vaguelyhumanoid
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Okay. But doesn't the practice of magic presuppose a universal consciousness?
No? Magic has been practiced in a lot of cultures and religions that don't have a monistic view of the cosmos.
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Okay. But doesn't the practice of magic presuppose a universal consciousness?
No? Magic has been practiced in a lot of cultures and religions that don't have a monistic view of the cosmos.
Well, since there is no evidence of any gods, yet love still seem to exist, you have to rethink that line inquiry.Well, if God is love and one desires to experience God (a spiritual experience), then practicing love (morality) might lead to such an experience. It's not that complicated.
I would argue that all magic presupposes some kind of animistic worldview. (Animism and magic is ubiquitous in tribal cultures.)
Animism does not mean "universal consciousness" tho. It means a plurality of spirits.
Perhaps, I should have employed the term panpsychism or pantheism.
Panpsychism is "everything has a mind", it's almost the same as animism. My point is that there are a lot of pluralist (as opposed to monist) religions/cultural worldviews that involve magic.
You're really missing the point. The point is that he said atheists do not believe in anything spiritual, and yet he (as an atheist) believes in magic.