This is when we do our greatest work. If you always have it in the back of your mind that you never doing anything by yourself, but do it with the Creator, you will always be successful. He works with you, not for you, as Lao Russell says in her book. Spirit is the basis of all living things. Both animate and inanimate are alive.
Nothing is dead.
Everything you see with your eyes is alive. Everything contains spirit. If you work with the spiritual aspect of anything, then you become a Shaman. Magicians are something like Shamans, but there is a distinct difference. One creates something out of nothing, this is the magician.