You're 100% absolutely correct. "Everyone alive practices magic
and compulsions for control" It serves a purpose; magical
thinking is perfectly human and as far as know, we're all human.
When I see it in myself, sometimes I allow it, sometimes I fight
it, although I suspect there's many (most) areas within myself
that are of the magical thinking variety are working and
functioning and I'm not even conscious of it. Still, I keep
trying to find them smile emoticon