I've worked with quite a few ppl with ABIs - you're amazing and I thank you for catching my attention...but then again I had a premonition about all this. You took it exactly the way I expected - which I didn't expect at first! You never deviated from your centered being. You didn't have to deceive us because you charmed us instead. Bravo!
Truly incredible. This is the third time I have watched this, and this is the only time I tried to notice a slip. Got me all three times. And honestly, I don't want to know. We all know there is an illusion, but that is what makes it masterful, we can't find it. Well done sir. Well done.
In my opinion, he used the following method: The inner envelope was empty from the beginning on. Notice how he took the smaller one himself and opned id. He didn't show Natalie the inside of his hands, he had definitely the chance to smuggle this little folded paper inside the envelopre before pretending to pull it out. The paper was written by his assistance for sure. The camera might not have shown, but she must have left shortly throughout the show after the the final decision by the magician (who he was going to pick for his final trick) was made - notice, how the "brain" was "accidentally" missing and he had to pick a person himself - that's because he needed to pick one without relying on fortune, because her look (notice: NOT her name) was described on the paper. As he is good in silent communication, he could hav easily given the information who he was going to pick to his assistance. I bet he also had a backup plan: a second folded paper in his sleeve, where the look of the last lady was NOT described, for the case if she wouldn't aggree to come up to the show. Great trick though, I hope you appreciated my explanation.
This audience is amazing, modern audiences would not have laughed nor reacted to half of the things he’s said. People nowadays, wish we could go back to the simpler times.
I don’t think audiences have changed that much in the last seven years. Except that in the last year that haven’t been any. So that might help them appreciate live performance even more.
Awesome! I just love mentalists. It's so great to learn about ourselves and how we function. To know little tricks that can give you a laverage in life... Great talk
Lotta fun. Interesting that people with a TBI sometimes end up doing very well in their pursuit of recovery. A woman I know was severely brain-injured in an accident that affected her speech. She became a PhD in linguistics, an author and a great professor---- she said she never would have gone that direction but for that accident. Surprised the hell out of herself.
Reading the top few posts, I have a few responses. First, someone definitively says that magic is not real. I see it every day all over the world all over the Universe. Magic is very real but hard for humans to see. The problem is that we think we know things and understand things. So as soon as we have an explanation we change our perspective and kill the magic for ourselves. For example, you might think you understand electricity, but I'm sure you don't, because no human really does. Electricity if you really look at it, is magic, so are you for that matter. That said there is another post that said that they saw two king of spades and I assure you there are not. What you see is the king of clubs, also black. If you can freeze frame you should be able to see that. But what matters to me is that this killed the "magic" for you. You created an answer for the question your brain came up with and by creating an answer for the mystery you killed it, and were dissatisfied with the experience. Why do this? Why create something in order to make yourself unhappy? Then in response to this a young one who wants to be a know it all chimes in with a know it all solution. And to that I assure you that the deck is very visible. However if you are trying to call out secret mentalist or magician methods on an open forum to the public your only aim is to gloat and receive praise for being in the know. So shame on you. The first thing a mystery artist learns, as a child, is that there is more value in keeping secrets. Go read your introductory texts again and think about what you have done while you sit in the corner. Otherwise...hopefully some day I can do another one of these as I have learned so much since I did this talk. Thank you all for watching it.
+stuart palm One of the best TED presentations I have seen! And might I say the best message I've seen from a mentalist. Most label their shows as being about the human mind/deception but go very little into it (if at all), and end up just doing magic tricks the whole time lol (still entertaining, but out of place at TED). Bravo.
why is everyone so negative in the comments of these TEDx videos? everyone fuckin chill out its for entertainment. everyone is a genius in the youtube comment section. everyone thinks they are more intelligent than the subject of the video. idiots.
Rather thought provoking. I enjoyed the use of the brain for a randomness from the audience. Would be willing to hear more about this discussion when time really is not a factor
Well, can't please everyone I guess, I do have a new talk in the works that is more lecture and less show, but for this event I was the entertainment component. The E in TED does stand for Entertainment.
stuart palm Damnit. Touché. Those of us who have never even done a TED talk (like, 6 of my friends have) shouldn't be criticizing so casually. So... are they as grueling and cult-like as a few people have claimed? Inquiring minds want to know...
+Daniel Brown, well, I just went out and focused on enjoying giving my talk. The school was super nice and helpful and did a great job with the video. I went way over time to which I'm happy they just let me keep going. My new material would stay in the 18 minute bracket. I'm amazed it has as many views as it does. It's one thing to do a show or presentation for few hundred people but completely weird to have over a hundred thousand watch it and then be able to see some of their comments. I just try and take everything in stride. All my presentations are better because of it so I think as long as you can keep growing and improving its a great thing to do. Just make it a goal and you'll find yourself there.
stuart palm I coached people at Stanford University (mostly budding entrepreneurs) about how to make their message concicse, clear, and engaging... and sometimes, it was a real struggle. Boring people talking about boring topics... tricky. One thing I've noticed in TED talks that we tended to do as well was give them a prop. There was one guy that was working (as many are) on safe drinking water solutions. Before we even coached him, he stood on the stage with a water bottle in his hand - and it had VERY dirty water in it. "This", he said, "is what most of the world calls drinking water." He did the rest of his pitch (brilliantly) and, at the end, we asked him where he got the water. "Oh, I had an empty water bottle, I just put dirt in it and filled it up with tap water." I think he got $50k in initial funding because of that one prop. Must have been a great experience. I, for one, will be on the lookout for more vids!
yes , only if the assistant has not written or copied the key words written he specially he specially highlighted after the last audience member was picked up and hand it over to him during the performance while others were 'focusing' on the opening ceremony on the envelope which was empty on the first place.
