THERE IS SCIENTIFIC PROOF FOR MAGIC

BUCKLE UP, WE'RE GOING DEEP!

Okay, I know this title was a bit sensationalist, but I got too excited. I have to talk to you about the new Dan Brown book, The Secret of Secrets. You know the guy who writes the mega-bestseller thrillers with historical, scientific, and rather occult themes. I love his books, but I was kind of floored when I picked up the latest one and it basically revolves around the science of consciousness.

None of these ideas are fictional, they’re quite well-researched, but they are still being debated (and demonized) among the scientific community, I’ll tell you why in a bit. As I am a full believer in all things magical, I never really required proof, but I still researched the science behind it and read books about it, because I’m curious. Can’t say I’m an expert, but at least I can dumb it down!

NON-LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS

The “materialist” scientific community has always insisted that consciousness (the sense of self, sense of being) is something that is produced by the brain. But they can’t answer how electrical signals in neurons produce subjective experience or why physical processes generate awareness.

The alternative theory is that consciousness is a universal field that the brain downloads from. Like a radio, intercepting waves. The idea of souls could be an interpretation of this universal, non-local consciousness taking form as an individual. 

From a spiritual angle we call it “Source”, “The Universe”. If you know me, you know I call it “The Soup”. It’s pretty common to have a foundational belief in a great everything that we are all interconnected aspects or parts of. If we are all Soup, it means being separate individuals is an illusion. Only it’s very fucking hard to have scientific evidence for it.

THE FILTER

In the book the fictional noetic scientist (a field that studies the intersection of objective and subjective science) talks about a neurotransmitter called GABA as a biological “gatekeeper” controlling how much information the brain lets through. 

It implies that we are only seeing a slice of reality, a part that we are currently able to process so the body functions properly. This slice of reality can be widened by near death experiences, psychedelics, or extreme neurological states. So it may be that people are not “crazy” or “mentally ill”, they’re simply able to access more of reality. More dimensions, more timelines, more information, more sensations. No wonder shamans use psychedelics and plant medicine for divination, it is quite traditional to elevate those with more awareness so they can help their communities. It's relatively new to shun them.

If you would like to immerse yourself into this more, I really recommend the podcast The Telepathy Tapes that explores this exact topic, but it begins with uncovering how all non-verbal autistic people can use telepathy and can receive information from other realms, like knowing the future, knowing what happens on the other side of the world. It’s fascinating.

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THERE IS NO LINEAR TIME

Do you have any personal experiences with intuition, “remembering the future”, or premonition (sensing what would happen in the future)? I bet you do.

In Quantum Mechanics, the core equations work the same whether time runs forward or backward. Because of that, some physicists have explored the idea of retrocausality, where future events could influence earlier ones. We also know that our experience of time is constructed by the brain. It predicts events before they happen, prepares actions before we consciously decide, or fills in missing information.

Also there is a slight delay in “now” entering our minds, because it takes time for signals from nerves to reach the brain. So it solves this by constantly predicting what will happen next. Because of this prediction system, sometimes people experience something like intuition, where the brain detects patterns and generates a feeling before conscious reasoning catches up. 

Which is a very dry explanation, it could also be that we are interconnected Souplets (Soup droplets - don’t come for me, I just made it up and it shall stick) floating in timelessness, intercepting information we couldn’t “consciously” know if we were logical, rational humans, on human time.

When it comes to time, in magickal and spiritual practices we usually play with it a lot. You can get advice from future selves, timeline jump, practise divination to see the future, and alter your past experiences to completely remove the trauma and aftereffects. So yeah, we’ve known! 

THERE IS NO DEATH

If consciousness is not created by the brain, then it might not disappear when the brain stops functioning. If the radio breaks, that doesn’t make the music stop.

Consciousness exiting the body after death is not a new concept, I’m pretty sure every main religion has a version of afterlife, even though most of them like to weaponize it to keep people obedient through fear or the hope of reward. 

But what if it’s not going to other realms as the same human being, but that time shitting gold and eating caviar or being tortured in a tornado of fire? What if it isn’t the continuation of our human life but on a different plane? What if death is the ultimate homecoming? In the book they implied that the GABA receptors stop filtering reality at the time of death and the entire rainbow of reality floods in, as the body that limited it to create our human experience dies. So we just rejoin the Soup. We become consciousness itself.

But the fear of death is one of the forces that shape our current reality. If we only live once and life is finite, the existential terror brings out the worst in us. If humanity would believe - or know - that at the end of every temporary human experience there is infinite bliss and peace, there would be no need for overconsumption, forced societal milestones, competition, hoarding resources, or domination. There would be no fear of aging, grieving wouldn’t wreck us, creativity and exploration would skyrocket without existential dread, religions would lose authority, relationships would deepen without the need of urgency, and the world would be about community flourishing, supporting one another. 

Do we still wonder why scientists are hell-bent on sticking to their guns about all of this being nonsense?  

They say the results can’t be replicated consistently. But if consciousness is everything all at once, it will not be consistent. It’s fluid. Also scientists depend on grants, publications, and professional credibility. Researching controversial topics like telepathy can kill their career. So we are all stuck.

Well, except we don’t. Because if this is true… 

MAGIC IS REAL

…it means magic is real. If time can be altered, if we can widen our scope of reality, if we are all interconnected, if we can see the future, communicate without words, if we are immortal… it means it is all real.  

If non-local consciousness exists, magic could be understood not as breaking the laws of nature, but as interacting with consciousness and reality at a deeper level. In that framework, what we call “magic” is really the mind tuning into the universal field of awareness and influencing it intentionally. 

Food for thought!