A Ramble About Magical Thinking

    "Magical thinking" is the accusation frequently leveled at those who profess a belief in God or the immaterial. But, in my experience, magical thinking can also describe the denial of God or the immaterial. Put simply, magical thinking is believing something to be the way you wish it to be, rather than the way it actually is.
     In my experience, God is not the product of magical thinking. "Why then can we not see, feel, hear, or touch Him?" One might ask. My answer is simple, because one wave composed of water is not going to be able to discern the water from another wave. All that first wave will be able to discern is that there is another wave like itself. God is energy. Not a kind of energy, but energy itself, infinite, eternal, and the absolute foundation of everything which exists within the infinite multiverse. Every dimensional vector, time as well as space, every kind of or manifestation of energy, every fermion and boson which exists is merely a vibrational pattern of His physical Being. At the "zero-point" they still pop into and out of existence. All of creation is information like software coded and run on top of Him. We absolutely require His existence in order to have any existence of our own, yet He does not require ours.
     My experience with Him has been interactive in a similar way to my experience with my wife, my friends, strangers, etc. But just like with anyone else, you have to pay attention to Him and acknowledge His presence before any meaningful exchange can occur. This of course requires the simple belief that the other person actually exists and is not a figment of your own imagination or a product of schizophrenic hallucinations. I have seen so many evidences of His existence from my interactions with Him that it would be magical thinking and delusional to proclaim His non-existence.
     The truth is that those who cry out "magical thinking" are themselves guilty of it, at least in my opinion, because they go to great lengths to explain away what surrounds them and is right in front of them. It really wouldn't matter if He appeared in some kind of physical form that they could see, hear, or touch, because they would find some explanation why it wasn't what their senses were telling them. If a person simply and deliberately refuses to believe something, nothing you say or do will convince them otherwise. The irony is that they do actually believe it, otherwise they wouldn't be working so hard to not see it. It's not that they don't believe it, they don't want it to be true so much that they will do anything to make it not true. And that is where they themselves descend into delusion. A person with a genuine scientific mind will always keep open to possibilities, because they know that they don't know everything, and new data is always presenting itself which may contradict old interpretations of previous data. A person who shuts out possibilities presented by new data is only concerned with what pleases or displeases his own mind.
     It is this latter person who is truly guilty of "magical thinking."