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The Science of Magic

Dean Radin has spent decades running laboratory experiments on the edges of science, at the institute an Apollo astronaut founded and inside a once-classified program on anomalous intelligence gathering. In this book he argues that the old practices grouped under magic, enchantment, divination and theurgy, describe real capacities of consciousness that laboratory parapsychology has been measuring all along. Part one frames the coming shift in the scientific worldview. Part two examines the evidence: what controlled studies say about enchantment, about divination in its oracular and presentiment forms, and about theurgy, the deliberate contact with intelligences behind the phenomena. Part three takes magic seriously as a subject of theory, surveying the explanations magicians and researchers have offered. Part four is practical, walking through how such work is actually done, what gnosis contributes, and how claims could be tested. The tone is that of a career scientist who knows exactly how implausible the material sounds and meets the objection head on, with a light touch and a long paper trail. A bridge between the wizard's art and the lab.

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