You know your interests are niche when your research topic returns less than 25 results in google and shows up as typo in Microsoft Word.
That is the exact situation I found myself in when I began my research and experimentation into manifestation and manipulation of imagination back in 2010.
The topic of my research is known in the field of psychology as a “paracosm” which are the fantasy worlds and extended fantasies we create.
Through self experimentation and trying out different techniques during my magic act, I was able to make a plethora of discoveries in the field which I presented at the Autonomous Learning World Caucus at Oxford University in 2012.
I have continued to experiment and incorporate my discoveries into my profession as a magician and now use them as the core part of my act.
I have shown and continue to show in my acts that a paracosm, rather than being a rare state of mind one loses with age, is actually a powerful and underutilized faculty of the mind.
The limits and potentiality of the paracosm had not even been scratched before my research with only one other researcher having embarked on a similar journey. This research was conducted back in 1930 by Carl Jung who documented his findings in his egregiously ignored Red Book.
I have discovered and demonstrated multiple qualities of the paracosm; some of which include:
- Paracosms Have External Projections As Well As Internal Projections
- Paracosms Can Be Encoded Into Art & Transmitted Peer to Peer
- Paracosms Are Common & Accessible To Most People
- Paracosm Can Be Utilized To Improve Performance, Mood & Creative Thinking
- Paracosm Can Be Utilized For Reality Augmentation
- Paracosm Are Tied To Shared Religious Phenomenology
- Paracosms Are The Mechanic At Work In “Hypnosis”
- Paracosm Can Be Utilized To Consciously Control The Placebo Effect
The last one I believe is the most important and needs to be researched further and I humbly request the help of scientists in the field of experimental psychology to assist me in pursuing research into this topic.
If my findings, which I have consistently demonstrated day in and day out in my magic shows, are true the potential for a wide variety of healing arts will be opened up to for therapeutic purposes which I am in no way qualified to do. Nor am I qualified to determine if my findings are this valuable or not which is why I am asking for help from true experts in the field.
The potential that I see being opened up by my concept of paracosmic work is that by enabling the practitioner to reliably and consistently generate a placebo effect, which has been show to be more effective than a wide variety of medications and therapies, combined with the non temporal nature of a paracosm would provide a low cost health care solution for a wide range of health issues that could be administered by a licensed psychotherapist as an alternative or alongside medication based interventions.
I think this is a good time to restate again that I am in no way qualified to administer any therapeutic services and I do not, in any capacity, do any psychological work in any of my shows or performance outside of the therapeutic effect that comes from having a good time and being entertained. That being said I would greatly appreciate being able to work with someone who is qualified so that they can help me further pursue this discovery I have made in paracosmic work.
In my future post I will expound upon my philosophical work in paracosm and I hope that this peek behind the scenes into the work that goes into my act has been enjoyable for you. I look forward to doing more magic for you all soon.
-Tyler