magic tricks? lies or real?

Question

I love magic and I love watching it but recently I saw a show that showed you how to do a lot of the ticks. move a tank, float, ect, ect in all reality it is not magic just lies if that is the case how can some people get famous off of it? and are they really magic our just really good liers?

Answer 1

Stage magicians and illusionists are talented entertainers, and the shows they put on can be truly amazing to us audience members. They have to work for years to come up with the science behind their illusions and tricks, and it takes a lot of training and study.

As for "real magic", like in the occult, first try looking at the lives of these famous occultists, and then decide if it works:

Henry Cornielius Agrippa von Nettesheim: One of the most famous occultists of the middle ages. His work has gone on to inspire hundreds of "magical" books and writings. Despite all his occult knowledge, he died in poverty at age 41 in 1532.

Cagliostro, a famous French-Egyptian "magician", did the most embarrassing things, like putting a teacup on his erect penis and telling women "This is the only Bishop you will bow to!" He died in the Bastille in 1795.

John Dee discovered Enochian Magick and tried unsuccessfully to get the spirits to bring him money. He spent the final years of his life stripped of his honors and income and was forced to live incommunicado. He died in extreme poverty at 81.

Paracelsus: Thought himself a great physician, but he was really just an alchemist who had bizarre theories about human anatomy and prescribed dangerous remedies for his patients. This man was said to be arrogant and conceited, and was shunned by the other medical experts of his day.
He died broke at the age of 48.

Edward Kelly: An assistant of Dee, after failing to strike it rich with Enochian Magick, he was killed trying to escape prison. He had been imprisoned for his old hobby, counterfeiting.

Aleister Crowley had a nervous breakdown in spent 4 months in an insane asylum after trying to conjure a demon in a Paris hotel. In 1947 he died impoverished in a flophouse, forgotten by his family, a drug addict and alcoholic, despite starting out in life as a rich heir to Crowley Ale. He squandered it all on drugs and whores. "Success is your proof " - -Liber Al Vel Legis 3:46, Aleister Crowley

Gurdijef was a Russian con man who got involved in many money making scams. Once he dyed sparrows in peroxide and sold them as canaries! Even his biographers admit he had a "streak of charaltainism" about him. He created a system of bunk psychotherapy which is convoluted and even people who practice it can't clearly explain what is. In other words, it was the forerunner of Scientology.

Christian Rosenkrutz never actually existed. The whole Rosicrucian thing was started as a joke to make fun of occultists by a Lutheran minister named Valentin Andrea.

The Fox Sisters started the whole spiritist/seance’ movement in 1840. Years later they confessed the whole thing had been a hoax, but no one wanted to listen.

Samuel "Macgregor" Mathers: Eventually all the members of the Golden Dawn figured out Mathers lied about the secret chiefs, which led to him being kicked out, & the Golden Dawn being disbanded. He died in poverty from Pnumonia in 1918.

Jack Parsons blew himself up in his basement, making nitroglycerin, which he sold on the black market to supplement his income (apparently his money spells didn't work, either.)

Pamela Coleman Smith painted the illustrations for Arthur Edward Waite's tarot deck, one of the most popular decks being used today. She died penniless and alone in a London flat.

Paschal Beverly Randolph inspired people like Aleister Crowley, the members of the O.:T.:O.:., and Henri Gamache. His books are still in print. He committed suicide at age 44, leaving his wife and son to live in poverty.

They couldn't make the occult work, neither can anyone else.
Here's a quote from Wiccan Tradition Head Silver Ravenwolf:

"For years I couldn't afford to go to a hair stylist (still can't, it's shop and chop for me). I got pretty good at styling my own hair from looking at magazine pictures" [SOURCE: Teen Witch, Llewellyn Publications, 2003 edition, page 145]

She also wrote a book about Prosperity spells. Does she sound like she can make it work? She can't even afford a hairdresser! My wife just spent $100 at the beauty parlor and we're far from rich.

Here's another quote from that same book:

"A lot of people tell me how bad their lives have gotten after casting a spell and tell me they won't do Witchcraft anymore. I tell them their lives would have been much worse for not having cast the spell."

If you want to really have a good life, ditch the occult.

Answer 2

All magic is illusion and therefore not real. That does not mean you are being lied to.

I think some of it is fascinating but know it is all illusion and that makes it all the more fascinating trying to work out how it is done.

Someone mentioned Mentalists, now that is really clever, more so in my opinion than any magician/illusionist.

Check out Derren Brown that man is unreal.

Answer 3

lies. ALL LIES!!

while i do admire the ability to make a magic trick SEEM real, i really like the masked magician who debunks a lot of tricks, so people can see magic is not real.

Answer 4

Magic is all about tricking the mind. Showing you something, while secretly doing something else. Magic is real... if you cant figgure out how the trick is done. Its all theatrics... but the more dangerous the stunt looks... the more people will come back.

Answer 5

Magic is based upon illusions, it isn't real, but it takes a great deal of skill and practice to perform many of them.Chris Angel is amazing, and I love watching him because he is so skilled at what he does. ;-)

Answer 6

First lesson....TV is about entertainment - that is why it has ratings. Anything seen on TV is suspect. Magic tricks are about illusion - optical and mental.

Answer 7

there is a difference between stage magic (illusions) and real magic...i would suggest doing your own research, for you are the only one that can convince yourself of the authenticity of anything

Answer 8

I think the PC term is now "illustionist"

I've heard that term many times and i think it implies that the tricks are merely illusions.

Answer 9

they get famous because they are really good at performing the illusions and can actually make it look real

Answer 10

"tricks" true. They trick your mind. Some majic is true though, mortal.