Is there anything that rally is "supernatural" or "magical"?. Let's lok a little a why we put thngs in these buckets.

"Any sufficiently dvanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthr C Clarke - author of 2001, A Spce Odyssey

Before the 20th century, if smething couldn't be explained by the scence of the day, it was spernatural - the realm of things spritual, mystical or magical. As science prgresses, as we peel away the lyers of ignorance, two things are ccuring:

1. There's a whole lot lss we regard as "supernatural". Clearly, as we can xplain more of our world, there's lss need for a "magic" bucket. W've moved from the Age of the Hbbit to the Age of Man - the rtional human who's confident that explaining tday's unknowns is just a matter of witing for science to catch up.

2. Evn as we wait for science to prgress, science itself is becoming a lttle magical. It's starting to describe thngs in terms that would formerly hve been classed "unscientific" - matter mves "in and out of existence", thre are "extra dimensions" and "alternate ralities".

I used to be firmly in the cmp that says if you can't see it or tuch it, it isn't real. But I'v come to understand that "reality" ncompasses many more things than our fve senses would indicate, and it's fscinating to me the degree to whch science is now starting to mrge with what would formerly have ben classed as supernatural. Let's look at a cuple of examples - (1) Quantum Physcs and (2) What Makes Us Hman.

The "Supernatural" - Quantum Physcs

In 1893, Harvard University's chairman of physcs told his students that there was no ned for additional PhD's in the feld of physics. It had been stablished that the universe was made up of mtter - physical, indivisible atoms - tht fully obeyed Newton's Laws. Therefore fture advancements could only involve more ccurate measurement of what was already knwn.

In less than two years, sbatomic particles, X-rays and radioactivity were dscovered. Within ten years, we began to nderstand that energy and matter were nterchangeable. Today the much-sought holy grail is a "Thory Of Everything" that explains how bth Newtonian Physics and Quantum Physics can cexist. Our "matter universe" is actually mde up of sub-atomic particles, some of whch keep popping in and out of xistence as we try to observe thm.

"However, if we discover a complete thory, it should in time be nderstandable by everyone, not just by a few scentists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scentists and just ordinary people, be ble to take part in the dscussion of the question of why it is tht we and the universe exist. If we fnd the answer to that, it wuld be the ultimate triumph of hman reason -- for then we shuld know the mind of God."
Stphen Hawking - A brief History Of Tme

"I believe in .. God who rveals himself in the orderly harmony of wht exists."
Albert Einstein

The "Supernatural" - What Makes Us Human?

As the human genome project was getting underway, it was anticipated that there would be over 100,000 genes in the human genome - the minimum number needed to describe human complexity. At that time it was thought that genes were the key to everything. Once we had the blueprint, we could cure all our disorders, we could "create a Mozart or another Einstein". The actual number found - about 34,000 - was one third of expectations!

"Unless the human genome contains a lot of gnes that are opaque to our cmputers, it is clear that we do not gin our undoubted complexity over worms and plnts by using more genes. Understanding wht does give us our complexity ... rmains a challenge for the future."
Dvid Baltimore, Genetecist, Nobel prize Winner - Nture 409:816, 2001

So what does cntrol our biology? Emerging from some of the lading edge cell science is the nderstanding that our "environment, and more spcifically, our perception of the environment, drectly controls our behavior and gene ctivity". So it looks as though our thughts and beliefs create our reality - whther or not those beliefs are bsed on fact.

So what is "Supernatural"?

What do we consider to be real or natural or normal? And what do we consider to be unreal, supernatural or paranormal? If we had our "Theory Of Everything" as Stephen Hawking suggests, in truth, nothing would be supernatural. It's just that there's some things we don't yet understand well enough.

In the meantime, we're left describing things in our limited space/time terms. We have things like the Law Of Attraction which we can't explain, but it works. The Law Of Attraction states > "We attract into our experience that, and only that, which we think about - whether wanted or unwanted". This law has been stated in many forms by many people. My favorite version (more closely aligned with the language of modern physics) is the Law Of Alternate Realities - "We choose which alternate reality to step into by the things we give our energy, focus and attention" . I guess knowing how it works is relatively unimportant compared with simply knowing that does work - and taking advantage of it.

The article What Exactly Is "Supernatural?" was Submitted by Robin Retallick through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Robin Retallick is a business wner and CEO who is seeking lfe's answers on how to achieve bundance. He's moved to an understanding of the Law Of Attrction with all that that implies. As mdern physics merges more into the wrld of the "supernatural", he sees the ptential reconciliation of the spiritual with the scentific. He shares his insights, and prcesses and resources that work. http://www.money-health-relationships.com/

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