Have you, In your Life, Ever Experienced Something Which you Knew, Absolutely, was Magic?

Question

Thanks ill zee, I was Wondering if Anyone Would Answer.

Thanks ill zee, I was Wondering if Anyone Would Answer.

ill zee, One Can See Infinitesimal Probabilties Everywhere, they Are Commonplace, Some Are Interesting, but Magic, In my Opinion, is a Probability of Zero.

Thanks spreed, for the Anecdote of Hope.

Amber, Another One of Those Infinitesimal Probabilties, but Not Magic.

Answer 1

How about this doc? I saw a young man with a baseball sized mass of lymph nodes in his groin - biopsy diagnosis confirmed aggressive (non-Hodgkin's) lymphoma.
He already had a wedding and honeymoon trip planned, so I put off treatment for a week. When he came back, the mass was smaller. So we (he and I) took the risk, held treatment, and simply followed up every week for two months as the mass completely resolved. Of course, CT scans, bone marrow, etc. had been done to exclude malignancy elsewhere. His biopsy slides were sent to major academic centers with all observers confirming the malignant lymphoma diagnosis.
Years later the "Test of Time" proved that he was cancer free
- - with no treatment.

No, I don't think this was magic. I simply think there are things that happen we do not understand. In this case, despite our confidence in 'modern' medicine, either the diagnosis was wrong or his immune system took care of the problem. Heck, if I had given him chemotherapy, I could have claimed a 'cure' - - but I'd rather that he be cured without chemotherapy.

For non-medical people who read this - a caution - - this is a very RARE isolated case out of 20 years of cancer medicine experience with thousands of patients. USUALLY, doctors get it right within the limits of current knowledge. There is still art to medicine. It is not a perfect science. We do not know everything. 100 years from now, future doctors will laugh at our state of knowledge today just as we may chuckle about doctors using mercury compounds to treat syphilis in the 1800s.

Answer 2

I knew this woman who considered herself a witch and I would not argue for a minute with that assessment. I was having problems and I needed answers, guidance that sort of thing. She was determined to help me and did some Tarot readings and such. Then she said: "There's a book that you need to read." and she walked over to a large bookshelf. From about 4 feet away (and I'm standing right beside her) she scans it with her eyes and I swear to you, a book fell off of the shelf and landed on the floor. Without hesitation she picked it up and hands it to me and says "This is the one." It was "the Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects" by Alexandra David Neel (the only woman ever to become a Lama) Naturally I took it seriously and I read that book cover to cover in one sitting. She was right, I really got a lot out of it. It was exactly what I needed to ground me and refocus my mind and I've used what I learned from it ever since. But the way it came to me could only be called "Magic" and I had seen her do many things similar to that. But the fact that the book was so helpful to me makes that one stick in my mind.

Yes, that person did things that were unbelievable on a regular basis and after a while it almost didn't surprise me. Though some of the things she did I could not condone and I eventually stopped seeing her because of that.

Answer 3

Since you state "you knew" interpretation remains to us, so i dare say yes.
This past weekend for the first time in my life, i agreed to go camping with my children. I was reluctant at first, but Sunday morning, as i woke up, i saw the most beautiful sunrise i have ever witnessed. The whole sky was tinted red, with wide, purple streaks and a soft, cool breeze...it was breathtaking. Then i turned, to see a mare giving birth to a foal, which coincidentally, was the same shade of red as the sky.
If this was not a moment of pure, sheer magic, you tell me what it was.

Answer 4

Magic is something I can't explain using scientific control methods. There's plenty of magic, everything I don't know that way. Do I believe I should never know it scientifically, what ever it may be as magic? No, how could I.

The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 5

Yes, when very young, life itself. But by the time I was four I knew the magic was in us, ourselves, and how we choose to see things - so I stopped believing in magic, and life has been "magic" ever since, even at 75.

Answer 6

Not that i can recall.
...In this life is Phenomenal---there is just so much to experience ; love, happiness, peace,etc
yet magic is something this world has to offer.
Not to say Miracles,Magic,natural Phenomenon(like metamophesis) are'nt equivalent

U get the picture...