I am hoping that by the end of this interview, you can give us a few techniques on exactly how to bend that reality. The concept of bending reality first entered the mainstream in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs in which he used it three times to describe why Jobs was so successful.

We could perhaps argue a bit about how the nerves were triggered in a reflex-type response, and the ways in which psychology can impact on those processes, but otherwise that was that. That one doesn’t work either: nearest underground-line is a couple of miles away at least – and that amount of movement for the light would have needed the equivalent of an earthquake almost strong enough to knock the whole building down.But then these days I mostly do enterprise-architecture and business-change and thinking-about-thinking and the like, which for most folks seems a lot scarier than mere water-witching! By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The key point, though, is now that you know that it happens – and, even more to the point, that it happens in you – what are you going to do about it? The way this manifests for me in the EA realm is the position I’ve held for decades that human collectives (as well as collectives in other species) constitute a form of life beyond the biological. Hence your response to that information was likely not based on facts, but emotional defence of arbitrary beliefs and presuppositions – the exact inverse of ‘rationality’.

And that’s when I realised that the whole light-fitting was gently moving, swinging round, more and more, until, yes, definitely clockwise, as if seen from above.There’s a lot of uncertainty and a lot of unknown and in that state, we often have a lot of that what if, impending doom generator of like, what if it doesn’t go well? Bending reality gives you the codes and a step by step guide to how to consciously bend reality in the direction that you want. These are all the things that we really value as coaches helping our clients operate from because I believe it helps us plug into these more expansive fuels, that when we do so re-energize us and are really healthy, not just for our well-being but for everyone around us. One of the more accessible – and certainly eye-opening, if in a carefully metaphoric sense – of the Chaos Magic texts is ‘Ramsey Dukes’, SSOTBME: again, recommended, though perhaps only if you’re willing to accept the ‘occasional forays into the overly implausible’ (as was once said about one of my own books!