Advice for Believing in Magic
I don't consider myself a skeptic, rather trying to think critically on my belief of magic. There are experiences that make magic self-evident, but I cannot help but remain critical on how coincidental the synchronicities are.
I've been reading books (closer to parapsychology, i.e. Dean Radin PhD.) but I noticed these authors seem to emit a confirmation bias in their analysis of their experiments; but that doesn't deviate me from the possibility of magic being a genuine phenomenon.
Rather I've kind of pushed myself away from entangling magic and science, despite them building upon each other. Magic seems more like a psychological mindset to me, with positive inclinations based on the statistical data I've read in these books; like a metaphorical approach rather than a logistical one.
The diction and terminology that Chaos Magic authors employ in their literature are personally hard to digest; especially that of Mat Auryn and Peter J. Carroll, although I would still recommend their foundational knowledge.
I'd like some advice from those who once experienced the same doubt as I do. The source of my resistance to magical thinking is primarily how rejected and easily a slippery slope into delusion can be achieved.