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Magic and ISC
The Accurate View - Interdiscipline Synthesis Cosmology (ISC):
To do magic safely and effectively, we need the most accurate view of reality to be had. But to acquire that view, we must consider all of human knowledge. And, since there is an overwhelming amount of information to be learned, then it becomes quite impossible for any normal person to absorb enough to enable one to come to a wholly complete understanding of reality that involves all of the information that is available from all of human endeavor. Fortunately, however, there is a new idea for a modern cosmology that promises to solve this dilemma. Called “Interdiscipline Synthesis Cosmology,” it includes metaphysical philosophy, and is explained as follows.
Literally self explanatory, Interdiscipline Synthesis Cosmology, or ISC, is simply the cosmology based on a synthesis of all the intellectual disciplines of mankind. ISC is a title that denotes the description of reality which results from mixing as many avenues of thought as are needed to come up with the most accruate possible model of reality. Because the desired model will depend on a number of diverse areas of investigation, then ISC must also be considered a natural philosophy, as opposed to a scientific theory or religious doctrine, though it will, necessarily, take into account a large number of theories and doctrines, as it’s stated purpose is to arrive at the most plausible view of existence, which will be both physical and metaphysical.
Thus, a complete ISC summarizes human knowledge, with the goal of determining the most truthful and primary description of reality. It would include every scientific concept, religious notion, metaphysical tenet, and so on, and can leave no reasonable precepts out of the whole, even if input from one discipline is in conflict with that from another.
The elements that make up the whole of ISC should be chosen as the empiricisms by consensus among scholars in each discipline, regardless of whether such scholars are divided, or whether an empirical statement in one discipline conflicts with that in another discipline. The criteria is simply that a given statement is considered empirical in a discipline in which it is held as a fundamental truism. For example, in most religions, the statement “murder is bad” would be viewed as an empirical statement, while, in most scientific circles, the statement "gravity effects all real mass" would likewise be considered empirical.
Empiricisms from all disciplines of human intellectual endeavor must, of course, be compared to each other, and those in conflict separated (though not disregarded), and then distinguished as the set of all Contradictions. Whatever is left over after these Contradictions are removed is the basic collection of empirical statements that stand as the rudimentary Core of ISC, which can be referred to as the "ISC Proto-Core". Some method can next be employed to solve as many Contradictions as possible, so as to maximize the Proto-Core; moving it closer to being a well-defined overall Core.
The result of the first efforts in such respects will likely be the conclusion that the arts are the natural synthesis of physics and spirituality. This would explain why some artistic accomplishments, for instance, are referred to as being “magical.”
ISC may, when fully developed, establish a “Theory of Existence”, ISCTE, capable of describing all of nature in both physical and theological terms, as well as explaining other aspects of reality. The physicist’s Grand Unified Field Theory, for example, will necessarily be included in such a theory. There is also the added benefit that ISC may offer many ways out of a rather wide array of intellectual quagmires. Physicists, for example, relying on a complete ISC, could be given a means of delving deeper into previously unattainable areas of the microcosm and macrocosm, while theologians will be given a reputable means by which they can demonstrate the true nature of spirit entities, including the nature even of a supreme being.
Indeed, the first inescapable result of ISC shall surely be that the hypothetical particle called the “tachyon” (a particle which always travels faster than light) explains three of the most puzzling questions about reality.
These questions are:
(1) What are spirit creatures made of?
(2) What is quantum gravity?
(3) What is thought?
And the answers are:
(1) Spirit creatures are made of tachyons.
(2) Gravity quanta are special types of tachyons.
(3) The mind results from a field of virtual tachyons.
These apparently "new" explanations of three of the most mysterious aspects of reality are certain to become undeniable, according to what we currently deign to imagine as the complete ISC, and they will presumably be used further to explain other aspects of our existence which we are forced to label as "unknowns" today.
