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In your opinion, do you feel that Gimmicked Cards / Packets / Gaffs add to or detract from the legitimacy of card magic? Some examples: If you use a deck that ends with all the cards being blank except for the chosen card of the spectator, do you feel that the audience just passes it off as...

Personally, the shadow masters are some of the nicest cards I've come across. Vipers are nothing special. Ghosts are good also. Havent tried the S/M cards yet but looking forward to it.

Glad to see another Derren fan here. Add me if you'd like.

Admittedly, Derren does use trickery for some of his things ("counting buttons" is one good example). I would kindly disagree with saying that he does not utilize hypno/nlp/body language, ect.. with what he does. My position is based on the standpoint of being a clinical hypnotherapist who...

Very well said. I thought of this when I first read the post. The trick doesnt necessarily make the magic, the skill and presentation does. I remember years ago when I first became interested in magic. I was introduced to a sleight of hand artist who continually blew me away with a coin and...

I practice clinical hypnotherapy. I took a look at the web site and would surmise, based on my experience, that the web site you posted is glamorized. A lot of sites like this out there lump a lot of different techniques together and call it hypnosis (like suggestion, influence, NLP, and even...

...what you get when you cross tarot cards with playing cards?

Actually, in many cultures throughout time, many people have pushed the limits of existence in order to find is what is at their core. In times not that long ago in Japan, for example, adherents of Shugendo, Esoteric Buddhism (Shingon & Tendai sects), and Koya Hijiri all practiced forms of...

Heres a little something to chew on. I've been out of magic for nearly 15 years. I dropped out of magic because, at the time, it was close up or stage magic and not much else in my area. I became burnt out because of the overall stigma associated with magicians at the time. I just picked the...

I have had many different hobbies and vocations in my lifetime. I have also had a lot of different teachers during my years. One thing I learned early on, if you are there to learn, you aint there to get chummy with the teacher. In other words, who cares if the teacher is 'cool'. If they have...

I practice clinical hypnotherapy. In my training, NLP was part of the learning experience. NLP (Neuro linguistic programming) offers things related to body language such as eye accessing cues, physical and psychological anchoring, and a whole host of other techniques that could be used in magic...