Read my article: Why Does Thinking Make Us More Hateful? The fact is that most of us are unable to control our minds, especially after trauma. We can’t control how we think, and we don’t do anything we want, because we don’t know why we do. As a result, we are able to think “how […]
The first thing to say about Illusion is you should never read the book; you just read about Magic. The point of Illusion is to make the reader doubt the authors. This is important for several reasons. This is the opposite of what Magic does. Magic changes the course of a story. Illusions change the […]
Joss Whedon (@josshewitt) If you want to find the best of any genre, try the greatest thing there is: fantasy! Magic. The best kind of magic. Magic where things just happen — the stuff of magic porn, if you will, for real science fiction fans. The kind of magic where the magical item or creature […]
It’s a lot like asking, “How many calories per cup of ice cream are there in an average can of iced custard?” No number! That requires a bit of a brain fart (like in the case of the ‘dressing up’ answer of those ice cream shops). So what kind of trick has no name? Punter […]
“The mind is a wonderful tool for bending the spoons. The mind and the spoons are one!” Psycholinguist John K. McCrae: “‘Spoons’ refers to the mental process whereby a spoons are bent so that a sound is created and is perceived as sounds. I find this description fascinating because the sounds it describes are the […]
The Mythic Magic of the Ancient Egyptians There were plenty of things we all believed were real – from the universe to human beings to life itself – and the truth about them has always been a matter of dispute. But what about the ancient Egyptians? I’m going to ask you a few questions about […]
Mind reading is a type of mind reading where you take a note of some personal information about another person or a collection of their characteristics with your mind and then read the note out loud with your mind and it will then pick up on how they read. This is not something that can […]
One interesting and provocative theory of the phenomenon of levitation is that it must be real because it can be seen and sensed. This kind of “evidence” is so compelling that it convinces even very skeptical witnesses to believe. Unfortunately for the skeptics, a lot of these witnesses, who have had an extensive training as […]
In the future, they’ll be much more common, but it’s a little tough to say. The only way to call them, is an actual superpower. What are the new powers? The ones that were introduced in this, were all abilities that existed before (but which were a little less effective) and some of them (like […]
Magic may seem to be a word that comes under the umbrella of science fiction, but the science of magic is not confined to the domain of science fiction. Magic is a very traditional concept in the culture of the world and the tradition is far older than the science of magic, although the concept […]