Mhh. This grand trick with the envelope is pretty impressive. I wonder how that is possible. There must be some cues that automatically make the audience think about New York, having a drink etc.
RavenGlenn thoought so, but the last line 'read by a woman in white top short hair' make me think twice. Well fuck it she might be his assistance too because he never threw the brain but picking the audience himself. But his concept is right about focus. We are watching via UA-cam, hence focal point is much smaller than being in a hall with many potential distractions.
Good talk, BUT imho the trichotomy of body, mind and soul is, while understandable, faulty, misleading and ultimately harmful as it facilitates disintegration of the individual. Let me give you an alternate view: 1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age (W. Blake; F.M. Alexander wrote sth. similar but somewhat more verbose in "constructive conscious control of the individual" (easily found via google)) 2. Following D. Kahneman the part called mind/soul/brain... can be divided into fast/slow thinking or intuition/mentation or subconsciouns/conciousness (Mind those parts depend on one another so a split is merely pedagocical) Hope that helps. If not, please tell me why!
This is a model for thinking and of course the body mind and soul do cross over to one another and communicate to one another. I have since this time revised my thinking on the subject and focused more on the conscious and unconscious mind, and the ability to communicate with and through them. The body is part of this experience and in a way the transport for consciousness. While I have experienced the existence of my soul or spirit I am curious if you have or what your belief on the matter is. The mental state is separate from the soul, as the mental state can be damaged while the soul remains intact. What I am not sure how to express is the relationship between the soul and the conscious/unconscious mind. Although I have experienced their differences. Would you please explain further what you mean about this being harmful as it facilitates the disintegration of the individual?
stuart palm To answer your question I'd first like to try to explain what I understand under an "integrated individual". Such an individual has very few instances of "cognitive-dissonance" in their life, meaning their thoughts (intelectual-appreciation) on average do not conflict with their feelings (physical-appreciation). You could say that such a person is very mellow-mooded most of the time, moves efficiently and gracefully. What I mean with saying that a threefold-division counteracts such a state is that if an individual views themselves as consisting of inherently distinct parts, that individual may come to the conclusion those parts (however many there may be) exist and perform independently. This may have a variety of detrimental effects, some as severe as schizophrenia, while others more subtle like thinking that you have to stabilize your head using your jaw-muscles creating excessive tension and imbalances. F.M. Alexander (originator of the "Alexander-Technique") spoke quite emphatically on this point in aforementioned book, but this is IMO also consistent with buddhist-philosophy, which leads me to your first question concerning the soul. What I believe concerning this subject depends on how the term is defined: If one views it as a handle to address psychological phenomena, I'd think it's the thing which is either on or off meaning it's equivalent to your conscious-mind. If however one thinks of it as an unchangeable substance which resides in a perishable body (a "ghost in a shell") and may transmigrate between existences, we're at the beginning again as then you may view your actions as stemming from either one or the other pole, splitting attention. I personally view the concept "soul" as either redundant or wishful. In my "soul-searching", I've never encountered anything which can't be traced back to prior conditioning thus would be eternal, but have experienced aversive-impulses I restrained or regretted and moments of fatigue, where I couldn't perform as I'd expected, which may help to make sense of the experience of wanting to read but being unable to (information some part works with, stored in some fatigued or lost one and now missing)... Do you think my position plausible or naive (or maybe sth. else entirely)?
