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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 books360 followersDean Radin, PhD, is Senior Scientist at the INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES (IONS) and Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychology at SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY. His original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude and with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For a decade he worked on advanced telecommunications R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories.
For over two decades he has been engaged in consciousness research. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, and several Silicon Valley think-tanks, including Interval Research Corporation and SRI International, where he worked on a classified program investigating psychic phenomena for the US government.
For over two decades he has been engaged in consciousness research. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, and several Silicon Valley think-tanks, including Interval Research Corporation and SRI International, where he worked on a classified program investigating psychic phenomena for the US government.
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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 8, 2025
Another interesting book from Dean Radin.
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