Do you never experience the magic of Christmastime, or a sunset, or a beautiful night sky? Do you not ever use such language, or experience what such poetic language points to?
I rest my case.
It's not. And that's what makes it magical.
It's not the technical explanation of what makes a rainbow what it is, that makes it magical, you know.... I believe its Beauty is. Science does not tell us about Beauty. Our hearts do.
Of course you know I'm a fairly smart person, yet you question me at this level?
Yes, it is valid to view life metaphorically, to see it as magical without technical details as to the molecular structures of the thing that inspires you. Yes, it is valid to see life beyond science. A thousands times yes it is valid.
Yes. There is a great value in seeing the world from more than one perspective. I find a mono-perspectival view of reality to be, well, utterly limiting.
I'm a little surprised at your lack of imagination when you enter into discussions with me. Yet in the end, you know I'm right.
To explain the technical reasons why what I just said is correct, is very simple. If someone has a view of the world that everything happens via spirits "poofing" things into existence, and that constitutes the way they see the world operates, no amount of scientific, cause and effect analysis will be able to be registered mentally by someone whose system does not allow for it.
Our language creates boundaries of what it considers real and not real, and to a primitive seeing a flashlight, that is the power of a god. And once convinced of that, it takes a great deal for them to think outside that framework to see another perspective, basically learning a whole different type of framework, in order for them attempt to translate that experience into their framework. For the most part, it just doesn't register as "natural" to them, because such a thing does not exist in their worlds.
People literally live inside mentally constructed realities, in how they translate their experiences. Everyone of us do. And most everyone of us, assumes that what the world is to them, is what the world actually is. Very few burst that bubble.