Thanks, I have not read everything you are mentioning so I am going to have to research a bit and get back to you. I am not familiar with the model of the integrated individual and I am intrigued. We can view ourselves in many ways. As one, as one with everything, as nothing etc... I started telling the three part separation of self when I experienced this dislocation through my surgery and my seizures. What I experienced made me believe without a doubt in my soul or spirit. Through this experience I understand that I can be without a working mind. And while the mind might not be able to correctly communicate, the thinking feeling me inside is able. So there can be a separation between the Id and the body. The mind in this place is part of the body actually. But then I also experienced a third thing, which is like understanding me as me and also feeling as a part of all things. You are not naive, you are searching and learning. Keep on your path, it is a good one. Blessings, Stuart
stuart palm You're most certainly welcome! I merely reciprocated for you sharing your theory-of-mind in such an entertaining and intelligible way. I'd like to give you some pointers: Patanjali's "Yoga Sutra" is a good place to start (the term "integration" I borrowed from there); William Blake's "Marriage of Heaven and Hell"; the Portion of Henry Clark Warren's "Buddha, The Gospel" labeled "Name and Form"; F. M. Alexander's "Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual"; and Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking fast and slow". Except the last one, all can be easily found for free via Google. Although it's hard to be certain, I suspect the experiences you're describing might be understood as "dissociation" or "depersonalization". I agree with you on that being possible, maybe even likely, but I do think this a pathological state, which we should try to avoid or overcome. Hence my point of a division beeing harmful, as this basically draws one towards multiplicity, disintegration or confusion... Anyway, I'd be glad to hear your further thoughts on that. We're all just learning what it means to be us and discussions can be so much more educational than guided introspection :)
The first trick half are turned backwards the other half aren't. He knows which way the cards are turned and knows which way to open the deck. He then finds the card that he wants and shows the back of it to the audience then turns it over. The deck is premade and he knows how
thats one way, but not the way he did it lol. he uses his body language and word play to influence the auidences decision, simple lol. for example, if i wanted someone to choose king of spades i might say... imagine a tall big screen in your mind and shade it in, then imagine high up.. at the top keep thin"king", of a card thats right keep thin"king" of a card. then you also make a K gesture with your hands or a spades sign... notice how i say high up... and "shade it in" this suggests to the person that its going to be a black card not a red one..., how do i know the trick is performed like this? because derren brown does it also and i thought of a card whilst watching this and i thought of the same card as the guy lol
***** Is that why the entire audience thought of the King of Spades? Oh, wait, they didn't. Derren Brown wants you to think that's how he does it. It's magic powder. There's no such thing as magic powder, the magician sprinkles some magic powder, and only the stupidest people believe it was actually the magic powder that did it. NLP, or "suggestion" is Derren Brown's magic powder. I don't like the fact that Ben exposed this trick, but he was correct and you are incorrect. Almost every magician owns this trick deck. You can buy it for $5 at any magic store. He didn't even perform it very well. If he used "your" explanation, then he wouldn't need to use playing cards, and even if he used playing cards, he wouldn't even need a big deck of cards, he could've just written the prediction on a piece of paper and told the man to put the paper in his pocket. Even if you say he used the deck of cards for dramatic effect, why on earth would he open the deck himself and spread the cards in that awkward manner, holding them close to his chest? I'll tell you why. Because it's the 2nd most famous trick deck in the world (the most famous being a one-way forcing deck).
If anyone can tell me how he got the written message at the end then I can reveal the card trick. I guess his assistant wrote it all down and gave it to him at some point - all what was left to do was just to "just take it out by himself from the envelope".
I could tell you but I'm not going to. Would ruin all the mystery and fun. There are two main types of people who would post this question on a forum such as this. The first are people who want to make themselves feel better because they can't handle not knowing something, the second are those who want to learn to perform such things. If you're the second type, send me a private message and I would be happy to help guide you. If you're the first, you will probably find many possible solutions to your question and settle on the one that makes you feel best about yourself. (Seems you already did that.) But know that every time you use that feeling of being the one who knows to give yourself a feeling of power, and essentially 'manspalin' your idea, you are robbing others of the mystery and their own solutions. I would recommend finding a different way to express your ego.
This was very well done. Managed to combine a personal story and the sharing of some knowledge, and wrap it up in a very entertaining package. Very well done. I've only seen one other mentalist show with tricks of a similar style, and I was just as dumbfounded all over again. Very impressive, as the lady says in the video. Thank you very much.
Good thing I wasn't picked. I would have gone 3 of clubs, Fiji, Tom baker, go skeet shooting. None of which were named. Also tried the hand thing. It seems the nose point the opposite direction of the item.
The which hand thing has nothing to do with the nose. That's verbal misdirection to relax your mind so you don't start thinking of the real method. It's a mechanical method.
on3moda Try the which hand thing with multiple people, you will get the hang of it. Some people do the opposite, the first go is usually a base line, you will discover some other cues as well. I can get it most times, although I have come across people who I can't read, and when that happens I just switch gears and do something else...the show must go on.
stuart palm At least the girl is good in art and design: okiedog.us/389-tiny-treasures , www.ngrishkova.com :) though, unfortunately she has have slight stammer since 4 y.o. when she had been nearly swept by crazy track driver on a road crossing.. that fact (people having a stammer and other people reaction on that) is kinda related to neuroscience, specially to a topic of a "magical narrow-minding" :)
The message the women read was never in the envelope. He was writing the message on his gadget that he keeps looking at the whole presentation. Then printed it somehow.
The gadget is changing the slides. Interesting idea though, but no. And it doesn't really matter. It's entertainment. Keeping the mystery keeps the magic alive. Every time you come up with a possible method a fairy dies. Fairy killer!
my brain doesn't work that way.My argument is that he takes a long time just to change slides.Should be faster so i suspect he his writing something piesce by piece
@@justinsmall8489 Not sure I get your comment about me talking to him... My argument was (again)why does it take so long to change slides?It should have taken him a sec or two. Just seems suspicious. And yes I've seen hundreds of TED talks. Never seen anyone play with their phone like that.
You’re not very bright for someone who challenges his magic tricks. When I said you’re talking to him I am saying the guy who first responded to your post IS THE GUY on the video doing the tricks. Umm, duh.
