DIY Magic
A Strange & Whimsical Guide to Creativity
(Sprache: Englisch)
DIY MAGIC offers a series of reality hacks encompassing self-help, philosophy, psychology, and inspiration, that will help artists, writers, and any creative types find new sources of inspiration.
This is a book of magic. This is a book of mind...
This is a book of magic. This is a book of mind...
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DIY MAGIC offers a series of reality hacks encompassing self-help, philosophy, psychology, and inspiration, that will help artists, writers, and any creative types find new sources of inspiration. This is a book of magic. This is a book of mind hacks. This is a cookbook for creativity.
In DIY Magic, Anthony Alvarado provides readers with a collection of techniques for accessing deeper levels of creative thought for hacking into their subconscious. From Salvador Dali's spoon technique and ornithomancy (divination by crows), to bibliomancy and using (legal) stimulants, the exercises in this book will help anyone chasing the muse from artists and musicians, to writers and more as they tug at the strings of everyday reality and tap into the magic of their own minds.
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INTRODUCTION
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
TECHNIQUE
Read this book and try the experiments presented here. Change them as you see fit. You are the one in charge; these are just beginning points. Reading this book with an open mind will change the way you think about yourself, about creativity, and about the world. Think of this like you would a travel guidebook to, say, Guatemala or the Czech Republic. If you buy the book, you better plan on actually going there, right? This is not a book merely to be read; it is a book to be lived!
TOOLS REQUIRED
1 copy of the book in your hands
An open mind
Bonus: It s nice to have a notebook to take notes. You will get a lot of cool ideas doing these experiments.
TIME REQUIRED
288 pages
RESULT
A radically original arsenal of ways to think, perceive, and experience the world.
When I talk about magic, I m not fucking around. It isn t a joke or a trick. I m talking about real techniques that most people are capable of trying out if they let themselves.
Most people, however, don t.
Magic is taboo. It s considered the realm of flakes, hippies, and drug-addled softies a waste of time.
But the good stuff always is.
Dig a little deeper with me, dear reader, and I will point you in the direction of uncharted waters. Here there be dragons.
I have tried to summarize what this is all about dozens of times and each time used a different metaphor, because all fall short. Imagine trying to describe the act of swimming to someone who has never seen a body of water larger than that held in a cup. Or trying to describe music to the uninitiated, not just hearing music but playing music . . . where to begin? How to come up with something not feeble and academic
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like: It is a series of rhythmic tones that are pleasing to the ear? Ha!
No, the best thing to be done would be to lay out simple and straightforward instructions on how to whittle a flute, how to build a drum, or how to whistle and clap your hands, and from these rudimentary recipes enterprising readers would be able to find their own way. Mere description would be meaningless.
In the same way, I have laid out some guideposts in this book, some simple instruments that you are welcome to construct for your own amusement. If any of these ideas strike you as poppycock, skip them. Use what you can use and throw away the rest.
What is magic? It is the fine and subtle art of driving yourself insane! No, really, it is just that. It is a con you play on your own brain. It is the trick of letting yourself go crazy I do believe that when it s done right, the magus treads the same sacred and profane ground where walks the madman. It is, however, possible for the modern magician to enter that realm and return with knowledge and, yes, power.
That said, I must warn you that these arts should be practiced only by those who are sound of mind. Like a powerful drug, the visions and experiences that are open to the initiate are not vouchsafed for all. As with trying anything new, use common sense, be safe, and don t take on more than you can handle. If you can t afford to lose your mind a bit, then please put this book back on the shelf and walk away. . . .
Still here? Good. Having shared that caveat, I will also say that this book does not dabble in black magic. That is the harnessing or deal brokering with nonhuman entities of one shade or another. If that s what you re looking for, you re barking up the wrong tree and should consult a less straightforward grimoire than this one.
That is not to say that the practitioner of the arts described here won t meet strange and compelling creatures a
No, the best thing to be done would be to lay out simple and straightforward instructions on how to whittle a flute, how to build a drum, or how to whistle and clap your hands, and from these rudimentary recipes enterprising readers would be able to find their own way. Mere description would be meaningless.
In the same way, I have laid out some guideposts in this book, some simple instruments that you are welcome to construct for your own amusement. If any of these ideas strike you as poppycock, skip them. Use what you can use and throw away the rest.
What is magic? It is the fine and subtle art of driving yourself insane! No, really, it is just that. It is a con you play on your own brain. It is the trick of letting yourself go crazy I do believe that when it s done right, the magus treads the same sacred and profane ground where walks the madman. It is, however, possible for the modern magician to enter that realm and return with knowledge and, yes, power.
That said, I must warn you that these arts should be practiced only by those who are sound of mind. Like a powerful drug, the visions and experiences that are open to the initiate are not vouchsafed for all. As with trying anything new, use common sense, be safe, and don t take on more than you can handle. If you can t afford to lose your mind a bit, then please put this book back on the shelf and walk away. . . .
Still here? Good. Having shared that caveat, I will also say that this book does not dabble in black magic. That is the harnessing or deal brokering with nonhuman entities of one shade or another. If that s what you re looking for, you re barking up the wrong tree and should consult a less straightforward grimoire than this one.
That is not to say that the practitioner of the arts described here won t meet strange and compelling creatures a
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Autoren-Porträt von Anthony Alvarado
Anthony Alvarado has been a forest fire fighter, a high school science teacher, a library delivery truck driver, a telephone psychic, and a mental health counselor. He lives with a cat, a dog, and a girl in Portland, Oregon. When he is not doing magical experiments he spends his time writing and trying not to drink too much coffee.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Anthony Alvarado
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 12 Jahre
- 2015, 288 Seiten, Maße: 14 x 19,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 0399171797
- ISBN-13: 9780399171796
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Really wonderful.... I picked this one up based entirely on name, a method that has served me just fine in the past, assuming I'd either be conjuring demons or pulling rabbits from hats on the plane ride home. A pretty big win either way. But Alvarado's magic is an entirely different thing altogether. The author describes it as, "the fine and subtle art of driving yourself insane." I'd say it's more along the lines of hacking one's perception -- going on reality trips (mostly) within the confines of the law. Apparently Salvador Dali would nod off with a spoon in a hand that would fall into a bucket below, waking him up immediately with its clamor. That blurred line between sleep and waking is said to have informed the master of surreality."BoingBoing
"Presented in relaxed language...Alvarado seeks to create altered awareness in a way that is accessible."
Publishers Weekly
Few books are as immediately useful as this delightful, inspirational tips n tricks tome. I m having a backyard betel nut party in five minutes and everyone s invited!
Jay Babcock, Arthur Magazine
"This book is full of tips and tricks that will expand your consciousness and the edges of your world."
Jason Leivian, Floating World Comics
[D.I.Y Magic] represents...the stripping away of a lot of the balderdash and exotica from esoteric and magical practices and the reformulating of them for a more immediate, hands-on, consciousness-hacking kind of approach.
Erik Davis, author of TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
"Anthony Alvarado has concocted a cookbook for vivid living: poetry that's lived rather than written. His 'spells' are actually practical suggestions by which the reader may coax the extraordinary from the everyday--and from themselves."
Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy, author of The Affected Provincial's Companion
"One of the best life hacks I have seen...a much
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needed prescription for some of the ills of this modern world...[an] eloquent and illustrative tome."
Farel Dalrymple
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