WANT
TO KNOW HOW IT'S DONE? BY MAKING IT A DOUBLE DIGIT NUMBER, THAT
RULED OUT 1-9. MAKING IT AN ODD NUMBER RULED OUT 21 MORE NUMBERS
(10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,AND 50).
SAYING IT COULDN'T BE COMPRISED OF THE SAME NUMBER RULED OUT 11 AND 33.
I WAS ACTUALLY MAKING IT EASIER, EVEN THOUGH I KEPT SAYING THESE THINGS
MAKE IT HARDER, WHICH IS WHAT MAGICIANS CALL "MISDIRECTION".
PSYCHOLOGICALLY, MOST PEOPLE PICK 37 MOST OF THE TIME, AND 35 NEXT TO
MOST OF THE TIME. BY CROSSING OUT THE 35 I CAN SAY "SHOOT! I ALMOST
PICKED 35! THERE MUST BE A PSYCHIC DISTURBANCE IN THE ETHER!". AND IF
YOU DIDN'T PICK EITHER , I COULD SAY "WELL, I GUESS WE'RE NOT ON THE
SAME WAVELENGTH PSYCHICALLY", AND TRY SOME OTHER TRICK. OK, THIS WAS A VERY SIMPLE MAGIC TRICK, AND NOT EVEN REALLY THAT GOOD, ADMITTEDLY. THIS WAS JUST TO GIVE YOU A BASIC IDEA OF HOW PSYCHICS, MEDIUMS, FORTUNETELLERS, AND CHANNELERS SCAM PEOPLE. STAGE
MAGICIANS HAVE A WHOLE FIELD OF MAGIC TRICKS THAT MAKE THEM LOOK LIKE
PSYCHICS. IT'S CALLED "MENTALISM". READ SOME BOOKS ON MENTALISM
AND YOU'LL BE SURPRISED HOW EASY IT IS TO BE FOOLED. IN SHIRLEY
MCCLAINE'S MOVIE FOR TV, SHE WAS FOOLED BY A PHONY PSYCHIC WHO USED A
TRICK BLINDFOLD ANYONE CAN GET FROM A MAGIC SHOP...ONLY SHE NEVER
REALIZED IT IN THE MOVIE.
BEFORE YOU THROW MONEY AWAY ON PSYCHICS AND FORTUNE TELLERS, THINK ABOUT IT, WON'T YOU?
