As I am asking questions that are probing, like “what displaces humility when someone doesn’t accept the capacity?” I am bumping up again and again to magical thinking.
When I look at the ethnic/cultural distribution of the people who block humility in favor of magical thinking, I find that
- spirit god cultures, like Native American and African, Shamanic cultures.
- Catholic, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox alike
- Religious Jews
- People of the Indian subcontinent… where it is how it is… you are stuck there
In magical thinking, something or someone will mag