Come into my parlour said the spider to the fly…

One realisation that I have made (thanks to Jeff McBride and Eugene Burger) is the need to raise up!  Cutting your teeth on close up, bent over a table with a mat (which all the focus is on) doesn’t help make magic visual!  Raising up and performing at chest height (instead of having a crutch as a backdrop!) improves your magic 100%

Another realisation … scripting!

My mental logs presentation for parlour was a running explanation of what was happening, however merging my interests in the human mind, learning and psychology, I now base it on experiential and state bound learning.  Including sensory anchors and a tale of helping a nephew learn rapid calculations for school.

I believe my initial phobic response to scripting came from my day job… Being an Ericksonian psychotherapist (and teaching the same), I had an aversion to scripting because I liked to work with spontaneity and the raw tools the client gave me.  Scripting in my day job meant not paying attention to the client, assuming that my map of  the world fitted theirs and misjudging them, a fixed response to something that was in all probability going to be incorrect etc.

Getting my head around the fact that to make my magic more entertaining it NEEDED to be scripted, which then gave me the freedom to go off script and have a safe foundation was indeed liberating!

Lifting magic up, framing the face and scripting took it all to a new level!