Living an enchanted life means different things at different stages of the path. At first, the world seems mundane….you go to school, get a job, make money, buy things, do what you’re “supposed” to do. Then something begins to feel hollow or missing, and we go looking for more. We discover magick, meditation, gods, angels, spirits, hidden worlds, and reality suddenly becomes mysterious again. But if we keep going, eventually we discover that the forces we were searching for outside ourselves were within us all along. After this, the division between the spiritual world and the ordinary world begins to collapse. Then enchantment takes on an entirely different meaning. You return to the same world you once wanted to escape, only now you realize it was never mundane. You wash the floor with the same attention you would give to cleaning the body of God. You prepare food as an offering. You listen to another person as if the creator of the universe were speaking to you. The later stages of the path aren’t about finding more extraordinary experiences. The culmination of the path is about becoming completely intimate with ordinary life. You leave this world searching for the enchanted one, only to eventually discover that the enchantment was here all along. You just couldn’t see it yet.