There is an old sciend fiction story called ‘The Magic Goes Away’ which tells of a world that alternates between epochs of magic and technology. I raed it when I was young. The modern world appears to be in a not entirely dissimilar situation, in that, we are learning to see beyond the myths of a reductivist ‘dead inside’ cosmology. But the old demons of mimicry, technique, insanity and deception are still with us. In this walk and talk I explore the topics that orbit our present circumstances, and the notable differences between deception (i.e stage magic) and actual faculties which have long been part of our nature, but have long been denied by the mechanistic/reductivist world image.