Everything we see in life is magic, because none of it represents the physical nature of reality; we create it as we go, no matter how logical one might think they are. The reason we can perceive the magic tricks we understand as fake as real, is because of our natural tendencies to see reality as that which we have experienced and expect. Magicians understand, and take advantage of natural human tendencies to miss most everything in life, except for what we expect.
Obviously there is phenomenon in life that is above that which can be explained by scientific explanation, call it magic, the unknown, psi, or whatever; any basic understanding of science should give one an understanding that we can't measure or observe everything in existence, although some of us make our best stab at it with the tiny needles that are our minds.
Science suggests this is the way our cognitive awareness works, and if science is correct, it is reasonable to expect that some experience more of what might be called the magic of life, than others.
We can also insist that nothing exists that cannot be scientifically measured. It is true we have a fairly good understanding of what we experience as reality because of science, but reality is what it is whether we experience and create more or less of it or whether or not we can observe and measure it.
Current science suggests that our observations may influence reality itself, which suggests that there are no clear borders between the so called animate and inanimate nature of what we currently understand as reality. I can't remember a sign post on the road that said reality couldn't be that way, before humans got here.
Until, science measures all the forces in existence, which is not a likely scenario because of our obvious limitations as humans, we can nod or shake our head at the experiences that one might attribute to magic, psi, mysticisism, religions of all kinds, God in all it's definitions, and any other word one might come up with to describe the parts of our reality that defy an objective understanding.
If science is correct and life is only what we create of it, it is all magic to some degree, and the cognitive portrayal of it is up to the totality of what makes each individual unique, with their own custom perception of the magic they call life.
If magic is what is beyond concrete reality that can be discretely measured and observed; yes I believe in magic, because apparently by this definition and the current scientific understanding of cognitive awareness, our own personal magic is mostly what we experience as we observe what is reality and create what we expect is real, normally not being fully conscious that we even do it.
22 Jul 2011, 10:30 pm
