Now, administering third-eyed drops.

Welcome back to The Mind Meld, Michael here, and today, we start with a question,

is magic real? And it's a pretty bad question, if left at that, way too obtuse.

Still though, it's a question I can't resist entertaining. In fact, I'll admit it, I love

playing with the idea that there could be something beyond our understanding,

something lost to the sands of time, or maybe used only by a privileged few that understand

something about the nature of reality that we don't. But again, there's something

child almost even absurd about asking the question, because magic is typically used as a

stand-in for something supernatural. By definition, if something is supernatural, it's some

arcane force beyond our understanding or measurement. So how can one even hope to talk about

such a phenomenon in any kind of meaningful way? Or better yet, even confirm

its existence, still that nagging suspicion, that intuition I alluded to earlier remains,

at least for more wonder-dippingly inclined folks like myself and potentially you,

and that intuitive suspicion, if I had to communicate it, is that there does at times,

at least, seem to be something intelligent at work behind the scenes that seems meaningful.

You know, I'm talking about when synchronicities hit, when things work out in just the right way,

or perhaps they don't work out in what seems to be the right way at all,

but end up being highly meaningful in an ass backwards kind of way. And if we do hang meaning on,

or at least entertain such possibilities, the natural follow-up question then is to ask,

can we work with this ephemeral something, and if so, how? Then here we are right back at the question

of, is what could be called magic? A thing, a phenomenon that's really out there in some way.

And we gotta address the nomenclature. I know some of you probably don't care for the term

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