Living in the Magical Mode (Paperback)

Paperback. In 2019 a group of book-lovers began to turn from their usual diet of contemporary novels to read classics of the English eerie like Arthur Machens 'The Great God Pan'. The documents recovered, (edited by Phil Smith of 'Mythogeography'), and published here as 'Living In The Magical Mode', describe the subsequently inspired attempts of these readers in a time of virus and social and climate catastrophe to live anew, with magic-as-ordinary, to do magic as if it were the washing up.At first, the readers fall on new ways of remaking their everyday lives in the magical mode, but the mode soon find ways to remake the readers. Challenging assumptions, magic turns lives upside down and shakes out mysteries. The documents of 'Living In The Magical Mode' describe a pulling back of veils, until all veils but one are exhausted; then the book-lovers put their hands upon the veil inside themselves.'Living In The Magical World' crosses dream wastelands, racecourses, motorway cafes, edgeland quarries and suburban valleys, in an adventure of encounters with others. It brings its readers to an occulted realm of unbounded desires that once unfolded refuses to recede. The surviving documents of the book club, reprinted here, describe the final frantic efforts of what remains of its members to understand a collision of many worlds and make novel webs of reconciliation. A mythogeographic guide to sacred space, place and time, non-systems magic, psychic war, conspiracies, somatics, ghosts, paganism, conjuring Planet B, the third hauntology, jellyfish, apocalypse, what the horses mean and the transformation of certain readers moving from fiction to fictioning. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …