Magic is one of the most enduring legends of humanity. It's at the core of the esoteric traditions, it saturates the literature of religion and science, it has been severely suppressed for millennia, and yet fictional stories about magic are just as popular today as they've ever been. But is magic real Author Dean Radin will present scientific evidence that the answer is YESand discuss the implications of real magic for a post-modern understanding of reality.Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences IONS and Associated Distinguished Professor of Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies CIIS. His original career track as a concert violinist shifted into science after earning a BSEE degree in electrical engineering, magna cum laude with honors in physics, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For a decade he worked on advanced telecommunications RampD at ATampT Bell Laboratories and GTE Laboratories. For three decades he has been engaged in frontiers research on the nature of consciousness. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, Interval Research Corporation, and SRI International. He is author or coauthor of over 250 scientific and popular articles some 80+ in peer-reviewed journals, three dozen book chapters, and three popular books including the award-winning and bestselling The Conscious Universe HarperOne, 1997, Entangled Minds Simon amp Schuster, 2006, and a 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award, Supernormal Random House, 2013.His website is www.deanradin.com.