Talk:The Hokey Pokey/@comment-5101683-20161207060644

You put your head in You put your head out Put your head in And bang it all about.

Hokey-pokey: Magic or trickery/street ice-cream

I think there is wasted potential here. Also, the whole "no theories about the Hokey Pokey" is incorrect. Case in point:

“You put your whole self in, And you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey And you turn yourself around. That's what it's all about.” To understand these words,  let us consider these words written by Wolfgang von Goethe, “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: the moment one definitely commits oneself, then. . . a whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.” Frankly, I think Goethe sums up the larger meaning of the song most eloquently. You commit your whole self, you shake yourself about, engage yourself fully in life and living, and then the hokey pokey, the magic happens. The magic isn’t something we do, it is something that happens when we are fully committed. From a Buddhist perspective, this so called magic is easily and rationally explained. Given that everything happens because the conditions exist to make it happen, then by committing ourselves to a project, a cause, greater spiritual awareness, whatever, by committing ourselves and taking action we are creating favorable conditions for, as Goethe wrote, “all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come along.”