I do understand why you said it, though, Lidless.
The two viewpoints are mutually exclusive. We can't both be right.
For what it's worth, I do realize that some of the magical/supernatural/paranormal stuff I've experienced could be explained by the thread I started yesterday
"grip on reality slim" , and that what I think I experienced might not be quite as real as I thought.
It's also possible, however, that you can't see magic because your brain has developed differently. That your "error checker" is so overdeveloped that no matter WHAT weird stuff happened, you'd have to find a logical explanation for it.
The way I see the world now allows me to cope with it better. Before, crowds used to cause me extreme distress, sometimes close to panic attacks. Nowadays, I just visualize psychic shields going up and the *pressure* from all those
people fades away. We moved out into the country when I was still in my atheistic phase, because I wasn't coping well with subdivision life. Nowadays, I could probably even live in an apartment complex, because I've learned how to cope.
I think some people are born with less defenses against the energy of other people and it makes living in crowds problematical for them.
That's just one facet of my acceptance of the paranormal. You can say it's all in my head--- and it is, really.
But isn't everything?
If I can block pain with a thought, pain that doctors can't help with- that's a good thing. If I can increase the density of my bones just by thinking about it for a year (results measured!) -that's a good thing. If I can become almost comfortable in a crowd instead of being paralyzed by it- also good. And if belief in an afterlife eliminates my fear of death, well what's the point of being afraid of dying anyway? We are all headed that way anyway.
But really, it's not just about making me more comfortable in the world. The weird things I've seen need explanations and science cannot provide them at the moment. I was trained as a scientist. It really bothered me when things happened without rational explanation. Once I opened my mind to irrational explanations, the pieces of the puzzle started to fit and make sense.
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Oh, and as an aside: when stores first came out with those touch screen thingys in the checkout line, they wouldn't work for me. I could touch them as hard as I could and it was like I was invisible. They'd work fine for my husband, whose grip on reality is firm.
This embarrassed me and since I was already into the energy manipulation phase of my development, I decided to try pushing the button and pushing some "chi" force through my finger at the same time. They started working for me. Same touch pads. Different day, but not
long afterwards.
I don't have an explanation, so I call it magic.
That sort of thing happens often to me, so I see magic in the world all the time.
Reality is malleable.