Re: No emails fr:Me 4 1 wk? I'm listening to New Year advice. Read to learn?
Dear ,
Please help me wish "Happy New Year"
to Barry C. McLawhorn! He is winner #4
of 12 described below.
,
Want to lose your debt without scrimping?
Best way is to make more money.
Leo Quinn last night shared how to easily
do both, pay-off your debts while you make
More money.
This is an uplifting interview that is worth
your listening if you are serious about 2007
Being your best year yet you need to start
a few days early to reset your thinking
Listen hear:
http://podcast.liveoffice.com/telcorecordings/0/938678/1065284.mp3
My New Year resolution is clarity. I know how you must
feel about taking a good new resolution seriously.
Making commitments can be scary.
Leo has the most empowering tone of
any financial expert I have yet met.
I believe and trust him.
Please listen:
http://podcast.liveoffice.com/telcorecordings/0/938678/1065284.mp3
Thank you. My new years resolution? clarity
A mastermind advisor, Tellman Knudson
tells me I’m emailing
too much and
without clarity.
I’m taking a week off from emailing,
but I’ll be writing my heart out here…
http://authorsbusinessplan.blogspot.com/
In fact, in the p.s. you can read the essay
I posted there this morning. ☺
Today’s winner:
Barry C. McLawhorn is winner #4 of 12
Happy New Year Barry C. McLawhorn!
Ben
P.S. Here’s the beginning of the essay
I posted here…
http://authorsbusinessplan.blogspot.com/
Immersive Realities
The Structure of Magic
By Ben Mack
Magic Castle Award Winning Magician,
Author: Poker Without Cards (soon to be re-titled…
Escape to Witch Mountain)
Magic is the act of facilitating a phantasmagorical experience, the acceptance of the world where natural laws don’t have such a firm grasp on reality. I grew up a junior member of The Magic Castle—If ever there was a real Hogwartz, this was it. David Copperfield lectured to our membership, Dai Vernon tutored us and Diana Zimmerman managed us. The Magic Castle wasn’t open to kids interested in magic. Instead, The Magic Castle held biannual auditions and initiated those who demonstrated proficiency of craft and potential for expertise. The older a candidate was, the better they had to be. It took me two tries to be accepted. Natural aptitude was rarely enough to muster the goods necessary for acceptance. Virtually every candidate had been tutored. Lorenzo Clark was my mentor. I called him Larry.
Larry not only taught me sleight-of-hand, called prestidigitation, but he also taught me the psychology of perception. In order to create a sustainable illusion, one must have a commanding grasp of perception. A magician must transcend fooling their audience and enter the realm of trust where an audience grants you their willing suspension of disbelief.
Magic is not a thing or a physical act, but a state of mind that approaches the sublime but is more aptly referred to as phantasmagorical. Magic occurs at the intersection of a performer and an audience. There is intentionality to the perception. A stone that looks like an eagle is not magic, regardless of whether or not it is carved to represent the physical traits of an eagle. A sculpture maybe a catalyst to an altered state of mind, but I am reticent to call a sculpture magical. Some panoramas feel almost magical to me, but real magic is dynamic and ephemeral. Magic is the process of engineering an experience where reality emerges as it cannot be, and yet the audience is compelled to set aside their disbelief and flow with the experience as long as it lasts.
Creating an illusion entails tweaking our visual prejudices. We drop a coin, and it falls. We know this to be true; we have seen the force of gravity pull objects to Earth since before we had words to articulate the phenomena. What most non-perceptual psychologists DON’T recognize is the extent that our mind projects our expectations, our visual prejudices, onto our sight.
If a magician creates the physical gesture of dropping a coin from one hand to another, yet palms the coin so it doesn’t actually fall into the second hand, most minds will see the coin fall. The term for this sight projection is sight retention. A normal mind will literally “see” the coin fall. This specific visual hallucination is called a projection, our mind projects its expectation of reality onto our sight. The magician makes note of the triggers that cause these visual breaks from reality and assembles a presentation that often includes a series of these triggers, often strung together through a narrative known as patter. The magician is an actor playing the role of a person with supernatural powers.
