The Conjuror's Conundrum - A Memoir

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Michael i am, well, where are you se to in san diego, right? San diego. It's an unlikely place for thisa native new yorker. I always say i had all the qualifications to achieve excellence and magic. And as far as scepticism welt through magic, i began to read about harry hudini when i was quite young. He was notorious for debunking and exposures of fraudulent spirit mediums which e hudini became really famous for. In sort of the third a version of his life and career, he was not the only magician who did that,. but he was notorious for it in the us.

The most fundamental lesson that all magicians learn is that seeing is not believing. In episode 195, Michael speaks with internationally acclaimed sleight-of-hand artist and 35-year activist for scientific skepticism, Jamy Ian Swiss, about his lively, personal book, The Conjuror’s Conundrum, that takes readers on a magical mystery tour of the longstanding connection between magic and skepticism. Shermer and Swiss discuss: Swiss’s first encounter with fraud, the paranormal and supernatural, magic and mentalism, hot/cold/universal readings, pychics, talking to the dead, James van Praagh, belief, the afterlife, “the amazing” Kreskin, the Alpha Project, and more…