A Scientist Who Believes In Magic
Dean Radin PhD is a Scientist who believes in Magic. He explains all in his latest book called “Real Magic”.
Dean has spent the last forty years conducting controlled experiments that demonstrate that thoughts are things, that we can sense others emotions and intentions from a distance, that intuition is more powerful than we thought, and that we can tap into the power of intention. These dormant powers can help us lead more interesting and fulfilling lives.
Numerous experiments to prove telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psychokinetic effects have all been independently repeated in laboratories around the world. Both parapsychology and magic refer to the same underlying consciousness related phenomena, both saturate popular entertainment, but not if the phenomena are presented as real.
The Law of Correspondences is a principle underlying many magical practices. Based on the assumption of an interconnected reality, this law proposes that inner and outer experience, or mind and matter, intermingle and interact. What you sustain in your mind is reflected in the world at large.
This idea, popularized in one form as The Law of Attraction, has been tested in psi research primarily in mind-matter interaction or psychokinetic experiments.
That parapsychology and magic are two sides of the same coin is not a new idea. There are hundreds of thousands of scholarly books and articles covering magic from every conceivable angle.
Most academic scientists avoid parapsychology as though it is a virulent strain of a Zombie plague.
Many are secretly interested in parapsychology (or psi) but in scientific circles it is a taboo subject and can create a huge amount of ridicule if the subject is broached.
Many scientists believe that if you believe in magic, you are either stupid, you’re nuts or you just can’t help it.
Dean Radin has an open mind and has overcome this ridicule.
There are three conventional approaches to studying consciousness, philosophers analyse the concepts, logic and assumptions used to describe consciousness, and scientists study consciousness from the outside in by performing experiments. Meditators study consciousness from the inside out, by introspection.
Dean Radin studied consciousness by a fourth less conventional approach. He investigated phenomena that challenges commonly held assumptions about brain-mind relationships. This is known as parapsychology.
One of the academic disciplines most entranced by magic is called esotericism, the study of hidden, supressed, secret or occult knowledge (occult means hidden).
While many scientists are quick to dismiss magical thinking as nonsense, the fact is that practically everyone engages in magical thinking all the time, without realising it.
Many people have reported the feeling “of being stared at”. Experiments have been done regarding this phenomena by British biologist Rupert Sheldrake in his book “The Sense of Being Stared At”. I am sure many readers have experienced this for themselves, as the one doing the staring or the one being stared at.
The essence of magic boils down to the application of two ordinary mental skills, attention and intention. The strength of the magical outcome is modulated by four factors, belief, imagination, emotion and clarity. That’s basically it.
The single most important aide to developing magical skills is to learn how to enter the state of consciousness; the safest way to do this is through meditation. The basic practice of meditation is straightforward.
First sit in a comfortable position, relax your body, close your eyes, then try to quiet your mind and stop thinking, this is easier said than done and requires a lot of practice.
Know what you want, review what you want and maintain secrecy. Another’s views may inject doubt into your mind.
According to magical lore, one way to manifest a goal through force of will is to affirm that the goal has already been accomplished. This means placing the goal in the future with your imagination and then letting the present time events catch up to the future goal.
Dean Radin experimented with this notion, using a baseball metaphor. What if the pitcher intensely imagined that the ball was curving to the left and the act of intention itself caused the metaphorical equivalent of gravitational attraction.
Using a computer simulation, participants intentionally tried to influence the curve of the baseball to the left. Over 56% of the balls curved to the left, this was later adjusted to 53%, when other factors were taken into account, this is not very high but under normal circumstances the ball would go equally left or right.
As personal consciousness draws closer to universal consciousness, the sense of separateness begins to decrease and incidents of psychic perception, synchronicities and manifested intentions begin to increase.
It appears that our conscious intentions and beliefs affect our reality in either a negative or positive way, it depends how you view the world, the universal consciousness does not favour negative or positive intentions, it can go either way, like the baseball.
If we can steer ourselves ever so slightly to a more positive way of thinking, we can change the world, one small step at a time, when that happens we will have Real Magic.
Dean Radin and REAL MAGIC: The Science Behind Clairvoyance, Telekinesis & Telepathy, LAW OF ATTRACTION
Dean has spent the last forty years conducting controlled experiments that demonstrate that thoughts are things, that we can sense others emotions and intentions from a distance, that intuition is more powerful than we thought, and that we can tap into the power of intention. These dormant powers can help us lead more interesting and fulfilling lives.
