Magic is about using the power of the mind. Magic has taken on unreal mystical powers because of ignorance and superstition. The gullible misthink there is a special power behind magic. In a fashion there is - the mind! Much of "science" does not admit to the mind, preferring to missubscribe nonexistent powers to the physical "brain". So to them there is indeed an unknown power behind magic. But we can delete all the superstition and get right the the heart of the issue - mind. Recently I submited a paper from Russia which tells of their work with psi-science and psi-tech. Wherever the term "psi" was used please think of mind as mind = psi. When Russia eliminated religion from their society they eliminated a lot of the superstition and their scientists were then enabled to approach these subjects free from superstition, ignorance and unreal connotations. Therefore they are ahead of the West in their mind-science research.
Below is a quote from Franz Hartmann who interestlying enough met Keely in his lab. Hartmann was one of those original 19th century researchers into the powers of the mind but he was too steeped into magic and assorted non-issues (plus a big ego) to get the clear picture.
MAGIC: "Wisdom; the science and art of consciously employing invisible (spiritual) powers to produce visible effects. Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses, and he who knows how to develop them and to use them consciously and effectually is a magician. He who uses them for good purposes practises white magic. He who uses them for selfish or evil purposes is a black magician. Paracelsus uses the term Magic to signify the highest power of the human spirit to control all lower influences for the purposes of good. The act of employing invisible powers for evil purposes he calls Necromancy, because the Elementaries of the dead are often used as mediums to convey evil influences. Sorcery is not Magic, but stands in the same relation to Magic as darkness to light. Sorcery deals with the forces of the human and animal soul, but Magic with the supreme power of the spirit." [Franz Hartmann, The Life of Philippus Theophrastus, Bombast of Hohenheim, Known by the name of Paracelsus and The Substance of His Teachings]
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