Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe

by Dean Radin

But a robot mind with more refined control over its states of awareness won’t have to worry about being eaten by a tiger. It will be able to skip over eons of evolutionary shaping. So it may quickly come to realize that [c] and [C] are identical, and that in turn suggests that a robot not only will be able to do everything you can do faster, better, and cheaper, it will also know everything you’re thinking and will be able to perform incredibly powerful magic.

Magician Peter Carroll agrees: If science ever did begin to make serious enquiry into magic, the result would be disaster. Humanity has proved itself totally incapable of handling even a moderately dangerous substance like plutonium with responsibility. Imagine what it would do with machine-enhanced sorcery or even simple, reliable telepathy. It is in the interests of the survival of the species that occultists continue to ridicule and discredit their own arts in the eyes of orthodox science.

Imagine an intelligent species a few thousand or a few million years more advanced than us. They are likely to know far more about consciousness and what it can do than what we currently understand.

What we crudely call magic they may understand to an exquisitely fine degree. They won’t need physical rockets to traverse the universe. They won’t even need science-fiction-style warp-drive ships, or for that matter any ships at all.

If we can already see tiny space-time warps in our little laboratory psi experiments, then they’d be able to manipulate huge chunks of space-time like slabs of soft butter. They would be able to spy on us, perhaps even embody us, from the dark side of distant galaxies, far better...

Bodies are separate, and minds certainly seem to be locked inside them. So how could my intentions affect anything outside of me? How can I know what someone else is thinking? How can I tell what will happen tomorrow? As we’ve seen, based on the current scientific worldview, you can’t.

But within the esoteric worldview there is no outside world, no separation, no time. Everything is already within consciousness, which is beyond ordinary space-time. Said another way, when the Indian sage Ramana Maharshi was asked, “How are we to treat others?” his reply was simple: “There are no others.”

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These powers can be intoxicating and seductive, which is why in most meditation traditions the student is advised to just regard these phenomena as yardsticks along the path to enlightenment. Don’t dwell on them. By contrast, within the magical traditions these powers are exactly what you’re attempting to achieve.