[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” background_image=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/cupid.jpg” transparent_background=”off” background_color=”#ffffff” parallax_method=”off” custom_padding_tablet=”50px|0|50px|0″ custom_padding_last_edited=”on|desktop” _builder_version=”3.0.76″ background_position=”top_center”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_divider color=”#ffffff” show_divider=”off” height=”200″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Category” _builder_version=”3.0.76″ background_layout=”light” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n
MYTHOLOGY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”ADD Title” background_layout=”light” max_width=”620px” text_font=”PT Sans||||” text_font_size=”72″ text_text_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”0px||0px|” text_line_height=”1.1em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” text_font_size_tablet=”52″ module_alignment=”left” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.76″]<\/p>\n The Magick of Love<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” transparent_background=”off” background_color=”#f7f7f4″ allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” padding_mobile=”off” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” make_equal=”off” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding_tablet=”50px|0|50px|0″ custom_padding_last_edited=”on|desktop”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding=”20px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_padding_tablet=”0px|||” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/07\/chizpicgif.gif” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”on” align=”center” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” disabled=”off” disabled_on=”on|on|” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.0.76″ animation_direction=”off” \/][et_pb_text background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” text_text_color=”#02b875″ border_style=”solid” text_font=”PT Sans|on|||” text_font_size=”20″ text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”20px||0px|” max_width=”140px” disabled=”off” disabled_on=”on|on|” module_alignment=”center” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.76″]<\/p>\n STEVE CHISNELL<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” text_font=”PT Serif||on||” text_font_size=”16″ text_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”10px||60px|” max_width=”140px” disabled=”off” disabled_on=”on|on|” module_alignment=”center” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.76″]<\/p>\n 26 Sept 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″][et_pb_text background_layout=”light” max_width=”620px” text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_font_size=”24″ text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”0px||0px|” text_line_height=”1.5em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” module_alignment=”left” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.76″]<\/p>\n Rowling\u2019s Ron Weasely, Star Trek\u2019<\/em>s Harry Mudd, and Rick and Morty<\/em>\u2019s title characters may be example enough of the chaos created from love potions. But the trope of \u201cmagicked love\u201d goes back, of course, much further. It speaks to us across songs and myths, offering us one of the most powerful of temptations. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.76″ background_layout=”light” text_text_color=”#0f0f0f” border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”25px|||” text_font_size=”20″ text_line_height=”1.4em” text_font=”PT Serif||||”]<\/p>\n Yet even with a literature replete with warning, we find ourselves enacting weird efforts to attract the opposite sex on our own with Axe body sprays, faux perms and balayage, Forever 21 sales, and Tinder profiles. None of these are particularly magical, but each is designed to pull someone’s less voluntary attention to us and offer them a fantasy \u00a0that our natural selves cannot measure up to. Call them \u201cLove Potion Lite,\u201d protection against our own insecurities. It\u2019s a kind of Cinderella complex–without the duds, no ball.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” transparent_background=”off” background_color=”#f7f7f4″ allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” custom_padding=”0px||0px|” padding_mobile=”on” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” make_equal=”off” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding_tablet=”0px||0px|”][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”on” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”on” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_padding=”0px||0px|” background_color_2=”#efefe9″ custom_width_px=”680px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” 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\/][et_pb_text background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_font_size=”24″ text_text_color=”#818178″ text_line_height=”1.4em” border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”20%|10%||10%” custom_margin_tablet=”|10%||10%” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” disabled=”off” disabled_on=”off|off|” module_alignment=”center” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.76″]<\/p>\n \u201cEach is designed to pull someone\u2019s less voluntary attention to us and offer them a fantasy that our natural selves cannot measure up to.\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” transparent_background=”off” background_color=”#f7f7f4″ allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” padding_mobile=”on” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” 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border_style=”solid” force_fullwidth=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text background_layout=”light” max_width=”620px” text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_font_size=”20″ text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”60px||0px|” text_line_height=”1.4em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” custom_margin_tablet=”40px||0px|” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|tablet” module_alignment=”left” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.76″]<\/p>\n The fantasies we desire–the \u201chappily ever after\u201d–is the promise of a perfect and endless love, the soulmate story, the stars aligning in true fulfillment. But really the love potion is the shortcut to the search, the Quest bypassed. It is the act of the unworthy hero. It is no wonder that in nearly every tale and song, the effort becomes tragic. Just ask Titania from <\/span>Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/span><\/i>, the tragic <\/span>Tristan and Isolde<\/span><\/i>, or the dog-loving Tone L\u014dc. As much as we imagine ourselves the heroes of the story, the ones deserving of love, our experiences of imperfect love overshadow the dream.