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We feel there is still value in the study of magic; in particular, the language system that has been built up dealing with subtle connections, forces, and objects of the psyche. (The Apophenion by Peter J. Carroll is an excellent place to start.) We believe that with grounding in the theory and experience of causing the improbable to become possible, an individual becomes empowered to reverse-engineer the hyper-real world of post-modern discourse. We believe that magic is much more than sleight of hand or sleight of mind, and we know that what has been carted away into the sciences of harmonics, chemistry, and quantum physics still haunts the spectral core of this abstraction labeled sorcery, magic, thaumaturgy, mojo, hoodoo... and in precisely the same way, magic haunts sciences, both hard and soft. One doesn't need to dig far to find elements of wizardry in neuro-linguistic programming,¹⁰ or in marketing, or in psychology. We do not react directly to the world, but rather, the world as it is filtered by our nervous system's habits of punctuation. We break down the world according to what we expect to find. How we move indicates what is important to pay attention to and what our word systems point out or hide. This is what Kenneth Burke refers to as the terministic screen, and is very similar to what Robert Anton Wilson meant when he discussed Reality Tunnels in his work Quantum Psychology.¹¹

Because it is difficult to observe the shape of things when one is within their midst, individuals coming to some sense of themselves from within this superorganism,¹² from the center of the zeitgeist, must develop a kind of intellectually rigorous intuition¹³ to peel apart the symbolic structures and to prevent slipping under hegemonic control, and it is this expansive intuition which magic develops in the course of dedicated study. We are a world divorced from the superstitions of the past, and new myths are generated by those wielding media as a wand, one as powerful as the holly wood wands of ancient ceremonial magicians were rumored to have been. The Hollywood of today is the true sacred site of today's elite magician.