Muratus Lecture III: Magic in Modern Days
The definition of magic is what got shifted over time. We tend to think of magic as of something not real by definition.
<Interjection: Besides that, just a quote, any sufficiently examined science is indistinguishable from magic>
Yes, exactly.
And I must add here that this misconception about magic exists only because of the Church.
<Question: Mur, what do you define magic as?>
Magic is not a word.Magic is NOT a word…the fact that it has a word assigned to it makes it weak and weird. It was taken from people and hidden behind a word.When people were doing “magic” as a common way of living, it had no such word.
<interjection: all concepts are assigned words, if only to be able to communicate more easily.Words may constrain and weaken, but they’re essential.>
When you refer to black people as negroes …you do not use the word to easily refer to them…you use it to separate them from the rest …why you don’t speak about us “white” people?I don’t hear people speaking about white people.
Ok, back on track, the worst thing that happened to magic was to get a name.Magic is NOT _one_ thing.That’s why, if you put it all together in one pot, you sacrifice all its aspects if one fails.So as soon as you take out the illusion part of magic and put it in front, you can destroy the whole concept of what magic is.
There are multiple forms of magic. People will always face one of them eventually.And because “magic” is somehow banned, they find another word for it to take it out of the “magic” stigmata.
Here i’ll share my toughts of “modern days magic”, and I want to clear at first: these toughts aren’t a criticism of the first five page – just pure fresh sight of magic itself.
<Question> – What’s the difference between Traditional and Modern Magic?
<Answer> – The ONLY difference is the way we see it.
For an example: As you could read on page four “magic is just the unknown”, page five says “everything is a form of magic”.
<Question> – If everything is a form of magic, how could it be unknown?
<Answer> – In my opinion magic isn’t unknown, becouse we can tell several forms of it, only the borders of magic are unknown.
<Question> – What makes the borders unknown?
<Answer> – There are two things makes them unknown.
The first thing is hard to understand: that magic itself isn’t the thing we learned to be ‘good’.
For an example: Whenever a child go to school, he/she will learn the ways of our life. Technically that you must be communicative (share your problems and the things you don’t understand with others,and don’t even try to think about it’s true or false on your own…), so to say he/she ‘have to be’ someone whose toughts are accepted by the community. If he/she isn’t became the one we accept (thinking in other ways than normal – i call this “Magical thinking”), then he/she is crazy, psychyc or just childish. There’s only one form that the community accepts as the kind of “Magical thinking”, we named it “belief”.
<Interjection> I could have call it fear. That’s why most of us fear to be alone, and a fev more ugly things we ‘fear’ came from this kind of teaching of the whole community. It’s just sad… Anyways there was huge “thinkers” such as Einstein who was actually tought Magical, and he fought with the community to accept his toughts.
Secondly we are asking the wrong questions or incorrect questions in incorrect sequence about the borders. Usually we ask firstly that: “Where they ends?” But who could answer that question? Would be none.
What if we ask: “If we say the borders are endless, then what makes the difference between all of the magical forms?”. Answer could be: US. The way we see this subject. I very much agree that magic isn’t parts of things we can name (like witchcraft, illusion, trick and so on…). Magic is a whole. Only we want to tare it to small pieces to understand it, becouse we don’t know a better way to understand things we dont know (witchcraft, illusion, trick is one and the same things).