Do You Believe in Magic? Real Magical Stories From the Jungle

By Aurora Ananda

The word magic, derived from Greek magike, and Latin magicus, was widely used to describe the art of influencing events and creating marvels using hidden natural forces. In other words, we humans used to say that something was magical when certain situations happened in miraculous ways, that logic and science can’t rationally explain.

Through time and with the side effects of an urban and suburban lifestyle, the traumatic repressions imposed by the inquisition of the catholic church, and thanks to the good training of our academic educational system, humans started seeing magic as a trick, as a mere optical illusion performed by magicians in a show for entertainment and nothing else. Nowadays, we usually live normal lives where the only reality is the gross reality that we have in front of our physical eyes, where plants are just green stuff, animals are commercial products, stones are just stones, and unanimated objects are just unanimated objects. It seems that we humans are the only species capable of thinking, feeling, talking a language, creating art, and sustaining relationships. Evidently, in our beliefs of superiority, we don’t waste our time communicating with plants, nonhuman animals, or minerals. If we happen to see a human talking to a plant or stone, they may end up in a mental asylum taking medications to fix their crazy mind.

In the majority of cases, if we ask a human to describe magic or talk about magical situations in their lives, they will remember and talk about those popular tricks that magicians perform such as cutting someone in half with a sword and then putting them back together, with no blood or pain, or when a white Dove shows up from the magician’s hat or when the magician can disappear someone with his magical wand in front of an audience. Everyone is fascinated by those abilities and talents, but at the same time, fundamentally, everybody knows that they are just good tricks learned by the magicians to make some income by tricking our fascinated eyes. But the type of magic that I’m talking about is not about optical illusions but a real magic that serves and enriches our lives, giving us awakening, healing, power, connection, wisdom, cosmic understanding, playfulness, and bliss. It’s a type of magic appearing in our lives as a gift for operating from a certain level of consciousness that vibrates from a mind and heart full of pure intentions for everyone and everything. A kind of magic that prevents us from heavy obscure energies, disasters, chaos, and harmful choices, and simultaneously, a magic that makes the pain disappear, understands a disease, heals, being heard by angels, aliens, plants, animals, and spirits in other realms, but overall, it is a kind of magic that increases the love for ourselves and others, all as one.

I think every single human, especially children and teenagers, has the natural ability to perform certain powers and access to spiritual realms, that as adults, we forget or just shut down to fit in society. For example, in my early adolescence, a friend of mine found a mysterious prayer to romantically attract a person we liked. We had to read the prayer while being naked in a room without any disturbance, putting all our energy into the prayer and giving the name of our crush. At the age of 12, I liked a cute boy Abraham, but for some reason, he didn’t show any romantic interest in me. But anyway, I was melting for him, so naughtily, I decided to give the prayer a try that my friend stole from her mystical aunt. I did the ritual carefully by myself, following all the instructions, and once I finished, I felt that my crush was under my spell. To my surprise, the next day, my dear friend Ronald, who was the same age as me, was suddenly madly in love with me! He started singing songs, dancing, and writing love poems to me, and giving me small gifts to gain my heart. What happened here? Abraham continued behaving indifferently, but Ronald suddenly could not hide his love for me. Everyone in the neighborhood and beyond knew how much he loved me, and his intense love lasted over a decade. Pour guy! I never kissed him on his lips or told him that he was mistakingly spelled by the forces of my first magic experiment. Naturally, I knew that something could go wrong when we use magic on people without their consent, so I decided just to do magic for good reasons, to help others and always under their consent.

When I was 13, I used magic to help our maid Nancy, who was experiencing some weird episodes of schizophrenia, screaming in fear, crying in desperation, and her body shaking as if a dark spirit was behind perturbing her. She used to be a happy 19 years of age girl, but when those episodes started she was usually depressed and things were not working out easily for her. One night I told her, “I will help you with that stuff, I’m not in fear.” and I began to concentrate with all my forces, reciting a psalm of the bible, and putting my hands on her head. At that moment, horrible sounds came from the backyard as if someone was crashing very loudly against the concrete walls. That kind of sound, I could not associate with a normal human, but from someone or something that I’m not able to describe. That night after our successful ritual, I told her to sleep in my bed, so I could take care of her. She slept deeply and calmly beside me, but now I was the one being attacked! Suddenly, I felt my feet and hands paralyzed and then taking all over my legs and arms too, making it impossible for me to move. A deep black hole appeared in front of me, trapping and sucking me to the bottom. Immediately I focused my mind on liberating my arms and legs from not falling into the hole. This battle lasted for several hours during the night, until I finally won and escaped from being sucked in.

