can’t get my head around TiMorton’s Realist Magic but the kinds of phenomenological effects/affects outlined here are quite accessible for even as earthbound a soul as mine. What Tim is quite right about is that if we are going to trigger the kinds of gestalt-shifts that snap people (including, maybe only, ourselves) out of their droning routines it’s going to take acts of magic, embodying miracles as Jan says. Not much hope that such acts will turn the rising tides of history but maybe they will help to keep life worth living.