Real Magic
I often put down any hardcore belief in magic, in the Harry Potter sense. It doesn't even rise to the level of pseudo science and would not be a viable starting point for any research.
However, I did attend a presentation in which I had to say "hey, this is kind of cool in an unexplainable way". I was at a presentation on healing touch given by a RN and she told us about something kinda off topic to try. Before I tell you about that let me touch on the topic of healing touch, that is not magic, that is in fact. Research on animals shows that a newborn that is not touched will die. Serious stuff and carries a lot of implications on how to interact with the people, at all ages, that we care about.
So this nurse told us to try holding our hands a couple of inches above a friends back with no way for them to see where our hand was at. And then ask them to sense where our hand was. So with my wife I tried this and every time she could tell me where my hand was at. My hand was a couple to several inches away from her skin and there was no way that she could she me. So we swapped and I could feel her hands presence even several inches away from me. This goes into all kind of topics and I have to say I was intrigued. So we do emit something beyound what could be described as perceiveable by our five sense. You can argue that maybe it's just heat, but I like the idea that we do in fact have some magic in us. The power to make people know we care, that we are more than just a walking pile of chemicals and we can even prevent illness, with just a touch.
Tom Stewart
