Comments on: Mind Control?

By: Jeff Stone

Jeff Stone — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 07:07:41 +0000

In reply to Richard Dominguez. No! He's mine!

By: Richard Dominguez

Richard Dominguez — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 23:58:43 +0000

Sorry Jeff, but Paul Harris is the Cthulhu of my Mythos. I have watched him perform live, on video and worked with him on “Bizarre Shrink”, even in his books you know that his only philosophy is the entertainment of his spectators. He believes so much in that theory that he isn’t above making himself seem silly if it gets a laugh, bless him. He taught me that the magic is in the entertainment. That the end goal is not the effect, but the enjoyment.

By: Jeff Stone

Jeff Stone — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:10:35 +0000

In reply to OldZombie.

@OZ – I remember that episode, and though it was all in fun, it’s sad . . . because it’s true. This is the biggest reason I publish this Magazine and spend so much time on it for soooooo little financial reward. I really do believe in trying shape future magicians to be the next generation of real magicians. I consider Paul Harris my unaware-that-he-is-the-leader leader of my little cult.

By: OldZombie

OldZombie — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:13:49 +0000

I think in many cases people who react to magic negatively have been exposed to magic that was presented as a challenge or a puzzle to be figured out. Or a magician that is arrogant and makes them feel inferior if they don’t know how the effect was done, they feel they didn’t see a trick, there were tricked. Jerry Seinfeld says the following “What is the point of the magician? He comes on, he fools you, you feel stupid, show’s over … It’s like, ‘Here’s a quarter. Now it’s gone. You’re a jerk.” Sadly far to many magicians perform just that way.