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Whether you believe in mediums or not when you see this I hope you will agree that this fellow (now deceased) was the greatest spiritualist medium of them all. I have known about him all my life but through the medium (no pun intended) of You Tube I have been able to see him for the first time. He was funny as well as incredibly accurate. And I can assure you that there was no pre-show work as half wide mug magician sceptics might suspect. And no so called "cold reading" either. He used methods that no other medium used. Here he is. Far better than this modern crop of TV mediums. Watch the master at work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8yVzk-FVcg

Oo - not for magicians and mentalists that, is it? They never get applause when they hit!

I think most mentalists get applause because the audience is relieved that the bloody trick has finished at last.

But it is interesting, no? We are often told to consider what we would do if we could really read minds, contact the dead, make rabbits appear out of thin air... I think very few performers would arrive at, or be satisfied by, platform mediumship despite the fact that, at least in terms of claims, that is exactly what it is supposed to be. Here's the real deal, and there are no ta-das.

mark lewis wrote:I think most mentalists get applause because the audience is relieved that the bloody trick has finished at last.

Thats pretty much how I feel. Especially after they put cotton over the eyes, then coins, then a blindfold, then a steel blindfold then a mask and then they turn their backs. Couldn't they just turn their backs and be done with it? Just once I want to organize an audience so that when they finally take the blindfolds off the audience has left. Not that they wouldn't know that already.