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that the card selected was freely chosen'. However, in the deceptive
case of magic the magician is normally suggesting something that is not
true.
For such a performer, the suggestion of energy fields may well fall into
the category of a false reality being suggested. This is fine, as here we
are in the context of entertainment. The magician's aim is not to prove
the metaphysical, but to entertain people. So we work from this
perspective first.
Performance:
The magician divides the pack into two - a pack containing just the
Kadar Cabinets; a pack containing the number cards. He lays the court
cards out face up - a random and rather chaotic spread - and asks the
sitter to hold her hand over the cards and move her hand over each
individual card. He suggests that she will feel energy coming from a
certain area. She is to keep quiet and keep focused as she does this but
to allow her hand to stop moving and nod when she feels something.
She does so...
What is happening here?
First of all the idea that energy is being transmitted from the cards is
suggested to her. The magician's words are framing her reality. Thought
about logically, this would appear ridiculous - of course inert card does
not radiate energy (which I think to be the case!). However, she is in a
different context now. She is in the magician's world, not her own. By
agreeing to help; she has agreed to an unspoken contract - to play by the
magician's rules and to accept his reality.
If the magician is competent, he will have an air of authority. He is the
expert and master of the world that the audience have stepped into.
There is no doubt that what he says is the current reality. He has done
this many times before, and he knows the rules of his own universe - he
knows that what he says is true - he says the cards radiate energy,
because they do! Because of this authority, everyone else has no choice
but to 'fall in line'.
Secondly, he negates the audiences critical faculty. This critical faculty
is located in conscious reasoning. It takes data coming in and assesses it
against their previous belief system (what they will call 'reality'). This
critical, conscious thinking is largely language based and is expressed
in words. So effectively the magician tells the audience to 'shut up'.
This dampens down the critical faculty and allows them to accept the
new reality that the magician is presenting to them.
They cannot argue back, but more importantly, they have their ability to
think logically repressed as well.
Something else is happening too. Take this from the point of view of
the audience member. She is told that she is now in a new realty, one
where cards transmit power of some sort. She has been told that she
cannot argue against this (as it is not part of the performance / her
current reality). But she is in another reality; one of being a performer
herself! It is she who is the centre of attention now - it is her
performance. Unless the magician is inept or presents himself with too
much ego (which, incidentally is the same thing), the audience member
will accept the mantle of being the performer herself - in short, she will
have a psychological predisposition for the routine to succeed. Let us
take the 'worst case scenario' - her hand is hovering over the cards and
she feels nothing at all! In this situation, what is she to do? She has been
told that she cannot talk. These is no way out for her other than to
comply! She will make her hand stop and she will nod, there is no other
viable course of action open to her.
But we do want her to feel experience something authentic!
The magician has told her that she will feel something but he has not
alluded to what that 'something' actually is; he has not been specific. In
fact quiet the opposite he has said ' I do not know how you will feel this
energy, some people feel warmth, some feel a sort of cool breeze, some
a tingling some feel something quite different'.
What is happening here?
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However, this is the worst case scenario, in most cases the sitter will
actually feel something, I can guarantee it. In the end, the remembered
result is the same.
So the sitter nods The magician clears away the cards that are not immediately under her
hand, leaving the ones that are transmitting energy'.
'Can you still feel the energy?'
She nods again (in the rare case that she does not, just replace one or
two of the discarded cards and simply say 'Good, now we can
continue.')
All the time you are reinforcing this strange reality that she is by now
neck-deep in.
'I think you already know the exact card that is giving off most of the
energy, yet I feel that you are not totally sure as there is energy coming
off one or more of the other cards too....'
She will agree with this, as this is what she is experiencing.
However, I want to take a short detour here, to look briefly at another
important principle. Let us say that she is not experiencing anything at
all. She is still compliant under her oath of silence (you have not told
her to speak yet - and if she has, you have put your forefinger to your
pursed lips). So she will not say 'Nope, cannot feel anything buddy!'
This silence will be understood a different way by the audience. As you
are the only person giving verbal information, everyone else will accept
that what you are saying is what is happening. This is reinforced by the
visual evidence of them seeing her hand stop moving.
You then continue by asking her to let her hand stop over the particular
card that is giving off the most energy. She does, and you have your
selected card.
One thing to note here - this is a more powerful way of getting the sitter
to chose the most relevant card for the reading. This is because she is
not choosing it rationally, she is not choosing the card because she likes
the colours or the image, or the face on the character reminds her of
someone - at least if she is, she is less conscious of this process. So she
is more likely to instinctively choose a card that is more resonant for the
reading.
She then selects three cards; one to signify her past, one for her present
and one for her possible future. You may employ the same
methodology to choose these, or speed things up by letting her shuffle
and deal; to let synchronicity choose. Or she may have chosen them
herself as per the script in the Kadar book.
These cards are now in a row, face down.
Now we are in the magician's mind set here and the deceptive fellow
has marked the cards! He knows what the cards are ahead of time, but
the sitter does not know that he knows. God may slap his wrists later,
but for now - he is safe.
Now we come to the second use of Energy Work.
I will pay no attention to the cards - I will not even look at them at this
stage. At this stage I will not know what the marks are.
I will ask her to hold her hand out - flat, relaxed and palm downward.
