The Coming Year

It appears that I may find more time to focus on magic, as the online studying I have spent my time on for the last couple of years may come to an end.

I have put this page together to collect my own favourite links together, to have a place to point to when discussing magic with folks online, to contribute to intelligent thinking about so-called 'psychic' events and phenomena, etc.

NB: I have as much interest as the next person in human creativity, imagination, intuition, myth-making, psychology, anthropology, etc - so please don't dismiss me as some mere hardline-materialist-sceptic with a closed mind. Having said that, I consider it essential that you have at least some grounding in the possibilities of trickery and devious thinking if you intend to investigate (or invest in) 'real psychics'.

I have started carrying a pack of cards around again (as I did as a kid!) for playing with in idle moments...and want to spend a bit of time working through some of the material I collected in the last year or two online (rather different from the days of hanging around in Davenports). I particularly enjoy not having to wait for material by downloading clean, modern ebooks from places like Trickshop, or slightly harder-to-find material from Chris Wasshuber's Lybrary.

As I have re-established my circus connections, I may look at some of the bigger style effects, too (they might like an illusion for the new show), but generally I prefer close-up with (apparently) ordinary objects.