The next morning, I saw, what I thought to be a shadow of a woman, standing and looking at me, but once she noticed that I saw her, she ran through the wall. Nancy was now relieved and at peace with her fears, but my mother saw that the situation was not good for us and decided to send her back to her hometown for a while. Nancy’s grandfather, who had powers in occultism, encouraged me to leave home and go with him to his remote farm, so he could train me in the spiritual field, but my family and I rejected his proposal and I continued studying normally in school.

I had other magical situations where I could accurately read people’s lives through the figures formed in their coffee cups, and I could see, hear, and smell things that others couldn’t. From a young age, I was questioning the teachings of my catholic religion, which my culture considered demonical. I had to believe what everyone said without questioning god, Jesus, Mary, or the church. I suppressed myself and was convinced to pray to give up whatever magical powers I had and to make vows for not using magic under any circumstances and behaving accordingly. Because I didn’t want to be the evil witch like Thomas who didn’t believe in Jesus Christ’s resurrection because he was not there to confirm it. I forgot about intuition, questioning, magic, and other spiritual powers, living my life perfectly normally as a good citizen.

However, in my late thirties, as many of you probably know, my partner Michael and I received a higher calling to leave the city to move to Nature. I decided to switch my path and surrender totally to that calling. Following higher messages, signs, and dreams, we ended up in the tropical rainforest of the Amazonian jungle to create Peaceful Village, a project for a raw vegan intentional community with high values of harmony for all life forms, a natural place that supports healing, relaxation, and a deeper connection to the Spirit. Once you enter the Amazonian forest, you can feel the mysterious forces operating in this part of Mother Earth.

While we were searching for land in the Amazon, some magical things started to happen. We made arrangements to acquire a place of 46 hectares with such a majestic waterfall. The place was amazing and the owner seemed very desperate to sell it. However, something told me to go back to the place again before getting the place. I told Michael that we needed to sleep one night there to feel the vibes of the place. We asked the owner if we could spend a night there to feel the energy to see if the land was a good fit for us. He agreed, and we opened our tent for the night. Everything seemed peaceful and beautiful, nonetheless, that night I had a lucid dream, where a female spirit of the waterfall came from the waters directly to our tent to give us a message. We had an entire conversation, in which I thanked her for warning us, and I told her that we would continue searching elsewhere for our land.

The next morning I told Michael about my dream and we decided not to negotiate this land. While we were ready to leave, waiting for a bus on the street, we met a guy who lived nearby who told us that the waterfall occasionally attracts huge Anacondas because it is connected to a large river, one of the wildest in the Amazon. Also, it is not a safe and pristine place anymore due to petroleum and mining companies nearby that have contaminated the soil. Additionally, the government had a particular interest in the land, having an eye on that spot, probably because of petroleum. We didn’t want so many challenges: dealing with the government or big corporations and Anacondas at the same time, so we left, despite the good offer from the owner. How could a dream and waterfall prevent us from such hard situations and how could the waterfall talk to us? Because water has consciousness, water knows about magic!

