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The Difference Between Reductionism and Magical Belief

The belief in the supernatural supports religious experience, which is why religions have so much magic in them. But if you have the opposite pathology, your mind can explain more than your phenomenology can sense, then you will always feel that the world is dead matter or somehow dull or mundane and there's a gap in the opposite direction. And that gap is filled with reductionism with a subtle, anti spiritual sense of wanting to get back at the world wanted to explain it away.

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