Brain Magick: Exercises in Meta-Magick and Invocation

by Philip H. Farber

Overview

How powerful, seductive, or mythical would you like your life to be?

The ultimate goal of invocation is to infuse your life with more excitement, purpose, and passion. Recent discoveries in neuroscience suggest that the magical practices of evocation and invocation are based in natural brain functions—this book is the first to present a theory of magick based on the new research. Brain Magick is packed full of exercises (more than 70) that illustrate the principles of neuroscience and magick, and has everything you need to quickly develop skill in the art of invocation.

This easily practiced form of ritual technology is appropriate for complete novices and magical adepts alike. If you are familiar with any kind of magick—Wiccan, Thelemic, Golden Dawn, Goetic, Chaos, or Hermetic—this book will provide opportunities to consider your practice in a new light, and take your magical experiences to a new level. Even if you've never practiced any magick before, you'll be able to start immediately.

Praise:
"Farber begins by asking, 'How much do you want your own story to rock?' then with an exuberant 'Woohoo' proceeds to hand us sane and practical tools and exercises to become a true superstar in the only world that really matters ... our own brain. Powerfully provocative and original."—Lon Milo DuQuette, author of Low Magick and My Life with the Spirits

"All real magick requires both dedication and skill, here Phil Farber delivers both. This is a guide to tapping into living magistery of the universe."—Dr. Richard Bandler, co-founder of NLP

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738729770
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	10/08/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Philip H. Farber is a magician, a teacher, and the author of Brain Magick and several other books on magical subjects. He has taught seminars and workshops throughout the USA and Europe and maintains a private practice in NLP and hypnosis. Philip lives in New York's Hudson Valley. Visit him online at www.Meta-Magick.com.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction
The Way of Woohoo: 1
The Method of Meta-Magick: 3
The Method of Science: 5

States of Consciousness
The Nature of a State: 8
Modeling Resources: 11
Database of Techniques: 17
Moving and Breathing: 24
State Dependency: 26
Natural Anchors: 30
Transderivational Search: 32

Form and Content
How or What?: 35
What Your Brain Does When You Aren't Looking: 40
Mystical Brain Language: 42
Creating Anchors: 47

Invocation and Evocation
Inside Out: 52
Monkeys and Mirror Neurons: 55
Evocation: 58

Mirror Realities
Theory of Mind: 67
Associated/Dissociated: 69
The Neurological Origin of Gods: 72

Tingling and Sparking
Changing Your Brain: 80
Symbols and Anchors: 85

Stepping In
Godforms: 88
Ideomotor Response: 89
Stepping In: 92
Embodied Metaphor: 94 Elementary Ritual
Wholeness: 99

The Mastery Technique
Developing Mastery: 106

The Time Axis
Timelines: 112
Entity Time: 116

Shaping the Cloud
Chronology and Self: 119
The Cloud: 121
Navigating the Cloud: 124
Cloud Organization: 127

Permanent Woohoo
Imprints: 132
Initiation: 134
Rites and Wrongs: 135
Permanent Structures: 137

The Group Mind
The Third Mind: 141
Memetic Entities: 143
Working in Groups: 144
Decision Processes: 150
Syncretism: 151
The Celebration of Woohoo: 155

Speculation
Is That All?: 159
Unexplained Phenomena: 160
A Thought Experiment: 163
Magical Epistemology: 165
Self-Flex: 169

The Way of Woohoo
Your World is Your Medium: 172

Appendix One: Sex: 175

Appendix Two: Drugs: 187

Appendix Three: Rock 'n Rolll: 196

Glossary: 202

Footnotes: 206

Bibliography: 214

Editorial Reviews

"Farber begins by asking, 'How much do you want your own story to rock?' then with an exuberant 'Woohoo' proceeds to hand us sane and practical tools and exercises to become a true superstar in the only world that really matters ... our own brain. Powerfully provocative and original."—Lon Milo DuQuette, author of Low Magick and My Life with the Spirits

"All real magick requires both dedication and skill, here Phil Farber delivers both. This is a guide to tapping into living magistery of the universe."—Dr. Richard Bandler, co-founder of NLP

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