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Take a quick look around you. All the objects you can see that were made by human hands started their existence as inspirations, thoughts, dreams or wildly optimistic plans. Our species is so adept at manifesting our desires, we’ve literally transformed this planet using only the miraculous blessing of our extremely fertile creative faculties. We’re not the only animals on Earth to use tools but no other creatures consistently create visible objects out of invisible thought-forms. The magic of the imagination is what makes us human.
My experience has led me to believe that the imagination is an inbuilt technology we humans are programmed with from birth. And, contrary to what you may have been told, magic doesn’t necessarily involve dressing up in velvet robes, brandishing wands or reciting obscure Latin phrases from ancient, dusty, leather-bound manuscripts. Magic certainly doesn’t demand blood-curdling rituals in a graveyard at dead of night.
You don’t have to be a pagan to practice magic. In fact the less concerned you are with dogma, hierarchy and bowing to authority figures like gods or goddesses the more successful you’ll probably be. Magic doesn’t take years of study at a specialist academy for the mystically gifted.
You don’t need to own or read from a Grimoire that’s been written by some legendary sorcerer who lived in the fourteenth century. And you won’t ever be required to sell your soul to any apparently dæmonic entity or alleged representative of evil-incarnate.
After more than thirty years of studying and experimentation with these techniques I am convinced that magic is available to anyone who decides to take it up.
You’re probably practicing it right at this moment without even being aware of it.
In this book you’ll read about the basic principles and concepts of magic in the Mundane World as I understand and practice them. I include some of my own experiences with divination, meditation and the use of magical tools; such as Sigils. I’ll also share some approaches that have taken me a lifetime to develop and refine. I call these magical technologies Creative Trance and Dreamcraft. They are the basis for my workshops.