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“Religion seeks to lift us from everyday matter towards spirit, while magic seeks rather to bring spirit down into everyday matter. While religion often reflects a 'quest for meaning', magic is more about 'sowing seeds of meaning'.”
― Lionel Snell, My Years of Magical Thinking

tags: culture, magic, meaning, religion, spirit, spirituality

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“I am relatively certain that religious faith alone doesn't prevent hallucinations because many patients try to save themselves by their faith. Observation would suggest useful social acts (charity) would come closer to preventing schizophrenia.”
― Wilson Van Dusen, The Presence of Spirits in Madness

tags: charity, madness, religion

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“Magical thinking is the brain's way of handling complexity and, judging by the survival or humankind, it has done a pretty good job.”
― Lionel Snell, My Years of Magical Thinking

tags: cognition, evolution, magic, thinking

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“Religion and Science are paths of denial, in the sense that a scientific statement should be one capable of being disproved, while a religious statement should be capable of being disbelieved.”
― Lionel Snell, My Years of Magical Thinking

tags: culture, religion, science

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“When we ignore our radar we have to shut out its voice. Our minds become busy and distracted - we may compulsively perform mind-numbing activities such as computer games, gambling and gorging ourselves with sugary delights to the extent that they eat into our time in an unhealthy way, make us stay up late, or stop us from carrying out our essential tasks.”
― Malcolm Stern, Slay Your Dragons With Compassion: Ten Ways to Thrive Even When It Feels Impossible

tags: addiction

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