DREAMWORLD must believe and should believe that , PRESTIGE of SOUL of UNIVERSE = PRESTIGE of SOUL of CREATOR and then, DREAMWORLD must mean and should mean that , ' SOUL = KNOW THYSELF ' THAT must mean and should mean that , SYNTHESIS begets THESIS and THESIS begets ANTITHESIS and ANTITHESIS begets SYNTHESIS
Inside the this temple .. have ... the candle ..the tree ..and the burning paper in the water .. that what I saw now ..lot of people bring the vegetable oil to us to make the light ... so people can see us ..what I am doing right now ..
Much appreciated, as I had never met Natalia before...Funny part is I picked her for two reasons, First, she was attractive, and second, I was trying to pick someone who looked like they would be able to read the note well...Can't get them all.
stuart palm But, If you wrote the note in the first place, you where looking for someone who looked Caucasian, I.E more likely to speak English, especially in Hong Kong! With short brown hair and wearing a white top. The irony was that all of the Asian looking people chosen at random, and therefore probably in the majority in the audience, could speak English better than the woman who looked like a Brit! But you had painted yourself into a corner with the description in the note! Not that it didn't still work! Good show anyway man.
Know thyself. Good saying there, often the word "know" is used to cut off reflective failure and create unnecessary redundancy. First sentence I ever heard it not used by a hypocrite.
If I was palming anything, it was my iphone, as I used it to advance the slides. There are many slides they don't show in the video as they focus on me instead. Which is fine. Ironically I don't use any palming in my show!
at the end was like what??? and the audience didnt seem to realized at the moment what happent and what this women who btw she couldnt read english told them..too bad the video wasnt complete so we can see what they were talking aftewards.
Yeah, I totally agree. That actually wasn't my intention but I see how it comes off that way. I was truly surprised that he called himself 'Bob' and there was something in the way he said it that made me question whether that was his real name or not, it's common in Hong Kong for people to try and make a game of "fool the magician" and he had that look on his face (which he played out by putting the bill in his pocket). The audience is laughing at my surprise and his deadpan response more than his name. But yeah, that aside, I never want to laugh at my guests, and it wasn't my intention.
DIALOGUE between CREATOR based on ancient religions and UNIVERSE based of HUMANITY ? CREATOR based on ancient religions : SOUL of CREATOR based on ancient religions must be bound and should be bound to be bowing down head on the foot/ feet/ out of and above of 2 words named foot and feet / of SOUL of UNIVERSE based of HUMANITY UNIVERSE based of HUMANITY : SOUL of UNIVERSE based of HUMANITY must be BOUND and should be BOUND to be DEFEATING the CREATOR based on ancient religions -----------------------------as because, SOUL is MEDIATOR between CREATOR based on ancient religions and UNIVERSE based of HUMANITY
A lot of TED talks follow this pattern, unfortunately. The more valuable videos are immediately banned because they do not fall into the politically correct sphere which TED mostly pushes. Disappointing, to say the least.
There are many kind of pain and suffer. Some pain are more like extra extrem enjoyment. And psychic pain. That are these peoples profession. They have start educate them self from sence they was a baby. And the other giving pain form are soul and spirit pain. You can kill to feel it. And the way to make pain and suffer are as many as the form of pain and suffer. Agressive, as a doctors act, sensitive like i have to do this cause your own best, and hate, i hit you cause i hate you, or love i beat yoiu cause i love you. and like without any reason or cause, i beat you cause you dont recordnize me,
Damn teach people to practically do something supernatural instead of talking about your life-story! It probably bores people and yourself to death anyway!
I've worked with quite a few ppl with ABIs - you're amazing and I thank you for catching my attention...but then again I had a premonition about all this. You took it exactly the way I expected - which I didn't expect at first! You never deviated from your centered being. You didn't have to deceive us because you charmed us instead. Bravo!
Truly incredible. This is the third time I have watched this, and this is the only time I tried to notice a slip. Got me all three times. And honestly, I don't want to know.
We all know there is an illusion, but that is what makes it masterful, we can't find it.
Well done sir. Well done.
In my opinion, he used the following method:
The inner envelope was empty from the beginning on. Notice how he took the smaller one himself and opned id. He didn't show Natalie the inside of his hands, he had definitely the chance to smuggle this little folded paper inside the envelopre before pretending to pull it out.
The paper was written by his assistance for sure. The camera might not have shown, but she must have left shortly throughout the show after the the final decision by the magician (who he was going to pick for his final trick) was made - notice, how the "brain" was "accidentally" missing and he had to pick a person himself - that's because he needed to pick one without relying on fortune, because her look (notice: NOT her name) was described on the paper. As he is good in silent communication, he could hav easily given the information who he was going to pick to his assistance.
I bet he also had a backup plan: a second folded paper in his sleeve, where the look of the last lady was NOT described, for the case if she wouldn't aggree to come up to the show.
Great trick though, I hope you appreciated my explanation.
LMAO
Daniel Schröder prove it
There's an easier way to do it, and it also explains why he repeats everything before he gets her to open the envelope.
This audience is amazing, modern audiences would not have laughed nor reacted to half of the things he’s said. People nowadays, wish we could go back to the simpler times.
