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| I have met some incredible people and have made new friends through my journeys and performances. I feel fortunate that Life has given me the chance to be in these other people’s paths. The more I share my own interests, ideas, and knowledge with others, the more I realize how much more is waiting to be revealed to me. Here are a few links to my friends. They are a source of knowledge and interest.
Enjoy!
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www.bretagne-celtic.com
This website carries you away in the Celtic past of Brittany. You will discover the history of the Celt, your own tree of life, legends, and a column on lighthouses. I encourage you to discover Druids, with the druids' belief and ceremonies, a meet with druidess Syd, Emma, as well as Bardic triads. You will visit Brittany's MEGALITHS in pictures, and now megaliths from elsewhere. Wish you a nice trip.
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www.the-dark-place.org The
members of the dark place, a Gothic Society, seek to preserve the dark mystery
of the Medieval shadow, the ornate and embellished Baroque & Rococo, the
Victorian property, the Edwardian grace and will not allow there art, music,
dress, architecture and traditions to be forgotten.
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www.thetempleofsound.com Utilizing
techniques of sound healing, mysticism and shamanism as the basis for pop style
songs or healing soundscapes, Michael Moon’s music is a compelling combination
weaving the subtleties of spirit with the realities and beauty of this physical
world. He has performed at many of the larger holistic health and new age shows
across North America.
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www.volcano.ca Volcano
is a Dora and Chalmers award winning, internationally acclaimed experimental
theatre company based in Toronto. Volcano is a theatre of ideas exploring
compelling social and artistic territories in innovative ways.They
emit incandescent material at high speeds.
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www.dyniss.com Dyniss is a “quirky power folk” musician. Sometimes political, sometimes weird, sometimes dreamy. Politics bug him, so he wrote the official song for the Green Party of Canada. That was nice. But then consumerism bugged him, so he made an anti-shopping Christmas song that ended up getting national airplay.
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www.iamastarseed.com Pioneers in the fine art of divination, “Celestial Celebrations“ represents some of the most innovative psychics, musicians and mystical entertainment in the world. Gaspare Grillo’s background in architecture, multi-media, alchemy and oracular divination combined with KA’ryna SH’ha’s expert wisdom in the subtle realms of the psychic, spiritual, sacred ceremonies and the modern and ancient healing arts has formed a knowledgeable and experienced team available to meet all your event needs.
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www.levity.com/alchemy/ Many
people still only think of Alchemy as the quest of the philosophers’ stone to
change base metals into gold. But Alchemy is also a deep philosophy looking for
self-discovery and transformation of our life into
Gold. On this web site you will be able to explore the riches of
alchemical texts, wonderful works of allegorical literature, enigmatic symbolism
and ponder its underlying hermetic philosophy, which holds a picture of the
interconnection of the Macrocosm and Microcosm.
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www.magicroadie.com
The goal here is to help take some of the mystery out the stage technology you use to present your Magic Show. You’ll find lots of useful information to help you make the best possible use of the equipment (sound, lighting, etc…) you own or rent. Loran contributed an article on how to create your cue sheet, and also on pyrotechnics that includes a lot of the legal ins-and-outs.
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www.sorcerers-safari.com “Sorcerers
Safari”, Canada’s first professional magic camp, instill an appreciation for
and promote the art of illusion through
international instructors, workshop, diverse performances, provide
participants with the opportunity to makes
new friends, meet and work with people throughout the magic community.
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www.malleusmaleficarum.org/ The “Malleus Maleficarum” (The Witch Hammer), first published in 1486, is arguably one of the most infamous books ever written, due primarily to its position and regard during the Middle-Ages. Written by two Dominican monks, it served as a guidebook for Inquisitors and was designed to aid them in the identification, prosecution, and dispatching of millions of “Witches and Sorcerers”.
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www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/scot16.htm “Discovery of Witchcraft” was a controversial work when published in 1584. It has the honor of not only being the first book in English devoted to denied witchcraft, but also of being the first major work to expose illusionists’ apparatus. King James 1 found the work damnable, and on his accession to the throne in 1603 ordered all copies to be burned. It was from Reginald Scot’s text that Shakespeare got hints for his witches in Macbeth. You can read an excerpt, written in old English, on this site.
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www.funnyheck.com/mortomagician.html Magic is a universal language… as well as humor. Here is comedian Steve Martin as “Morto the Homicidal Magician”, whose act litters the stage with accidental corpses until the stage manager decides to get his own back using The Cabinet of Swords. Director Conrad Vernon stages Martin's silent shtick in a richly-colored Herculean-style animated setting, whose curlicues and pop-eyed victims underline the surreal simplicity of the gags. Funny! |
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