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drwilson Inner circle Bar Harbor, ME 2191 Posts |
The son of a friend has just returned from several months in India. He is a recent high school graduate. He conveyed to me via my friend that he had seen a magician in his travels who was "very good" at sleight of hand. I do not have a description of the sleight of hand tricks, but they were dismissed as performances of skill. There was one feat that greatly impressed him as being of another character entirely.
The magician asked the young man to tie a knot in a handkerchief. He then sprinkled it with a "potion." Then he asked the young man to name any flower. Just to be perverse, he named "lavender," which is not common in India. The magician told him to smell the handkerchief, which now smelled of lavender. He repeated this feat with other flowers. I am so glad to hear a story like this, I thought that the fakirs of India were buying from ellusionist these days! Yours, Paul |
T-RAY Inner circle 1539 Posts |
Cool story! I guess it was suggestion based?!
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jondark445 Special user 716 Posts |
Paul:
How cool an effect is that? If you haven't seen Penn & Teller's DVD (I think it's called Mystery Tour or something close to that), they go to India and examine the magic of the region. Unfortunately, most of what they see while there isn't anything nearly as dramatic or emotionally resonating as what you describe. Actually, scratch that, it is emotionally resonating, but in a totally different way. Most of what was examined in their India expeditions found a truly high incidence of bloody magic in which fathers are carving up or doing harm to their sons. But the trick you describe has me flabbergasted. I'm still trying to figure out a way to do it. --Jon |
kaytracy Inner circle Central California 1793 Posts |
I recall in my distant past, a high school sociology teacher opening a large can of "a liquid". We were all asked to take a few moments for the air to become permeated, then write down what we smelled. No suggestion was made by the teacher, though some students made verbally directive noises like "eww", or "nasty". Some unusual answers came out of that one.
Kay
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drwilson Inner circle Bar Harbor, ME 2191 Posts |
Kaytracy,
My high school teacher did that one too. He held up a glass bottle with a ground glass stopper, very carefully. He said that this was a very unusual compound. Some people thought that it smelled sweet, others thought that it smelled more harsh, like ether or acetone. He pulled out the stopper. After a few moments, he said, "Some of you can probably smell it by now. How many can?" Some people raised their hands. He asked them to describe the smell. Descriptions were varied. When everyone had had a chance to talk, he said, "It's water." It was an early lesson that even budding scientists can have their alleged observations influenced by ideas and social pressure. Perhaps this is part of the explanation of the Indian flower trick. There are other possibilities. Yours, Paul |
Gede Nibo Inner circle 2447 Posts |
This is a WONDERFUL story...
We're on to something here... gonna try the water jar thing at my next show...wrap a bit o' hypnosis around it methinks... seriously, how the hell did he do that???? I could see if he chose Cannabis...why, that's laying all over the place over there but lavender, what the hell? |
Gede Nibo Inner circle 2447 Posts |
HEY!!! I found the answer...its wonderful! subtle! AND a Killer!!!
to those who talk to Baba, Gede often, and who has given them love and kindness...PM us and the answer is yours!!! Baba |
Mystician Inner circle Wallachia 3485 Posts |
I would figure a couple of methods here, but none of them particularly seriously :
* Under the hanky in his hand is a multichamber dispenser with a drop of each scented oil per chamber. Naturally that's a finite number of outs, but a lot of principles work that way. Carrot, anyone ? * All of the scents are already on the hank, but since the subject already mentally selected one, they subconsciously filter it out from the others. * Magic !
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Mark Rough Inner circle Ivy, Virginia 2110 Posts |
Come on, Mystician, PM Baba. It's really brilliant. I hesitated for about two minutes because sometimes I like magic to be. . . well. . . magical. But, after he and I chatted a bit this afternoon, I'm working on something with this. Good stuff, this.
Mark
What would Wavy do?
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drwilson Inner circle Bar Harbor, ME 2191 Posts |
All hail Baba, this is very, very fine! It is going to take some trouble to set this up, but I am looking forward to meeting with the young gentleman who saw this performed in India, and duplicating the feat.
It makes you wonder what else is in that book... Yours, Paul |
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