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This is NOT a self-help book. So you want to learn about Magic? Hell, how and where do you start? Here’s how. The author has been working as a magician in Britain for over 25 years, and this book is a distillation of huge practical experience and teaching. The beginner (and many an experienced older-hand) will gain much useful insight and practical ability from this eclectic and enticing volume, which is part staged workbook, part magical tapestry of the universe. Using information, ideas and techniques gleaned from centuries of occult traditions, philosophy, humour, psychology, politics, sociology, art, history, science, religion, the accumulated output of numerous schools of magical thought and practice, and much more besides, this book synthesises an introductory ritual magical self-teaching syllabus suitable for the 21st Century.
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Francis Breakspear often wishes he was merely a convenient fiction, but while he is sometimes far more real than he thinks he should be, he has trouble with consensus reality at the best of times. He is often not sure if someone `else' is `writing him'; which gets him into all sorts of painful, and ultimately irresolvable, Cartesian gymnastics. His novel about `Evil' Black Magicians in 1990s Britain has been a work in progress for years and will perhaps see the light of day sometime in this decade, although Francis said that in the 1990s too, so don't hold your breath waiting. Francis and Dave were born in the same year and town, were educated at the same places and have been variably good friends or at each other's throats since childhood.
A social scientist, writer, inventor, amateur chemist, painter, pagan and magician, Kate Hoolu was born in France in 1971, and has dual nationality due to having one English, one French and one Danish parent. Her interests include liminal writings, radical politics, anthropology, sociology, surrealism, entheogenics, semiotics, memetics, emetics, emic-etics, film/theatre, golf, drinking vodka and lying at least once in any biography. She grumbles when labeled as a feminist, but tends to grumble at being labeled at all.In addition to being a published academic researcher of various magical areas and writing for various websites and magazines worldwide he is an ordained Pope of the Discordian Society and a Reverend of the Universal Life Church (both very serious non-serious religions), enjoys traveling and eats a lot of peanut butter.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A genuinely different introductory text,
This review is from: If it Was Easy, Everyone Would be Doing It!: Beginning Practicing Magic and Thinking About Magic and Paganism in the 21st Century (Paperback)
I am astonished that I'm the first reviewer. "If it was easy..." is probably the most original, and certainly one of the better written, introductory texts on magic. The problem with most books is that they are either highly sectarian like Modern Magick (Llewellyn's High Magick) or assume a general grounding in magical theory. This book combines some really powerful exercises in self-analysis with lessons on the variety of magickal world views and practical intruction on the basics of ritual. There is a little ranting about particular figures who annoy the author but I feel it is much easier when the prejudices are out in the open and you can make up your own mind. I don't know any of the authors or contributors personally, but I am a great fan of Kaostar!: Modern Chaos Cunning Craft and was very much looking forwrd to "If it was easy". I am not a beginner but I found a great deal to think about and practical things to use. I'm now looking forward to an internediate text by the same author(s) hint, hint...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book,
This review is from: If it Was Easy, Everyone Would be Doing It!: Beginning Practicing Magic and Thinking About Magic and Paganism in the 21st Century (Paperback)
'It was was easy...' is a great book for both experienced and novice practitioners of magic. After having read many books on various paths and becoming confused and bogged down in jargon and complicated history, this book proved to be exactly what I needed - something to the point but very simple and easy to read.
The book contains some great humour alongside the information which helped to keep my attention and made the book more enjoyable. All you need to know about magic is within this book. It is clearly laid out throughout and explains everything in good detail. One of the most interesting books I have read to date on magic - and the only one that I have continued to pick up and read.
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