I will tell her that I am now 'going to do something strange' and that she
will feel something 'quite odd', that it may surprise and even unsettle
her at first, but that it is perfectly safe. I will then ask if she is happy for
me to continue (i.e. I ask for her compliance to the process. To the
subconscious it is almost as if you had said 'Are you happy to play
along with this?').
However, I do feel that when she feels this energy, that this energy is
real.
When I put my hands around hers - I am genuinely feeling for her
energy. It is there. It takes very little practice for the complete novice to
feel this. What is more, I think that suggestion is the vehicle that will
take the sitter to a genuine experience. I may have suggested that she
feels this energy, yet when she does, I do not see this as some sort of
hypnotic phenomena - I know it to be real.
So all of these seemingly devious techniques serve a purpose - to get
you to the 'real stuff'.
If I cannot do something, I fake doing it - 'fake it 'till you make it!'. For
me this is a legitimate tool for getting genuine results.
If you are a skeptical Magician, there is simply no need for you to
follow me down this path of non-conventional thinking. The techniques
in the first stage will yield you the results you want in a performance
context - i.e. you will still have had a successful performance and you
will still have entertained. This is no bad thing!
If on the other hand you see these more practical techniques as not
fitting in with your current beliefs, there is no compulsion to use them.
Thankfully we are in a world that is diverse and from all the
information we have, we have the free will to choose that which is
useful to us.
itself, it is about the whole experience. So I ask her to hold her hand up.
I feel for her energy - there - I have found it! She feels it too - she is
surprised - she is predisposed to the reality of such possibilities, but this
is the first time she has actually felt it; she has concrete evidence. It is a
powerful moment for her.
I forget the first card! - Now what the heck was it? I look down and her
hand is obscuring my view.
This is not a great time to say - 'do you mind moving your hand, so I
can see the back of the card?' Now I really need to 'fake it'. But (if the
following makes sense) I fake it by not faking it.
I look back a her and concentrate on the energy. It feels warm but not
too warm - it is a red suit I conclude.
'I am feeling some warmth... I am thinking that the first suit was a red
suit, a heart or a diamond.'
So nods, and she nods again when I say Diamond - ok; cheap clue!
'It was a diamond wasn't it... ?'
She nods enthusiastically.
I am not feeling much energy, so I suggest....
'It is not a high number...?'
Again she nods. I already have enough information to do a reading from
this - something to do with her material world - low energy.
'I sense you focus here is on the material world. But the energy is low,
you are feeling trapped. Ground down by the day to day stuff. You wish
to escape, liberate, be more free, but you do not know how to; so many
responsibilities holding you back. '
I have not given any specific details, but already she is emotionally
moved and a tear is rolling down her cheek. I already know the
solutions to her dilemma resides in the complimentary suit of Clubs i.e. she needs to takes risks, be more impulsive and creative. I will let
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I will not break client confidentially by talking too much about the
detail here, but I was very accurate. Although, she did not have to tell
me!
I need to say that I did point out that this cold prickliness came form
her, from her past experiences and fear of their repetition in the future
with the new lover. It does not come from this other person as it is her
energy field I am reading not his. She has had experiences in the past
with other people that have hurt her. What remains from these
experiences help her now - a sense of perspective and ability to not be
totally swept off her feet - an ability to look at things objectively too.
This will help her in the new relationship. It does not mean that there
should be any fear about this new person, she has not met the guy yet.
But when she does, she can do so with both an open heart and a sense
of objectivity based upon her past experiences. I wish her well with her
emotional future and remind her that there is a lot of positive emotional
energy ahead.
What was interesting to me about this reading is - by accident (and poor
memory) at first, that I was forced into a situation of trusting my
intuition. It was like learning to ride a bike. I started out with the
stabilizers on, confident that I was going to reach my destination and
not bump my head or injure any passers by by falling off. Then one of
the stabilizers fell off! Instead of stopping the bike I continued to ride
it. Although, in truth, one of the little trainer wheels was still on there, I
was riding the bike and feeling some form of exhilaration! What is
more important, was my own intuition and my own reading of the
energy gave me a deeper level of information - information that I would
have missed had I stuck rigidly to the meaning of the cards.
For me, this is just the start, an indication of the future experiments
using energy work.
These are early days, but can I move to a position where the cards are
placed face down and I have no idea what they are, then I turn to the
energy work to discover what I can with about the cards.
I see two possible experiments here.
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Conclusion.
If I were to explore all of the possible conclusions here - the conclusion
would be at least as long as the article itself. Here are the mains
observations.
Energy work linked with the Kadar reading is a fascinating field
of exploration. Is it possible to use the cards to focus the sitters
attention and thereby her energy system? Can we then
intuitively read the card from the impressions that we get from
her energy system?
The experience for the sitter is the important thing.
How you use the Kadar Cards is up to you. One can use them in
a magical/performance setting. Or one can use them in a
genuine reading setting. However, one should not dismiss the
twilight world in between.
For the Magician, it opens up a word of possibilities for
authentic performance of real magic, but from within the safe
confines of a predetermined structure.
For the Reader, perhaps you should not dismiss techniques that
you would see as not being genuine if they work. Perhaps you
should see them as a means to an end, or the stabilizers on your
bike. One day you will give readings without them. But you are
aware that it is a process that you never get to your destination
without a journey.
For everyone else - you are free from preconceptions - lucky
you - go for it!