The Origins of Magic

There is a lot of academic onanism going on when it comes to the subject of mythology. People dedicate their entire careers to becoming experts in the religious and occult practices of ancient cultures. Magic is inherently tied to these ancient practices. When browsing the various dictionary sites, I found that finding a suitable definition for the word "magic" is very difficult. Defining "magic" as "the use of charms and spells" doesn't enlighten someone at all. The thing is, we all know what magic is from fairy tales and books we read. What magic is and does is ingrained in our souls. So, when it happens around us, everyone recognizes magic when it happens.

Now, I'm not going off on some nerd vision-quest. I am trying to tell you that magic is real, it's just been a little skewed over 10,000 years of history. Humans use the word magic to describe anything another human can do that can't be explained. For example: There is a japanese man named Takeru Kobayashi who repeatedly wins the Nathan's hot dog eating contest. He weighs 110 pounds. He competes against men who weight 300+. Plenty of people reference how they think Takeru is able to eat so many hot dogs while remaining so small, but nobody really knows. Any strategies someone comes up with could not be reproduced by anyone walking down the street. A physicist could tell me how n theory Tony Hawk was able to do a 900 degree spin on his skateboard in a half-pipe, but that theory couldn't be brought into practice by anyone other than Tony Hawk. The only explaination is that magic is somehow involved.

The first human to be able to make fire was probably the first magician. Since then, humans have just been doing crazy shit that couldn't be explained and so the blanket term "magic" was always used. I'm sure the witches burned in Salem were probably just freaking people out because they could "fly" but really they were pulling some sick varial heelflip to nosegrab action in the first skate park in human history. Rasputin was "magic" because he could always guess what you ate for lunch just by smelling your burps. ALWAYS. It freaked some people out after a while. Merlin, probably the most well-known magician of all time, was the first human to ever grow a beard.

Magic still happens today. You just have to look around. When someone throws a bowling ball and it jumps to the other lane and gets a strike, that's not luck, that's some dark magic that that person unwittingly summoned out of the abyss. When your drunk friend throws a dart behind his back and nails a bullseye, that's holy magic. Just keep your eyes open.