Brian Barr
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Alan Moore:
Has your interest in the esoteric sciences (occultism) been a life-long venture or was there a particular event that got you interested in magic?
Alan Moore
I suppose I had only an average person’s interest in occult matters for the greater part of my life, and while there were various factors that led to me becoming a magician back in 1993, one of the most compelling was writing a few lines of dialogue in From Hell to the effect that the one place gods and supernatural beings inarguably existed was within the human mind, where they were real in all their ‘grandeur and monstrosity’. Being incapable of finding an angle from which that wasn’t true, and realising its implications, I felt I had no real choice other than to become a magician.
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Ashwin
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Alan Moore:
In the Mindscape of Alan Moore documentary, you speak of a time when information will overflow and in your own words "all bets are off" at this point. The technological singularity (as explained by Vinge, Yudkowsky etc.) if it does happen predicts something similar. Do you think you were in fact talking about the singularity, and the overflow of information that will come along with it?
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