The Courses ironic yet truthful understanding of Magic
The Course says medicine is magic, that believing we can do anything as a separate will is magic. Believing in any power other than god is magic
Our society believes that material things in this world and done by humans are science - and magic is anything to do with God…..
“ ⁶“There is no will but God’s.” ⁷His teachers know that this is so, and have learned that everything but this is magic. ⁸All belief in magic is maintained by just one simple-minded illusion: that it works. ⁹All through their training, every day and hour, and even every minute and second, must God’s teachers learn to recognize the forms of magic and perceive their meaninglessness. ¹⁰Fear is withdrawn from them and so they go. ¹¹And thus the gate of Heaven is reopened, and its light can shine again on an untroubled mind.” [CE M-16.11:5-11]
magic
The belief that something has the power to heal us, save us, or make us safe when, according to the laws of God, it has no such power. The actions of something invested with this false power. We primarily invest false power in two classes of things: first, external things like bodies, “pills, money, ‘protective’ clothing, influence, prestige, being liked, knowing the ‘right’ people,” etc. (W-50.1:3), and second, our own separate will, which we wrongly see as having the power to keep us safe and solve our problems.