chicken of the egg

if you are an especially practiced magician, would you also be somewhat more sensitive to the paranormal? would you sense things, because you were so heightenedly aware of the very clockwork of life - that clockwork which you turned to your own advantage to create illusion?

or, does it happen the other way around... if you are especially heightened in your sense of the clockwork of the world, are you prone to illusion, simply b/c you see things other people do not, see things in ways other people do not, see opportunties & objects & situations & relationships - all differently.

probably you see things differently than most folks, and as a result, you interact with the world differently, in a way that appears to others to be illusional. when you realize you can create illusions, control the clockwork, in ways others cannot, then what? would you be tempted to weild power, or tempted to entertain?