web02.fireside.fm Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:57:52 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Trickery” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/trickery Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:00:00 -0400 Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." en-us episodic Art and philosophy at the limits of the thinkable Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." yes weird, art, philosophy Phil Ford and J. F. Martel admin@weirdstudies.com Episode 24: The Charlatan and the Magus, with Lionel Snell https://www.weirdstudies.com/24 bed59cce-6c88-45fc-b2b4-c358473a13fb Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:00:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 24 The Charlatan and the Magus, with Lionel Snell full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Phil and JF discuss magic with occult thinker and practicing magician Lionel Snell, also known as Ramsey Dukes. 58:23 no As Lionel Snell, also known as Ramsey Dukes, observes in his seminal esoteric essay, "The Charlatan and the Magus" (1984), the series of trumps in a tarot deck doesn't begin with the noble Emperor or august Hierophant, but with the lowly Fool, followed by the Juggler. Trickery or illusion, Snell suggests, may not be the dealbreaker we've thought it to be in parapsychological investigation. It may even be a feature, not a bug, of the magical process. In this episode of Weird Studies, JF and Phil talk to Lionel Snell about trickster magic, and all we miss out on when we make rational truth the only measure by which we know reality. Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], "The Charlatan and the Magus" (http://the-philosophers-stone.com/articles/charlatn/magus.htm) Darren Brown, Tricks of the Mind (https://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Mind-Paperback-DERREN-BROWN/dp/1905026358) Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316117/) Phil Ford, “Birth of the Weird" (http://www.weirdstudies.com/articles/birth-of-the-weird) Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], How to See Fairies: Discover Your Psychic Powers in Six Weeks (https://www.amazon.com/How-See-Fairies-Discover-Psychic/dp/1904658377) Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], S.S.O.T..B.M.E. (https://www.amazon.com/SSOTBME-Revised-essay-Ramsey-Dukes/dp/0904311082) John Keats, Negative Capability (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_capability) Weird Studies, Episode 9: "On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick" (http://www.weirdstudies.com/9) Special Guest: Lionel Snell [Ramsey Dukes]. lionel snell, ramsey dukes, interview As Lionel Snell, also known as Ramsey Dukes, observes in his seminal esoteric essay, "The Charlatan and the Magus" (1984), the series of trumps in a tarot deck doesn't begin with the noble Emperor or august Hierophant, but with the lowly Fool, followed by the Juggler. Trickery or illusion, Snell suggests, may not be the dealbreaker we've thought it to be in parapsychological investigation. It may even be a feature, not a bug, of the magical process. In this episode of Weird Studies, JF and Phil talk to Lionel Snell about trickster magic, and all we miss out on when we make rational truth the only measure by which we know reality.

Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], "The Charlatan and the Magus"
Darren Brown, Tricks of the Mind
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Phil Ford, “Birth of the Weird"
Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], How to See Fairies: Discover Your Psychic Powers in Six Weeks
Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], S.S.O.T..B.M.E.
John Keats, Negative Capability
Weird Studies, Episode 9: "On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick"

Special Guest: Lionel Snell [Ramsey Dukes].

]]> As Lionel Snell, also known as Ramsey Dukes, observes in his seminal esoteric essay, "The Charlatan and the Magus" (1984), the series of trumps in a tarot deck doesn't begin with the noble Emperor or august Hierophant, but with the lowly Fool, followed by the Juggler. Trickery or illusion, Snell suggests, may not be the dealbreaker we've thought it to be in parapsychological investigation. It may even be a feature, not a bug, of the magical process. In this episode of Weird Studies, JF and Phil talk to Lionel Snell about trickster magic, and all we miss out on when we make rational truth the only measure by which we know reality.

Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], "The Charlatan and the Magus"
Darren Brown, Tricks of the Mind
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Phil Ford, “Birth of the Weird"
Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], How to See Fairies: Discover Your Psychic Powers in Six Weeks
Ramsey Dukes [Lionel Snell], S.S.O.T..B.M.E.
John Keats, Negative Capability
Weird Studies, Episode 9: "On Aleister Crowley and the Idea of Magick"

Special Guest: Lionel Snell [Ramsey Dukes].

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