Welcome to the Guild Wandering Wolf! I myself am a Philosopher (in training). I'd actually be curious to here more about your thoughts on "creative vision". There are not too many Physicist-Philosophers that I know of who would admit to being believers in Magic (what with wide spread acceptance of physicalism and causal closure and all that). But as a Theist myself you might say I too believe in a mode of existence that eludes physical categories and in that sense, might be considered magical (or at least "miraculous").

@Schwarzkreuz, hm, interesting notion. Question, is the world we inhabit identical to or distinct from the maps of the Demiurge? If identical, in what sense is the created order a map? If distinct, what is the relation between the Demiurge, the map, and our world? (e.g. are the maps merely forms in the mind of God? And if so, are the maps in some sense, more real than the real world?).

Cheers,
-Arsheesh