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Here are two new sections. They are brief, but I feel they are significant. I have already included them within the main body of the text. If you have already read the essay and don't want to look for them, here they are. I do intend to expand both sections as I have become highly intrigued. These are my initial thoughts.
Section: Can We Bring Back "Magic" To Our Logical, Scientific Reality?
A sword made by hand is far more powerful than a sword that is machined, I'm sure this is also the case with regards to cooking. I know there are "practitioners" out there and you have charms, ingredients, and rituals. Perhaps if you make everything by hand and gather everything, gather the ingredients from the wild or grow them yourself, will your magic be more powerful? Or is it magick with a "k"? When I say make everything yourself, I mean it literally. Let's say you need a wooden charm. Would your magick be more powerful if you chopped down the tree yourself and carved the charm with your own hands? What if you also grew the tree as well? And if you made the tools yourself, wouldn't your magick be even more powerfuller? I'm rather envious of you blacksmiths now. If you made your own gardening tools as well as grew your own crops, I'm guessing your harvests would be extremely bountiful. Aw man, don't get me started. What if you mine and smelt the metal too? Magick is not something I've looked into extensively. I do browse some forums now and then. Please update me if this works for you. Or perhaps updating me will diminish its power. If that's the case, then don't tell me. I will look into it myself eventually.
Section: The Consciousness Of "The Wild"
If you are a gardener, you may have noticed something similar to what I will describe. I was mowing my lawn and I noticed a new species I have not seen in my lawn before. The perfectly logical scientific explanation would be that a bird had a seed in its beak and flew over my lawn and accidentally dropped the seed. This makes perfect sense to everyone. But what if that is not the actual truth? What if, out of nothing, the plant just popped into existence? And if you didn’t do it, then who or what did? Let’s take this to the extreme. Suppose we devastate our world and eradicate all plant life, through pollution or nuclear war or whatever. We would be doomed. But I think, one day, we would start seeing edible plant life emerge. We could of course just say, somehow these seeds survived. If you’re not a science fiction fan, you may have no idea what I’m talking about. In Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, some federation officers were tasked to find a planet completely and utterly devoid of life. If colonizers settled on a planet devoid of life, I think plant life would simply start growing. And this would actually be scientifically testable, as soon as we develop space travel of course. We could say the colonizers unknowingly brought the spores or seeds somehow and the seeds dispersed throughout the planet, but I think that’s just us denying our power. The closest for us is the moon. If we colonized the moon, would plant life start growing? I believe this is called the anthropic principle. Let's say a corporation, such as Monsanto, manages to genetically engineer vegetables or fruit to no longer produce any seeds. The consciousness of the wild should eventually make these genetically engineered plants produce seeds. Consciousness will always find a way to be.
Section: Can We Bring Back "Magic" To Our Logical, Scientific Reality?
A sword made by hand is far more powerful than a sword that is machined, I'm sure this is also the case with regards to cooking. I know there are "practitioners" out there and you have charms, ingredients, and rituals. Perhaps if you make everything by hand and gather everything, gather the ingredients from the wild or grow them yourself, will your magic be more powerful? Or is it magick with a "k"? When I say make everything yourself, I mean it literally. Let's say you need a wooden charm. Would your magick be more powerful if you chopped down the tree yourself and carved the charm with your own hands? What if you also grew the tree as well? And if you made the tools yourself, wouldn't your magick be even more powerfuller? I'm rather envious of you blacksmiths now. If you made your own gardening tools as well as grew your own crops, I'm guessing your harvests would be extremely bountiful. Aw man, don't get me started. What if you mine and smelt the metal too? Magick is not something I've looked into extensively. I do browse some forums now and then. Please update me if this works for you. Or perhaps updating me will diminish its power. If that's the case, then don't tell me. I will look into it myself eventually.
Section: The Consciousness Of "The Wild"
If you are a gardener, you may have noticed something similar to what I will describe. I was mowing my lawn and I noticed a new species I have not seen in my lawn before. The perfectly logical scientific explanation would be that a bird had a seed in its beak and flew over my lawn and accidentally dropped the seed. This makes perfect sense to everyone. But what if that is not the actual truth? What if, out of nothing, the plant just popped into existence? And if you didn’t do it, then who or what did? Let’s take this to the extreme. Suppose we devastate our world and eradicate all plant life, through pollution or nuclear war or whatever. We would be doomed. But I think, one day, we would start seeing edible plant life emerge. We could of course just say, somehow these seeds survived. If you’re not a science fiction fan, you may have no idea what I’m talking about. In Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan, some federation officers were tasked to find a planet completely and utterly devoid of life. If colonizers settled on a planet devoid of life, I think plant life would simply start growing. And this would actually be scientifically testable, as soon as we develop space travel of course. We could say the colonizers unknowingly brought the spores or seeds somehow and the seeds dispersed throughout the planet, but I think that’s just us denying our power. The closest for us is the moon. If we colonized the moon, would plant life start growing? I believe this is called the anthropic principle. Let's say a corporation, such as Monsanto, manages to genetically engineer vegetables or fruit to no longer produce any seeds. The consciousness of the wild should eventually make these genetically engineered plants produce seeds. Consciousness will always find a way to be.