On Magic and Mystery
Almost every person who has the nerve to call themselves a scientist will look at the great mysteries in the world... unknown phenomena, and they'll laugh. They'll say it's trickery, untrue, doesn't exist, seeing what one wishes to see. It's this narrow mindedness that murders the spirit of man. The death in the metronome. Science takes mystery and replaces it with the “it doesn't exist.”
This science says Atheism is the smart choice. But no, it is indeed as ignorant and improbable as every other religion is, by its own nature. You are sure there is no god? Positive? You have proof? I thought not. It is improbable for there to be a god, yes. But it is unscientific, it is weak, to say there is no god. What prove have you?
The greatest geniuses were not scientists. No, they were in fact magicians. Before Newton, apples were falling for many years. Aristotle made something up: planes on top of planes: fire rises because it wants to go to the fire plane. Solids drop because they want to go to the solid plane. Air stays stationary because it wants to go to the air plane. He observed, and he concluded. He removed the magic with his inductive thinking. It wasn't until Newton, a true genius, who had to throw out everything that was established and accepted about science and the world. What an ignorant fool it would take to do that, a scientific mind would think. Apples fell from trees before Newton. It just took someone brave enough to say, “I don't really know.” And Einstein. He threw out everything to come up with general relativity. Galileo threw out everything to come up with heliocentricity.
And that's what a magician is. A magician is someone who can use paradox: a magician accepts mystery, observes it instead of denies it, and uses it without needing to know why it works. Magic is all around us. Just because we don't understand how something works, it doesn't mean it isn't real, or that it's silly, or that it's useless. How many people use televisions without really understanding how they work?
May life never lose its magic.
