ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on an in-depth case study using the anthropologist's own experience gained through years of anthropological fieldwork of magic. As an ethnographic view, it is an intimate study of the way in which the cognitive architecture of mind engages the emotions and imagination in a pattern of meanings related to childhood experiences. The chapter speaks William Blake's own childhood experiences of seeing dragon that helps to recover magical elements of his life. The red Welsh dragon connects with the dragon-ivy sentinel at Carshalton. The ivy indicates resilience and tenacity, as the dragon symbolises renewal in magical consciousness. William Blake has learnt that communicating with the spirits of the waters has opened up a process of knowing that all are connected through ripples of relatedness. The chapter brings that the spirits of the water flows through all beings before returning once more to their source, there to be reborn and renewed in the life of the magical imagination.
