One day she was speaking to her sweetheart Felipe about something that happened in Brazil in the 1960s and then out of nowhere, the book idea came to herįelipe told her how the Brazilian government got a notion to build a giant highway across the Amazon jungle during an era of rampant development and modernisation. In Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert tells the story about the most magical thing that ever happened to her. When an idea thinks it found somebody (like you) who might be able to bring it into the world, the idea will visit you and it will try to get your attention. Therefore ideas spend eternity swirling around us searching for available and willing human partners. Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest, and the only way an idea can be made manifest is through human efforts that an idea can be escorted out of the ether and in the realm of the material. Gilbert believes that our planet is inhabited not only by animals and plants and bacteria and viruses but also by ideas. Because the truth is, she believes that creativity is a force of enchantment that is not entirely human in its origins. She is referring to the supernatural, the mystical, inexplicable, the surreal, the divine, the transcendent, the otherworldly. In Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert refers to magic, literally like in the Hogwarts sense.
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