Is magic real? It is to some!
Hello to all our friends,
Quick note: I missed Mindfreak last night, not by choice. I was set to watch it and we lost power. Oh well.
The real subject for today.
Is magic real? To some the answer is yes. There are a lot of people who truly believe in Mind reading, talking to the dead, astral projection, tarot card fortunes and so on.
These are the people who will believe practically anything, even if you try to educate them. They still believe it. They just know YOU can't do it.
Q:Where is the proof?
A: They don't need it or want it. They have faith and nothing will take that away from them.
Unfortunately these people are the ones who spend a fortune on 900 #s. See: The Telephone Psychic: Secrets of the 900# psychic lines. The same people look in tabloids to get the good or bad news about their lives. See: Richard Webster's The Mail Order Psychic & Ron Cain's Secret Guide To Fortune Telling With Playing Cards.
In poker, they say "It is a shame to let a sucker keep their money."
I do not think these people are suckers, some of them are misinformed, brainwashed, whatever you want to call it and some people do take advantage of their weaknesses.
It is a sad fact that too many people are not open to the seeing the truth.
We carry a slew of books, DVDs, Audio CDs & props that you can use as a tool to confirm any believer's curiosity or addictions.
With these tools, you have massive power. Try to keep moral issues in check.
If you taught these same people and they learned this material, they simply would say something like this, "Well that's one way to do it but you are not psychic, this other guy is!"
So is it wrong to present yourself as a person with supernatural ability? I used to think YES. It is wrong, way wrong. However my outlook has changed a bit. As magicians we lie. Period. We are in a character role. If your character is one who does cold readings, then that is your character.
Although I still think it is wrong to take advantage of someone and scam them for money.
But I wouldn't go out of my way to prove I was real, or not real. I would present myself and let the people choose to believe whatever they want to believe.
Because the non-believers (it should go without saying that I am a non believer) nothing I seen so far would make me believe.
Below is a recent post I made on the Magic Cafe about my younger days. Fooling with regular magic, not mentalism. I was doing fun, happy, amazing stuff. I intended to be but was not an entertainer to them, I was perceived as an evil voodoo witch doctor. Read on. It will blow you away.
Hi Guys, Pete from www.ronjo.com here. An earlier post said something to similar to, "Anyone over the age of 10, knows it is a trick." We'll here is a story for you. Many years ago, I started work in an electronics firm. I was the new guy, so I used magic to break the ice. While I had fun fooling with people and getting to know some of them. Simple stuff like Sponge Balls, Hot Rot, Vanishing Silk. A large number of people there were immigrants from Haiti. Some of the people I had just met rounded up an audience for me, Haitians included. I was as unaware as my co-workers were of what was about to happen. I did Razor Blades, then a floating dollar bill. My friends let me tell you I was the devil to them. These people were terrified of me. Running for their lives, screaming. After several attempts to calm these people down, I broke down and exposed a couple of simple things. I had to. Even after, it took weeks to get some of them to warm up to me. And many of them avoided me at all costs even though their friends passed along the good new that I was not the Voodoo priest they thought I was. I was told by one Haitian that many of them moved to the U.S. to get away from magic. So yes there are people who do believe in magic. And these people do not like it one bit.
To read the whole topic, to to the Magic Cafe. The topic is called Magic and the Supernatural, in the Food For Thought forum. You may have to create a login to read it. Click here.
What is the moral? Maybe just be careful on what you do and who you do it to.
We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Thanks for reading!
Pete
Quick note: I missed Mindfreak last night, not by choice. I was set to watch it and we lost power. Oh well.
The real subject for today.
Is magic real? To some the answer is yes. There are a lot of people who truly believe in Mind reading, talking to the dead, astral projection, tarot card fortunes and so on.
These are the people who will believe practically anything, even if you try to educate them. They still believe it. They just know YOU can't do it.
Q:Where is the proof?
A: They don't need it or want it. They have faith and nothing will take that away from them.
Unfortunately these people are the ones who spend a fortune on 900 #s. See: The Telephone Psychic: Secrets of the 900# psychic lines. The same people look in tabloids to get the good or bad news about their lives. See: Richard Webster's The Mail Order Psychic & Ron Cain's Secret Guide To Fortune Telling With Playing Cards.
In poker, they say "It is a shame to let a sucker keep their money."
I do not think these people are suckers, some of them are misinformed, brainwashed, whatever you want to call it and some people do take advantage of their weaknesses.
It is a sad fact that too many people are not open to the seeing the truth.
We carry a slew of books, DVDs, Audio CDs & props that you can use as a tool to confirm any believer's curiosity or addictions.
With these tools, you have massive power. Try to keep moral issues in check.
If you taught these same people and they learned this material, they simply would say something like this, "Well that's one way to do it but you are not psychic, this other guy is!"
So is it wrong to present yourself as a person with supernatural ability? I used to think YES. It is wrong, way wrong. However my outlook has changed a bit. As magicians we lie. Period. We are in a character role. If your character is one who does cold readings, then that is your character.
Although I still think it is wrong to take advantage of someone and scam them for money.
But I wouldn't go out of my way to prove I was real, or not real. I would present myself and let the people choose to believe whatever they want to believe.
Because the non-believers (it should go without saying that I am a non believer) nothing I seen so far would make me believe.
Below is a recent post I made on the Magic Cafe about my younger days. Fooling with regular magic, not mentalism. I was doing fun, happy, amazing stuff. I intended to be but was not an entertainer to them, I was perceived as an evil voodoo witch doctor. Read on. It will blow you away.
Hi Guys, Pete from www.ronjo.com here. An earlier post said something to similar to, "Anyone over the age of 10, knows it is a trick." We'll here is a story for you. Many years ago, I started work in an electronics firm. I was the new guy, so I used magic to break the ice. While I had fun fooling with people and getting to know some of them. Simple stuff like Sponge Balls, Hot Rot, Vanishing Silk. A large number of people there were immigrants from Haiti. Some of the people I had just met rounded up an audience for me, Haitians included. I was as unaware as my co-workers were of what was about to happen. I did Razor Blades, then a floating dollar bill. My friends let me tell you I was the devil to them. These people were terrified of me. Running for their lives, screaming. After several attempts to calm these people down, I broke down and exposed a couple of simple things. I had to. Even after, it took weeks to get some of them to warm up to me. And many of them avoided me at all costs even though their friends passed along the good new that I was not the Voodoo priest they thought I was. I was told by one Haitian that many of them moved to the U.S. to get away from magic. So yes there are people who do believe in magic. And these people do not like it one bit.
To read the whole topic, to to the Magic Cafe. The topic is called Magic and the Supernatural, in the Food For Thought forum. You may have to create a login to read it. Click here.
What is the moral? Maybe just be careful on what you do and who you do it to.
We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Thanks for reading!
Pete
posted by Ronjo Magic at 12:12 PM
2 Comments:
What about aliens?
Haha, I do beilve in aliens. Yes I do. Call me a sucka. Or a hypocrite. What can I say.
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