Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic - Peter J. Carroll 2000

Magick X Retroactive Enchantment

Despite the ease with which this effect manifests in delayed choice quantum optics experiments, some magickians still seem to have difficulty in summoning the belief to make this work on the macroscopic scale.

Try this experiment:—

Wait until you have lost something.

Rather than conduct further fruitless searches, try and trick your subconscious into believing that you actually put the object in a particular place where you actually want to find it. If you have to, you can even use a location that you have already searched, but in this case you will also need to make your subconscious recollection of having searched that place as hazy as possible.

Then, whilst occupying your conscious mind with some powerful distraction (anger works well), go to the chosen location and retrieve the lost object.

Commentary 13

The subtle mental manoeuvres required for retroactive enchantment depend upon suspending conscious deliberation and memory, and will fail if you try thinking consciously about your thoughts.

Compare this kind of will-perception coordination with the hand-eye coordination of catching a ball. Both work best when performed automatically.

If you ever succeed with a trick like this, and you wish to retain and develop the ability without going mad, then we suggest that you do not seek alternative explanations. Accept instead the belief that the past has some mutability, or better still that no ’real’ time past exists, but that the imaginary time past contains probabilities restricted only by the observed conditions of the present moment.

If you think that this sounds completely crazy and deranged then have a look at The Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser Experiment which reproduces the result quite reliably.