(March 24, 2025 at 5:17 am)o.patrickm Wrote: spiritual atheist interested in black magic, dark arts etc.
I'm a lifelong magic fangrrl. I'd love it if magic was real. However, critical thinking compels me to push that possibility firmly to one side until a consistent testable and falsifiable mechanism for magic can be empirically demonstrated.
For now, the best I can do is to view magic as "headology" - applied psychology and social engineering - in the spirit of Granny Weatherwax from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.