• Skip the stuffy rituals and the pretentious esoteric balderdash. D.I.Y. Magic is a hands-on cookbook for vivid living and consciousness hacking. Local Portland author Anthony Alvarado strips away the exotica from traditional magical practices, reformulating them into a highly accessible, whimsical guide designed to help artists, writers, musicians, and daydreamers pull at the strings of everyday reality.

Think of this book as a practical toolkit to bypass your conscious mind and tap directly into the raw power of your subconscious. Alvarado outlines a fascinating collection of techniques and reality hacks ranging from Salvador Dalí’s famous hypnagogic spoon technique and bibliomancy to ornithomancy (divination by crows) and the strategic use of everyday, legal stimulants. Written in a relaxed, witty, and immediately useful tone, this expanded second edition offers the ultimate prescription for the exhaustion of the modern world, inviting you to coax the extraordinary out of your everyday life.