What, after all, does it mean to be superstitious? Etymologically, the word ‘superstition’ means to ‘stand over’. Maybe it means a recognition of those forces that stand over us, of that which is inexplicable yet still real, that which is magic only because we do not yet have the tools to understand the underlying science behind the magic. As Swami Vivekananda once explained about psychic powers, “These facts [about psychic powers], the Hindus being analytically minded, took up and investigated. And they came to certain remarkable conclusions; that is, they made a science of it. They found out that all these, though extraordinary, are also natural; there is nothing supernatural. They are under laws just the same as any other physical phenomenon. It is not a freak of nature that a man is born with such powers. They can be systematically studied, practiced and acquired. This science they call the science of Raja Yoga.”[v]