Magical Symbolism of Harry Potter - Magical Brain and Muggle Brain

The Magical Symbolism

of Harry Potter

Have you ever wondered what the extraordinary success of the Harry Potter series is really about? Certainly, J.K. Rowling is a talented writer with the ability to create a fantasy world that almost seems real to the reader. Her stories are engaging and fun to read, but there are many great, well written stories that never enjoyed the astounding popularity of the Potter series. There is an element, beyond good writing and a well-constructed story, that strikes a chord in our collective consciousness and captures the imaginations of millions of readers all over the world. That element is Magic!

From the Arthurian legends, to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, magic has fascinated readers as long as books have existed. And why is that? Could it be that we naturally want to include magic in our lives, even if we can only find it in fiction? Could it be that there is a magical part of us that longs to come to the surface, even though we have been taught that it doesn't exist?

The Magical Brain
& the Muggle Brain

Muggle Left Brain Our Magical Brain

Magical Right Brain

We actually have two brains, as you can see in the picture above. There are two separate hemispheres that work together, and they have very different functions. For most people, one hemisphere dominates the other, and often communication between hemispheres doesn't work so well. When that happens, we get stuck in a limited view of reality. Either we lose our creative spark of imagination, or we lose our grounding in rational logic. We need both sides for good mental health and balance. For many people in the modern world, the logical left brain has become dominant, keeping them stuck in a reality where magic cannot exist. That is the muggle view of reality.

But what if the other half of our brain was designed to be magical? Actually, it is!

It's like we have Harry Potter's "muggle world" symbolized in our logical left brain hemisphere, and the "magical world" alive and well in our right brain hemisphere. We happen to live at a time when the functions of our magical right brain are generally disregarded in favor of "muggle" left brain functions, but it wasn't always so. Our modern, industrial world now favors linear logic, facts, rational thinking, and following rules, while imagination, intuition, the arts, psychic phenomena, and magic are often discounted as frivolous, or even nonexistent. In the past, we were much more open to intuition and magic. We had to be or we wouldn't have survived!

Even though the "muggle" half of our brain is necessary to keep us grounded in the material world, the other half allows us to access the wizard

magical, ethereal, imaginative world-view that is embodied in the Harry Potter books. There must be a good reason for this. After all, nature doesn't create organs that don't perform important functions!

In fact, our right brain is essential to our happiness and even our survival as a species, because it is with the right brain that we can create and IMAGINE.

Why is Imagination So Important?

Even linear-thinking, left-brain scientists are finally starting to understand the importance of the right brain. They are proving in the laboratory that our mind can affect our reality. What we think actually changes the reality we perceive and the outcome of our experiments! If we follow that thread a bit further, we can see the importance of imagination, because we can imagine absolutely anything.

So if our thoughts are affecting our reality, and imagination triggers thoughts we have never thought before, it stands to reason that our reality will change in ways we never imagined before. That's Magic!

The Magic of Harry Potter

The funny thing is that Harry Potter books are actually performing magic every time they engage the i-magi-nation of a reader. They are changing our collective consciousness by stimulating the imaginations of millions of people with the possibility of magic. Once we imagine something strongly enough, it starts to manifest in physical reality.

Our wonderful subconscious mind (that governs about 95% of our actions) does not distinguish between what is "real" and what is imaginary. It simply takes in and processes information and accepts all of it as real. So every time we read a Harry Potter book, there is a huge, subconscious part of us that is accepting it as real. Imagine how that is changing our collective view of the world as millions of readers immerse themselves in these stories!

We have a conscious mind that screens out all that imaginary stuff, but underneath the surface there are magical changes taking place that will eventually appear in our conscious awareness. A whole generation is growing up with the idea of magic as seen through the Harry Potter books and films. Eventually that will have to make a difference in the way we approach life as a culture.

Already, we are seeing a significant increase in public interest in ancient magical traditions. The magical brain has been activated in our culture. People are starting to wonder if the muggle view of reality is really all there is.

The Harry Potter books are full of magical symbols that trigger the awakening of an ancient consciousness. Wands, the cup of Hufflepuff, the sword of Gryffindor, and Slytherin's stone are a modern version of the Four Sacred Hallows of the Faery realm, and of course the Sorcer's Stone was the quest of the magical alchemist. All these symbols serve to awaken our ancestral memory. They are part of our collective consciousness, still resonating in our blood and bones.

Is it any wonder that so many people have responded to these stories with such enthusiasm?

Magical Solutions to Global Crisis

Now, as we are faced with global warming, widespread pollution, and overpopulation, we need magical solutions to solve our problems in addition to practical solutions. Instead of a "dark lord" there is a great ecological crisis to face, brought on by our dependence on "muggle" left-brain thinking. We don't have the answers to solving these problems, but we DO have our imagination. It is time to engage our magical right brain to "think outside the box."

Could it be that we crave magic now more than ever, because we face such huge problems in our world? Could it be that we collectively know that it is time to awaken the magical mind and bring our right brain intuition back into balance with left brain thinking? Could this be why we are seeing such a resounding response to the Harry Potter series? I would have to say yes. That is at least part of it.

It looks like we are getting ready for a leap in consciousness. Through fiction and film, our minds are being prepared for a new way of shaping our reality. Rather than struggling with mechanical ways of cleaning up our problems, we will imagine solutions into being. We will use magic to heal our world and improve our reality.

This doesn't mean we won't be DOING anything practical. Imagination is at the root of every great invention and technological advance. So as we imagine a better world, we will also be inspired to take action to improve things.

The Law of Attraction gives us the ability to think our solutions into being. What we focus our attention on will become our reality. So it is time to focus on a world of harmony and abundance with clean flowing rivers, pure fresh air, healthy happy people and animals, and creative fulfillment for all.

Meanwhile, we still have to take action to live sustainably, and use our logic to come up with practical solutions. We cannot disregard our left brain rational thinking. We need BOTH hemispheres of our brain working in harmony and balance. We need to learn how to combine logic with intuition, and imagination with science. Then we will have the tools we need to shape our collective future in the most positive way possible.

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