I’ll stick with muggle magic, ie. technology. Course it helps that I’m already a wizard in that field.
Its interesting that we are very stuck in our own little cultural worlds, just as other civilizations are stuck in theirs.
If you travel around the world and see that with your own eyes, the very rich variety of perceptive qualities begin to make one realize that our reality, whatever it is, is not the only one.
You should read up on Quantum physics and experiments done on isolated entangled particles. Then perhaps you actually might begin to see a little more than what you consider to be conventional.
For example:
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/813/3
Fear makes us stay in our own little worlds.
And if we see anything that doesnt fit our preconceived notions, it “just isn’t there.”
And so much of the wealth of what the phenomenal world has to offer is missed.God must think that this is a tragedy.