Tag: wellcome collection

• Smoke and Mirrors: The Psychology of Magic (Wellcome)

  Magician Dr Will Houstoun says that for magic to work, you need someone to lie (the magician), and someone to believe that lie (an audience). That interaction is where magic happens. That interaction is also what this exhibition is about, which I went to a couple of weeks ago.

  Jess

  June 30, 2019

  London

  debbie mcgee, elizabeth yates, esp, harry houdini, james randi, magic, magicians, margery crandon, mind reading, new age, old fox cottage, seances, sir arthur conan doyle, spiritualism, telepathy, the magic circle, tommy cooper, wellcome collection, will houstoun, zancig

• Tibet's Secret Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism

  

  In much of my life I am pretty cynical about spirituality and religion and mysticism — but Tibetan Buddhism is one area where I can’t help but take it seriously. It’s so far from what I understand or experience on a day-to-day basis.

  Jess

  December 15, 2015

  Life, London, Travel writing

  dalai lama, lhasa, Lukhang, potala, tantric buddhism, thomas laird, tibet, wellcome collection, wellcome exhibition