We are born into a fully formed world with all its history and processes. We in turn develop within this world. We acquire language, definitions, develop physically, and gain all our prejudices and biases. Some look back to an origin, or even a first philosophy and will soon come to realize that there are many. Our histories are wide and diverse, and often hidden or unknown, only told by consumer products which keep the creator behind a corporate veil. This is the same phenomena of concealment that occurs when we speak tales of great men of history. Those who built the pyramids have been lost to history, namelost laborers who we name a god king to assign cause and responsibility to. We find ourselves in a duality of the individualism of authoritarianism in contrast to the actual act of the collective actions which built history that is recorded in the structure of the pyramids. Every concept we assign to phenomena rose from human imagination, as an attempt to articulate, contain or measure. The form of communication bears the burden of the subjectivity of the articulator. 

There are things we know individually, that which a single instance of mind contains. There are things we collectively have come to know, that which the shared mind processes contains that may be available to us to know. There are things which are not yet known that can be known. Aristotle realized that we are limited by our sense perception in our knowing (His emphasis was on sight). In this we ask is there that which because of the limitation of our biological senses can not be known? Often we find a god or spirituality within this.

Science is the study of the repeatable. Magic is the study of the unrepeatable. The social act of science is verification. Magic thus has no verification. For, when it does it reterritorializes and finds its way into science. In this definition we see that perhaps there is more magic than science in subjective experiences of the world. Then there is the idea of “truth” which necessitates the existence of a truth if it is to truly be what the very definition assumes it to be. Truth relies upon objectivity,  yet is limited to subjective minds, and in praxis finds its claim in intersubjectivity. 

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