Where Science and Magic Meet

by Serena Roney-Dougal

Overview

The root of the word science is knowledge; the root of the word magic is wisdom. Serena blends these two spheres of human experience and shows how the latest scientific research and parapsychological study interact. The quantum view of matter is overturning the traditional world-view and the fantastic discoveries being made bring new insights ito the connections between all forms of magic and science. We share the exciting results of her research on the scientific validation of psychic phenomena. Drawing on her ground-breaking work on the pineal gland - something called the third eye - and the phenomenon of second sight, she shows that the greatest implication of psychic phenomena is that each of us is potentially aware of the natural magic of our earth and of everything in the universe. "Where Science and Magic Meet is a clearly written, mind-expanding and compelling exploration of reality at the mysterious boundaries between mind and matter'' Dean Radin, PhD, Senior Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences, and author of The Conscious Universe and Entangled Minds.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780956188618
Publisher:	Green Magic
Publication date:	06/30/2010
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	299
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Serena Roney-Dougal, PhD has a psychology degree from University College, London and a PhD in parapsychology. For 15 years she taugh parapsychology, yoga, and meditation, at Glastonbury, Somerset, where she lives. In 2002 she started teaching parapsychology at Bihar Yoga Bharati, the world's first Yoga University. For the next three years lived and worked with monks in a Tibetan monastery in South India. This research is continuing now at Samye Ling Tibetan monastery in Scotland.

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Introduction to the Looking-Glass Reality

The biggest implication of psi phenomena is that we are potentially aware of everything in the entire universe.

As mentioned in Chapter 1, experimental research over the past fifty years has confirmed that awareness of psi is dependent on one's state of consciousness, one's attitude, motivation, relaxation and other psychological (mental) aspects. We are separated from this potential omniscience by the thinnest of veils. In scientific terms this veil is call 'filter theory'. We would go totally crazy if we were aware of everything in the entire Universe even for only one second; so we need filters to block out all but the most essential items from our conscious awareness.

Unfortunately this trend has gone too far, and the pressures of living in a city have made most city people so blocked that they aren't even aware of what their close friends and family are feeling, let alone whether or not some distant relative is in need of help. We have as a race become insensitive - or desensitised, mainly as a result of living in cities where the pressure of so many people and all their thoughts and emotions is so great that we have to blank out all but the most immediate perceptions or go totally crazy. So now we have to reverse the trend and become more aware, more sensitive, open up the filters a little bit, and open our psychic, as well as our physical, eyes and ears. This of course is easiest in the country!

Some people call this process of increasing awareness 'becoming aware of the subconscious', since it is only in conscious awareness that we are so blocked, and the potential omniscience is all there in the subconscious. In becoming aware of the subconscious per se, we also tend to become aware of psychic information. This information is different from most subliminal information in that it was never physically present; we know something that we have never



physically heard or seen or felt. The psychic information of which we become aware when we open up to the subconscious has come in by means other than our eyes or ears or other sense, possibly through the 'third eye'. In trying to understand this process by which psychic information is available I shall be travelling through some pretty strange waters.

Thresholds and the subconscious

Conscious experience is a very limited channel. We can, it is now accepted, be conscious of only about 7 things at any one time. Yet there are 10 thousand million neurones ........

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi

Foreword viii

Introduction 1

1 The Subliminal Mind 8

2 Parapsychology: The Scientific Study of the Tools of Magic 32

3 The Holographic Universe: A New/Old World-view 63

4 The Pineal Gland: Third Eye and Psychic Chakra 92

5 Earth Magic: Sensitivity to the Earth's Magnetic Field 128

6 The Fairy Faith 170

7 The Goddess Reawakening 200

8 The Emerging Relationship between Science and Mysticism 232

Epilogue 252

Notes 264

References 278

Index 294

Editorial Reviews

"Where Science and Magic Meet is a clearly written, mind-expanding and compelling exploration of reality at the mysterious boundaries between mind and matter" -Dean Radin, PhD, Senior Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences, and author of The Conscious Universe and Entangled Minds

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