Magic via Imagination

"The first step into magic is the human imagination. The world of the mind and the world of matter are both real, but in different ways. In fact, if one is more important than the other, it's probably the world of the imagination, where the world of human artefacts, well, all of it, actually originates. The basic paradigm of science tends to rule out consciousness, imagination, because they're not repeatable in empirical laboratory conditions. So it struck me that perhaps through magic there might be a different way to interact with the mind. This might in fact have been what magicians were talking about all along." —Alan Moore, via Phantasmaphile

Imagination

"Imagination is the mystic word which is too often lost from the vocabulary of daily thought. It is a soul exercise, which makes possible many otherwise impossible things and experiences. Imagination is the activity of a soul which takes hold of difficulty, and by a little manipulation either tears away the mask and reveals a helper, or turning the difficulty around, finds it an aid walking backwards."
—Elmer Willis Serl, The Laughter of Jesus, 1911