We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking–what we might call “magical reason”–pervading secular thought and experience in modern society. Science and technology are for most people a new religion, and their orthodoxies are believed with the same fervor. David Watson
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We should be cautiously open to the spiritual and non-rational, and skeptical of the more invisible magical thinking—what we might call “magical reason‬—pervading secular thought and experience in modern society. Science and technology are for most people a new religion, and their orthodoxies are believed with the same fervor. As one scientist put it, “I believe in science like I believe in God—without evidence.” Or as another put it, “We need to separate science from superstition.” The word “superstition” is best understood as being something beyond reason or rational thought. We have all seen how bizarre superstition can be in our society–people believing in aliens, communicating with the dead, or even time travel.

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