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