William Burroughs & Brion Gysin with Vic Hyland

Two figures who have changed the cultural and artistic landscape of the west, also happened to be great friends that inspired each other. One of them you most likely might have heard of. The other is virtually unknown these days. For a period of time, William Burroughs and Brion Gysin shared what they called “The Third Mind,” a collaborative process which saw both figures egging each other on to greater heights of inspiration and creativity. But what helped them during this process? Magic of course. For the first time ever in the Fools Gallery, we look at two artists in the same episode, and are joined by musician, author and Podcaster Vic Hyland!

Vic Hyland is a podcaster, musician, educator, NLP master practitioner, tarot reader, teacher of creative thinking techniques. His podcast Creative has been running for nearly five years and has interviewed many prominent creatives in numerous arenas of creative arts. His newest book Music, Magic and NLP not only teaches creative songwriting techniques that can be applied to any area of creative thinking but also demonstrates the creative process in itself. It is, one could say, a magical item. Visit Vic on Facebook, Instagram as well as YouTube and be sure to subscribe to Creative Podcast and support Vic on Patreon!

Show Notes

• The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs by Matthew Levi Stephens
• BrionGysin.com
• Nothing Is True-Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin by John Geiger
• Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs by Ted Morgan
• Playback: The Magic of William S. Burroughs – Interesting book
• The Story of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, The Dreamachine and von Bartha
• Devils in the Ink: William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Geometry as a Method for Accessing Intermediary Beings – This is a really great read. Recommended
• Three Segments about these guys in the Disinfo Book of Lies – Worth a read
• Bitter Venoms: The Magical Worlds of William Burroughs by Phil Hine
• A Word in your Era: William Burroughs explains Gysin’s Cut-Up Method
• The Cut-Ups – 1966 film by William Burroughs
• The Third Mind – book
• Pagan survivals in Mohammedan civilisation by Edward Westermarck
• Bou Jeloud is Alive and Well – Carl Abrahamsson is well worth checking out for his work on these two figures
• Burroughs-Gysin Excursus
• Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader
• Brion Gysin: His Name was Master
• The Process by Brion Gysin
• Here To Go by Brion Gysin & Terry Wilson
• The Yage Letters
• Junky by William Burroughs
• Re/Search: William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, Brion Gysin
• The Ultimate Cut-Up Generator – An online app which apparently does cut-ups for any text you want
• The Dreamachine – An online app which apparently does the same thing as Gysin’s Dream Machine
• Flicker – A film about The Dream Machine – Watch the full film here
• William S Burroughs & John Cale – Ah Pook Is Here – I love this animation
• Man from Nowhere: Storming the Citadels of Enlightenment With William Burroughs and Brion Gysin by Joe Ambrose & Terry Wilson
• How William Burroughs’s drug experiments helped neurology research
• And finally – Spare Ass Annie & Other Tales – A somewhat brilliant album by William Burroughs and The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. I seriously love this album

Vic wanted to share a few songs which were composed by using the Cut-Up method! Please listen and Enjoy! And be sure to follow Vic on Spotify!
• Fever of Love • Uganda • Body Crime •