The Science of Magic: Wittgenstein, Evola & the UR Group

Eddie Ejjbair
4 min readOct 25, 2022

According to the standard scientific narrative, magic is an anachronism. It belongs to an earlier, more primitive time; a time in which causality was not fully understood. A ritual raindance, for instance, does not cause precipitation. By the causal standard, magic is mistaken, and rituals are arbitrary.

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Eddie Ejjbair

‘Gradually it’s become clear to me what every great philosophy has been: a personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir’