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I wrote this to a dear friend recently, it sort of sums up my philosophy at the moment:
"Max Weber wrote how modernity brings about a disenchantment of the world. That magic is replaced with reason and rationality expunges all non-scientific realities before it. I now think that he was wrong. I believe that magic/enchantment is found almost everywhere, but only if you look for magic/enchantment and only if you believe in magic/enchantment. Children, I think, find it rather easily, adults, with more difficulty. But it is there. Waiting. It may not help us save the planet, though it should if enough of us grasp the enchantment, but it will save our souls. And of course magic is not just found in nature, or in the strange and wonderful textures of decaying industrial structures. Magic is found in people too. In relationships. Being touched by another. Perhaps that is what love is? The enchantment of souls. Illumination. Divination. God. Zen."
I've recently (17th December 2010) been told that I have early prostate cancer.