even scientist were dismissed as witches, heretics and other degrading terms...how do you know that todays practictioners are not tomarrows scientists...i believe you were the one that posted scientific studies suggesting ley lines being a reality...what's to say there are not people, or our minds have the ability to tap into natural energies, working with them(is not our mind a natural energy itself?)...it would be more of a mental science, but because there is no black and white, hardcopy proof it's dismissed as magick... most people do dismiss what they don't understand as flights of fancy...that doesn't make them right...