I don’t think audiences have changed that much in the last seven years. Except that in the last year that haven’t been any. So that might help them appreciate live performance even more.
I for one enjoyed the show .... and the talk! :). Thanks Stuart! It was to me as inspiring as you intended it to be.
Awesome! I just love mentalists. It's so great to learn about ourselves and how we function. To know little tricks that can give you a laverage in life... Great talk
Great job! I grew up in Clearwater. Thank You!
Great presentation in my opinion. From reading some of the in depth comments. Some people are just incredibly smart !
Lotta fun. Interesting that people with a TBI sometimes end up doing very well in their pursuit of recovery. A woman I know was severely brain-injured in an accident that affected her speech. She became a PhD in linguistics, an author and a great professor---- she said she never would have gone that direction but for that accident. Surprised the hell out of herself.
Reading the top few posts, I have a few responses. First, someone definitively says that magic is not real. I see it every day all over the world all over the Universe. Magic is very real but hard for humans to see. The problem is that we think we know things and understand things. So as soon as we have an explanation we change our perspective and kill the magic for ourselves. For example, you might think you understand electricity, but I'm sure you don't, because no human really does. Electricity if you really look at it, is magic, so are you for that matter.
That said there is another post that said that they saw two king of spades and I assure you there are not. What you see is the king of clubs, also black. If you can freeze frame you should be able to see that. But what matters to me is that this killed the "magic" for you. You created an answer for the question your brain came up with and by creating an answer for the mystery you killed it, and were dissatisfied with the experience. Why do this? Why create something in order to make yourself unhappy? Then in response to this a young one who wants to be a know it all chimes in with a know it all solution. And to that I assure you that the deck is very visible.
However if you are trying to call out secret mentalist or magician methods on an open forum to the public your only aim is to gloat and receive praise for being in the know. So shame on you. The first thing a mystery artist learns, as a child, is that there is more value in keeping secrets. Go read your introductory texts again and think about what you have done while you sit in the corner.
Otherwise...hopefully some day I can do another one of these as I have learned so much since I did this talk.
Thank you all for watching it.
+stuart palm One of the best TED presentations I have seen! And might I say the best message I've seen from a mentalist. Most label their shows as being about the human mind/deception but go very little into it (if at all), and end up just doing magic tricks the whole time lol (still entertaining, but out of place at TED). Bravo.
Magic is real and hard for human to see only coz they want to comfort themselves on what they see ? How we look at a magic show and find tricks?
@@onlineeducationnepal7842 Psilocybin
why is everyone so negative in the comments of these TEDx videos? everyone fuckin chill out its for entertainment. everyone is a genius in the youtube comment section. everyone thinks they are more intelligent than the subject of the video. idiots.
I just happened to pick the ace of spades when he asked to pick a card... mindblown!
Rather thought provoking. I enjoyed the use of the brain for a randomness from the audience. Would be willing to hear more about this discussion when time really is not a factor
His biggest trick of all was convincing us that a magic show qualifies as a TEDx Talk.
I wouldn't say he convinced us...
Well, can't please everyone I guess, I do have a new talk in the works that is more lecture and less show, but for this event I was the entertainment component. The E in TED does stand for Entertainment.
stuart palm Damnit. Touché. Those of us who have never even done a TED talk (like, 6 of my friends have) shouldn't be criticizing so casually.
So... are they as grueling and cult-like as a few people have claimed? Inquiring minds want to know...
+Daniel Brown, well, I just went out and focused on enjoying giving my talk. The school was super nice and helpful and did a great job with the video. I went way over time to which I'm happy they just let me keep going. My new material would stay in the 18 minute bracket.
I'm amazed it has as many views as it does. It's one thing to do a show or presentation for few hundred people but completely weird to have over a hundred thousand watch it and then be able to see some of their comments. I just try and take everything in stride. All my presentations are better because of it so I think as long as you can keep growing and improving its a great thing to do. Just make it a goal and you'll find yourself there.
stuart palm I coached people at Stanford University (mostly budding entrepreneurs) about how to make their message concicse, clear, and engaging... and sometimes, it was a real struggle. Boring people talking about boring topics... tricky. One thing I've noticed in TED talks that we tended to do as well was give them a prop. There was one guy that was working (as many are) on safe drinking water solutions. Before we even coached him, he stood on the stage with a water bottle in his hand - and it had VERY dirty water in it. "This", he said, "is what most of the world calls drinking water." He did the rest of his pitch (brilliantly) and, at the end, we asked him where he got the water. "Oh, I had an empty water bottle, I just put dirt in it and filled it up with tap water." I think he got $50k in initial funding because of that one prop.
Must have been a great experience. I, for one, will be on the lookout for more vids!
You are definitely an entertainer. Nice performance Stewy.
Cheers!
I loved this. Great job, fun to watch, and I learned a few things. :)
yes , only if the assistant has not written or copied the key words written he specially he specially highlighted after the last audience member was picked up and hand it over to him during the performance while others were 'focusing' on the opening ceremony on the envelope which was empty on the first place.
Mhh. This grand trick with the envelope is pretty impressive. I wonder how that is possible. There must be some cues that automatically make the audience think about New York, having a drink etc.
