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The Science of Magic: How the Mind Weaves the Fabric of Reality
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 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 Enchantment, he shines a light on today's scientific breakthroughs, from quantum mechanics to the mind-body connection to non-local consciousness, 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, Enchantment 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,
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With his uniquely science-backed approach, Dean guides you through testing magic on your own, for example through dream precognition, evoking synchronicity, and more. Enchantment is a journey to the outer edges of our understanding of the universe, showing where science is leading namely, to magic.
There is an idea that shakes the core of our scientific 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 Enchantment, he shines a light on today's scientific breakthroughs, from quantum mechanics to the mind-body connection to non-local consciousness, 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, Enchantment 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,
Affirmations (word magic)SigilsKnotsCandle magicWriting magicSpell-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. Enchantment is a journey to the outer edges of our understanding of the universe, showing where science is leading namely, to magic.
304 pages, Paperback
Published October 21, 2025
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About the author
Dean Radin
25 books365 followersDean 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 neuroengineering company, Cognigenics. He earned a BS and MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 2022 he was awarded an Honorary DSc from the Swami Vivekananda University in Bangalore, India.
Before joining the IONS research staff in 2001, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He has given over 830 talks and interviews worldwide, is co-inventor on 12 patents, and is author or coauthor of 350+ scientific and popular articles, book chapters, and five books, all of which have been translated into foreign languages, 15 so far: The Conscious Universe (1997), Entangled Minds (2006), Supernormal (2013), Real Magic (2018), and The Science of Magic (2025).
Before joining the IONS research staff in 2001, Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. He has given over 830 talks and interviews worldwide, is co-inventor on 12 patents, and is author or coauthor of 350+ scientific and popular articles, book chapters, and five books, all of which have been translated into foreign languages, 15 so far: The Conscious Universe (1997), Entangled Minds (2006), Supernormal (2013), Real Magic (2018), and The Science of Magic (2025).
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November 25, 2025
Re-enchantment of reality
This page-turner of a book is filled with comprehensive summaries of the most interesting and detailed scientific experimental research in the field of psi and magic, as well as fascinating personal insights about Dr. Dean Radin's experiences, and powerful practical information and exercises to assist readers in making the most of what cutting-edge researchers in this field have learned.
Far more than being an interesting book about magic or a good summary of scientific psi experiments, "The Science of Magic" also succeeds at meeting far loftier goals. Dr. Dean Radin opens the gates to the dawning of a new day of the beginning of the re-enchantment of our world--recovering after some 400 years of nihilism and marginalization of anyone or anything striving to scientifically explore consciousness. It's now been four centuries after consciousness was separated from scientific study, with the result that a state of nihilism became rampant. This nihilism has operated under an assumption that life is ultimately random and meaningless, since the study of science had been totally set aside from all that fell under the official dominion of the church. And somewhat surprisingly, even in recent years there still exists a stigma of anything having to do with spirituality, prayer, consciousness, or mind-matter interaction. Radin explains, "As nihilism took hold, modernity did not simply reject the importance of meaning, purpose, magic, mystery, and spirituality. It actively denigrated these factors." Skeptics succeeded in mainstreaming the dismissal of anecdotal evidence as unreliable, baseless assertions that experimental evidence supporting psi or magic must be solely due to flaws or fraud, and "writing off these phenomena as impossible because they supposedly violate physical laws." It really does appear that after Pope Gregory XV coined the word "Propaganda" in 1622, the witch-hunting Inquisition of the Middle Ages "still strikes fear in the hearts of academics."
Fortunately, those of us who are alive now are graced with amazing news that the tide is beginning to turn. This is primarily due to the fact that physics can no longer ignore the role of consciousness, While our 19th century idea of reality was based on the ideas that physical objects have definite properties that remain stable independently of observation, and that different observers observing the same object and event will see the same thing--recent scientific experiments are demonstrating "in top-tier science journals that (a) different observers measuring the same object can experience different realities; (b) in spite of Einstein's opinion that 'spooky action at a distance' doesn't exist, experimental demonstrations of nonlocality won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2022; and (c) retrocausal influences can and do occur in quantum mechanics." And while some skeptical hold-outs might declare that surely these aberrations must only occur at the "quantum scale," and not in our larger-than-quantum selves, the burgeoning field of quantum biology research papers suggests otherwise. In fact, quantum effects appear to be necessary in living systems.
How and why we can gain a deeper understanding of consciousness, and best assist humanity becomes increasingly clear while reading this outstanding book.
Highly recommended!
This page-turner of a book is filled with comprehensive summaries of the most interesting and detailed scientific experimental research in the field of psi and magic, as well as fascinating personal insights about Dr. Dean Radin's experiences, and powerful practical information and exercises to assist readers in making the most of what cutting-edge researchers in this field have learned.
