Many people define Magic differently. And there is really no right or wrong in each definition. To me, Magic is simply "to mimic real miracles". For magic miracles only appears in the mind and perception of the audience. Our job as Magicians is to influence the mind of the audience and create miracles. For we magicians who understand how the trick works see no miracles, but through some methodology/ principles, let the audience imagination goes wild. So how should we approach and perform Magic in a way it seems like real miracles?

Refer to psychics such as Uri Geller and you will understand. Millions of people believe what he did was the real stuffs and they all worship him. This is because deep down in each of us, we hold the romantic hope that real miracles do exist and life isn't just as boring as what it seems. Like a kid fantasying that Santa Claus is Real. However, this childhood hope in mankind is itself a downfall. We see people being con, joining cults, giving up their wealth and even health by believing the faith healer which is nothing more than tricksters to magicians.

Thus this have always been the tradeoff between magic effects and magic ethnics.Defining your tricks as illusions will lower the effect from the audience. They know its a dream. Defining your tricks as real and you are a fraudster, even though you claim no real benefits or did harm anyone.

To this dilemma, I always appreciate the approach of the mentalists. For they neither confess their tricks as illusions nor do they admit they are the real stuff. "Let the audience mind do the miracles itself." This heighten the effects as layman who couldn't concieve of a method in which how the trick was accomplished, tinkers to their childhood romantic dream that perhaps true miracles do exist.

In a Cris Angel Tv special, He said that some of the things he perform are illusions, but some are the real stuffs. It is up to the audience to decide which is which.

To me, the mystery between the truth and the false, running in between the minds of the audience is what I percieve to be beautiful magic. as i quote from Albert Einstein:

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”