ABSTRACT
This chapter explains a creative synthesis to reach a place of being able to recognize both analytical and magical orientation parameters in a way that is complementary rather than oppositional. It shows the two orientations of analytical and magical modes of thinking interrelate continuously one with the other. Thus, this chapter illustrates and analyzes magic as a process of thinking that has its own form of analogical reasoning. The mind was not a producer of consciousness. The ability to create a newer, stronger, and progressively more expanded self-network is dependent upon the nascent creative capacity of the mind. The chapter also shows the number of brain regions whose actions correlate with the processing associated with the self: primarily, the neural networks that mediate the executive self include the right sided orbitofrontal, dorsomedial, dorsolateral prefrontal and anterior temporal cortices.
