What if the occult practitioners were right — not metaphorically but literally? Seven explorations at the intersection of physics, philosophy and esoteric tradition, tracing a single argument: that reality is information, and that the people we called magicians were the first programmers.
The argument in one paragraph: If the universe is fundamentally informational — as quantum mechanics, information theory and the simulation hypothesis all suggest — then the esoteric traditions were not describing a supernatural world separate from the physical one. They were describing the architecture of this one. The same architecture. In a different language. John Dee's Enochian tables are not mysticism dressed as mathematics. They are mathematics. And if reality runs on code, then consciousness that can interact with that code is not performing magic. It is programming.
This section does not argue that the simulation hypothesis is true. It argues that if it is, the occult traditions contain the most developed body of knowledge about how to work with it.