Taboo the word real for a moment. Also any related words, like ‘actual.’ What do you mean when you say that it can be real?
You say your cousin can tell you the name of a card before he looks at it, after a random draw of the deck. But he does it. It’s an act on his part. This isn’t a mere word-issue either: you don’t think the same thing will happen if I try to predict a card you draw from a deck. So you are talking about a direct link between his statement and the card. Unless you think he is doing it by chance (so that there is just a correlation, and an extremely improbable one at that) you think that there is a causal link between the card drawn and the prediction. Saying you don’t know what it is, is not the same thing as saying that it is not there.
Likewise, when you say that you commune with the universe, you are stating some act, “communing” and some result “finding out that your partner loves you.” You don’t expect this to fail the next time you do it, or you wouldn’t perform the act to that effect. (You might perform it to “see if it works this time” but that would be another matter.) So I don’t think you really believe what you think you believe. Why would you “commune with the universe” if it did not cause effects such as “realizing your partner truly loves you”?
Taboo the word real for a moment. Also any related words, like ‘actual.’ What do you mean when you say that it can be real?
You say your cousin can tell you the name of a card before he looks at it, after a random draw of the deck. But he does it. It’s an act on his part. This isn’t a mere word-issue either: you don’t think the same thing will happen if I try to predict a card you draw from a deck. So you are talking about a direct link between his statement and the card. Unless you think he is doing it by chance (so that there is just a correlation, and an extremely improbable one at that) you think that there is a causal link between the card drawn and the prediction. Saying you don’t know what it is, is not the same thing as saying that it is not there.
Likewise, when you say that you commune with the universe, you are stating some act, “communing” and some result “finding out that your partner loves you.” You don’t expect this to fail the next time you do it, or you wouldn’t perform the act to that effect. (You might perform it to “see if it works this time” but that would be another matter.) So I don’t think you really believe what you think you believe. Why would you “commune with the universe” if it did not cause effects such as “realizing your partner truly loves you”?