EP 16: The Golden Bough
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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The Importance of Associating Facts in the Mind
The great strength of fraser's wok quickly becomes its great error, when phenomena that remain associated only in one's mind quickly acquire the aura of fact. Associating facts in the mind is a fallacy most of us use at one time or another. It isn't unusual that two unrelated facts can be found together and yet have no connection at all. When random things are in contact with one another, often enough, one may believe that there is a magical connection between factually unconnected events. The locus of the cause and effect of magic is in the mind, while science insists upon locating the proper cause and effect relationships of phenomena in the world.
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