stephen james durant wrote:Yes Dale. However, it wasn't that I found the psuedo approach unsuccessful, but rather that I didn't feel comfortable with the ethics. Pauedo psychic or pseudo psychological seem to me to be equally dishonest, especially when stated directly.
Paedo Psychic?
The problem now is that Psychology has become the new black as it were. Nyman talks somewhere about how it is easy to not think about what you are doing and just pretend you are psychic, whereas I think that has no turned full circle and become the opposite. Now it's all too easy to learn a few stock lines about body language and go down that route.
It's just as much baloney as claiming to be psychic of course but , so called 'ethics' come into play. If you want to talk about the ethics of lying, why on earth did you become a magician!
Bottom line, do what you wan't, ignore everything everyone else says (even this if you are so inclined) and do what the audiences want. The simple and depresing fact of the matter is that as magicians we are thinking about this sort of thing way to much. Spend the time on something more productive instead.
, it's probably stimulating because its a rhetorical/circular argument.
