Magic is science we haven't figured out yet.
We are members of the Magic Castle and I have been known to have my own bits of prestidigitation with a deck of cards or simple coin. I have pulled cards out of thin air and read people's minds, but is this magic, or simple parlor trickery?
While the supernatural seems real with some sleight-of-hand, magic happens each and every day, in everything around us at every moment. What causes a plant to grow, or for atoms to hold themselves together? How do our wounds heal and why can't energy be destroyed? Scientific questions? Or concepts we have yet to grasp? We understand how certain things happen, but few understand the why. Avoiding conversations related to a "higher power's intent" I am referring to the aspects of our world we have yet to discover.
We often think about what it would be like to live in the Middle Ages or during the times of the Greeks, and I wonder if perhaps scientific explanations have dulled our storytelling abilities. While we are aware that the tides are not the will of Poseidon, but more influenced by our lunar counterpart, the creativity and "magic" is lost when you rely completely on scientific explanation. The further question is what brings magic into it. If gravity pulls us to the earth, what causes gravity to occur? What force pulls us down to the earth and keeps us from becoming so much driftwood in space? It seems almost magical when you really think about it.
Science is magic we've already figured out.
(And btw, the picture isn't photoshopped.)
1 comment:
is that the image of a crying baby i see in the fire?
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