What is magic? You may not know of the long connection that magic shares with psychology. Indeed only recently have scientific publications again have begun publishing papers on collaborations with stage magicians exploring the effects of sight blindness. I said again. Off and on these collaborations have been pursued. The events although recorded are not read by succeeding generations. This is one of the aspects that people do not realize. There exists this public fascination with science, but not with the scientific method. The ignorance of the process results in more difficulties. Is one really understanding of how to propose and experiment and can one really perform the experiment. The ability to measure depends on the ability to detect a change of an event. In medical research for example changes in cytokine concentrations are referred to as a change in level. What are those values and what do they mean? This is not understood. Our level of thought by the public far outweighs what we actually know. A way of helping people would be to educate them of how experiments are proposed and conducted. This makes for bad film. As a director informed me. They need action. If so then bring in a reel to reel tape. At least the device goes round and round. Digital instruments only make electronic noise. A different view of magic was how organisms are affected by the environment and how organisms can make changes on their own environment. It was this study that led to much of our understanding of the physical sciences. Through this work much of what we know today of the mind was and still is achieved. An aspect of science the public is vaguely aware is the study of the scientific literature. Due to the ever increasing desire to partition and create new disciplines the effects cause a weakening of science. It is now understood that in order to understand nature we must examine the environment in terms of several systems. The examination demands changes in the way of isolating everything connected and drawing conclusions. Despite the advances that transistors have brought to the world the concept upon which it is based goes back to the phenomenon known as thermionic emission. That was observed when lightbulbs were made. Knowing this gives an understanding of where progress really is. The fact that a screen can be made to vary resistance or capacitance to touch involves the creation of a conducting polymer. One that can easily be made by anyone who desires to learn. A magician can be wise. A magician can perform wondrous things by manipulating the active and passive powers as they occur in physics and chemistry. A magician involves circumstances such as the actions of nature or of higher intelligence. This can be presented to excite wonderment by their appearances or if desired disappearance. Magic refers to what happens as a result of the powers of attraction and repulsion. This is exemplified by magnetic fields. Magic is the petition or invocation of spiritual powers to achieve a desired effect. The application of will power. The encouragement to do well on an exam. The desire to seek out and obtain a better job. The desire to destroy an addiction, The correction of a bad habit. Magic is the application of methods of breath, and meditation to obtain control of the mind and body. Magic is the study of the occult laws that govern thought. Magic is the practice of the occult laws. What one does with magic corresponds with the Natural Law. The outcomes must be understood. What are the axioms in magic? “magicians take it as axiomatic that, in all the panorama before our eyes, God acts on the gods; the gods act on the celestial or astral bodies, which are divine bodies; these act on the spirits who reside in and control the stars, one of which is the earth; the spirits act on the elements, the elements on the compounds, the compounds on the senses; the senses on the soul, and the soul on the whole animal. This is the descending scale. By contrast, the ascending scale is from the animal through the soul to the senses, through the senses to compounds, through compounds to the elements, through these to spirits, through the spirits in the elements to those in the stars, through these to the incorporeal gods who have an ethereal substance or body, through them to the soul of the world or the spirit of the universe; and through that to the contemplation of the one, most simple, best, greatest, incorporeal, absolute and self-sufficient being. Thus, there is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He is the highest point of the scale, pure act and active power, the purest light. At the bottom of the scale is matter, darkness and pure passive potency, which can become all things from the bottom, just as He can make all things from the top. Between the highest and lowest levels, there are intermediaries, the higher of which have a greater share of light and action and active power, while the lower levels have a greater share of darkness, potency and passive power.” Giordano Bruno Further Reading
Principle and Unity-And Essays on Magic by Giordano Bruno
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