What Is Magic?
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Shaman in Ecuadorian Amazonia during a real
ayahuasca ceremony.
Photo by: Ammit Jack/Shutterstock, model released image, as seen in April
2015,
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Magic is not an illusion or fiction, the occult or the paranormal.
It is not sorcery, supernatural nor the
opposite of science.
It is not what the ancient Greeks, Romans
and Israelites thought.
It is not wicked, nor fraudulent ritual or
criminal practice,
Performed by charlatans, witches,
magicians, gods or demons.
It doesn’t oppose religion, nature or human
law.
There is no good or white magic, no
talismans or voodoo dolls.
Magic is not a symbolic language of spells,
curses or incantations,
That have influence over the physical world.
There is no collective understanding of
what magic is.
No accepted scholarly definition of magic.
So, what is magic?
Like our ancestors we really don’t know
what magic is.
Primitive human interpretations of unknown
forces,
Opened the door into a world of magic,
imagination,
Religion, ritual and an awareness of our
place in the world.
Magic, was what we did not understand.
Like children, we fed and grew on
curiosity.
What was once primitive, became reborn.
A renaissance of thought, suddenly takes
hold.
Methods adapted, observations made, theories
proposed,
Resulting in the study of the structure and
behavior of the physical and
Natural universe, through
observation, hypothesis, prediction and experiment.
Science is born.
Science draws conclusions based on the
available knowledge.
But what of the unknown forces, the unknown
structures and behaviors?
Perhaps there are things that can never be
known?
Perhaps we should change the definition of
science to be:
“Science is the study of the structure and behaviors
of the natural
Physical universe and its yet unknown structures,
forces and behaviors,
Through observation, hypothesis, prediction
and experiment.”
Science is thus, the study of what is known
and unknown.
It is the study of magic, and the universe
that wields it.
Magic is thus the universe, and how it creates
from nothing, everything.
Religions evolved, science evolved, but
what about spiritualty?
Spirituality, is our innate need to seek
out and understand the magic.
David Yanez
12-19-17
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