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Quantum Sorcery examines the connection between quantum physics and sorcery by asking the question "How does Magick actually work?" The author examines how magical practices can be explained by scientific disciplines, while also exploring how to integrate science and sorcery together. In this book you will learn: - How to incorporate elements of earlier magical systems with contemporary sorcery and Quantum Physics - Why quantum physics can explain how magic works - How to use scientific principles to improve your magical practice No library descriptions found. |
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This one may not tell you why it works as much on why it might work. However, unless you're British or have a familiarity with the language scientists use in quantum mechanics and string theory (or both), you might find it a difficult read. It may only have 120 pages, but what would ordinarily take maybe a few hours to read could actually turn into a few days or weeks because of the intellectual treatment of the subject.
If Hogwarts actually existed, then consider this one of the textbooks they might assign for intermediate or advanced students in magic theory. It starts out addressing the subject of sorcery, but if you don't watch it, you'll find yourself constantly reminding yourself that you're not reading a book on science, but on sorcery. You'll be lost and so over your head in scientific jargon before you know it; a rather uncomfortable place to be, especially if you're the type who hates science because of its cold, materialist, mechanical viewpoint of the universe, and wishes it would take a long walk off a short pier. But if you can forgive how deep it goes into the history, personalities, theories, and experiments that might support why magic might work, you could come away with a whole new way of looking at the possibility of the existence of magic. You could also be tempted to consider selling back almost all your magical cookbooks and paring down your library quite a bit.
I would definitely encourage anyone curious about any possible explanations for why real magic could work to read this book, even if it is kind of heady in its approach. Hang in there; you'll get through it. You might be glad you did. ( )