Maybe the special sort of magic vegans are most familiar with is the magic that lifts us up and puts us down in another world - another perspective: same things but seen differently.
Magic transforms the uncomfortable into comfortable. With foods we love: the magic of a plant-only regimen is at the positive end of a negative perception. It’s at a level of acceptance with which we didn’t know we could be happy. With a new take on foods we can re-examine other things at the same time. Our old Monday attitude switches across to a new Tuesday attitude. By making one decision, we switch everything across, the reasoning, the excitement of change, the first effects of that change … and from all this comes transformation - a feeling of being able to get things moving along, from eating omnivorously to eating herbivorously. When we find out that it’s satisfying we also discover that the feeling’s not so very unfamiliar. Everything is much the same, the only big difference is that we’re no longer members of The Club, no longer killing, hurting or making others feel bad (‘others’ being the animals). With that change of circumstance the magic shows up; the small child with innocent eyebrows raised, glad we’ve at last realised there’s no need to keep bashing animals.
Looking back at Monday’s attitude we can see how it held a whole pattern of behaviour in place. Now, if we can be released from its hold, we can travel far away, comfortably, swiftly, by carpet; travelling by magic.
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