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Magic Without Mirrors: The Making of a Magician
Author(s): David Conway (Author)
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date: 15 Sept. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 1463761724
- ISBN-13: 9781463761721
Book Description
“There is nothing of the phoney or the exhibitionist about David Conway. He is not merely a magician, but a genuine mystic, an intensely private person who is absorbed in what Blake called “the inner worlds” and their mystery….David Conway was brought up in a remote country district of Wales….When he was four he was taken to see a local farmer, Mr. James, (who) remained his chief mentor, introducing him to the basic principles of magic…Someone should persuade him to write about his apprenticeship; from the hints he has dropped, I suspect it would be as fascinating as Carlos Castaneda’s accounts of Don Juan, as well as being rather more truthful.” Colin Wilson in his Introduction to David Conway’s Magic: an occult primer, 1988
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About the Author
Born and brought up in mid-Wales, David Conway has returned home to his birthplace after many years spent abroad, first as a student in Paris and Strasbourg, then, after a diplomatic posting to Brussels, as Principal Director of the European Patent Office in Munich. He has also been a Civil Servant in London. His first book, Magic: an occult primer attracted considerable media attention when it appeared in 1972. Still in demand on both sides of the Atlantic, it was followed by two further books, The Magic of Herbs and Secret Wisdom: the occult universe explored, both similarly well received. One reviewer predicted that the author would become a cult figure, especially among the young, but he had no such ambitions. Only now has he emerged from seclusion to describe what it’s like to grow up learning how to be a magician. His is an extraordinary story, stylishly told, one that will appeal as much to readers with little or no interest in magic as to those fully committed to its practice. This remarkable book may yet turn David Conway into the cult figure that was predicted. Whether he likes it or not.