We follow up on our recent show on "Home" with this week's show on "magical thinking," which is a way to create home/safety in spite of incredible odds. Magical thinking is a psychological error that attempts to create an effect with an improper cause. You do not win the lottery just because you believe you have the winning lottery ticket.

Magical thinking becomes problematic and pathological when you become blind to the consequences before thoroughly examining the causes. The measurement in psychology practice is "significant distress in professional, social, inter-relational, financial, and other areas of one's life." Often magical thinking is behind compulsive gambling, all addictions, and many other syndromes like Borderline Personality Disorder and self-mutilation. Kevin and Niseema talk about better ways of finding home.