Idea seed: 3, magic as an ability to access the polycosm

Holes in sides of the tunnels of time was the phrase that I laid down in an aide-memoire for another post about writing.   Now, this may sound somewhat kitschy and maybe even serve as a working title, but I think that I will spend some time writing more about the nature of magic in the world that I am imagining.  

OK, the firs thing is that the world this is being written in is effectively ours, with all of it's warts and inconsistencies.  But the basis of this story is that magic, having been pretty darned near killed through a combination of technology, Christianity, and booze, is beginning to get some traction on its return.  The return is by no means assured.  The things that depressed it are still there and active.

Now, magic isn't all that impressive.  For the most part it appears to be the ability to channel a smallish portion of the magic field to change the consciousness of yourself and the people around you.  Most of the time the changes are trivial and don't involve anything difficult.  But sometimes the changes are serious enough to shift the user out of this "world" world and into a parallel track where the changes are possible.

Most of the big changes are precluded by the "big three" magic depressors.  But now that the depressants are beginning to lose their efficacy, magic is starting to happen.