Nothing in magic as I understand it -- no, nor anything in homeopathy, Do-In, or any of the other weird things Ill be talking about here -- permits the violation of any known physical law. Whats going on here, rather, is that theres another realm distinct from that studied by physics, one with its own laws and regularities, that impinges on physical matter and energy only in strictly limited ways, but that has replicable effects on consciousness and life when approached in those ways. To put it another way, the only thing in magic (or homeopathy, etc.) that makes it problematic for modern scientists is that it works through a causal mechanism that current science doesnt know about -- or, more precisely, has been trying its level best to ignore, for historical and ideological reasons, for some centuries now, and has had to engage in dubious logic from time to time to uphold that rejection. That doesnt mean that science is wrong; it means that science is incomplete, as a description of the whole universe of experience that human beings encounter, and that some of the claims that are often made by scientists (who are, after all, human beings) are mistaken. A comment by John M. Greer in galabes.blogspot.ch/2014/11/impossible-realities-second-interlude.html
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:24:06 +0000
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