The more I think about it, the more I don't see a difference to be honest. Like you said, in the past what we're doing right now would be considered magic. But no, I was speaking as if language was a supernatural magic, which at one point in time, it was, if not being so now.
The illusion(a lie) can pass as truth and persuade you. I think many people accept something as truth simply because they can't form a verbal argument against it. I guess I'm just talking about proving your reasoning.
The best antidote I can think of to lies or untruths would be to do research (if it's something verifiable), or just remain skeptical when things don't seem right. Maybe keep asking questions and see how they react. If they get impatient or edgy, it might not be true. But of course sometimes it might not even occurr to you something might not be true. That's just something we all deal with.
All this symbolic stuff I'm studying about the Bible could fall under that banner—it may or may not be true. Meaning the Bible may or may not have been intended to get these symbolic ideas across. That's definitely something I've been considering carefully as I go. I tend to be pretty skeptical, about certain kinds of things anyway, and the reason I've decided to keep following these ideas is because so far they seem to check out in every way I can test them. If the Pageaus or somebody else just made it all up it wouldn't fit so many parts of the Bible so perfectly.
Also they're true in reality. So weather or not they were deliberately put in by the people who developed the ideas in the first place, the symbols and ideas they repesent are very real. Peterson checks them rigorously against what he knows about pyschology and life itself (as do I, though admittedly he knows a bit more about psychology), and they check out. Those ancients knew things that we've forgotten, and in some cases that we're re-discovering.
But admittedly, I haven't done a lot of research into the stuff I'm posting now. I have seen much of it before, I've read somewhat into this kind of material, and it all seems to fit quite well with the Pageau/Peterson approach to the Bible, which retains the possibility that it could be true in the supernatural sense, while also being obviously true in the material/physical sense. And personally I just lean toward what I understand as a rational/esoteric approach to it.
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