Illusion starts between the ears. If the person doing illusion doesn't believe it, then the audience doesn't believe it. Seeing the picture in your head will allow the audience to see it in their heads.
A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.
You're convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women's lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it.
I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.
To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.
When you put on the headset, you want to be tricked; you want your mind to believe you are actually teleported to this new virtual place.
I put a spell on people so they don't know they're working out... An enchanting spell, where they just don't think about it, or over think it, and then at the end they go, 'Wow, I feel good.'
You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.
True it is,/ That these are not the droids for which thou search'st. -Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
