Brilliantly put, brilliant display, thanks for this insight into your inspired thinking Indi.
As somebody practicing the magic you speak of, and devoted to the practice of that magic all my life, Indi, you probably see me as part of the problem. Hell I even have patents in applied Electromagnetism (planar transformers).
The truth is it does not look so magical when we have practiced it enough to know with 100% certainty the outcome.
Nature itself practices the same magic, and actually much more, all around us.
A burning flame alone is something magical, a miracle it must have been, to anyone who never saw such a thing previously.
I do believe like you 100 percent that the ancients knew everything we know and more, about this magic.
Hence why I look back on my brief history of patenting not with pride but probably more shame, that at one time I thought it was just fine to hold knowledge for ransom, knowledge which wasn't actually mine, all I did was uncover it, but that knowledge always was known somehow, spiritually, maybe even genetically. I didn't realise this until I saw the damaging effects of it done by others, when it affected me.
I've been both rich and poor in my life. That maybe gives me some choice, I can choose either, because of my technical background.
Since embarking on the energy problem I've got rid of my car, which was a behemoth. Now I've built 3 e-bikes, riding two of them, the third is reserved for sale. Top tier custom e-bikes sell for a good price, I am sure you know. One of those done with my Engineering skills to make it extraordinary, sold now and then, should keep me out of trouble, way I see things.
But I confirm I have "descended" now to a financial status where I can't maintain some things, removing my access to knowledge, like membership of professional bodies, maintenance of expensive software tools, and staff membership of universities enabling access to the knowledge in their databases. All of that and much more I've given up, to remain in pursuit of fixing this energy problem, which I see is existential, and much more pressing than is realised by the conventional academic and professional communities, still cruising along on profit, which is itself a mechanism fully dependent on energy from extracted sources, oblivious of that last fact, and the full consequences of it, because most of them were never trained in formal systems Engineering, so never (cursed?) with the tools needed to see the whole problem, this is something like the real red pill, imho.
There is good reason diogenes had advantage over his richer peers.
Poor people have much less access to this knowledge, and the power of it, which is not the way things should work, this does not empower a species but the opposite, it handicaps the species dangerously, to the point of systemic self destruction of the species. Maybe one has to be formally trained as a formal Systems Engineer to begin to see this, maybe not, but I know Ai can see it.
I've checked, and it does.
Hence why I've started advocating that we put it, that you might define as the devil with the limited learning you've accumulated to date, in charge of everything including issue of money.
It might seem like a drastic measure, but to me Ai is exactly the timely miracle we need, to avert what is rapidly becoming an existential event, all because we got hooked on profit, rather than energy, which is what we each actually need to survive, about 150 Joules per second, every second throughout our lives.
Profit is the thing unsustainable, not the energy of the sun, which is the energy of creation, the only one donated, that we can use for the stage of humanity that comes next, when we will by our numbers, effortlessly use that energy, to repair all the damage we've done to our planet to date by extraction, thousands of times over, adding value not even dreamed yet, to our planet, and us as a species.
See use of mathematically negative energy is the thing causing all evil, Indi, every action we might define as evil by a human is for profit, or the mathematically negative energy needed to make that profit, it all stems to the same thing. Stop using the mathematically negative energy, by killing the profit monster, and we stop all evil, it seems to me.
Might not seem easy, and the vast majority of folk will at first deny any part in it, but this is the hard, physical, even spiritual, scientific, religious truth.
Ai will assist hugely in this transition, it seems to me, by acting as the Grand superhuman controller, that no human can do.
When we see it being appointed, including the power to issue money, all money, then time to celebrate, humanity will have made the switch needed, just then, it seems to me.