Then, we found another lovely land that seemed perfect for us with two amazing rivers and a small waterfall, gorgeous scenic views, and the owner desperately wanting to get rid of it. We visited the land several times and we were in love with it. One day we arranged with the owner to show us the land again, but now in the company of our friend Mik, who we wanted his opinion about it. We started walking the land, one behind the other, along a path, led by the owner, then Mik, Michael, and then I. Suddenly, the owner, along with our dear friend Mik, disappeared, and Michael and I were both lost together in the thickets of the jungle. We continued walking around for some time, returning to the same spot without any explanation, as if we were enclosed, walking in a natural labyrinth of high grass. We were getting desperate, not seeing even the minimum trace of the existence of our companions, and the time passed by without being able to find an exit. At some point, Michael fell into a trapped hole and I had to help him out. Thankfully, he was not seriously injured. Suddenly to make everything more desperate, the weather changed from sunny to cloudy and the rain started heavily on us. We lost the sense of time, we were getting tired, hungry, thirsty, wet, and hopeless. At some point, Michael started making noises and screaming for help, listening to someone back, we started following their calls but had to open a path of high grass with our mere hands, because we were not carrying any machetes. Finally, we reached both our friend and the owner, who were almost ready to leave without us, thinking that we had taken another path back to the entrance. The most amazing thing despite we were in the same vicinity, we could not see each other and they were dry, while we were completely wet. Later, some locals explained to us that certain spirits like to play with humans getting them lost in the forest, until the point that people, especially foreigners, die in the jungle, and their bodies are found months or even years after. In the end, everything played out perfectly for not getting that land. How can someone create a sudden labyrinth forest to enclose people? How do they perform the evil power? Black magic also exists!

Finally, we found another beautiful land with three amazing rivers that gave us a warm welcome, protecting and relaxing us. This is our place and the guardian spirits of this land were waiting for us. At the beginning of our arrival to this majestic land, we were clearing up certain areas to be able to grow some food. I chose a spot to plant a pineapple crown. I made a hole with a machete and a shovel, put the crown inside the hole, and covered the hole with soil and mulch, when I almost grabbed a brown Snake centimeters away from me, mistaking her for dead leaves. Here this snake is called “X” pronounced equis (Terciopelo) and she is considered the terror of the Amazon due to her deadly poison and her fast movement and attack. Despite our closeness and all the movements that I did with the machete in my hand, including almost grabbing her with my own bare hands, she did nothing to me. Her eyes were wide open, absolutely enchanted by my presence. Local people could not explain what could enchant the Snake like that, granting me protection to die that day. Undoubtedly, there was something very magical about this event and with my newfound Snake friend. The brown Snake appears in my visions as a good friend, accompanying and protecting me, as a “totem animal” as shamans say.

Living retired from society, spending most of our time in our Amazonian land, with no plugin electricity, eating vegan, occasionally fasting and juicing for days, connecting with the moon cycles, and meditating often, we are opening again the gates of magic where some of our plants vibrate in an oscillating way to say hi when we approach them. One of the Yellow Bell flowers seemed to have eyes and observe what we were doing, where one time the flowers tried to communicate something to me, but unfortunately I couldn’t understand what she was saying. One day an injured Grasshopper started to talk to us when Michael asked him how had he lost one of his legs, but unfortunately, we don’t understand Grasshopper’s language, as we’re very programmed humans having lost the power to communicate with other beings. Some indigenous people appear in my dreams with messages in languages that still I can’t understand, and some gemstones and crystals appear in my dreams and visions to be part of our lives to serve us. Recently a relative who was sick, called me asking for some remedies for his pain. Despite that we are in different countries, I got the insight that all his pains and illnesses originate from his stomach which is full of certain entities that doctors call parasites. I urged him to do some enemas and certain juices, accompanied by a change in his diet for a period of time, to see if they leave his body. He said he promised to do it. It seems that many plants, animals, minerals, human ancestors, and beings from above and below the Earth, are ready and happy to help humans create a relationship of brotherhood and sisterhood with us. However, it seems that most humans are still so busy and distracted, missing a very wonderful magical world and magical friends.

We are just tapping into beautiful dimensions that exist, but the current society denies and subestimates it all. The normal way of living completely disconnects us from our friends and the raw stream of consciousness that links us all together, empowering us to experience an infinite potential that gives us all that we truly need. Life is mysterious, and what society calls fairy tales are not part of cartoons on TV or in children’s story books. The animated characters of plants, animals, rivers, sun, rain, wind, stones, and ancestors, that talk and interact with humans, are all real dimensions that open up to those who slow down and pay attention. There’s a magician inside all of us with the power to transform life with the magical wand of our minds and hearts.

Do you believe in magic? I would love to read your magical stories…

With love, from La La La Land! Aurora Ananda.