Description

I share a number of different book, podcast, and video recommendations for placebo mages.

Books

• Religion for Atheists: A Non-believers Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
• Atheopaganism by Mark Green
• Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Paganism edited by John Halstead
• DIY Magic: A Strange & Whimsical Guide to Creativity by Anthony Alvarado
• Postmodern Magic: The Art of Magic in the Information Age by Patrick Dunn
• The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy, and Sane by Matthew Hutson
• Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain by Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler
• Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics by Dan Harris and Jeff Warren
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi

Videos

• Sedna Woo
• The Skeptical Witch

Podcasts

• THE WONDER: Science-Based Paganism
• Re-Enchantment
• Open Div Summit
  
  See also: OpenDiv organization
• Hidden Brain:
  
  "Secret Friends"
  
  "What are the Odds?"
  
  "Creating God"
  
  "Useful Delusions"
• Radiolab
• Invisibilia:
  
  "How to Become Batman"
  
  "The Secret Emotional Life of Clothes"
  
  "Outside In"
• The Happiness Lab:
  
  "The Power of a Made-Up Ritual"
  
  "Boldly Go like Yuri Gagarin"
  
  "Wisdom of the Ancients" series (particularly the episodes on Plato, Aristotle, and Confucius)

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Music from https://filmmusic.io:

Frost Waltz by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3781-frost-waltzLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Arcadia by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3377-arcadiaLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/