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Aired Thursday, 10 May 2018, 7:00 PM ETWhy It’s Time To Start Taking Magic Seriously with Dr. Dean RadinScience has been around for a few hundred years, religion has been around for a few millennia, and for most of that time magic has been regarded as something that is both separate from them and unnatural. And yet, as history reveals, a belief in magic seems to have been deeply embedded in the human psyche since the beginning of recorded time. Why is that?To some people, magic is harmless hokum, to others, its evil. And for many self-respecting scientists in the 20th century, it was a career killer, and therefore anathema. So, when a book emerges that is endorsed by two Nobel laureates, a president of the American Statistical Association, and a program director from the National Science Foundation, one can’t help but sit up, take notice, and ask – is it time to start taking magic seriously?According to Dean Radin, PhD, chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and bestselling author, magic i