The world is actually made of magic. Everything is magic.
What do I mean by magic? I’ve written about that here: https://myriachromat.wordpress.com/2017/07/12/the-meaning-of-magic/.
If the world is made of magic, then why does it seem, for the most part, to be mechanical, orderly and predictable? The answer is that, as a conscious collective, we magically conform the world to our desires and expectations, and we desire for and expect the world to behave in accordance to the mechanistic principles we understand.
Why do we desire this order, this relative lack of magic? Perhaps the only answer available lies in looking inward at something right under our nose that we don’t really think about. Imagine if something that seemed truly inexplicable, illogical, nonsensical happened in reality. If something like this has happened or has apparently happened to you, recall that instance. Now imagine how desperately you’d wish and search for a “logical” explanation to appear immediately. Does this sound odd? It’s a nearly universal human tendency. If you think about it the imagined scenario the right way, you’ll see it. I don’t know what drives us toward this behavior, but if you introspect your own tendency towards it, maybe you can figure it out.
But there’s a much better, more important application of this reflection.
In Talking to Extraterrestrials by Lisette Larkins, the Greys tell us that we love illusionist magic (i.e., stage magicians) because magic is the only thing that can save us. Imagine how liberating and fun things would be if magic were realized in this world?
I once read a supposedly true story of two men who were walking along philosophically discussing how magic may actually be possible, and they were getting more and more excited at the possibility, and then around the corner was an umbrella standing against the wall that suddenly exploded in a colorful light show, disappearing into thin air. I know this may sound like pure fantasy, but there are many true things in the world that sound insane and absolutely unbelievable to the conventionally trained mind. We can learn a lot by being less dismissive of personal stories and by stretching our minds to try to imagine how things seemingly outlandish at the outset could be true.
Anyway, back to the above thought experiment. What’s the better, more important application of this reflection that I speak of? It’s to try to train yourself not to have that immediate, desperate reaction to find a logical explanation for something when the inexplicable happens. Because in looking for and needing such an explanation, we create one. So, try to override that instinct and to be perfectly okay with and open to the unexplained and seemingly nonsensical/illogical. This may just be the key to our salvation. (Seeing is believing; if one person can bring about the magical, it may spread like wildfire.)
By the way, I put “illogical” in quotes or precede it with “seemingly” above because there’s nothing strictly illogical about magic or reality being magical; what passes as “logical” or “illogical” in our minds is often, if not usually, predicated on certain hidden, unnecessary assumptions. (I’ve written more about that here: https://myriachromat.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/notes-on-science-scientism-mysticism-religion-logic-physicalism-skepticism-etc/#Logic.)
Another thing worth pointing out is that we probably have a fair amount of magic in this world already (I know I already said the world is made of magic, but I mean we probably have a fair amount of magic in the not unconsciously constricted sense—the real magic), but in searching for scientific explanations for given phenomena, we actually “snap” reality, including the past, directly into scientifically explainable states. This happens as seamlessly and unnoticeably as something morphing in a dream (or at least in one of my dreams :p).
Not only the explanations of observed phenomena in terms of known scientific theory rely on this “snapping” of reality to an explainable state, but the development of physical theory itself probably does, too. In the book Beyond Weird: Why Everything You Knew About Quantum Physics is Different, Philip Ball says,
Quantum theory had the strangest genesis. Its pioneers made it up as they went along. What else could they do? It was a new kind of physics – they couldn’t deduce it from the old variety, although they were able nonetheless to commandeer a surprising amount of traditional physics and math. They cobbled old concepts and methods together into new forms that were often nothing much more than a wild guess at what kind of equation or mathematics might do the job.
It is extraordinary how these hunches and suppositions about very specific, even recondite, phenomena in physics cohered into a theory of such scope, precision and power. Far too little is made of this when the subject is taught, either as science or as history. The student is (certainly this student was) presented with the mathematical machinery as though it were a result of rigorous deduction and decisive experiment. No one tells you that it often lacks any justification beyond the mere (and obviously important) fact that it works.
Perhaps once an educated guess is made, with sufficient faith in its efficacy on the part of the scientist, all future experiments magically conform to its predictions? And similarly, if observations of the past are compared to such predictions, maybe the past itself “snaps” into the mold seamlessly? I’ve personally noticed many times my thoughts and other events in the present affecting other things in the present that shouldn’t be affectable in that way because they depend causally on a history before them. To give the most scientific example of this and to explain what I mean by that, the very first time (and one of not very many times) I took a retrokinesis test, in which the goal is to affect purely with your will data that had already been gathered from a quantum random number generator but had not been observed yet, the distance the random walk moved from the center corresponded to an improbability of 1/300.
We are probably creating all of this moment-to-moment; let’s see if we can make the best of it by expanding our constriction on what’s possible, or thought to be possible…
