than a few occasions, my sisters and I would gather in a circle and chant "We want rain" over and over while I banged away on that thing. We got rain every time, and once even snow. Sometimes I think I fantasized it all, but my sisters remember doing this too. It'd be rather pointless to deny it anyway, given the other bits of in-family weirdness.
Later on, nearing my "tweens", I left that drum on the front bumper of my Dad's car. I came back some time later to find the neighbor's dog had chowed down on it. Looking back, it seems to me this planted the idea in my subconscious that the time for "magic" was over. After that, with a brief respite via "Star Wars", every year seemed to represent an increasing erosion, until I got to the late 1980s and became the kind of mostly-jaded adult all too many do.
Good to have you all here to help me take a shot at undoing the "switch"...