I my opinion, yes they are both describing models that let you work with reality, just in different ways.
Science is specifically restricted, by design, to observations of physical phenomena. The Chinese have studies on qi, but there’s very little acceptance of studying “fringe” subjects in western science, which ironically makes it more like a religion, but there’s a lot of money invested in the current status quo and that’s why.
We were talking about this here - the video linked is scientific, but also clearly magick. The “placebo effect” is magickal healing, everything is energy waveforms interacting.