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   From: elysia@hotmail.com   
      
   "slider"  wrote in message >   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   > ### - how so?   
      
   The man has a flair for doing the impossible in the most unassuming and   
   unbelievable way.   
   He breaks our routines weather we want or not.   
      
   And as Dali has said:   
   This planet has only one shortage and that is the true outrageous.   
      
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   > ### - i think most 'theatrical' critics were fairly impressed with him and   
   his   
   > larger-than-life performances.   
      
   At the beginning.   
   With his last cageproject fasting for 44 days   
   he had more negatieve then positive reactions.   
      
      
   > That "illusionist"  says that the spirit is much greater then the flesh.   
   >   
   > ### - was just questioning his 'authority' (as cited by kaycee) on   
   anything   
   > other than mere tricks & illusions.   
      
   Not everything he does is an illusion or a trick.   
      
      
   > ### - i don't find anything 'spiritual' about mr blaine... in fact rather   
   the   
   > opposite in that he (perhaps inadvertently) actually 'misleads' people   
   into   
   > believing that mere 'tricks' are something to do with genuine   
   spirituality, if   
   > he's not in fact 'trivialising' spirituality per-se to the gullible masses   
   who   
   > 'know' it's only a trick and then associate things like that with 'being'   
   spiritual   
   > (same as uri geller)   
   >   
   > i.e. magical illusionists are basically only good liars :)   
      
   Mentalist Truzzi wrote:   
      
   "All this is very funny to me because what Blaine has done is turn a   
   non-trick into a trick. All sorts of folks are buzzing about it being some   
   kind of hoax or fraud, and when Blaine insists it is real, they dismiss him   
   as lying.   
      
   In short his best trick is to make people see a trick when none is there."   
      
   Greet the master of perception. He had you too.   
      
   I also find it very funny that you don't see David as spiritual.   
   Because I very much do.   
   It is a feeling you know.   
      
      
   RBB   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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   > It is really worth diving into the message board and read.   
   > You will like the movie-list.   
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   > http://groups.msn.com/DavidBlaineMagicMan/_whatsnew.msnw   
   > http://www.davidblaine.com/   
   > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blaine   
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   > 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.   
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   > ### - unless one is set on becoming an entertainer i see no point in   
   getting   
   > involved with tricks of illusion... reality is magical enough, and it's   
   not a trick ;)   
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