ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a sense of ancestors or ancestral knowledge that is important in magical thinking, for it provides a sense of foundation, of security, and location. It shows the particular connectedness of magical thought interconnectedness, spoken of abstractly when viewing magical thought from the perspective of analytical thought. Life is a cyclical dance of interconnectedness of the past, present, and future in the mythical imagination of magical consciousness. The chapter also shows the importance of myth as a framework for understanding the language of magical consciousness, and how it helps to shape and give meaning to individual experience. It is a collection of semi-historical names of heroes in the sagas of the Norse tradition, and the second is a fragment, a record in Voluspo of a seeress's divinatory journey by Snorri Sturleson in the twelfth century. Analytical thinking breaks things down into static, interacting parts; magical thought.
