When the Arcane is Mundane

Magic doesn’t have to draw attention to itself any more than cheese does

I’ve been obsessed with magic my whole life. Okay, I don’t really remember when I was really little, but based on the magnitude of my enthusiasm for the subject within my remembered timeline, I’d say its just something integral to who I am as a person.

And not just the magic featured in fantasy books and film. But also the mystical traditions from our world, throughout history, across all cultures. Hermetic, chaos magic, ceremonial magic, folk traditions, laws of attraction, manifestation frameworks, elemental systems from all over the place. I wanted to see this thing called magic from as many different angles as I could. The fantasy and sci fi media I consumed also got lumped into this research mania (though I also did find them enjoyable). Behind this pursuit was this half belief/half wish that if I could just figure out the pattern, the overlap between all these theories and conceptions of the arcane, I could make extraordinary things actually happen.