Numerous experiments to prove telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psychokinetic effects have all been independently repeated in laboratories around the world. Both parapsychology and magic refer to the same underlying consciousness related phenomena, both saturate popular entertainment, but not if the phenomena are presented as real.
The Law of Correspondences is a principle underlying many magical practices. Based on the assumption of an interconnected reality, this law proposes that inner and outer experience, or mind and matter, intermingle and interact. What you sustain in your mind is reflected in the world at large.
A lot of scientists from the past believed in God but did they believe in things like Satan, demons, magic, and other church teachings?
Satanism and/or The Occult will in general enlist individuals who are influential and ground-breaking. Men or ladies of worth. Freemasonry, for example, does as such, and so does the Church of Satan today. I trust part of the wariness in the supernatural has to do with individuals who have cause and impact with the spiritual, individuals who know about Satan or devils and so forward, and work to cover it up because if individuals comprehended what they were doing, there may have been lynch crowds.
Individuals like influential scientists or Professors at Universities. What happens behind shut entryways?
Many of the scientist today who don't have faith in the spiritual are guileless pawns, helpful dolts, or knowledgeable double crossers. For example, internet search something like "science invalidates the third eye?" What do you find?
To be exceptionally clear, I am not the slightest bit instructing or telling anyone to go into some Eastern Mysticism, New Age, or Occult trying to open their third eye. That is the manner by which somebody winds up in inconvenience. The "Spiritual" and how it works is reasonable and provable.
Does the Church have a particular teaching around magic?
I think historically the available proof shows there are certainly sophisticated scientists who are practicing Roman Catholics
So a rundown of a couple with their area of mastery
Stephen Barr PhD : material science/University of Delaware (flipped SU5 GUT hypothesis)
Alex Pruss PhD Mathematics : Ok Baylor University ( Abelian gatherings)
Wes Ely MD : (Pulmonary critical care physician and clinical investigator) Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Delirum in the ICU subjective impairment after critical disease
Juan Martin Maldacena (PhD Physics IAP), Quantum Gravity and Quantum field hypothesis
Jonathan Lunine (PhD astrophysics) Cornell, ( planetary science)
Karen Oberg PhD (Astrophysics) Harvard (Astrochemistry, planetary formation)
Nicanor Austriaco OP ( PhD Biology) Providence College, Mechanisms of programmed cell death, and a Catholic Priest
Stephen Meredith (PhD Biochemistry) University of Chicago Structure of beta amyloid fibrils
Martin A Nowak (PhD Mathematics) Harvard Mathematical depictions of Evolutionary science, particularly advancement of language.
Presently the credentials and logical achievement of any one of these dwarfs the achievement of any of the popularist atheists, and obviously any of the amateur atheists who remark in this discussion. In fact it also counters the senseless hogwash that scientists of the past were just proclaiming their confidence in God because they were frightened of the open fall out of transparently being atheists ( A claim that is with no proof coincidentally) These are all scientists of today and all exceptionally accomplished. I quit composing the rundown because it was getting dull. The point is that there are real scientists who presume that God exists and there are some that close generally. They finish up these things based on their evaluation of the philosophical arguments. A genuine atheists would need to react to arguments of those like Alex Pruss who expound on philosophical verifications for the presence of God. ( Pruss has PhD's in both math and rationality has distributed in the professional literature of both). Their are obviously genuine atheists who talk about the ideas Pruss has distributed yet they are way past asking whether science and belief in higher powers are in struggle. Anyone with any ability about any of the relevant issues realizes they are most certainly not. The individuals who imagine a contention usually betray their ignorance of either science or reasoning. Presently there is no sin in being ignorant in either of these fields, it is sufficiently hard to wind up reasonably able in only one, le alone super very accomplished like those in the above rundown. Where the sin lies is the hubris of having just ability or even some constrained learning and pontificating ( maybe… ) on subjects in which significant skill in both is required. A little lowliness may be pleasant.
Will science be able to explain ghosts, Satan, and Black Magic? Do scientists believe in them despite that there is no scientific evidence? Do ghosts exist differently from every culture/race? Why is it so?
