The Science of Magic - by Dean Radin (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A science-backed guide to discovering the real power of magic and implementing it in your life, from the renowned author of Real Magic

There is an idea that shakes the core of our scientific principles: That our consciousness participates in creating our physical reality. It's an idea that runs counter to the materialist worldview we're all taught in school. But the outer edges of scientific inquiry bleed into what can only be called 'magic.'

Dean Radin, Ph.D., is at the forefront of researching magic from a scientific standpoint. In The Science of Magic, he shines a light on today's scientific breakthroughs, from quantum mechanics to the mind-body connection to telepathy, that can best be explained by what we currently call magic (or psi). In short, today's magic is the science of tomorrow. He shares his own groundbreaking research on psi phenomena, and explains how you can start utilizing these findings in your own life today.

Accessible and practical, The Science of Magic offers magical methods from the perspective of a scientist, demonstrating how to effect change with exercises and hands-on techniques. In short, magic is a mental skill, like meditation or mathematics. You will find a quiz to discover your natural talents and foundational activities for strengthening your skills, including:

- Affirmations (word magic)
- Sigils
- Knots
- Candle magic
- Writing magic
- Spell-casting

With his uniquely science-backed approach, Dean guides you through testing magic on your own, for example through dream precognition, evoking synchronicity, and more. The Science of Magic is a journey to the outer edges of our understanding of the universe, showing where science is leading us: namely, to magic.

Review Quotes

"The Science of Magic is a thrilling, paradigm-shifting journey that invites readers to reconsider the very foundations of reality. With wit, scientific rigor, and a storyteller's grace, Dean Radin dismantles centuries of cultural taboos around psychic phenomena and reclaims magic--real magic--as a serious topic worthy of scientific inquiry. This is the book to give your most skeptical friend--one part science, one part wonder, and all heart. A must-read for anyone curious about the untapped powers of the human mind."--Ky Dickens, creator of The Telepathy Tapes

"The Science of Magic not only validates the reality of magical experiences in everyday life, but also explores theories for how they occur, with suggestions for manifesting more of them in your life."--Jessica Utts, PhD, Professor Emerita of Statistics, UC Irvine

"Dean Radin is one of our most trusted and storied parapsychologists. Here is a punchy, funny, and deeply personal summary of the science and effects of mind over matter, particularly minds from the future influencing the present. Such remarkable abilities can be both scientifically studied and put into daily practice. Magic works. Magic is real."--Jeffrey J. Kripal, PhD, author of How to Think Impossibly and the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University

"This is research at its best: drawing from the latest knowledge in physics and biology, Dr. Dean Radin describes an ongoing, radical restatement of ancient knowledge into the practical tools of modern thought."--Jacques F. Vallée, PhD, author of Passport to Magoniaand The Invisible College

"I recommend Science of Magic to every open-minded scientist and to every serious magician on the planet."--Peter J Carroll, physicist and sorcerer, author of Liber Null and Psychonaut and This Is Chaos

"Dean Radin, a leading expert on the scientific study of psi phenomena, has taken his research one step further by exploring the mechanisms and practice of real magic in his accessible and revelatory new book The Science of Magic. Skeptics beware! Radin has provided laboratory data, analysis, and practical advice for anyone interested in the provable manifestations of non-local consciousness, moving us towards a new scientific paradigm."--Leslie Kean, New York Times bestselling author of Surviving Death and UFOs

About the Author

Dean Radin is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and cofounder and chairman of the biotech company, Cognigenics. He earned an MS (electrical engineering) and a PhD (psychology) from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and in 2022 was awarded an Honorary DSc from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore, India. He is the author or coauthor of some 300 scientific and popular articles, four dozen book chapters, and nine books, four of which have been translated into 15 foreign languages: The Conscious Universe (1997), Entangled Minds (2006), Supernormal (2013), and Real Magic (2018).