sleightlycrazy wrote:GreatAlexander wrote:The answer is simple
In our culture , Magic is a Trick. Mentalism can be real.
I say in our " culture , because in some places in our earth, we still can create a religion with a simple TT and some FT.
Good point with that last bit. In UCR, I've met many Indian people who either believe or have family members believe in that one guy who produces ash with a TT. He apparently uses sleight of hand to produce golden "idols" as well. I've chatted with some of the people and talked about how he got caught and demonstrated TT work (without explicitly exposing it-- I have ways of cleanly showing my hands despite the TT). I hope, if nothing else, they question the legitimacy of the conman SOB.
Yeah , thats my point.
Magic has been trivialized . Weird hats, funny magic wands, cliches and old and bad tricks are creating more and more trivialization about the real art of magic . The art that in the past was taken as the real deal, real witchcraft, now are just tricks.
Just a few are creating different approaches , for example Paul Harris and his concept of the astonishment, Eugene Burger, Jeff Mcbride ,etc.
Mentalism is more plausible because deals with "real" phenomenons that all the persons in our occidental culture knows, such as prophecies, psychic phenomenon ,etc.
Psychics are popular in our culture, witchs no so much yet.
For that reason some "Gurus" are using TT for appearing gold and creating with that religions and cults.
