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Real Magic
I mentioned recently that there was no such thing as ‘real’ magic. I thought about this more and have decided that what I was alluding to was that there was no such thing as real magic in relation to magicians.
Probably the best example of Real Magic I can think of which is worthy of the title, would be the advent of this Physical Universe, which is essentially something that is absolutely everything and came from absolutely nothing – the essence of True Magic.
That being the main advent, what came from it may hold within it signs of Real Magic, but the tricks of magicians cannot be numbered among those things, although I would definitely say that the existence of magicians (and everyone else) is Real Magic.
I think of the advent of the Earth and subsequent happenings upon it as Real Magic.
The following happened to me which I consider Real Magic.
I was looking at the internet one day and looked up how to do card tricks, which of course lead me to find card tricks which were really amazing.
One particular one caught my attention.
From memory the trick involved someone picking a card, looking at it and placing it back in the deck.
The deck changed from blue to red and only one card remained blue and that was the card the person had picked.
I think there may have been more to the trick but that is what I remember and I really thought it was a good trick and then the guy proceeded to explain how the trick was done. Which of course was what I was on the net to research – ‘how to do’...
So he then shows the first part and then in a puff of smoke he is in hell dealing with the devil and having to perform in order to make a deal, then the devil gives him the red deck with the blue card in it and in another puff of smoke, the magician is back – apparently not even missed – and completes his trick, and that folks, is how the trick is done!
I thought this was hilarious.
A short time after this, I went travelling and was in a bar with my friend and I got onto the subject of magic – and told him about this video I had watched on youtube.
We were both laughing hard about it when this teenager came up to us and asked us if we wanted to see a magic trick.
Now I recognised the teenager as someone who had come into the bar about ten minutes earlier with an older couple – perhaps his parents – and to explain the situation briefly, I was visiting a very small town perhaps only about 100 permanent residents, many of whom worked in larger towns nearby, so strangers are noticed right away, and these were obviously visitors stopping by and having a drink and a look.
So here is this teenager with a deck of cards standing before us.
Quite likely he might have caught snippets of our conversation although he and his companions were not standing too near us, but for whatever reason, he approached us and pulled out a pack of cards and started interacting with us and asked us if we would like to see a magic trick.
We laughed, and agreed he could if he wanted to.
He then proceeded to show the very trick that I had just been telling my friend about.
As the trick was being done we just laughed and laughed, and at the end we told him we knew exactly how he had done that trick and we laughed some more.
His companions then came up to him and said they were leaving, we thanked him for doing the trick and he left.
Now the Real Magic was that event, the whole unfolding circumstance, and that was what we were laughing about. It was an absolute joy to be a part of. From out of the blue appeared this teenager with his wonderful trick (which of course we didn’t really ‘know’ how it was done) and as if on cue, performed the very trick we had been talking about.
EDIT: I will add that the teenage magician was not aware he was part of this Real Magic event. No doubt had he and his companions stayed around we would have told him our story and his lovely part in it.
Such incidences happen very frequently for me and they are simply not able to be ignored.
What makes these even more amazing as part of Real Magic is that for me, I relate them to the original Real Magic, from where all subsequent Real Magic comes from.
Truly, who needs magic tricks when the Real World is so full of wonderful and Real Magic?
Well obviously, a lot of people do.
http://www.learntarot.com/bigjpgs/maj01.jpg
Can you think of other types of Real Magic?
I mentioned recently that there was no such thing as ‘real’ magic. I thought about this more and have decided that what I was alluding to was that there was no such thing as real magic in relation to magicians.
Probably the best example of Real Magic I can think of which is worthy of the title, would be the advent of this Physical Universe, which is essentially something that is absolutely everything and came from absolutely nothing – the essence of True Magic.
That being the main advent, what came from it may hold within it signs of Real Magic, but the tricks of magicians cannot be numbered among those things, although I would definitely say that the existence of magicians (and everyone else) is Real Magic.
I think of the advent of the Earth and subsequent happenings upon it as Real Magic.
The following happened to me which I consider Real Magic.
I was looking at the internet one day and looked up how to do card tricks, which of course lead me to find card tricks which were really amazing.
One particular one caught my attention.
From memory the trick involved someone picking a card, looking at it and placing it back in the deck.
The deck changed from blue to red and only one card remained blue and that was the card the person had picked.
I think there may have been more to the trick but that is what I remember and I really thought it was a good trick and then the guy proceeded to explain how the trick was done. Which of course was what I was on the net to research – ‘how to do’...
So he then shows the first part and then in a puff of smoke he is in hell dealing with the devil and having to perform in order to make a deal, then the devil gives him the red deck with the blue card in it and in another puff of smoke, the magician is back – apparently not even missed – and completes his trick, and that folks, is how the trick is done!
I thought this was hilarious.
A short time after this, I went travelling and was in a bar with my friend and I got onto the subject of magic – and told him about this video I had watched on youtube.
We were both laughing hard about it when this teenager came up to us and asked us if we wanted to see a magic trick.
Now I recognised the teenager as someone who had come into the bar about ten minutes earlier with an older couple – perhaps his parents – and to explain the situation briefly, I was visiting a very small town perhaps only about 100 permanent residents, many of whom worked in larger towns nearby, so strangers are noticed right away, and these were obviously visitors stopping by and having a drink and a look.
So here is this teenager with a deck of cards standing before us.
Quite likely he might have caught snippets of our conversation although he and his companions were not standing too near us, but for whatever reason, he approached us and pulled out a pack of cards and started interacting with us and asked us if we would like to see a magic trick.
We laughed, and agreed he could if he wanted to.
He then proceeded to show the very trick that I had just been telling my friend about.
As the trick was being done we just laughed and laughed, and at the end we told him we knew exactly how he had done that trick and we laughed some more.
His companions then came up to him and said they were leaving, we thanked him for doing the trick and he left.
Now the Real Magic was that event, the whole unfolding circumstance, and that was what we were laughing about. It was an absolute joy to be a part of. From out of the blue appeared this teenager with his wonderful trick (which of course we didn’t really ‘know’ how it was done) and as if on cue, performed the very trick we had been talking about.
EDIT: I will add that the teenage magician was not aware he was part of this Real Magic event. No doubt had he and his companions stayed around we would have told him our story and his lovely part in it.
Such incidences happen very frequently for me and they are simply not able to be ignored.
What makes these even more amazing as part of Real Magic is that for me, I relate them to the original Real Magic, from where all subsequent Real Magic comes from.
Truly, who needs magic tricks when the Real World is so full of wonderful and Real Magic?
Well obviously, a lot of people do.
http://www.learntarot.com/bigjpgs/maj01.jpg
Can you think of other types of Real Magic?
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