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Oftentimes a story begins with a Big-Bang, and here we find ourselves, all gathered together in cyberspace, sharing our thoughts and stories about something we are all passionate about.ĭo we tell stories with our magic and mentalism? "The universe is made of stories, not atoms" - Muriel Rukeyser View Member Profile Send Email Find Member's Topics Find Member's Posts Send Instant Message Socrates These give a hook to for memory and emotion. explaining the meaning of the scarab symbol in ancient Egypt. Some are meant as quasi-educational background to lend authenticity at some level, 'It is said that.', e.g.
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Some stories are meant as entertainment (of sorts), not far from stories with playing cards about robbers caught by the police. It may be me, as Mark Edward has published Total Darkness where better-than-average stories with good props appear to work well, at least in a seance context. Is it just me, or does everybody presume that these are clumsy concoctions? 'This is my grandfather's watch and it stopped at the moment he died.' 'This key is for the door of OJ Simpson's home where.' Or 'When I was a child, there was a spooky house on the hill. Some mentalists purport to tell a story that the audience is apparently meant to treat as true. There may different types of story, and they may elicit different responses. View Member Profile Send Email Find Member's Topics Find Member's Posts Send Instant Message Bruce_Oz Plus, they help immensely in disengaging or diffusing the defensive posture that a fair share of people take towards magic and magicians - the challenge orientation they might have otherwise had, fizzle, like air from a balloon. And there is an art in telling a story well, and especially in intertwining it with the magic. Stories, in some way, speak to the children in all of us. I find that they are a great way to captivate and engage people and give them something more than the "privilege" of seeing how clever I am and how I was able to fool them. People have told and listened to stories from time immemorial. Yes, I do wrap a lot of my magic inside stories, both true ones and (more often) ones that I've made up. The script is based on a question posed by Edward de Bono on his book Lateral Thinking.ĭo you tell stories ? A good story is powerful. I am trying to memorize the script for Bob Cassidy's The Farmer's Daughter And The Pebble from his book The Artful Mentalism Of Bob Cassidy Vol 2. A good story is great because they involve the whole audience and they are a lot more entertaining than telling someone what word they chose in a book.