{"id":11790,"date":"2020-09-12T15:41:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T21:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11790"},"modified":"2020-09-12T15:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T21:41:49","slug":"i-am-interviewed-about-my-magical-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11790","title":{"rendered":"I Am Interviewed about  &#8220;My Magical Thing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6t0H8335yHE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Julian Vayne, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schumachercollege.org.uk\/about\/julian-vayne\">author of a number of books on articles on psychedelia, esoteric matters, and occulture, h<\/a>as a s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=julian+vayne+my+magical+thing\">eries on YouTube called &#8220;My Magical Thing,<\/a>&#8221; These are short interviews with other occulture-types to discuss some object that has a special meaning to them, either of its own nature or the story of how they came to have it.<\/p>\n<p>Julian interviewed me in June, and I wanted to be outside so that I could have a supporting cast of broad-tailed hummingbirds. 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