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My seance talk at TAM2

Rick Maue

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Greetings,

I have gotten a number of phone calls and e-mails regarding my seance talk at TAM2. So for those that may be wondering what the talk will include, here is the basic information that I sent to Linda a few months back:

Magician Rick Maue (author of The Book Of HauntedMagick) will talk about his 25+ years of creating and producing theatrical seances. He will discuss how (and why) he mixes his message about critical thinking in every performance. In addition, he will also share several stories of memorable seances, and possibly even a message or two from the beyond. For more information about Rick, go to:
http://www.deceptionsunlimited.com/

I hope that answers any questions that you may have. Thanks very much, and I look forward to seeing everyone next week. We are going to have a great time.


Keep the change,
Rick Maue
Deceptions Unlimited
 
Yes, but are we going to contact Houdini? Or my Great Aunt Maude?

Sounds like great fun! I hope it's a little spooky too!
 
Greetings,

The talk will include details about my first Houdini séance from back in 1976, but don’t expect the presentation to be spooky. After all, séance work is rather intimate, and it would be very difficult to capture the proper feeling in a large conference room. That is why I am doing a talk on séance work, and not an actual performance at TAM2.

But who knows, if folks are interested, maybe that is something that could be worked out for TAM3. If I had access to a small room, we could do a number of séance performances throughout the event. I would be more than willing to do that next year. And if we do, feel free to invite your Great Aunt Maude. (If I talk with her before you do, I will tell her that you say hello.)


Keep the change,
Rick Maue
Deceptions Unlimited
 
HA! That was just a trick, as I don't have a great aunt Maude!!!

But I would love to go to an intimate demonstration (ok that sounds funny) but I've only seen a seance on tv, and read about them in a Dorothy Sayers mystery novel (pretty good description too). But seeing one in real life would be exciting, especially as skeptics are often critical of those that "buy " into this stuff. I'm thinking they are probably quite well done, and you can't refute what happens to a believer until you know how it was done.

Thanks!
 
kittynh said:
HA! That was just a trick, as I don't have a great aunt Maude!!!
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YES, YOU DO!!! If John Edward says you have a great aunt Maude, then you have a great aunt Maude!!!

You are just suffering from psychic amnesia, that's all.... :D
 
Hey Rick... Would you have a fit if the skepchicks showed up in their PJs? :D

G6
 
Girl 6 said:
Hey Rick... Would you have a fit if the skepchicks showed up in their PJs?
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And if so would you just ignore them? A kind of seance fit-shun.
 
Well, we can do the PJ plan if everyone going to the seance wants to. But, that's entirely up to Rick. :D

{um, I think that Hal must be having a fit now... ;)}

G6
 
Look we have the boys wear their newly signed "Pajama Party Security" shirts... that way we'll be protected! USA that means you'll have to come with us!

Of course, this totaly destroys the formality of the talk, but we'll be good girls and I know I'm going to enjoy hearing about thes subject.

Hey, girls just wanna have fun.
 
How about we ask Rick Maue? I will not show up in PJ's for anyone's talk unless he is OK with it, even though it is at midnight.

Some ladies will stay at the party, some will go to the lecture. Unless explicitely OKed by Mr. Maue, I will be wearing regular clothes at the lecture, and change into PJs back at the party...since it is in my room anyway :) Sorry, I am so stuffy...

I just would not want him to be upset, and others attendees to be distracted by small number of ladies curiously attired.
 
Actually, there is very good precedent for skepchicks in nightgowns to be present at a seance...well, perhaps not "skepchicks", per se, but the nightgowns have clear precedent in the infamous Mina Crandon, or "Margery the Medium":
Margery greeted her visitors in a flimsy dressing gown, bedroom slippers, and silk stockings. This attire, which left little to the imagination, was intended to rule out the possibility of concealment or trickery. It may have had other effects on her male visitors. Margery's girlish figure, fashionably bobbed light-brown hair, and sparkling blue eyes combined to make her, in the words of one bedazzled admirer, "too attractive for her own good."
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I think you all have a duty to honor the history of the seance...
 
UnrepentantSinner said:
Does every friggin' thread have to turn sexual these days?

Sheesh!
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I thought it had turned into a history lesson. Some people see sex in everything, I guess.;)

Sorry, US
 
Greetings,

In regard to the "dress code" for my seance talk, feel free to be as casual as you wish. I am a pretty easy going guy so I just want everyone to be comfortable and happy.

Just remember though, we are not doing a seance. We will just be talking about the ones that I have been doing for the last three decades, and how they relate to skepticism.

But now I have a question. Since I said that you can wear whatever you want to the talk (which would include your PJ's), does that mean I can hang out with the skepchicks? My wife says it is ok with her. (After all, she knows that I am old and harmless.)


Keep the change,
Rick
 
I don't think I'm going to come. What if you actually do contact someone? And they come back as a zombie? It sounds dangerous. YOU'RE PLAYING WITH FIRE!



I'm scared.... Hold me***




***Skepchicks only please
 
Rick, you sound totally sweet. I would just like to say that despite our posts the skepchicks are a pretty serious, hardworking bunch of women in real life. I'm sure we will greatly enjoy your talk, not matter what we are wearing. If any zombies or ectoplasm appear we will ofcourse be armed with jujubees, buttery popcorn and leftover pizza to chuck at the undead. (just kidding...we'll just have our quick wits to defend mankind from these creatures of the dark). I know you aren't doing a seance, but why do I feel we have as much chance of the undead showing up as we would at a real seance?

TAM3, the all skepchick seance? Please? Your wife can of course attend to make sure you behave!
 
kittynh said:
If any zombies or ectoplasm appear we will ofcourse be armed with jujubees, buttery popcorn and leftover pizza to chuck at the undead. (just kidding...we'll just have our quick wits to defend mankind from these creatures of the dark).
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Not to mention a heavily-armed security team...

They will let us in the hotel with radiation-based weaponry, right? We'll explain that it's only to be used in fighting off the undead. :)

--James
 
Rick Maue said:
Greetings,

In regard to the "dress code" for my seance talk, feel free to be as casual as you wish. I am a pretty easy going guy so I just want everyone to be comfortable and happy.

Just remember though, we are not doing a seance. We will just be talking about the ones that I have been doing for the last three decades, and how they relate to skepticism.

But now I have a question. Since I said that you can wear whatever you want to the talk (which would include your PJ's), does that mean I can hang out with the skepchicks? My wife says it is ok with her. (After all, she knows that I am old and harmless.)


Keep the change,
Rick
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Rick,

You ARE hanging out with the skepchicks if we all show up to your talk. :D

G6
 
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