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   From: elysia@hotmail.com   
      
   "slider"  wrote in message   
   >   
   > Yes, a healthy   
   > individual with normal body weight to begin with can fast for over a   
   > month, I think David Blaine did it for 44 days straight in a controlled   
   > environment.   
   >   
   > ### - what... that 'illusionist'??? :) - although accepted humans can   
   survive   
   > for long periods without food... some hunger strikers (for example) lasted   
   > as much as 70-plus days before they died...   
      
   That illusionist ?   
   Illusion is just an aspect of his total performance.   
      
   David is absolutly superb and beautiful.   
      
   He is what I consider an expert of the mind and spirit.   
   What I have seen him perform in reading, hypnotism   
   and yogic performance of mind is outstanding.   
   Besides he is also not a bad illusionist.   
   A very entertaining cocktail.   
      
   But tell you what , even without his outrageous  performances he would be a   
   true inspiration to my soul and my mind.   
   And not mine alone.   
      
   Naturally a guy like him will have all the critics up on two legs.   
   So they go moral on him mostly, besides the usual we know better treatment.   
   Basically critics are  a meter saying a person has reached the critical mass   
   of being noticed that exceeds the ordinairy persons attention limit, because   
   critics are just hitchhikers of that critical mass   
   using it for being noticed themselves.   
      
   That "illusionist"  says that the spirit is much greater then the flesh.   
      
   Before he entered the box :   
   "In fact, the illusionist believes he'll experience a higher spiritual state   
   and that living without food and human contact will lead to "the purest   
   state you can be in".   
   Hard to believe that someone combines a spiritual act with a performance?   
   In any case if so I find it very refreshing.   
      
      
   It is really worth diving into the message board and read.   
   You will like the movie-list.   
      
   http://groups.msn.com/DavidBlaineMagicMan/_whatsnew.msnw   
   http://www.davidblaine.com/   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blaine   
      
   May be Unc guru has performed the Balducci levitation too?   
   If so it doesn't deminish it.   
   Seems to be a very difficult illusion to perform.   
      
      
   RBB   
      
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