Leave behind the past

This metaphor uses a common experience, looking through a merchandise catalogue, to induce trance and then to give the listener several metaphoric ways to change their own past and future. The basic metaphor is 'no matter what happened to make you what you are now... it can be changed'. This metaphor is one answer to 'How can I change my life?'.

The script starts with an imagination induction to put the listener into trance. Then it takes the listener to different pages in the book. One page offers the opportunity to scrape off the picture of your life as it is, and paint your life the way you want it to be. Another page is about gardening, and allows you plant a magic garden. One page is about how to create a mosaic picture from the bits of your life and to keep rearranging the bits until you get a picture you like. One page lets you pick and choose fromt the strands of your life, so that you can weave the strands into a new pattern for yourself.

This metaphor is what to use when someone says "I don't know what to do. Change me".

The Catalogue of Magick

• Index to Metaphors