Reality Hacking: An Experiment in Magick

Mark Pilkington

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)