D.i.y. Magic : : a Strange & Whimsical Guide to Creativity

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Call Number: 153.35 Al
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"A Perigee book."
Introduction: What I talk about when I talk about magic -- Dropping the spoon -- Intuition -- Time travel, or neo-Ludditism -- The life line walk -- Automatic writing -- Establish a creativity ritual -- Ornithomancy -- The cloak of invisibility -- The Ganzfeld Technique, or the poor man's sensory deprivation tank -- Yoga -- Bibliomancy -- Manifestation -- Build your own tarot deck -- The coin trick -- Schizophrenia as oracle -- Lucid dreaming -- Surfing waves of synchronicity & the interpretation of random events -- How to get lost -- Meditation -- Dreamtime & astral projectiton -- Power stance -- Surreal juxtapositiion -- The flâneur -- Active imagination -- Memento mori -- Counting coup -- Aleatory writing -- Memory exercise -- Floating in inner space -- Potions, libations & herbs -- Fasting -- Beards & other transformations -- Trance & reverie -- Neuro-linguistic literature & programming -- A vision quest -- Memory palaces & mental golems, or the new art of daemonology -- Conclusion: An irrational manifesto.
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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Awesome submitted by vulke99 on August 19, 2017, 8:07am This book is full of easy and awesome ideas to help get you out of a funk.