005: Magick on the Edge of Science
Can magick be measured? Is it possible to take a scientific approach to magick, applying scientific method to test techniques and results? Should we pursue such ascientific approach to magick? Why or why not? Can the energies harnessed in magick be measured by any of the technology that we possess today? Is there some point in the future where we could invent a machine that could measure or record some aspect of the magickal arts? How much does this elide into psychic phenomenon — and is there really a line between some of what gets labeled “psychic” and some of what gets labeled “magick.” Why do we persist in the distinctions?
Featured Interview: Jason Augustus Newcomb is a writer and artist who has worked with the powers of the mind and consciousness-altering practices for many years. He lives in Los Angeles, but travels across the US giving lectures and workshops.
Note: This is a long one, folks. 2 hours, 13 minutes. Brace yourself…it’s quite a ride!
Show notes:
- 21st Century Mage: Bring the Divine Down to Earth
- The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power
- Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
- Grant Morrison
- What the Bleep Do We Know!?
- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
- The Elegant Universe (Link to PBS — Watch it Online!)
- Music: Mandelbrot Set by Jonathan Coulton
- Intro and Bumper Drumming: Wake the Dragon by The Dragon Ritual Drummers
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May 14th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
I haven’t listened yet (just downloaded the file), but also of note:
The Global Consciousness Project at Princeton University. Basically, it collects information from specially-designed electronic random number generators and attempts to visualize that data and correllate it with world events.
(Login troubles seem to be haunting me here, or I’d post this in the forums.)
May 14th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
May 15th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Ok. I might be cafinnee deprived, but did we really get an introduction from Rob???
Who is he?
May 15th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
We introduced Rob in the last full episode (004), but I’m meaning to put up a bio. The short version is that Rob is Rob Holmes, and old friend of mine and Michelle. The three of us have worked together on projects in the past. He is an award-winning chemist and has a number of patents to his name. he also writes and consults upon role playing games, especially those in based in the modern era.
May 18th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Thank You Michelle and Chris, and Camile,etc.
You are the tiny miracle, the butterfly wing flap in my life.
I am Very much Veritably like V. Henrie and V. Bellanger. (armchair quantum theorist and all.) Additionally, I’ve both professionally and lay- Read the public all my life. I deeply appreciate hearing these pod casts of my “alternate” reality which I routinely live every moment to moment. I hope soon to be able to attend a meet-up event sans any family medical crises. Good work folks! Please Continue.
May 22nd, 2006 at 10:12 am
wow that is far out, I have been a pagan all my life, I see that the world of magik is getting ahead I hope that all young people come into the world of magik and the occult.
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I am glad that message boards like this are getting a headway I do my best in promoting paganism magik and the occult and specially wicca witchcraft
March 13th, 2007 at 2:54 am
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