so I dont believe in the mystical, or understand what it means for something to be mystical. magic? magic just means you dont understand the mechanics of what is happening, but you do understand the results or the meaning. fire once upon a time was a magical thing. and it still is a very magical thing to sit by a fire and eat some marshmellows, even if we understand the mechanics. (however, science does not truly understand why things affect us the way they do, they only understand the mechanics of how. a religious person might say a warm fire warms the heart becuase we have a spiritual heart made of burning energy, chakra and such)
so I never really concidered precognitive dreams mystical, or even supernatural. those terms are just used to scare science away since it doesnt want to go near supernatural things, it turns a blind eye once you use that term. the fact that sooooo many pepole have precognitive dreams shows that is a very natural process in the human brain. however, it does shake long held beliefs about science. and science may have to be turned upside to understand how *the mechanics* and why *the meaning* it happens. with precognitive dreams, everything we understand about time for example might be entirely wrong.
I disagree with Never that if something is known it ceases to be amazing. rainbows aren't any less beautiful when you understand how it works. storms still excite storm hunters who everything scientifical about storms. they practically went their pants when they hear a tornado is coming!! the problem is people think science answers all questions, and shows all persepctives. science doesn't. for example, emotions, the moment you believe that science is 100% accurate about emotions being that they are merely chemical reactions - is the moment you surrender any hope of knowing true love desired by western religions, or true peace, desired by eastern religions. the problem is also our understanding of a chemical reaction, a lifeless process, dead, lacking consciousness, random, meaningless. when we surrender to this belief we have nothing against taking drugs that artificially recreate these emotions. which I know, many are not against taking. but, we simply do not know everything about the brain, about consciousness, about emotions YET to surrender to such simple-minded explanations. when you bring in the reality that everything is just energy in some form, then we really have NO IDEA what we are doing when we take artificial emotions.
the same thing with electricity. its a lifeless thing according to science, emotionless, just a thing. but when you understand that electricity practically runs our brains, and could very well be apart of how consciousness works - it should give new light to electricity. not some lifeless thing, but raw energy that gives life, raw energy that carries THOUGHT. it does afterall, keep our hearts beating. however, becuase science has always maintained a very atheist approach to science, in that, there is nothing beyond than we can study under a microscope. .Rather than changing our perspective of what electricity is we fasely change our perspective of the brain instead, that it is a lifeless computer calculating endlessly.
I guess what I am trying to say is, how something works is not the same as the meaning behind something. Your world can be even more magical when you see meaning, and how things work don't degrade the meaning but enhance the understanding.
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