Hello pals, it is me, Doug Atrustle, and you are listening to the Doug Atrustle Family

Hour podcast, and I am particularly excited about this episode because it is about one of

my favorite subjects on Earth.

Magic.

Not magic like watching some depressed guy pull weasels out of a top hat at the magic castle,

but M-A-G-I-C-K magic, which is, all refers to that practice that is in every single

world religion, in every single mythology, that series of rituals that allows human beings

to access higher intelligence and use that information to transform the world around

them.

Fascinating by that, it is a fascinating topic, not just because what is cooler than the

idea that we are surrounded by super intelligent beings that you can tune into using special

hidden rituals that date back to before the time of the pyramids, but because as a mythology,

it is something that is managed to thread its way through history, and it scares the

shit out of certain people.

They get scared by it.

Just study the witch burnings, and you will see that this technology referred to in so

many books, new and old, has always been considered somehow off limits, off base.

It is breaking the rules to use this magic, and there is always an implicit danger in

practicing magic.

From terrified Christian preachers talking about the dangers of meddling with the occult

and a simple YouTube search, and you will bring up 7,000 sermons of these pale faced

anxiety-ridden parinoids who think that the act of invoking extra-dimensional beings can

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