People used to say that spirits or magic were responsible for every single thing that they didn't understand. If it didn't rain it was because the spirits were angry, if someone misteriously got sick it was because of a curse, a women doing weird stuff was obviously witches, an epileptic child was possesed, etc...
It really doesn't get us anywhere. It's OK to say "I don't know".
Edit: oh and I'm pretty sure you don't need magic to explain the stuff that David Blaine does.
I didn’t disagree with the logic and content of your above post regarding children and imaginations stemming from emotions surrounding.
But again you flatly deny the existence of a spiritual world. This is just incongruous to me.
I have performed some David Blaine Dynamo type “magic” myself, by tapping into our innate ability to access ESP and psychic projection powers.
But I learnt or heard from many different angles so long ago, how it is allegedly a very real thing how these dark secretive dazzling street and mentioned TV magicians, do actually use assistance from a 4th Dimensional entity.
And I cannot discard that there is almost surely in my mind a spiritual world.
What Dynamo does on many occasion, is simply inhuman! Inhuman! We don’t always have opportunity to use that term so validly and applicably.
I can accept that they can do much of the things we see, by really harnessing the power our minds possess, massively unrealised. Some staged illusions rigged up here and there too.
But the most part, it’s the djinn performing the magic. They work together.
And djinns do taunt people too. Whether other phenomena leading to the appearance and manifestation of shadow beings is purely based in our own psyche and imagination or not, I’m not disputing that, but the spirit world is real just as our mortal one is.
Just blind and invisible to us most of the time.