Good morning. I was thinking about something you wrote recently, about the existence of magic, really powerful magic, in the world which waxes and wanes at different times. You observed that such reports are inversely correlated to the rise and fall of rational civilization. I cannot now find it, but you wrote that magic is attested in the archaic period, then diminishes at the height of civilization when rational thinking dominates, then comes back into tales during the migration era, a.k.a. 'dark ages', then has virtually vanished since the end of the renaissance and the current 'age of reason'. Notwithstanding the fact that correlation is not causation, nevertheless, correlation is indicative of possible causal links. The rationalist explanation for this, of course, is that the ignorant people of the dark ages are credulous and such credulity wanes under the aegis of rational civilization. Miracles are just improbable coincidence and happenstance. Subjected to the mighty light of reason, such dark imaginings vanish like shadows. However, three alternate possible causal links to explain such correlations occurred to me, viz., that 'rational' civilization is only possible during periods when magical powers wane, perhaps because at such times we need to use our rational ingenuity to build and create; that Rupert Sheldrake's Morphic Field hypothesis is in play, i.e., when people believe in magic, magic is possible, when they don't it becomes almost non-existent; that something on the 6th Cosmic Plane, that has a much longer time-phase of centuries is interacting to change the reality of magic over centuries, emotion being a key component of magic, just as interactions on the 5th Cosmic plane appear to operate over decades, and one on the 2nd takes less than a decade (e.g. the appearance, insertion, and current push-back against trans athletes).
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Magic and Morphic Fields
Date: 2023-04-10 11:55 am (UTC)Notwithstanding the fact that correlation is not causation, nevertheless, correlation is indicative of possible causal links.
The rationalist explanation for this, of course, is that the ignorant people of the dark ages are credulous and such credulity wanes under the aegis of rational civilization. Miracles are just improbable coincidence and happenstance. Subjected to the mighty light of reason, such dark imaginings vanish like shadows.
However, three alternate possible causal links to explain such correlations occurred to me, viz., that 'rational' civilization is only possible during periods when magical powers wane, perhaps because at such times we need to use our rational ingenuity to build and create; that Rupert Sheldrake's Morphic Field hypothesis is in play, i.e., when people believe in magic, magic is possible, when they don't it becomes almost non-existent; that something on the 6th Cosmic Plane, that has a much longer time-phase of centuries is interacting to change the reality of magic over centuries, emotion being a key component of magic, just as interactions on the 5th Cosmic plane appear to operate over decades, and one on the 2nd takes less than a decade (e.g. the appearance, insertion, and current push-back against trans athletes).
Bruce (AKA Renaissance Man)