| that the coin actually “disappears”. Once that effort is accomplished, you relax. |
| Your shoulders droop a bit more and the motions of your head soften. The coin is |
| gone. Then you open your hand to reveal your efforts to the audience. |
| While you may say all of this is dramatic and showmanship, it serves a technical |
| purpose. In the minds of the audience, this is when the magic happens. When they |
| realize the coin is no longer where they thought it was they would begin at that moment |
| of Intention of Magic to scan the memories in their mind to determine how you |
| accomplished the miracle. Done correctly, they will look nowhere else but at that |
| point in time. So you have accomplished two things. One, you have dramatically |
| caused a coin to disappear. Two, you have prevented them from considering the |
| actions that were actually responsible for the disappearance of the coin in the first |
| But consider this. Your purpose for being in front of the audience is to demonstrate |
| magic. That moment of Intention of Magic fulfills that purpose. Neither your sleight |
| of hand motion nor the cleverness of some gimmick fulfills that purpose. What they |
| really want actually does not exist. It is the simple thought of magic that they seek. |
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