Magical thinking may lead people to believe that their thoughts by themselves can bring about effects in the world or that thinking something corresponds with doing it.
But religions may include superstitions or make use of magical thinking.
Despite her generally rational approach she held strongly to magical thinking as she felt some things transcended logic.
Treatment ranged in region with local cultural norms concerning magical thinking.
Self-transcendence in itself is moderately related to schizotypy, particularly the cognitive-perceptual component associated with magical thinking and unusual perceptions.
Many other terms have been proposed: magical thinking, pre-philosophical thought, mythopoeic thought and others.
According to this theory, primitive man is not a rational being, and in fact magical thinking bears a strong resemblance to neuroses.
Morphic resonance is rejected by numerous critics on multiple grounds, and has been labelled pseudoscience and magical thinking.