I think science will eventually prove the existence of life at vibrations other than the physical.
I think science will eventually prove the existence of ghosts, the soul and the afterlife.
But you need to remember that science is made up of people, not automatons. They have beliefs and prejudices like every other person. It comes with the package, and sometimes it seems the territory too.
It ain’t necessarily so…
A lot of the people of science are not scientists in the true sense of the word - not like an Einstein. They do not approach matters, such as ghosts, with an open mind, and seek to look at the evidence. Rather they already know they don’t exist.
They know they don’t exist because their religion is steeped in materialism and a mechanistic worldview. Such things can’t exist in that world.
The only way behaviour changes in science is that certain people die and differently behaving people take their places. Lynn Margulis (American microbiologist)
Some hope…
I have great hope that the change will come from within science - through an area such as quantum-mechanics. In the meantime scientists should stick with what they know about, rather make pronouncements on things they don’t know about - it ain’t scientific.
Let me add that my beliefs and interests have been on the receiving end of playground behaviour and ill-informed comments and judgements from so-called people of science. So I know a bit of what I’m talking about…
Don’t rely on science for answers to the bigger questions
Science goes around the houses to get to an understanding. It won’t be answering any of the bigger questions anytime soon. I’d suggest we’re in a time where we need to find our own way, and be counted for what we believe…
What is the evidential basis for atheism, particularly among the "new atheist" scientists and academics?
What is the evidential basis for atheism, particularly among the "new atheist" scientists and academics?
Why do we have to keep answering this same question again and again?
Atheism is a lack of belief in gods of any sort, often due to a lack of any compelling evidence to rationally support such a belief. Or, to put it another way, the “evidential” basis for atheism is the complete and utter lack of any evidential basis to support a belief in gods of any sort (especially the sort of evidence that should be there if any of the concepts of gods actually worshiped by anybody were actually true).
Atheists don’t lack belief despite evidence for the existence of gods. Atheists don’t believe in the non-existence of gods because of some evidence of their non-existence (which is just silly). Atheists lack belief because nobody has ever provided any compelling evidence that any gods exist despite over three thousand years of theists claiming that one or more gods do exist.
Yes, for many people, atheism is all about “evidence.” But it’s not evidence “for” the non-existence of gods. It’s simply an acknowledgement that there is no good reason to believe in any gods in the first place.
Seriously, feel free to be the first person in human history to provide some actual evidence of the specific god you happen to worship. If you can’t do that, however, why not just acknowledge that you have no good reason to believe in God and stop trying to shift the burden of proof onto others?
Each religion, each portrayal and claim for god, can be traced with great certainty to earlier tales all told by individuals and based on the earth and conditions they would reasonably have seen and the interpretations they could make in the absence of present day logical learning and apparatuses. The main reasonable end is that these religions arose completely from attempts by early individuals to understand the word, and everything they were seeking to understand can now be explained better by science so their early attempts are essentially out of date.
Each religion makes claims for interventionist behavior by their divine beings which are capable of measurement - does prayer give a superior chance of the ideal result than not praying? Do adherents experience a superior life by any measure? Are the individuals who question, or even false, religions and divine beings rebuffed? Do any artifacts claimed to originate from such divine beings actually show anything other than human manufacture and origin? The answer to all these and more is a clear No.
Almost every religion has a creation story,which give explicit details of how the world (and whatever is left of presence) came to be. For each such story there are key details that can be appeared by proof to be false, and there is no information given that couldn't have been watched and speculated by early humans, despite the fact that we presently realize that the universe contains far all the more interesting things that any of those accounts makes reference to.
… .I could continue for a VERY prolonged stretch of time, yet others, for example, Dawkins have completed a vastly improved activity than I would. To say it essentially there is zero proof to help any divine being, an immense amount t propose that the accounts were all human fabrication, and overwhelming proof that the narratives are basically loaded with falsehood. On that basis the main reasonable end is atheism.
The ‘evidential basis’ for atheism is exactly the same as the evidential basis for not believing in Santa Claus, fairies and Puff the Magic Dragon: a complete absence of any reason to believe in these entities.
To infer non-existence from the failure to find any evidence for existence—when there is no good reason why that evidence should be hidden or obscure—is a normal and perfectly reasonable thing to do, and every rational human being on the planet does it several times a day. When we plan to cross a road, for instance, we look to see if there is any sign that cars are coming. In the absence of any such sign, we conclude that no cars are coming, and it’s safe to cross. We’re not always correct, but we’re correct far more often than we’re wrong.
