| There is a very subtle point here. People from other disciplines will be quick to tell |
| you that their discipline has this covered. I caution you here, if you have experience in |
| other disciplines, please be careful and review what is presented here. I do not believe |
| that this subject is simply a matter of semantics. Perhaps mimes will have their word |
| for this and perhaps theater will have their word for this. The word for this here is |
| Intention of Reality. I would like to think that this concept is the property of the realm |
| of magic and mind masters. In those other two fields the audience is aware that the |
| performer is creating a false reality. In magic, the audience is not aware that the reality |
| they are observing is false. This bears repeating. During a magic performance the |
| audience is not aware that some real thing they are observing is not actually real. This |
| is true even though the audience knows that you are not really doing magic. In mime |
| and theater, the audience perceives that the actions, though appearing real, only appear |
| real and are in fact not real. For example, a person might be shot and die in a play. |
| While the audience cries over the person’s death, the audience knows the actor did |
| not die. In magic when the audience sees something created with Intention of Reality |
| they perceive that it is real. As mentioned the audience will realize, of course, that the |
| effect produced is but an illusion. But at some point the audience will observe some |
| reality that is not reality that is used to mislead their minds from the true method of the |
| effect. Intention of Reality is used to focus the minds of the audience on some other |
| fact or action. Consider the creation of a coin in your hand when in fact there is no |
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