When I was young I didn't need a wristwatch, for at any time of day or night, you could ask me what time it was and I could tell you exactly. But something happened in my early twenties: it occurred to me that I should not be able to do that, and that it was weird that I could. And so, almost as soon as I thought that, I no longer could.
What happened to me is what happens to all of us: we are subtly and insidiously convinced that our natural powers do not exist. We become slaves to a worldview in which our human powers are diminished, seen as secondary to the astonishing powers of science, technology, and other false gods of the external planes.
— Marianne Williamson, The Gift of Change