D.I.Y. Magic
eBook - ePub

D.I.Y. Magic

A Book of Mind Hacks

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

D.I.Y. Magic

A Book of Mind Hacks

About this book

D.I.Y. Magic offers a set of mind hacks that will help any creative artist to find new sources of inspiration. It will change the way you think about yourself, about creativity, and about the world. Encompassing self-help, psychology and philosophy, this book will help you hack into deeper levels of creativity, access the subconscious, and discover techniques that have been used by artists for centuries.From vision quests and lucid dreaming to creating a memory palace and Salvador Dali's spoon trick, the deceptively simple exercises collected by Anthony Alvarado are designed to help readers escape the traps of rationality we are conditioned to fall into.Follow in the steps of the Romantics, the Dadaists, the Surrealists, the beatniks and anyone chasing the muse. Learn how to pull the strings of everyday reality and unlock the magic of the creative mind. Illustrated by a host of visionary artists, including alternative comic artists such as Farel Dalrymple and Ron Rege Jr, D.I.Y. Magic is a radically original arsenal of ways to think, perceive and experience the world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. CONTENTS
  6. INTRODUCTION: What I Talk About When I Talk About Magic
  7. 1: Dropping the Spoon
  8. 2: Intuition
  9. 3: Time Travel, or Neo-Ludditism
  10. 4: The Life Line Walk
  11. 5: Automatic Writing
  12. 6: Establish a Creativity Ritual
  13. 7: Ornithomancy
  14. 8: The Cloak of Invisibility
  15. 9: The Ganzfeld Technique, or the Poor Man’s Sensory Deprivation Tank
  16. 10: Yoga
  17. 11: Bibliomancy
  18. 12: Manifestation
  19. 13: Build Your Own Tarot Deck
  20. 14: The Coin Trick
  21. 15: Schizophrenia as Oracle
  22. 16: Lucid Dreaming
  23. 17: Surfing Waves of Synchronicity & the Interpretation of Random Events
  24. 18: How to Get Lost
  25. 19: Meditation
  26. 20: Dreamtime & Astral Projection
  27. 21: Power Stance
  28. 22: Surreal Juxtaposition
  29. 23: The Flâneur
  30. 24: Active Imagination
  31. 25: Memento Mori
  32. 26: Counting Coup
  33. 27: Aleatory Writing
  34. 28: Memory Exercise
  35. 29: Floating in Inner Space
  36. 30: Potions, Libations & Herbs
  37. 31: Fasting
  38. 32: Beards & Other Transformations
  39. 33: Trance & Reverie
  40. 34: Neuro-Linguistic Literature & Programming
  41. 35: A Vision Quest
  42. 36: Memory Palaces & Mental Golems, or the New Art of Daemonology
  43. CONCLUSION: An Irrational Manifesto
  44. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  45. FURTHER READING
  46. ART CREDITS
  47. INDEX
  48. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  49. Copyright
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