In the mind of every person is a narrative or map which overlays the world. This map shows the features of the landscape deemed relevant to him, and it describes nothing else. For a single person could not find his way to a single step forward if he had to consider each and every minute aspect of the world around him. The map is no ordinary map. The landscape it describes includes the routes and relationships of the non-fixed as well as the fixed, ideas and behaviors as much as places and things. Each person draws his own map. Much is copied from others, but never exactly. Rare is one who will compare his map to another and see that it is different. Common are those who never realize their map is not the world itself. Such is the importance of the map. However, what can seem worthless can be valuable. What was of no threat can become a threat. The unseen has importance. It is the art of the witch to move in and out of these narratives and to weave new ones. His purpose is to see things as they might otherwise be, accommodate the unexpected, find a way when there appears to be none. To do so, the witch must first break the grip of his own map. This is surfacing, awakening, enlightenment, epiphany -- stopping the world.
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