The strangest of places
Old-timers will know that generally I find magic more interesting than magick (although I still perceive a certain amount of crossover in the fuzzy area between).
Anyway, without opening that old can of worms, this amused me. Although I remain a theoretical student right now (not a performer) I have done quite a lot of collecting and reading of material on what magicians call 'Mentalism' (all the pseudo-psi stuff).
Imagine my amusement when I bought a book by one of the best (Bob Cassidy) a while back, only to find that among the extras included on the CD I found Principia Discordia!
See here, at Lybrary (the best online magic resource, at least for ebooks).
Oh, and the crossover I mentioned? Well the link between shamanism, tricksters, and the mixture of ritual, manipulation of perceptions, etc.
You can find quite a lot of interesting links to quality magic (and scams, hypnosis, etc) on my Intelligence Increase blog even though I haven't been updating it recently...
Jeff McBride and Eugene Burger explore that ambiguous realm of masks, myth and magic - and Jeff roams from shows in Las Vegas to fire and mask rituals at Burning Man.
It's not all boring card tricks, you know - for instance, you might find the sub-genre of Bizarre Magick (sic) interesting...
And in the UK Derren Brown has raised that ambiguity about 'psi' again...
- Bogus's blog
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