IAIN wrote:if your strange powers arent psychic in their origin...what are they?
an open question...by which i mean, if you dont claim you have some kind of gift/power of the mind - and its psychologically driven - what powers are left??
I am not saying that I am not saying (that wasn't a typo) I don't have psychological gifts (I knew this was going to get misunderstood): but that I prefer to leave it somewhat ambiguous and subjective.
When considering psychological and psychic presentations, you must think what function it is serving and it's expedience in terms of serving that purpose. Psychological or psychic presentation is mereley a means to an end- the end being that of creating a magical shiver down someone's spine or some moments and memories that will stay with them in their memories.
Often when I see the psychological presentation, the objective of creating something beautiful and marvelous for someone is subordinate to the performer demonstrating an imaginary skill. I am not renouncing that the use or implication of such skills cannot serve to meet that objective, but simply that there is a time and a place for it.
I use the psychological presentation, and am quite good at all the jargon if I say so myself- but it ought to be serving the purposes I have in mind of creating 'magic'.
I intend to establish myself as someone posessing psychological prowess first and ONCE I have done that, I am already, I hope, achieving the objective of creating something special for my audience. It is then that I ask 'now where do I want to go'- I have the groundwork and have established something unique about my being- now I have the opportunity to take it a step further and transport myself and my audience to a place where they in a sense believe in the magic.
When I saw footage of Berglas, he had established himself as a psychologist but HE WAS the man of mystery and when he levitated tables, there was a suspention of disbelief- it transcended simply being mundane trickery and it was something magical. There we have the answer- the suspention of disbelief, rather than a belief in psychic powers. When I saw Berglas levitating a table years and years ago as a lay person (on some obscure late night tv programme), I didn't see it as a trick and it was something magic for me, but neither did I attribute Berglas with any supernatural powers. I understand what I mean when I say that, but I am not sure how it comes through in my text, because it is a concept quite difficult to express succintly. That is the super-objective and I don't think it is achievable entirley from forcing explanations onto people in an overbearing and self gratifying manor. The explanations are a means and not an end.