Making that simple connection between ‘there is no evidence there for X’ and the reasonable conclusion ‘there is no X there’ is all that atheists are generally doing.
Theists apparently want to claim that gods are a special case, and an exception to this process; but since no-one has ever put forward any arguments or data to support their claim, we are not obliged to take it seriously.
This idea, popularized in one form as The Law of Attraction, has been tested in psi research primarily in mind-matter interaction or psychokinetic experiments.
That parapsychology and magic are two sides of the same coin is not a new idea. There are hundreds of thousands of scholarly books and articles covering magic from every conceivable angle.
Most academic scientists avoid parapsychology as though it is a virulent strain of a Zombie plague.
Many are secretly interested in parapsychology (or psi) but in scientific circles it is a taboo subject and can create a huge amount of ridicule if the subject is broached.
Many scientists believe that if you believe in magic, you are either stupid, you’re nuts or you just can’t help it.
Dean Radin has an open mind and has overcome this ridicule.
There are three conventional approaches to studying consciousness, philosophers analyse the concepts, logic and assumptions used to describe consciousness, and scientists study consciousness from the outside in by performing experiments. Meditators study consciousness from the inside out, by introspection.
Dean Radin studied consciousness by a fourth less conventional approach. He investigated phenomena that challenges commonly held assumptions about brain-mind relationships. This is known as parapsychology.
One of the academic disciplines most entranced by magic is called esotericism, the study of hidden, supressed, secret or occult knowledge (occult means hidden).
While many scientists are quick to dismiss magical thinking as nonsense, the fact is that practically everyone engages in magical thinking all the time, without realising it.
Many people have reported the feeling “of being stared at”. Experiments have been done regarding this phenomena by British biologist Rupert Sheldrake in his book “The Sense of Being Stared At”. I am sure many readers have experienced this for themselves, as the one doing the staring or the one being stared at.
The essence of magic boils down to the application of two ordinary mental skills, attention and intention. The strength of the magical outcome is modulated by four factors, belief, imagination, emotion and clarity. That’s basically it.
The single most important aide to developing magical skills is to learn how to enter the state of consciousness; the safest way to do this is through meditation. The basic practice of meditation is straightforward.
First sit in a comfortable position, relax your body, close your eyes, then try to quiet your mind and stop thinking, this is easier said than done and requires a lot of practice.
Know what you want, review what you want and maintain secrecy. Another’s views may inject doubt into your mind.
According to magical lore, one way to manifest a goal through force of will is to affirm that the goal has already been accomplished. This means placing the goal in the future with your imagination and then letting the present time events catch up to the future goal.
Dean Radin experimented with this notion, using a baseball metaphor. What if the pitcher intensely imagined that the ball was curving to the left and the act of intention itself caused the metaphorical equivalent of gravitational attraction.
Using a computer simulation, participants intentionally tried to influence the curve of the baseball to the left. Over 56% of the balls curved to the left, this was later adjusted to 53%, when other factors were taken into account, this is not very high but under normal circumstances the ball would go equally left or right.
As personal consciousness draws closer to universal consciousness, the sense of separateness begins to decrease and incidents of psychic perception, synchronicities and manifested intentions begin to increase.
It appears that our conscious intentions and beliefs affect our reality in either a negative or positive way, it depends how you view the world, the universal consciousness does not favour negative or positive intentions, it can go either way, like the baseball.
If we can steer ourselves ever so slightly to a more positive way of thinking, we can change the world, one small step at a time, when that happens we will have Real Magic.
Dean Radin and REAL MAGIC: The Science Behind Clairvoyance, Telekinesis & Telepathy, LAW OF ATTRACTION
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Its whole nature is in the diagram
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The X variable in this diagram will change your life
Its whole nature is in the diagram
So I created a short description drawing and portrayed the essence of X. It will not take much of your time, a short period of time in the infinite time of eternity.
If you have comments on the diagram, please leave a comment to help me, or you can contact via Email: forresttruong@gmail.com, or contact via personal FB: https://www.facebook.com/tao.bit.79
I hope every meaningful and good thing will come to you, at least in the diagram of X.
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