The Truth about MAGIC
The truth about magic is that a magician jealously guards his secrets for a different reason than you might at first imagine. The magician doesn't safeguard the secret of the illusion because the secret is a large one. No. But, it is rather because it is so small and mundane.
Nothing is so disappointing and deflating as knowing how little is required to fool even the most alert mind!
Why is this true?
We want there to be MAGIC!
Why?
Because the burden of our own life lies in our overwhelming helplessness in the face of dire reality.
IF ONLY, we sigh, we had the POWER to defeat reality!. It is tiring. It is exhausing. It is depressing.
A Magician works the impossible before our very eyes.
Seeing is....believing!
Did you know there are only 6 magic tricks in all the world?
All illusion, prestidigitation, legerdemain and sleight-of-hand combined come from variations on these six elements.
Briefly, they are:
1.Disappearance
2.Production (something out of nothing)
3. Transformation (one thing becomes another thing.)
4. Motive Power (objects with the ability to move on their own.)
5. Natural Law Violation (levitation, going through a wall, etc.)
6.Transposition (two objects change places)
Yes, all magic combines one or many of these six elements.
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Equally important, you must realize, is the performance.
The MAGICIAN's skill at PERFORMANCE makes the magic APPEAR to be GENUINE.
The Magician tells you something and sets up your expectations.
You wish to be fooled, convinced, amazed and bedazzled.
Important fact:
The human brain squirts an intoxicating substance any time you LEARN something. This is evolution at its best and worst. Most of the time a learning experience will make you more fit to survive. That's a good thing, by the way! Yet, when you are simply fooled you are rewarded too. Did you know that? Why? Because you are confronted with the opposite of what you expected and you survived the experience. This is reason enough to be REWARDED by the squirt of heroin that pleases your brain so much! Being fooled is considered a LEARNING process that is PRO survival.
Is it?
In the wild it is. Being fooled by a camouflaged predator can make you dead or half-eaten. But, detecting the camouflage and seeing how you were fooled (if you survive) is a learning experience that is worth being rewarded for. Now do you understand?
There is a downside. Of course, you knew that was coming.
Each time you are amazed, fooled, exhilarated and excited by the UNEXPLAINABLE---you are rewaded by a thrilling brain-buzz which becomes an end in itself. ADDICTION!
We can become hooked on what fools us!
The plot thickens!
Remember I told you the real magic was the PERFORMANCE skill of the Magician?
This is the same setup which also occurs between the BELIEVER and the Authority mentor.
The BELIEVER starts out skeptical just as the person who sits watching the magician perform "knows" it is all a trick and not a true demonstration of the miraculous. Yet, the desire to be fooled is implicit in the attention given and the dedication to following the words and movments which follow.
A Magician uses misdirection. He tells you where to look and where not to look. It is the art of misdirection combined with the concealment of the important element or fact that sets you up to be fooled.
Both a Magician and a Religious Authority change the rules of reality. Yes. An ALTERNATE REALITY is introduced.
Then what? Well....OFF YOU GO!!The magician relies on defying the natural by an arsenal of contrivances, gimmicks and false fronts which appear natural and ordinary. Yet, they SUCCESSFULLY conceal their 6 elements because of two things.
1.The audience wants to be fooled while fighting it by trying to use everyday logic to discover the trick.
2.The trick is designed to take advantage of the expectations and thwart them by built-in defeats through misdirection.
You see, there is only one reality. Any substitute or alternate to reality is really a kind of misdirection or lie.
A magic illusion is a lie, you see.
It is artful and designed to work through the hidden mechanism you are not accustomed to in your daily encounter with everyday objects. A coin is just a coin. Right? Wrong, in a magic act the coin is not just a coin; it is a specially made coin with a device built in.
A card is just a playing card, right? Wrong. It is part of a special deck with hidden aspects the magician can use to achieve his aims.
In other words, your everyday intelligence is NOT AWARE of the phoney and seemingly mundane appearance which hides the concealed mechanism of a trick. You do not have the BASIC vocabulary of the 6 elements to inform your observations.
Once you know these 6 elements and how they are used almost every trick you see will easily be deducible and solvable instantly. Magic becomes commonplace at that point. Why? Because it is so mundane. It is ordinary. It all comes down to the skill of the performance.
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Religion began as a form of magic
Magic was divided into Good and Evil magic. God was behind the Good and Satan was the cause of the Evil.
Every religious sect begins with elements of the six.
Muhammed is said to have been ILLITERATE and yet he produced perfect Arabic verses. The concealment is in the misdirection of the presentation. Was Muhammed in fact illiterate? How would any of us know this for certain? Should we merely accept this premise?
Joseph Smith had plates of gold which he translated using a seer stone. (Yes, a rock with a hole in it!) By sticking the stone in a hat and burying his face in it! He "translated" from behind a curtain, no less! We are told that a great many witnesses actually "saw" these gold plates. Should we accept all this as given? The remaining examples of the original words of Joseph Smith are in awful rural english with grammatical errors and run-on sentences, yet; the modern Book of Mormon scriptures have been...ummm..."adjusted" so that you'd never know that at all!
Moses went up on a mountain and nobody was allowed to come near. He returned with tablets of stone actually written by the finger of God himself! Oh--the tablets were broken, naturally(by Moses) and Moses had to replace them by carving some himself! This isn't suspicious behavior, is it?
Charles Taze Russell was specially chosen by God to be his mouthpiece by allowing Russell to interpret scripture and Pyramid measurements to know in advance when Jesus would return. There are millions of people today who subscribe to the religion Russell started because they believe this! Or, do they? The story has changed many times and the trick goes on.
Remember the pact?
The audience wishes to be fooled.
Their brains are rewarded each time they participate!
That is my reveal!
Every element of religious belief is rewarded when you allow yourself to be fooled!
1975 was my last "reward".
By identifying the trick and the lie to that reveal I and millions of others got the largest reward of a lifetime.
Fool me once: shame on you.
Fool me twice: shame on me.
We are fast approaching the year 2014 which is 100 years since Pastor Russell convinced
thousands in his audience (through the magic of charts and Pyramid inches) that Armageddon
would magically appear. For a century the same tired and shabby trick has been played using variations! (New Light)
As soon as a person is able to figure out how the trick is done they immediately try to cry out
and tell the others! But no! The Magician has henchmen waiting to grab them and toss them outside lest the game be given away.
We are standing outside that carnival tent at this moment. Inside, the same trite nonsense is being babbled like magical incantations. The same breathless expectation is on the faces of the rubes in the Kingdom Halls.
When 2014 arrives and the rabbit doesn't come out of the hat--there will be a misdrection
as usual and a New Light variation will appear.
But, sadly, it is just the same old tired hoax as before.
We, standing on the outside, are not allowed in.
But, perhaps we can be heard...by those not too dazzled to listen.
There is no ALTERNATE reality there is only reality. The Magicians in the Governing Body are lying..again...and again...to new audiences as the great crowd finally gets wise and tired of all the misdirections and lies.
