Let me give an example: People don’t believe in vampires. Of course, such an explanation may not be plausible, but we’re oh-so-sure of our ability to define our little world that we’ll gladly throw out our sensibility in the interests of turning the unexplained into something that we can rationalize as “scientific” and “logical.” Occam’s Razor doesn’t support that notion, but people would rather believe anything far-fetched as long as it proves that they’re not insane and that the world works in terms they understand. Rational explanations exist for everything, I used to way, and I’d go to great lengths to find them. I spent much of my life reinforcing the common world: stage magic, sleight-of-hand, debunking paranormal phenomena and the like. We move about through the common world and accept it as normal because peeling back the layers underneath would be too much to bear. 71Įnlightened By the Darkness Sometimes I feel caught between two distinct worlds – the one that we all see and agree to acknowledge, and the one that some lizardlike primordial portion of our brains understands only subconsciously. Contents Introduction: Enlightened By the Darkness.
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