It is far simpler than that mate. I won't give it away completely, but think about who took the note 'out' of the envelope.
RavenGlenn Koseiku Or think about how he could be 'distracting' your point of focus away from the envelope the entire performance.
RavenGlenn thoought so, but the last line 'read by a woman in white top short hair' make me think twice. Well fuck it she might be his assistance too because he never threw the brain but picking the audience himself. But his concept is right about focus. We are watching via UA-cam, hence focal point is much smaller than being in a hall with many potential distractions.
binny He is the one that picked the woman to read it.
***** Plus he has an assistant standing near the envelope the whole time
Good talk, BUT imho the trichotomy of body, mind and soul is, while understandable, faulty, misleading and ultimately harmful as it facilitates disintegration of the individual.
Let me give you an alternate view:
1. Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that call'd Body is a portion of Soul discern'd by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age (W. Blake; F.M. Alexander wrote sth. similar but somewhat more verbose in "constructive conscious control of the individual" (easily found via google))
2. Following D. Kahneman the part called mind/soul/brain... can be divided into fast/slow thinking or intuition/mentation or subconsciouns/conciousness (Mind those parts depend on one another so a split is merely pedagocical)
Hope that helps. If not, please tell me why!
This is a model for thinking and of course the body mind and soul do cross over to one another and communicate to one another. I have since this time revised my thinking on the subject and focused more on the conscious and unconscious mind, and the ability to communicate with and through them. The body is part of this experience and in a way the transport for consciousness. While I have experienced the existence of my soul or spirit I am curious if you have or what your belief on the matter is. The mental state is separate from the soul, as the mental state can be damaged while the soul remains intact. What I am not sure how to express is the relationship between the soul and the conscious/unconscious mind. Although I have experienced their differences.
Would you please explain further what you mean about this being harmful as it facilitates the disintegration of the individual?
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To answer your question I'd first like to try to explain what I understand under an "integrated individual". Such an individual has very few instances of "cognitive-dissonance" in their life, meaning their thoughts (intelectual-appreciation) on average do not conflict with their feelings (physical-appreciation). You could say that such a person is very mellow-mooded most of the time, moves efficiently and gracefully.
What I mean with saying that a threefold-division counteracts such a state is that if an individual views themselves as consisting of inherently distinct parts, that individual may come to the conclusion those parts (however many there may be) exist and perform independently. This may have a variety of detrimental effects, some as severe as schizophrenia, while others more subtle like thinking that you have to stabilize your head using your jaw-muscles creating excessive tension and imbalances.
F.M. Alexander (originator of the "Alexander-Technique") spoke quite emphatically on this point in aforementioned book, but this is IMO also consistent with buddhist-philosophy, which leads me to your first question concerning the soul.
What I believe concerning this subject depends on how the term is defined: If one views it as a handle to address psychological phenomena, I'd think it's the thing which is either on or off meaning it's equivalent to your conscious-mind. If however one thinks of it as an unchangeable substance which resides in a perishable body (a "ghost in a shell") and may transmigrate between existences, we're at the beginning again as then you may view your actions as stemming from either one or the other pole, splitting attention.
I personally view the concept "soul" as either redundant or wishful. In my "soul-searching", I've never encountered anything which can't be traced back to prior conditioning thus would be eternal, but have experienced aversive-impulses I restrained or regretted and moments of fatigue, where I couldn't perform as I'd expected, which may help to make sense of the experience of wanting to read but being unable to (information some part works with, stored in some fatigued or lost one and now missing)...
Do you think my position plausible or naive (or maybe sth. else entirely)?
Thanks, I have not read everything you are mentioning so I am going to have to research a bit and get back to you. I am not familiar with the model of the integrated individual and I am intrigued.
We can view ourselves in many ways. As one, as one with everything, as nothing etc... I started telling the three part separation of self when I experienced this dislocation through my surgery and my seizures. What I experienced made me believe without a doubt in my soul or spirit. Through this experience I understand that I can be without a working mind. And while the mind might not be able to correctly communicate, the thinking feeling me inside is able.
So there can be a separation between the Id and the body. The mind in this place is part of the body actually. But then I also experienced a third thing, which is like understanding me as me and also feeling as a part of all things. You are not naive, you are searching and learning. Keep on your path, it is a good one. Blessings, Stuart
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You're most certainly welcome! I merely reciprocated for you sharing your theory-of-mind in such an entertaining and intelligible way.
I'd like to give you some pointers: Patanjali's "Yoga Sutra" is a good place to start (the term "integration" I borrowed from there); William Blake's "Marriage of Heaven and Hell"; the Portion of Henry Clark Warren's "Buddha, The Gospel" labeled "Name and Form"; F. M. Alexander's "Constructive Conscious Control of the Individual"; and Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking fast and slow". Except the last one, all can be easily found for free via Google.
Although it's hard to be certain, I suspect the experiences you're describing might be understood as "dissociation" or "depersonalization". I agree with you on that being possible, maybe even likely, but I do think this a pathological state, which we should try to avoid or overcome. Hence my point of a division beeing harmful, as this basically draws one towards multiplicity, disintegration or confusion...
