Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Habib.

Friends, does it seem to you, perhaps, as it seems to me,

that people are talking about bizarre experiences of reality more often,

whether it's synchronities or just new, weird thoughts,

remembering strange dreams, having new kinds of pains, new images,

maybe on the more extreme end new sightings of strange beings, or on the more seemingly

every day and a new openness to talking about tarot and astrology and witchcraft.

I want to be careful here as I proceed,

noting that I do think that there's an increase of that sort of thing.

I'm going to be careful as I proceed to not fall into the age of Aquarius sort of celebratory position.

I have my reservations about all of this. And so I want to be careful about sounding like,

as many people who talk and write about these things often do, that this is all great and good.

And of course, you know, the flip side, the condemnation of it all is definitely not better,

the condemnation of it from a religious, fundamentalist or a scientific viewpoint.

If you've been listening to recent episodes, especially fundamentalist or a scientific viewpoint.

If you've been listening to recent episodes, especially episodes 202 and 203,

with the hosts of the Weird Studies podcast, Phil Ford and J.F. Martel,

we talked a lot about the problem with magic.

People seem to be turning to magic, turning to an understanding that these kinds of synchronicities and strange happenings as well, also just part of life,

rather than trying to explain them all away as coincidence.

And I think that some of that turning to magic and we say magical thinking or magical

perspectives or witchcraft type perspectives on reality can bring along a lot of problems. And I talked about on those

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