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Right. Was its purpose to obtain more funding, or was that a by-product of a different purpose? ~Caroline. From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of jason winslade Sent: Tuesday, 26 January 2010 2:30 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Using Magic to do Academic work Well, since the performance dealt with various forms of magic as they related to my life (particularly Kabbalah) and that of several prisoners who used tropes of magic in their own writing (mixed with a healthy dose of Foucault, Bachelard, Genet, and Eco), and I used a ritual frame for the performance, it most certainly was an overtly magical working. --- On Mon, 1/25/10, Caroline Tully <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Caroline Tully <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Using Magic to do Academic work To: [log in to unmask] Date: Monday, January 25, 2010, 9:19 PM Jason said: >>I sometimes tell a story within a performance context about doing my PhD recital in the Performance Studies department at Northwestern University as a magical working - one that ultimately led to getting more funding. So it worked.<< So in your case it was the Crowley definition of magic as ‘causing change in accordance with your will’. He didn’t specify that this had to be done through a magical, or a ‘traditional magical’ or ‘recognisably magical’, ritual. I do this sort of ‘change in accordance with your will’ magic a lot. ~Caroline.