Aliens and Angels:
Holding Tachyonics as a useful endeavor brings with it the implication that things made of tachyons may be contemplated, including entities such as sentient tachyonic lifeforms. In other words, there is in all likelyhood an alternate-dimensional spacetime that coexists with the observable universe, and that realm can be modeled as the tachyonic analog of the observable universe; being the realm of tachyons predicted by Special Relativity. What is more, this tachyonic realm could well be populated with living creatures, or “aliens”, of one kind or another. And, the fact that one alternate realm probably exists implies that other alternate realms also exist, somewhere. Thus, one of the most important implications of ISC is its allowance that various aliens can be hypothesized to reside in a number of physically undetectable alternate-dimensional manifolds that coexist with our detectable manifold, and that some of those aliens resemble entities which ancient people named as gods, angels, demons, and so on. Note, therefore, that ISC, in adopting Tachyonics as valid, creates common-ground between physics and theology, between scientists and priests, since numerous alternate-dimensional realms can now be defined by anyone, from the science-fiction writer to the scholarly theologian, and mathematically imaginary realms are allowed to contain any alternate-dimensional thing, entity, force, being, or whatever else we humans can possibly conceptualize. Thus, in realizing that a complete ISC is needed for understanding detectable and undetectable reality, to describe and quantify the actual-imaginary variables we must eventually get used to using (as well as the standard imaginary variables we are already used to), we are giving ourselves the tools by which we may learn about, and ultimately utilize, tachyons and tachyonic forces.
And yet, by using magic we are able even now to use tachyons in a large number of ways -- for magic is tachyonic.
It must be remembered, however, that many a scientist will regard this discussion as unscientific; some calling it "pseudo-science", in a derogatory fashion. And there are bound to be religious people who utterly condemn ISC as promoting some form of "devil worship". Then again, to be honest, the idea that an ISC is desirable, or even possible, is not yet a widely accepted philosophy. Tachyons are not yet proven to exist. And alternate-dimensional aliens, spirits, or what have you, have never revealed themselves in a non-controversial way. So, although we are discussing only hypothetical metaphysics, which the public can freely ignore, the very idea of an ISC portends to step on many an establishment defender's toe.
Nevertheless, the facts speak for themselves. To the fundamentalist preacher who thumps the Bible and objects to God being referred to as a “space alien,” there is an effective reply. The Bible, with all of its implications about the nature of spirit beings, does not forbid the notion of aliens from outer-space, and reveals very little about the heavens, as such; for it deals primarily with the Earth and with humans. And to the atheistic scientist who denies that God even exists at all, there is another counter. The evidence which establishes the theory of evolution nowhere proves that some god-like alien could not have evolved, and may now reside somewhere “out there” in the super-dimensional universe.
Consequently, we should begin to take the notion of an ISC seriously, along with the implications from Tachyonics, and admit that magic exists, is actually tachyonic, and can therefore be investigated from a scientific perspective.
Magic and Miracles:
It appears that genuine magic usage did not actually become a type of professional human endeavor until the rise of the first organized city-states (after the change from hunter-gatherer to an agriculture-based society), although religion and the worship of deities are known to have been engaged in since the earliest times, and ritual burials were conducted by all primitive humans. Note, however, that there must have been very few magic-users among the first true humans, while all the entities which those people considered gods have always been viewed as magical - though the gods of various cultures were viewed in very different ways, depending on the individual character of the particular deity of immediate concern. In any case, even primative humans may have considered magic performed by a human as different from that performed by a god. Thus, a distinction must be made between the working of magic and the working of miracles.
Here, magic is viewed as the use of supernatural forces or energies by anyone, human or otherwise, whereas a miracle must be performed with the aid of, or directly by, a deity. A human magic-user, therefore, is any living person who can make use of
supernatural forces, with or without assistance from an alternate-dimensional entity, while the miracle-worker is a person who relies solely on forces or energies supplied by a god (or a god-like being), and he/she thus need not have any inborn or learned
magical capabilities. Alternatively, either type of person can also be a priest, shamman, etc., and/or both a magic-user and a miracle-worker, simultaneously.
Inborn Magic:
Strangely, individuals with inborn magic capabilities appear to have been much more common in ancient times than they are today, and it is widely agreed among most current users of magic that many of those also had the favor of one or more gods, while magical abilities, whether learned or inborn, and many divine miraculous powers, are growing weaker and less common as time goes on -- which implies that all magic, and even miracles, as they are presently understood, will someday dwindle to nothing, so that future mages will be employing other skills, such as purely psychic/psionic abilities. Thus, while there may remain a few select individuals who are born with at least one magical ability in generations to come, most human supernatural abilities are probably going to be those associated with psychic/psionic phenomenon, rather than with the magicks with which magic-users of the past are most often associated.
Be that as it may, whether in the past, present, or future, persons born with base magical abilities have always been the greatest of all mages; most especially if they are also formally or informally trained in magic. Hence, mages who possess inborn abilities will forever dominate the magical trades. Nevertheless, almost anyone can learn how to do magic, to some extent, since magic is now understood to be tachyonic in nature, and therefore exists as a part of the construct of every person.
Consequently, by this line of reasoning, there is some inborn magic in all of us. And perhaps there shall always be.
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