There is magic in the universe. I think that it's always been there, ever since the very beginning. It has a quality about it that is almost indescribable, a state of childlike wonder, acceptance, belief, and curiosity. magic is a fairy tale with a happy ending. It's Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. It's Superman.

There is also a dark side of magic, and it incorporates fear, anger, and hatred into its fiber. Dark magic is Dracula, werewolves, the Bogeyman that lurks in the closets of innocent children. And though these are frightening thoughts, it's is comforting to know that the mind of a child can make the infamous vampire a crusty old vegetarian, the werewolves not unlike the family dog, and the Bogeyman into a protective guardian of the night.

Magic, however, is like the child. With time, it grows an element of sophistication, losing the wonderlike quality. The curiosity hardens into skepticism. The acceptance softens into a desire to rationalize. Gone is the drive to believe. Now is the desire to know. In a sort of puberty of the mind, magic becomes science, and natural laws rule. For anyone who has seen a small child terrorize a playground, doing things that shouldnt be possible, that no sane adult would do, I offer this small truth: A child can do anything. Likewise, through magic, anything can be done, and it isnt until it becomes science that we find restrictions.

There too, is the dark side of science. Oddly enough, until recent years, the majority of scientific advances were made in wartime. Scientists now work for a worthier goal, entertainment of mankind, yet still the instruments of destruction are being developed wholesale. We can only hope that science will one day move out of its id-like need for primitive violence, and into a more ego and super ego-like state of being.

And there are those special souls that combining the learning of science with the wonder of magic. They are called magicians, wizards, messiahs. They arent the most perfect scientists, however, science is a human creation understand the universe that surrounds us, the need for the perfect scientist is nil. For the perfect scientist would be the ultimate skeptic, and probably wouldnt even believe his own eyes.

Magic, however, is reliant on natural laws. The term supernatural is ridiculous. Magic has to follow the same laws that drive your cars, that run your lights, that power your televisions. A child can climb a tree with infinite weak branches and still make it to the top. Likewise, that same child can jump from that tree, plummet several feet yet still land on the ground, unharmed, laughing, wanting to climb the tree again. It seems that the laws that bind the universe were broken. Not so. The laws that bind the universe are unbreakable. To try to break those laws, is like trying to step out of the universe; its impossible. (If you dont believe me, then you had better look up the word universe once more)