<\/span><\/p>\n As well they might. It’s true enough that too many American marriages end in divorce from a kind of fatigue or disillusionment in our spouses. The love fades. When my freshmen were asked if they would ever use a love potion if they found one, many cited this very concern: they worried that it was they who would lose interest in the person they potioned. In an era of rom-coms and fairy tales that extol \u201cforever love\u201d as ideal, the failing of the potion is not therefore on the recipient but on the potion giver who is somehow too weak to measure up to his own creation. <\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s not that we don\u2019t desire the ultimate fulfillment of a forever love. It\u2019s that we don\u2019t imagine we are up to it. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” specialty=”off” transparent_background=”off” background_color=”#ffffff” parallax_method=”off” custom_padding=”0px||0px|” padding_mobile=”on” _builder_version=”3.0.76″ background_image=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/paris1.jpg” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_fullwidth_image _builder_version=”3.0.76″ src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/paris1.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” border_style=”solid” \/][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” transparent_background=”off” background_color=”#f7f7f4″ allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” padding_mobile=”on” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” make_equal=”off” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding=”0px|||” custom_padding_tablet=”0px|||”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” make_fullwidth=”on” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”on” custom_padding=”20px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_padding_tablet=”30px|||” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” parallax_3=”off” parallax_method_3=”off” parallax_4=”off” parallax_method_4=”off” custom_width_px=”880px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text background_layout=”light” max_width=”320px” text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_font_size=”20″ text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”60px||0px|” text_line_height=”1.4em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” custom_margin_tablet=”40px||0px|” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|tablet” module_alignment=”left” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.76″]<\/p>\n Was this classical Paris\u2019s problem? A Prince of Troy, after all, should have little trouble finding love. But when offered love or wisdom or power, he chose Aphrodite\u2019s offer. The instant \u201cmagic love\u201d offered in the form of Helen, bypassed anything more \u201chuman\u201d that he might try. Even setting aside the loss of free will of Helen\u2019s returned love (making the love potion an act of non-consent and the tool for a rape story little different from a rufie), Paris\u2019s choice to \u201cdope\u201d the engaged Helen and whisk her back to Troy started a ten year war. Is even this not lesson enough?<\/span><\/p>\n Apparently not. We do succumb to the temptation to potion, even though:<\/span><\/p>\n Again from my students, the results were clear. Nearly none admitted that they would use such a potion, yet one savvy 14-year-old entrepreneur suggested that it would be a best-seller for him. Who could doubt it in the age of New Age Crystal cures, astrology charts, <\/span>earthworm love diets<\/span><\/a>, and<\/span> profits for OKCupid and Tinder at $2.3 billion<\/span><\/a>? My freshmen may be smart when it comes to reasoning out the consequences of magic love, but when loneliness pushes to desperation, our reason fails us. We’ll use such a potion, even if we know it will later reveal our own short-lived lovespan, our inability to live the fairy tale promised us.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_divider color=”#ffffff” show_divider=”off” height=”60″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”off” disabled_on=”off” \/][et_pb_divider color=”#ffffff” show_divider=”off” height=”70″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/tone-loc-love.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”fade_in” sticky=”on” align=”center” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” animation_style=”fade” animation_duration=”500ms” animation_intensity_slide=”10%” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”3.0.76″ animation_direction=”fade_in” \/][et_pb_divider color=”#ffffff” show_divider=”off” height=”70″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][et_pb_divider color=”#ffffff” show_divider=”off” height=”70″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][et_pb_text background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” text_font=”PT Serif||||” text_font_size=”24″ text_text_color=”#363636″ text_line_height=”1.4em” border_style=”solid” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” disabled=”off” disabled_on=”off|off|” custom_margin=”20px|||” module_alignment=”center” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.76″]<\/p>\n \u201cWe know it will later reveal our own short-lived lovespan, our inability to live the fairy tale promised us.\u201d<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#ffffff” show_divider=”off” height=”70″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][et_pb_divider color=”#ffffff” show_divider=”off” height=”70″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on” disabled_on=”on|on|off” \/][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.0.76″ src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/The_Love_Potion-1.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” force_fullwidth=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.76″ background_layout=”light” text_text_color=”#161616″ border_style=”solid” text_font_size=”20″ text_line_height=”1.4em” text_font=”PT Serif||||”]<\/p>\n If we wish to live the fairy tale happily ever afters, then we must also accept a world of potions for non-consent and loves based upon ballroom appearances and sleepy kisses. The love potion is not a happy compromise, but we hold onto it rather than embrace narratives of loneliness, against reason. The alternative is to face ourselves in an uncompromising series of unmagical mirrors, each telling us that few if any will make the daily choice to love us naturally, freely. <\/span><\/p>\n The potion isn’t really for others to swallow. 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