Published · Perigee / Penguin Random House
D.I.Y.
Magic
A strange and whimsical guide to creativity — 36 mind-expanding exercises for unlocking the magic already in your mind.
Published · Perigee / Penguin Random House
A strange and whimsical guide to creativity — 36 mind-expanding exercises for unlocking the magic already in your mind.
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 Dalí's spoon technique and ornithomancy (divination by crows), to bibliomancy and lucid dreaming, the exercises in this book will help anyone chasing the muse — from artists and musicians, to writers and anyone ready to tug at the strings of everyday reality and tap into the magic of their own mind.
Magic is not something that happens to you. It's something you learn to do.
36 Mind-Expanding Exercises
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It represents a really significant change that is going on — 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
Alvarado's magic is an entirely different thing altogether. It's along the lines of hacking one's perception — going on reality trips (mostly) within the confines of the law.
Boing Boing
These are not quarters-from-behind-your-ears tricks your uncle would do — unless your uncle is really, really cool.
L.A. Zine Fest
Anthony Alvarado has concocted a cookbook for vivid living: poetry that's lived rather than written.
Lord Whimsy · Author of The Affected Provincial's Companion
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