This is the start of the main thread of the podcast. I am going to teach you to do Real, bleeping, Magic Spells. 

And that is barely in the top five of the weirdnesses of this podcast. Number one, is that the deep parts of the brain that take in all internal and external sensory input are well known to process this input at 10 times the speed of what we call consciousness. We do not see the world. Perception is even on a significant tape delay. 

The first set of episodes, which the most important ones we've had already, are to hammer down this point: Our brains produce illusion.  Stage magic plays on this. Optical illusions play on this, but every sense has illusion tricks due to this processing. We will be demonstrating about a half dozen for each sense. 

The next set of episodes demonstrates deep brain perturbations of thinking. Wikipedia lists dozens of examples; we've mentioned already the most important. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases. We will hit the main categories. We will explore their neurobiological basis. 

Then, knowing that all is illusion what does one do? It seems to come to a choice between doing great stuff or having great entertainment. We will be covering spells for divination, unlocking creativity, wishes, invisibility (or rather undoing invisibility), coercing truth, uncovering lies, a little bit of yoga, doing and undoing compulsions, and some Black Magic--that's Magic by and for undoing racial disparity and racism.

That reminds me of the time my Dungeons and Dragons club visited the Black Arts and Sciences Club on campus. It wasn't at all what we expected but everyone had a really good time and a there was a considerable amount of cross over..because.. nerds, right? Well that pretty well sums up this podcast too. Oh, and tell Anchor I have the absolute best advertisement for them.

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