A cover design for a real magic book is a challenge. Because a magic book is not just about the words inside, but a magic book is a magical *object* in its own right - a tool for magic, an energy generater, an imprinter and also an MEMEM, to be used in actual magic.

So apart from the challenge of, "Does it look right?" this kind of structural design also needs to feel right, and "magic right" for the want of a better word.

Inner child and art therapy, magic art, energy art, totem making, well, the 14 books write themselves, don't they?

Does a picture say more than a thousand words on the topic of The Inner Child?

You be the judge of that ...

Whilst doing work on the transfer of my magic site, I came across this picture for the front cover of the soul pilots book.

This was really one of those things. It is challenging to make things simple, childish, childlike and have the guts to stay with that. The Soul Pilot is a really childish, simple line drawing and yet it is perhaps the only one of all the works of art I've done that has the power to move me to tears when I tune into it.

Forget for a moment all you thought you knew about "art".

Let it all simply slide away, take a deep breath and let your mind fall back, right back through the times of you, the times of your ancestors, the times of men, all the way back and back and back through history until we arrive ...