---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, noozguru@... wrote :
I don't think the JR wants to deal with yoga or eastern mysticism. I know that
in the magician community there is still some wonder about some unexplained
tricks of some Indian magicians. He may actually understand that some of
these things are based on the manipulation of physics, the kind not yet
understood.
I'd say I'll believe it when I see it but making sure I don't is what magic is
all about. I don't believe there are unknown laws of physics that can be
manipulated when the ones we do know about can't.
But I'd really love to see a trick based on things that don't use any
currently known physical laws, it would sure beat levitation or the Indian rope
trick or sawing people in half.
I know some guys who went to an Indian village and there was a magic fair and
they reported amazing things - until some locals objected to westerners being
present and chased them out of town. Was any of it beyond the ability of Randi
or Derren Brown? I bet if even a few people thought it was they'd have
incorporated it into their act already. Maybe they have, Derren is amazing.
I saw Doug Henning make an elephant disappear. That was cool, he was sitting
on it at the time. One swish of a rather large cloak later and he was on the
stage on his own! I bet it wasn't up his sleeve...
I saw Paul Daniels make a tiger appear inside an empty box on castors on a
lighted stage, that wasn't up his sleeve either. Damn clever stuff but if
someone is kidding you that what they do is beyond the laws of physics then
that's probably part of the act.
I've seen shows that give bits of it away, and the best way to explain magic
is that people are being fooled into thinking that something really difficult
is going on. That's the trick. The harder they think it is the easier it is to
exploit that - apparently! Watching the pretty but apparently gormless
assistant(s) is the best way of working out the rest of it, most of the time
they do all the work. Misdirection and exploiting people's willingness to
believe. We've all got that, I love a good magic show.
But I've been looking an Youtube and wiki for anything that might be an
example of Indian magic that is unexplainable but have drawn a blank. And if I
can't see it, a seasoned pro like JR won't have any trouble. But we all convert
for evidence.
OTOH, JR does have a bit of a narcissistic personality.
On 11/09/2014 12:24 AM, salyavin808 wrote:
Thanks for that. I didn't know that JR offered his million dollar challenge to
the fraudster selling magical explosive detectors to Iraq in the hope of
exposing the rather obvious fraud. I remember hearing that the government had
given an export license for these things and thought the world must, finally,
have gone completely and hopelessly mad.
I didn't know he actually invited people to try out for the chance to win the
cash, he should challenge the TMO to prove that yagya's work so that people can
stop wasting their money on them when the experiment draws a blank. Unless it
doesn't! LOL.
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