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Our grandfather Theo, the one that reminds us the power of the true nature of Mystery Performance.

It is not what we do in the Inner Reality, but in the Outer Reality.

It is kind of obvious when you reflect about that, but the true essence of performance appears in performance, not in your own personal study or preference of techniques.

Our methods and techniques of preference are always in service of the final result, which is the interaction and performance with our audience.

It DOESNT MATTER if you do a propless mindreading piece or your use a billet. People care about what you can offer them, not if your gimmick is electronic or not.

Sadly, most of the marketplace today offers new "fooling" methods, convincing us indirectly that this is where creativity must be focused. Take this words not just a criticism of what is happening, but as a motivation to move beyond what it is offered.

Explore your own authentic themes in performance. If you care about old video games, use that in an interesting way. If you care about subtle energies, apply that in your performance. If you care about the power of effective communication, you can apply that theme in a telepathic experience.

Work in your script, write some interesting lines that people can remember. For example, during a psychokinetic piece say:

"What is great about this experience is that it is not just a present feeling, during your day you will feel subtle energies, healing energies all around you..."

I love to offer that suggestion to people during a piece regarding energies. This is not only powerful to add credibility to the experience, but also you can reach a transcendence of the experience (fruits), adding deeper meaning.

Work in your Outer Reality as much as you work your Inner Reality.

If you take one hour a day (or any time that you can) to practice your techniques and choreographies, also take one hour to rehearse, imagining the interaction and everything that will add beauty to the performance.

Thanks dear Theo for everything that you offer us as legacy.

We are as Mystery Performers, in an archetypal way, an interesting mixture of The Fool and The Magician. Our role beyond entertainment is being the reminder of the nature of reality, just as shamans in our human origins. The first man/woman of mystery was that important figure, a beautiful combination of storyteller, doctor, scientist and spiritual guide.

We can observe particularly the interesting "sacred clown" role (Heyoka in Native American culture) as a clearer example of the association of entertainment and the spiritual duty.

In our modern times, we tend to separate roles, assuming that a performer can only express his/her role in light ways, forgetting the importance of what is essential.

Using the language of "Birreal", The Fool expresses our Inner Reality and The Magician our Outer Reality as Mystery Performers. We are camouflaged tricksters, as all Shamans. Shamans are experts of spectacular moves, the ones that bend reality in order to express the deeper truths, the explorer of the dimensions, the original experimentalist and practical philosopher.

The trickster that shows people the wonders of reality and the possibility of experience an apparent impossibility, and especially in Mentalism, we are offering people the complex notion that every reality is based in the mind, using our cool tricks.

But remember, doing the cool trick is not enough. The Fool is our "Inner Archetype", our responsibility is to transform those techniques and technologies and be present to the fact that The Magician is the "Outer Archetype". Our audiences wants mystery, not just tricks. The technical tools that we have are in service of the performance, not in reverse.

Lets embrace then the trickster archetype, lets have fun defying the assumptions of reality, inverting the common social roles and reminding people that the Ego is a persistent illusion ands lets constantly remember that in the perspective of our audience, we need to go beyond the trick, arriving to the mystery experience that people wants to have.

As my friend Jeff Mc Bride says: "Shaman, to Showman", both being sides of the same coin and dialectic polarities of our being as Mystery Performers.

It is our opportunity then to say now "and Showman to Shaman" back again in a cyclical constant advancement towards the beginning.

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