Anyway, I'd be glad to hear your further thoughts on that. We're all just learning what it means to be us and discussions can be so much more educational than guided introspection :)
Awesome!
What an interesting man, learned a lot from him
The first trick half are turned backwards the other half aren't.
He knows which way the cards are turned and knows which way to open the deck.
He then finds the card that he wants and shows the back of it to the audience then turns it over.
The deck is premade and he knows how
thats one way, but not the way he did it lol. he uses his body language and word play to influence the auidences decision, simple lol. for example, if i wanted someone to choose king of spades i might say... imagine a tall big screen in your mind and shade it in, then imagine high up.. at the top keep thin"king", of a card thats right keep thin"king" of a card. then you also make a K gesture with your hands or a spades sign... notice how i say high up... and "shade it in" this suggests to the person that its going to be a black card not a red one..., how do i know the trick is performed like this? because derren brown does it also and i thought of a card whilst watching this and i thought of the same card as the guy lol
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Is that why the entire audience thought of the King of Spades? Oh, wait, they didn't.
Derren Brown wants you to think that's how he does it.
It's magic powder.
There's no such thing as magic powder,
the magician sprinkles some magic powder, and only the stupidest people believe it was actually the magic powder that did it.
NLP, or "suggestion" is Derren Brown's magic powder.
I don't like the fact that Ben exposed this trick,
but he was correct and you are incorrect.
Almost every magician owns this trick deck.
You can buy it for $5 at any magic store.
He didn't even perform it very well. If he used "your" explanation,
then he wouldn't need to use playing cards, and even if he used playing cards,
he wouldn't even need a big deck of cards, he could've just written the prediction on a piece of paper and told the man to put the paper in his pocket.
Even if you say he used the deck of cards for dramatic effect,
why on earth would he open the deck himself and spread the cards in that awkward manner, holding them close to his chest?
I'll tell you why. Because it's the 2nd most famous trick deck in the world (the most famous being a one-way forcing deck).
If anyone can tell me how he got the written message at the end then I can reveal the card trick. I guess his assistant wrote it all down and gave it to him at some point - all what was left to do was just to "just take it out by himself from the envelope".
I could tell you but I'm not going to. Would ruin all the mystery and fun. There are two main types of people who would post this question on a forum such as this. The first are people who want to make themselves feel better because they can't handle not knowing something, the second are those who want to learn to perform such things. If you're the second type, send me a private message and I would be happy to help guide you. If you're the first, you will probably find many possible solutions to your question and settle on the one that makes you feel best about yourself. (Seems you already did that.) But know that every time you use that feeling of being the one who knows to give yourself a feeling of power, and essentially 'manspalin' your idea, you are robbing others of the mystery and their own solutions. I would recommend finding a different way to express your ego.
Damn it.... listening to this In 2020 so many people coughing .... it gives me severe anxiety
I think the girl was part of the talk.
she just filled the blanks of the paper.
if you pause at 5:20 you can see the king of spades on the very left hand side
Wow, what a great talk. Very entertaining and open. Fantastic job, Stuart.
Did the screen flash at 4:19?
This was very well done. Managed to combine a personal story and the sharing of some knowledge, and wrap it up in a very entertaining package. Very well done.
I've only seen one other mentalist show with tricks of a similar style, and I was just as dumbfounded all over again. Very impressive, as the lady says in the video.
Thank you very much.
Good thing I wasn't picked. I would have gone 3 of clubs, Fiji, Tom baker, go skeet shooting. None of which were named. Also tried the hand thing. It seems the nose point the opposite direction of the item.
Yep, I would have picked the old Penn and Teller staple also...
3 of Clubs all the way!
The which hand thing has nothing to do with the nose.
That's verbal misdirection to relax your mind so you don't start thinking of the real method.
It's a mechanical method.
on3moda Try the which hand thing with multiple people, you will get the hang of it. Some people do the opposite, the first go is usually a base line, you will discover some other cues as well. I can get it most times, although I have come across people who I can't read, and when that happens I just switch gears and do something else...the show must go on.
Ah, jeez, they chose the one person in the audience who couldn't read to read the ending. That was painful.
Yeah, and to top it off I thought she would be able to read it well, as the majority of the audience is Chinese...Live and learn!
stuart palm At least the girl is good in art and design: okiedog.us/389-tiny-treasures , www.ngrishkova.com :) though, unfortunately she has have slight stammer since 4 y.o. when she had been nearly swept by crazy track driver on a road crossing.. that fact (people having a stammer and other people reaction on that) is kinda related to neuroscience, specially to a topic of a "magical narrow-minding" :)
Well I try and pick the most attractive lady for the finally of the show ;-)
I thought it was very sweet, esp the part where he whispers to help her out.
obviously the last person is chosen by him... maybe she just part of the show...
The only person paid in my performances is my assistant.
+Noah Ferro Good observation, the note was never there :D. I'm surprised i didn't think of that, it was so simple.
he looks like Mark Hoppus from Blink 182! nice video!
Brilliant work.
Great..... Nice performance...
