text: The principals of Stage Magic are the same today as they were centuries ago. They have a text from the days of the Inquisition, written by a stage magician of then, explaining the tricks, and how they were entertainment, and not powers of the Devil. Being accused of Witchcraft, and consorting with the Devil, was a real danger for a stage magician at that time. The things it describes from then, are the same as they are today.\n\nMisdirection, and Optical illusions. All the same. Making you look Where the magician wants you to look, and not where he doesn't want you to look, and fooling the eye into thinking it sees, what it really isn't seeing...\n\nThese are the same tools used by all, and used fo hundreds of years...Chris Angel just puts it into a more "Heavy Metal" package, and gives it a really different spin, but it's still the same stuff. I will admit, he's very good, and I'd like to catch one of his shows live.