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Strange Attractions

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The latest in our irregular series of anthologies, Strange Attractor Journal Four, recently emerged after a five year incubation period. (more)

My UFO Tale

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It was a perfect, silvery reflective sphere, perhaps three metres in diameter, like a large, polished Christmas tree ornament. It reminded me of one of the bells suspended over a verdant landscape in René Magritte's painting La Voix des Airs: beautiful, serene, uncanny, wrong. (more)

Reality Hacking: An Experiment in Magick

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Many great claims are made for magick, almost exclusively by magicians and those who fear them. Andy says, “After you’ve done it long enough, and you start to manipulate things, you get the feeling you are part of a bigger game.” But doubters ask: “How can you be sure that it might not have happened anyway?” So we devised a public demonstration. Live, on the usually sober Channel 4 News, on August 21, 2001, presenter Jon Snow would be magickally coerced into momentarily losing his composure, he would corpse, that is, laugh out loud – live on air. (more)

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