(2003-12-29) Pop Magic

Grant Morrison on Pop Magic (magick). As a first exercise in magical consciousness spend five minutes looking at everything around you as if ALL OF IT was trying to tell you something very important. How did that lightbulb come to be here exactly ? Why does the murder victim in the newspaper have the same unusual surname as your father-in-law ? Why did the phone ring, just at that moment and what were you thinking ? What's that waterstain stain on the wall of the building opposite ? How does it make you feel ? Five minutes of focus during which everything is significant, everything is luminous and heavy with meaning, like the objects seen in dreams.

(Was part of Richard Metzger's Book of Lies. Was supposedly going to be turned into a full book, but never was.)

Mar'2025: I OCR-ed/edited the PDF into an ePub.