Magicians Are The Most Honest People In

There Exists In Society A Very Special Class Of Persons That I Have Always Referred To As The Believers. These Are Folks Who Have Chosen To Accept A Certain Religion, Philosophy, Theory, Idea Or Notion And Cling To That Belief Regardless Of Any Evidence That Might, For Anyone Else, Bring It Into Doubt. They Are The Ones Who Encourage And Support The Fanatics And The Frauds Of Any Given Age. No Amount Of Evidence, No Matter How Strong, Will Bring Them Any Enlightenment. They Are The Sheep Who Beg To Be Fleeced And Butchered, And Who Will Battle Fiercely To Preserve Their Right To Be Victimized.

The New Age? Its Just The Old Age Stuck In A Microwave Oven For Fifteen Seconds.

Escapology Has One Thing Going For It That Probably Made Harry Houdini Such A Superstar In His Day And A Legend In The Present. Everyone Wants To Escape From Something. Taxes, Contracts, Illness, Work, The Multitude Of Burdens That We Chafe Under Are Shadows From Which We Want To Escape.

The Conjuror Or Con Man Is A Very Good Provider Of Information. He Supplies Lots Of Data, By Inference Or Direct Statement, But It's False Data. Scientists Aren't Used To That Scenario. An Electron Or A Galaxy Is Not Capricious, Nor Deceptive; But A Human Can Be Either Or Both.

We Have Fought Long And Hard To Escape From Medieval Superstition. I, For One, Do Not Wish To Go Back.