Far more than being an interesting book about magic or a good summary of scientific psi experiments, "The Science of Magic" also succeeds at meeting far loftier goals. Dr. Dean Radin opens the gates to the dawning of a new day of the beginning of the re-enchantment of our world--recovering after some 400 years of nihilism and marginalization of anyone or anything striving to scientifically explore consciousness. It's now been four centuries after consciousness was separated from scientific study, with the result that a state of nihilism became rampant. This nihilism has operated under an assumption that life is ultimately random and meaningless, since the study of science had been totally set aside from all that fell under the official dominion of the church. And somewhat surprisingly, even in recent years there still exists a stigma of anything having to do with spirituality, prayer, consciousness, or mind-matter interaction. Radin explains, "As nihilism took hold, modernity did not simply reject the importance of meaning, purpose, magic, mystery, and spirituality. It actively denigrated these factors." Skeptics succeeded in mainstreaming the dismissal of anecdotal evidence as unreliable, baseless assertions that experimental evidence supporting psi or magic must be solely due to flaws or fraud, and "writing off these phenomena as impossible because they supposedly violate physical laws." It really does appear that after Pope Gregory XV coined the word "Propaganda" in 1622, the witch-hunting Inquisition of the Middle Ages "still strikes fear in the hearts of academics."
Fortunately, those of us who are alive now are graced with amazing news that the tide is beginning to turn. This is primarily due to the fact that physics can no longer ignore the role of consciousness, While our 19th century idea of reality was based on the ideas that physical objects have definite properties that remain stable independently of observation, and that different observers observing the same object and event will see the same thing--recent scientific experiments are demonstrating "in top-tier science journals that (a) different observers measuring the same object can experience different realities; (b) in spite of Einstein's opinion that 'spooky action at a distance' doesn't exist, experimental demonstrations of nonlocality won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2022; and (c) retrocausal influences can and do occur in quantum mechanics." And while some skeptical hold-outs might declare that surely these aberrations must only occur at the "quantum scale," and not in our larger-than-quantum selves, the burgeoning field of quantum biology research papers suggests otherwise. In fact, quantum effects appear to be necessary in living systems.
How and why we can gain a deeper understanding of consciousness, and best assist humanity becomes increasingly clear while reading this outstanding book.
Highly recommended!
November 30, 2025
I shouldn’t have taken me long to read and initially it didn’t but then life got in the way but I very much enjoyed it.
A little more in-depth ‘geekery’ than the previous book Real Magic, on which this, I think, is an obvious extension of that brilliant book. I do think that this book is far less an accessible read than Real Magic, and the reader won’t be missing out that much except maybe for some shred protocols in the last few chapters of how to perform basic magic. Which, if you already practice magic to a foundational level you will be familiar.
There were a few places in which I felt a little out of my depth even with my PhD in biological sciences but on the whole enjoyed this book, especially the anecdotes, of which a major one is repeated in this one with a little more to it.
I recommend to read Real Magic first before this one.
A little more in-depth ‘geekery’ than the previous book Real Magic, on which this, I think, is an obvious extension of that brilliant book. I do think that this book is far less an accessible read than Real Magic, and the reader won’t be missing out that much except maybe for some shred protocols in the last few chapters of how to perform basic magic. Which, if you already practice magic to a foundational level you will be familiar.
There were a few places in which I felt a little out of my depth even with my PhD in biological sciences but on the whole enjoyed this book, especially the anecdotes, of which a major one is repeated in this one with a little more to it.
I recommend to read Real Magic first before this one.
December 29, 2025
I don't know if I am smart enough to understand this. It was basically a lot of studies and different trials about how you can do magic within certain perimeters and within certain restrictions if you believe you can do it and your psy/magnectic field is strong enough (?). It was confusing as the audiobook and seemed to be redundant as what the author was talking about seemed very similar to each other.
December 29, 2025
Scientists have avoided admitting any interest at this subject (esp, etc.), as they would usually be ridiculed and black balled from ever being published or advanced in their field if they did.
Scientific verification of these phenomena have been done for many years, and in fact, Dean Radin has carried out many successful experiments in this field himself!
This volume is a compendium of many of these experiments and can actually be almost overwhelmimg in its breadth and scope.
Scientific verification of these phenomena have been done for many years, and in fact, Dean Radin has carried out many successful experiments in this field himself!
This volume is a compendium of many of these experiments and can actually be almost overwhelmimg in its breadth and scope.
November 8, 2025
Another interesting book from Dean Radin.
January 4, 2026
Absolutely and utterly amazing
Absolutely and utterly amazing. Well written. Fun. Life changing ... if you act on it.
All in all, very much worth the reading time
Absolutely and utterly amazing. Well written. Fun. Life changing ... if you act on it.
All in all, very much worth the reading time
January 5, 2026
Very sophisticated take
A thoughtful and insightful book, similar to his other book, but better in every way. I highly recommend this to anyone wanting to learn more about Magic.
A thoughtful and insightful book, similar to his other book, but better in every way. I highly recommend this to anyone wanting to learn more about Magic.
December 31, 2025
The Road Warrior clears the path to the future...
When the skeptics take over wikipedia and chatgpt, ...pray he is out there... somewhere!
Dean Radin has written another wonderful book. So read it.
Courageous, intelligent, insightful... magical!
When the skeptics take over wikipedia and chatgpt, ...pray he is out there... somewhere!
Dean Radin has written another wonderful book. So read it.
Courageous, intelligent, insightful... magical!
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