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Wills wrote:I have a question for the everyone- When can you call yourself a magician? I mean at what stage do you change from a guy who knows a few tricks to a magician?

It's been over 20 years since I started out in Magic, and I still consider myself a hobbyist. I'm no magician, and never claim to be. Every day is a school day.

It seems to me that a lot of people on the forum are confusing magic with the effects that magicians perform. What a magician will do is a simple act of dexterity or trickery. What a magician causes, however, is the magic that we feel after watching an effect. Magic is that feeling of the unexplained and impossible. What the spectator feels at the end of a magicians performance is magic. You cannot teach magic or learn it, you can only teach or learn the effects that instill it in people. If someone watches an effect performed but is not impressed or moved by the performance, there is no magic. When spectators get that feeling, that "Wow", "Crazy", "Awesome" feeling, that is the magic.

I really dont like the word "Magic" at best it seems wimsical at worst it sounds like a childs play thing.

Some people may even see akin to making model planes. And the word conjour (is that how you spell it) reminds me of gawd awfull kids parties and the likes (no offense mr discoman).

Its an art its often a thanklass art. Sometimes its the best art in the world. Some times I think screw this I should be doing something more productive with my time. Others I am like a love sick puppy. Odd init

Very good thoughts everyone! Really gets you thinking