Please help me wish "Happy New Year"
to Barry C. McLawhorn! He is winner #4
of 12 described below.
Want to lose your debt without scrimping?
Best way is to make more money.
Leo Quinn last night shared how to easily
do both, pay-off your debts while you make
More money.
This is an uplifting interview that is worth
your listening if you are serious about 2007
Being your best year yet you need to start
a few days early to reset your thinking
Listen hear:
http://podcast.liveoffice.com/telcorecordings/0/938678/1065284.mp3
My New Year resolution is clarity. I know how you must
feel about taking a good new resolution seriously.
Making commitments can be scary.
Leo has the most empowering tone of
any financial expert I have yet met.
I believe and trust him.
Please listen:
http://podcast.liveoffice.com/telcorecordings/0/938678/1065284.mp3
Thank you. My new years resolution? clarity
A mastermind advisor, Tellman Knudson
tells me I’m emailing
too much and
without clarity.
I’m taking a week off from emailing,
but I’ll be writing my heart out here…
http://authorsbusinessplan.blogspot.com/
In fact, in the p.s. you can read the essay
I posted there this morning. ☺
Today’s winner:
Barry C. McLawhorn is winner #4 of 12
Happy New Year Barry C. McLawhorn!
Ben
P.S. Here’s the beginning of the essay
I posted here…
http://authorsbusinessplan.blogspot.com/
Immersive Realities
The Structure of Magic
By Ben Mack
Magic Castle Award Winning Magician,
Author: Poker Without Cards (soon to be re-titled…
Escape to Witch Mountain)
Magic is the act of facilitating a phantasmagorical experience, the acceptance of the world where natural laws don’t have such a firm grasp on reality. I grew up a junior member of The Magic Castle—If ever there was a real Hogwartz, this was it. David Copperfield lectured to our membership, Dai Vernon tutored us and Diana Zimmerman managed us. The Magic Castle wasn’t open to kids interested in magic. Instead, The Magic Castle held biannual auditions and initiated those who demonstrated proficiency of craft and potential for expertise. The older a candidate was, the better they had to be. It took me two tries to be accepted. Natural aptitude was rarely enough to muster the goods necessary for acceptance. Virtually every candidate had been tutored. Lorenzo Clark was my mentor. I called him Larry.
Larry not only taught me sleight-of-hand, called prestidigitation, but he also taught me the psychology of perception. In order to create a sustainable illusion, one must have a commanding grasp of perception. A magician must transcend fooling their audience and enter the realm of trust where an audience grants you their willing suspension of disbelief.
Magic is not a thing or a physical act, but a state of mind that approaches the sublime but is more aptly referred to as phantasmagorical. Magic occurs at the intersection of a performer and an audience. There is intentionality to the perception. A stone that looks like an eagle is not magic, regardless of whether or not it is carved to represent the physical traits of an eagle. A sculpture maybe a catalyst to an altered state of mind, but I am reticent to call a sculpture magical. Some panoramas feel almost magical to me, but real magic is dynamic and ephemeral. Magic is the process of engineering an experience where reality emerges as it cannot be, and yet the audience is compelled to set aside their disbelief and flow with the experience as long as it lasts.
Creating an illusion entails tweaking our visual prejudices. We drop a coin, and it falls. We know this to be true; we have seen the force of gravity pull objects to Earth since before we had words to articulate the phenomena. What most non-perceptual psychologists DON’T recognize is the extent that our mind projects our expectations, our visual prejudices, onto our sight.
If a magician creates the physical gesture of dropping a coin from one hand to another, yet palms the coin so it doesn’t actually fall into the second hand, most minds will see the coin fall. The term for this sight projection is sight retention. A normal mind will literally “see” the coin fall. This specific visual hallucination is called a projection, our mind projects its expectation of reality onto our sight. The magician makes note of the triggers that cause these visual breaks from reality and assembles a presentation that often includes a series of these triggers, often strung together through a narrative known as patter. The magician is an actor playing the role of a person with supernatural powers.
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