Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.
Augusten BurroughsTag: humor confessions magical-thinking
We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call “magical reason”—pervading secular thought and experience in modern society. Science and technology are for most people a new religion, and their orthodoxies are believed with the same fervor.
David WatsonTag: science belief religion skepticism magical-thinking
There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind.
Anthon St. MaartenTag: imagination fantasy psychology creativity magic religious-freedom self-expression mysticism beliefs magick ancient-wisdom esoteric-wisdom magical-thinking psychology-spirituality ancestors golden-age free-thinking traditional religion-and-science cultural-history child-development primitive-religion ancient-culture
It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes. All that is necessary is to expose them to rewards which they believe they are generating based on their actions when in fact the rewards are randomly awarded. People will latch onto any seeming success and repeat it, even when they have to explain repeated failures as well. It appears practically impossible, or at least very rare, for humans not to be influenced by immediate experiences of concrete results. This is true even if the experiences turn out to have limited theoretical validity. The moment of surprise is not when people repeat alchemical failures but when they begin to do something else.
Naomi JanowitzTag: religion magic prayer superstition ritual magical-thinking alchemy
...ultimately, all diseases are magical diseases...
("Gas Station Carnival")
Tag: disease magick magical-thinking diseases chaos-magick chaos-magic
If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.
Suzanne HayesTag: past present love magical-thinking
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