Posts Tagged ‘experience’
The Importance of Imagination for Children
As part of my dedication to continuously improving, I often sit down with my fellow magicians and chat about life, magic, the universe and everything! In one of those recent conversations, we got speaking about what the benefit of magic is to the world. Well, this is a big subject, but just one thing I highlighted was its ability to grow IMAGINATION!
Read MoreMagicians Aren’t Real – The Wonder of Magic
Great magic creates a sense of wonder and amazement. Often this is described as a “child like” wonder. I think this is thought of as the wonder of not knowing, but I prefer to think of wonder as an experience of knowing something fully and securely and then having the opposite revealed to you. It’s antinomy, the incompatibility of two known laws or facts! I believe this is better thought of as a grown up sense of wonder. It’s the experience that abounds in the discovery of scientific phenomena, as well as the admiration of human achievement.
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