Home Counties Magical Society

Dr Todd Landman is actually a doctor, reading politics at the university of Essex, as well as being what he terms a metaphysical magician, and after an excessively long trip to the Home Counties Magical Society (almost four hours!) he kindly shared with us just exactly what a metaphysical magician was.

The first half of the lecture was really mainly a show at first glance, a thought of number was found to be the sum of a magic square, a thought of date looked up in a diary was found to be the same card as the one sealed in an envelope, a freely chosen instrument from an orchestra was almost correctly predicted, and unseen, freely selected crystals placed into a bag by spectators were all returned to them.

Probably the strongest of these was the final free selection of mini colours crystal balls, placed into a bag by each of the spectators (including myself) were then placed into a larger bag. Dr Todd correctly returned each to it's owner without having seen, or been involved with their selection. It was based on Maurice Fogel's "Second Spot", and set the scene for some explanations.