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Quote of the Week: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Today we invite Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky with this powerful and interesting quote about wisdom.

"Fool" is a word that is a constant in most conversation about Magic and Mentalism. Our task is to "fool" people, right? Well, if you believe that, you will do it, but Mystery Performance is not about deception, but deeper truths.

In this context, the use of the word "fool" is a kind reminder of our limitations. We are the eternal student, and that is also present in "The Fool" from Tarot.

We can know a lot, we can understand a lot, but that is not enough. Being humble about your own limitations is essential, only in that way you will be in constant exploration of the possibilities of understanding.

As a practical exercise, every full moon, remember this quote from Fyodor, and be brave to recognize the absurdity of claiming knowledge in an universe full of infinite mysteries.

Have a wonderful (and foolish) week!

The Mind Beyond the Body by Rupert Sheldrake

As Mentalists, it is our duty to truly understand the mind beyond tricks or gimmicks. We need to learn, study an be inspired not just from Mentalism material, but also different scientific theories, psychological models and spiritual paradigms.

Rupert Sheldrake is a fascinating biologist and author that explores the potential of the mind beyond the materialistic model. Enjoy this powerful video and apply your reflections in your performance

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Quote of the Week: Pythagoras

Today, we invite the greek wisdom to influence us. Pythagoras is well known for his mathematics, but if you study in a deeper way his work, you will be surprised...

How many times you enter to a robotic state during performance and you just start to say words and words and words without true meaning?

Silence is a powerful communicational tool that we rarely use. We feel that in order to pretend expertise, we need to fill the space with sounds and words. True students of the Mystery Performances understand the power of well-crafted scripts and moments of conscious silence, that opens new opportunities of deeper impact.

Without words we can communicate ideas that we cant communicate with words. Language in itself is a dualistic dynamic, but in silence we can find an interesting essence of non-dualism and unity. In your next performance, add meaningful silence before your revelation, or during your telepathic process (Silence as artifact is observed also in Symbolic Artifacts)

This week, take one of your favorite pieces of Mentalism, write the script and then record your rehearsal. You will notice the meaningless words to take off, and that in itself will open new spaces for meaningful silence and words.

Have a great week full of meaningful words and silences !

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Quote of the Week: Miles Davis

Master jazz artist Miles Davis reminds us today the creative potential of each day, and how we can focus in order to bring new ideas and insights in our Mystery Performance path (if you watch my Penguin Lecture, you can see other quote from Miles that I love)

Each human being contains an unique way of creativity. If someone told you that you are not creative, just watch your basic body function to be aware that every one of us is creative even without full attention. Life sustains itself in a cyclical manner (autopoiesis), and that is an unconscious creative act that shows us our potential. Some people can brainstorm for hours with original ideas, others are creative in other aspects of performance, but in every corner of our activities we can pour a little bit of our own authentic creativity, so our outer actions can feel genuine and full of personal ideas.

Personally, I prefer to focus my creativity in scripts and specific lines that can contain deeper meaning and not just in new methods or ways to achieve the imagined phenomena. Sometimes a novel way to create an experience appears, and on rare ocasions, a fascinating principle takes new form.

Each day, each moment, contains novelty that we can contemplate and bring to life, with our own creative potential.

This week, explore your own creativity, be focused into this task (that implies to avoid common distractions) and experience your creative mind in a new way.

Thanks Miles for your powerful insights and innovations.

Aaron Vlack-Haunted Key Pendulum

My good friend Aaron Vlack, sharing his beautiful mysteries using the Haunted Key Pendulum, available in HERE

As you can hear, the performance is in Spanish, but Mentalism is beyond verbal language.

Quote of the Week: Gabi Pareras

Today we invite Gabi Pareras to the "Quote of the Week", powerful Magician and Philosopher, essential pillar from the Spanish school of Magic. He was not only the founder of the "Fictional" movement, but a creative thinker from which we can receive new reflections and insights.

Sometimes we assume that verbal language is the only way of language, so the more we talk, the better...right?

The best way to influence other is to facilitate self-influence, and Gabi understood this in the context of a performance in a simple and beautiful way. As we talk in "Symbolic Artifacts", every act of communication is symbolic, so everything that we do already contains meaning. Our role then is observing our intentions and channel them in the most effective way. Silence is the ultimate space of opportunities and potential, so in simple words: "Shhh..."

You dont need to say everything that you do, you dont need to "convince" your participant. We need to stay in a balance between saying and not saying, allowing the symbolic implications of our actions to communicate ideas that just cant be expressed through words. Use direction and indirection in order to facilitate the purest mystery possible.

For this social dynamic, is essential that the participant feels the new mysterious reality happening. The participant needs to trust you as performer, so the rational mind becomes open to the non-rational (fictional), allowing new realities to occur.

This week, re-observe the script of one of your performaces pieces, and reduce the script to a minimum. Be aware of your words and you non-verbal languages so you are in that balance between sounds and silence.

Thanks Gabi for your beautiful Magic and insights!

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