Sunday, January 03, 2010

THE MAGICIAN, HIS PERFORMANCE AND THE AUDIENCE IN CAPTIVATION

The magician on stage is a very knowledgeable person. He can walk, talk, and behave like every person attending the show. But he possesses a rare gem which the audience is devoid of. That gem, is one of knowledge.
The “illusion” which the magician creates should captivate and inspire the magician as much as the audience is captivated, if what he displays is really an “illusion”. But he remains unmoved by and careful, even after the display of his skills.
What is happening? The magician is a possessor of the mast of knowledge. By manipulating the objects known to the audience and the extra knowledge on the working of the objects IN HIS HANDS, the magician works his trick and pulls off a so called illusion. The audience “ignorant” as they are of the “special” object the magician uses, are totally knocked off from their poise by a display of magnificence they term as “illusion” or “magic”. This is verily the “misapprehension due to the nonapprehansion of reality”.