I don't know if this will answer your question,but maybe you should watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6D3JSf7tDE there is another part the this documentery,i will make another post and give you a link to it so the it doesn't run together with the rest of this one,but anyway,from what i've heard in that documentery,in ancent times science and the occult where pretty much one and the same,the some people what sudied astronamy(sorry if i spelled that wrong)and such also studied alchemy,astrology,and magick,i think it really depends on how you look at it,but this is a VERY good question.
All science is is a way of putting explanation to the unknown through rational thought and logic. That being said almost everything can be explained through a scientific format. At least that is the general idea. I personaly believe that there are some realms of magic that science will never be able to explain but yes. For instance they try to attribute a lot of magic to the alteration of brain waves and their frequency.
Dillon, actually that is something that science is in the process of explaining. The way in which consciousness is thought to exist is currently changing from physically occupying our brain to a force separate from the body that utilizes the brain as a control system. Many scientists nowadays have declared new discoveries pseudoscience in their hubris and ignorance, but even that is a normal part of paradigm shifts that have happened in the past. New ideas are always feared at first, but they are eventually accepted. If any mystery of the Universe lies beyond science, then science need only change as it has before.
Blackbeldam, that was a fantastic description of where magic and science meet. I myself am pursuing a degree in physics right now and hope to study magic in the future for the public to learn about it. I have also examined, with great skepticism, the principles of alchemy, a science in which it was believed that it was possible to distill matter into its most fundamental energy and be made solid and malleable. If such is determined to be true, the Philosopher's Stone could potentially be utilized as an energy source for both magic and technology. Of course that is just all theory, but I would be honored to discuss it with you.
