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This is going to be another one of my long ones. I was reading a book called Spellbound. It was about how magic has played a part in human culture and life. We humans seem to be fascinated by this idea of Magic. (Magick, glamour, Chi, The Force, ext.) Is it the idea of it being something new, or something so ancient we forgotten it? Are we seduced by the idea we can bend the world to our will and yet cause little damage? Like making a mountain, out of a hill and not kill the plants that already live on said hill. Is it the instant gratification, of saying a few words and getting a huge response? Or maybe it's just simply fun?

Magic is defined as:

"# any art that invokes supernatural powers
# magic trick: an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
# charming: possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; "charming incantations"; "magic signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night"- Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers" "
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I was just wondering this. Whether it's Harry Potter, LOTR, Narnia, Fairy Tales (Be they Grimm or Beetle and The Bard), Star Wars, and even Comic Books, we seem to really make good stories that have magic last. Even Jane Austins' or Mark Twain's books, that have the magic of life have lasted, along with so many others. Look at myths, they were the Harry Potter of their time and we still read about their heroes today. Is it the magic or the lessons we want to pass on the reason we tell the stories, or both?

If a man from 2008 C.E (AD), were to meet a man from 2008 B.C.E (BC), won't that BCE man think the CE man were a god? We can talk and see others over huge distances, by simply turning on a screen and a microphone, with speakers. We can fly, we can genetically change plants and animals, we can destroy mountains in the blink of an eye, we can recreate the forces of nature on a miniature scale, we can make what was a weeks journey in a single day, we can translate languages written or spoken with little trouble, we can cure many illnesses and prevent them and this is only a small example.

It's quite scary, to think about. Technology and magic are so distant, but when you dwell on it they are very similar. Will we make magic exist through technology one day? Or will there always be a line between them?
Technology of the mind and magic in the heart.

What do you think makes magic, magic?

I see your point, but we could never achieve magic. Magic is supernatural. It is not of us. We are of it. Magic (at least to me) isn't just waving a wand. It's the every day miracles you never really think about until afterward.

First off, this is an amazing, thought provoking thread! Katie you are my hero for the day!

Now on the subject.

I think that magic has to be out there, in some form or another. I've known people who could make things happen just by wanting them to. I know that it is something in our heart, and completely separate from technology. One day, when they're installing chips in people brains to make them human computers and what not, there will be those who refuse, simply on the basis that they do not need it!!

I believe if you want something bad enough, and will it hard enough whether through prayer, or magick or alchemy you will never need technology to accomplish your goals. If magic was not real, the idea of it would not remain for so long. How is it that the idea of gods and witchcraft have remained if there was not at least a bit of truth to start it of?

Magick has been practiced for centuries.I myself might become initiated as Wicca.