In the similitude of Miguel Cervantes, writing Don Quixote in an attempt to counter the fantastical tales of knightly knocking about so popular in his own day, I offer this true tale of real-life magic to the world in counterpoint to the many stories of fantastical adventure the world thrills to now, the difference being that this is real. Mirroring Magic spans three months time, from mid-March to mid-June of 2017, first in Spain, then England, then back in Spain walking on the Camino de Santiago. It is the companion volume to Forgiving Heaven, the furtherance of this most enigmatic, intriguing, admirable and delightful true tale. And I do believe is true tale is truly for the few. You might like to find out if you’re one.

~S. Preston Chase, Devcriceo

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From the Foreword:

“[Mirroring Magic] occupies the uncertain world of the ad hoc off-balance, having a certain uncertain certainty, one foot holding center, one foot doing the hokey-pokey, though some might say the hocus-pocus, others might say the bunk, hogwash, bull and hokum. It’s a dance with a rhythm all its own, although some will recognize the cadence, the resolution of the syncretic conversion of a specifically abstract form into variations of the same aspect of understanding: pitching pennies against a line drawn in the sand, waves coming in to wash the slate clean… the next day the beach looking like it has never known water. You know you’ve arrived when you find yourself staring at the back of your head.”

~Morty ‘Not Parabola Squiggle’ McNaught

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“This story can probably best be approached in the similitude of taking a shower, where one doesn’t have to understand water at all, that thing of two hydrogens and one oxygen; like ‘God,’ pinning a name tag on reality and calling it good. You get in and get wet, let the water wash over you, feel good, get clean, get out and get dry, get back in the birchbark and move on.”

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“It is this blending that we should be seeking, believing in the known rational, as well as entertaining a rational belief in the unknown.”

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“Like the first view of Earth from space changed our perspective of the planet, changed our view of the big picture and our place in it, so must our vision of truth take on the same grand perspective. It must take its place in the great cosmos of truth. If we start off thinking that testicle is a Kiwi we’re liable to get kicked in the balls.”

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“You will find this is mostly about what I don’t know.”

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