| It can be applied to any motion of deception. The recipe to accomplish this, as |
| presented here, is to do whatever motion you wish to use for real. Do it over and over |
| until your mind and body know every detail of it. Then you get your mind and body to |
| duplicate that move during the performance of the deception. |
| A great deal has been focused on Retention of Vision. That is very pretty and |
| powerful. However, it is not as powerful as the Intention of Reality for, during the |
| presentation of a Retention of Vision move, the performer knows it is a move or knows |
| there is an act to perform it. The use of Intention of Reality requires no move. |
| In addition, moves like the Retention of Vision require that the audience actually see |
| something. That is, during the effect there must be something there. With Intention of |
| Reality there need not be anything there. In my ebook on The Theory of Magic I |
| present the example of pretending to pick up a coin and causing it to vanish. There, the |
| coin is left far behind. Then the "intended" coin is dropped into the hand and allowed |
| to vanish. At the point where the coin is dropped into the hand the Intention of Reality |
| can cause the audience to actually see the penny. Magicians have observed this and |
| call it Retention of Vision. I must quickly point out that there is, in fact, no coin there. |
| Yet, the observer sees a coin in my hand. Such is the power of this concept. |
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