Natalia was the best part, lol
Damn this guy is good. The ending was sick
That's crazy I grew up in East Lake
I bet he couldn't read my mind when I'm this stoned. CHA-CHA!
Dunedin, FL, a small rich town
There's a message in your comment, but seems you don't want to say it explicitly.
The message the women read was never in the envelope.
He was writing the message on his gadget that he keeps looking at the whole presentation.
Then printed it somehow.
The gadget is changing the slides. Interesting idea though, but no. And it doesn't really matter. It's entertainment. Keeping the mystery keeps the magic alive. Every time you come up with a possible method a fairy dies. Fairy killer!
my brain doesn't work that way.My argument is that he takes a long time just to change slides.Should be faster so i suspect he his writing something piesce by piece
boudebond you’re talking to him... and the gadget changes the slides like he said. Have you never seen a ted talk?
Lol, seriously?
@@justinsmall8489 Not sure I get your comment about me talking to him...
My argument was (again)why does it take so long to change slides?It should have taken him a sec or two.
Just seems suspicious.
And yes I've seen hundreds of TED talks.
Never seen anyone play with their phone like that.
You’re not very bright for someone who challenges his magic tricks. When I said you’re talking to him I am saying the guy who first responded to your post IS THE GUY on the video doing the tricks.
Umm, duh.
at 5:19 the king of spades is the top card of the deck and not upside down.
Thanks Thorsten!
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very impressive! you are truly amazing! jim rose
Where can I find help?
Hi Rick, what kind of help are you looking for?
DREAMWORLD must believe and should believe that , PRESTIGE of SOUL of UNIVERSE = PRESTIGE of SOUL of CREATOR
and then, DREAMWORLD must mean and should mean that , ' SOUL = KNOW THYSELF ' THAT must mean and should mean that , SYNTHESIS begets THESIS and THESIS begets ANTITHESIS and ANTITHESIS begets SYNTHESIS
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I believe that was an invisible deck he used.
I can see it perfectly fine, quite a large deck actually...; )
its either he is really good or..that Natalia is an actress
Much appreciated, as I had never met Natalia before...Funny part is I picked her for two reasons, First, she was attractive, and second, I was trying to pick someone who looked like they would be able to read the note well...Can't get them all.
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But, If you wrote the note in the first place, you where looking for someone who looked Caucasian, I.E more likely to speak English, especially in Hong Kong! With short brown hair and wearing a white top.
The irony was that all of the Asian looking people chosen at random, and therefore probably in the majority in the audience, could speak English better than the woman who looked like a Brit!
But you had painted yourself into a corner with the description in the note!
Not that it didn't still work!
Good show anyway man.
king of spades was all the way left at first i think
I saw that too
The one on the left is the King of Clubs, but thats very perceptive of you.
from distance it looks like spade
@@stuartpalm No it isn't. It's very clearly a spade.
Know thyself. Good saying there, often the word "know" is used to cut off reflective failure and create unnecessary redundancy. First sentence I ever heard it not used by a hypocrite.
Maybe it should be "Learn Thyself"
I knew it was an invisible deck from the beggining
+Evan Follman I don't know what you kids keep talking about in your attempts to spoil the magic, those cards are not only visible, they are huge! ;-)
Wow...impressive!
Holy shit I live in Duniden!
Nice, where in Dunedin?
Thought I saw the King
I saw him palm something at 3:04 but nothing other than that..
If I was palming anything, it was my iphone, as I used it to advance the slides. There are many slides they don't show in the video as they focus on me instead. Which is fine. Ironically I don't use any palming in my show!
Or the girl from the audience was in on the whole trick
Done
funny ten year old talk, still works today
at the end was like what??? and the audience didnt seem to realized at the moment what happent and what this women who btw she couldnt read english told them..too bad the video wasnt complete so we can see what they were talking aftewards.
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Interesting.
Best and most effective ted talk I've seen.
#arsestcelareartem
She was the only one picked by you.
18:51 LAUGHING AT SOMEONE NAME NOT COOL :-(
Yeah, I totally agree. That actually wasn't my intention but I see how it comes off that way. I was truly surprised that he called himself 'Bob' and there was something in the way he said it that made me question whether that was his real name or not, it's common in Hong Kong for people to try and make a game of "fool the magician" and he had that look on his face (which he played out by putting the bill in his pocket). The audience is laughing at my surprise and his deadpan response more than his name. But yeah, that aside, I never want to laugh at my guests, and it wasn't my intention.
DIALOGUE between CREATOR based on ancient religions and UNIVERSE based of HUMANITY ?
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waaay too long, misleading title, not much info. did not like this.
A lot of TED talks follow this pattern, unfortunately. The more valuable videos are immediately banned because they do not fall into the politically correct sphere which TED mostly pushes. Disappointing, to say the least.
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can you help out, oh thanks (as he points to who he wants) yes. thank you staged audience member for this trick...
annoying damn audience coughing every 3 seconds
Must be someone near the Cam. I found them to be a very warm, interested, insightful, and lovely audience.
Damn teach people to practically do something supernatural instead of talking about your life-story! It probably bores people and yourself to death anyway!
Well, I like to hear peoples stories. I guess it takes all types. thanks for watching!