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The Magician Archetype

Postby taneous » May 5th, '06, 08:36



In a 'quest' to define myself as a magician - and I guess part of my journey as a human being, I've been reading a number of books on magic, myth and mysticism and how people have related to magic through the ages. I found this article that I still need to study properly - but it loked quite good, so i thought I'd share it (seeing as it's free and available on the web). Hopefully it will bring about a bit of interesting discussion..

http://expandmind.com/magician/!magician.html

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Postby Tomo » May 5th, '06, 09:42

I got mixed up in mentalism through my interest in psychology, but started to get out of it and into cards last year so for me it's been more a journey than a definition. I still like to present things as experiments, though. I've found the people who like to see my stuff tend to like the idea of demonstrations of things like intuition and that sort of thing, so it works nicely. With the straight mentalism, even when I used to explain that it was all a trick, some people used to insist that there was something "other" going on that I wasn't aware of. Makes you wonder about people...

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Postby taneous » May 5th, '06, 12:05

Tomo wrote:Makes you wonder about people...


That's the thing. The stereotypical sees that as naive. From an 'archetypal magician' point of view - this is natural. I don't want people to think that what I do is real - I want them to experience it as real.

Craig has mentioned once or twice about a magical presence- where you walk into a room and people just know that there's something magical about you - without you necesarily performing anything.

Eugene Burger entitles one of the chapters in his book on restaurant magic "The first Effect is you" - or something like that. I am reading a lot more into that statement - but having read some of his stuff and speaking to people who have spent time with him - he embodies that statement. A friend of mine recently spent some time with him and said that he got a standing ovation in a nightclub full of adults doing a paper hat tear..
When you become The Magician as opposed to the steriotypical magician - magic happens. Another friend and I had a long discussion yesterday about this regarding George Parker - another guy who's presence is filled with magic. I wish this frind of mine would join this forum - I'd love him to share some of what we spoke about..

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Re: The Magician Architype

Postby wizard renlim » May 5th, '06, 16:09

taneous wrote:In a 'quest' to define myself as a magician - and I guess part of my journey as a human being, I've been reading a number of books on magic, myth and mysticism and how people have related to magic through the ages. I found this article that I still need to study properly - but it loked quite good, so i thought I'd share it (seeing as it's free and available on the web). Hopefully it will bring about a bit of interesting discussion..

http://expandmind.com/magician/!magician.html


Hi Taneus,
I tried to look up the url but it failed. My collegue is of a similar opinion to you.

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Postby Mandrake » May 5th, '06, 16:40

You need to delete the exclamation mark so it becomes http://expandmind.com/magician/magician.html and then it works fine if you copy and paste it.

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Postby taneous » May 5th, '06, 16:46

Finally got time to read it properly and it wasn't quite what i'd expected - but interesting

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