BRING OUT THE MAGIC IN YOUR MIND
1965 by Frederick Fell
First published in India 2011
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Contents
Introduction
At the early age of seven, it was apparent that I had the extrasensory instincts and uncanny sixth sense which have today earned me the title of The Worlds Greatest Mind-Reader and The Finest Mental Magician in the World.
Even at this tender age I was able to state the where-abouts of my aunts lost engagement ring, simply because I had seen it in the drawer of her dressing table.
School days had their problems for me, for by this time I had acquired such an instinct that, in mathematics, I knew the answers to sums without working them out. My principal put me through many tests; as he got all the right answers this made my parents and my teacher realize that here was no ordinary schoolboy, and my unusual ability was encouraged.
I read all I could about magic, fantasy and mystery, and at fifteen became the youngest member of the Magicians Club. Having made history in this way, I made it again the following year by being the youngest member ever to win their gold medal.
After appearing in many concerts and studying astrology, psychology, and Yoga (under a Tibetan monk then living abroad), I decided that my future career lay not in conjuring, but in that more intangible field of magic of the mind.
On many occasions I have, through extrasensory perception, given predictions that have astounded the public. At a dinner given by the press, I wrote the next days headlines of a certain newspaper, and I was right. During a caf act, I wrote the results of a General Election on a blackboard before they were known, and I was right. On TV I wrote the first, second, and third horses in an important race which was not to be held for another two weeks, and I was right again.
I have read minds and told people where they are going for their holidays, how many people are in the family, their names, birthdays, and many other things. And I am always right. I have baffled millions of people on stage, and television viewers in their homes, in this country and abroad. And millions are left wondering. How do I read minds? How do I do this, and how do I do that? Magic? Trickery? Mind-reading? Conjuring? Accomplices in the audience? Sleight of hand? What is the secret?
I tell them it is pure psychology. I scorn the use of stooges and any form of organized assistance.
This brings me to what I am getting at. From all over the world, people bombard me with letters, telegrams, and phone calls. They come backstage at the theater. I have now had to keep my home address a secret. Not even my friends know where I live. It is essential that my private life be free of challengers who only wish me to tell them how to win the prizes and to tell them the winners.
I have great respect for my power and will do nothing which could be used for evil. I never bet on any race whose winner I know, nor will I hand out tips to others.
People plead with me to help them win a fortune; win the gamble which is going to open up a joyous, carefree life for them at last.
Why do people want to win prizes? Do they want to get away from it all, to spend lazy days on the sun-kissed beaches of tropical islands? Or tingle to the crystal clearness of the air and breathtaking vistas of snow-fringed lakes and mountains?
Perhaps they want a large and luxurious house, and servants to wait on them. They are tired. If a woman, she is tired of the cooking, the washing, the ironing, the making of beds, the shopping, the waiting in lines. If a man, he is tired of his routine business, and all the strain and worry of it. He has been doing too much.
Tired, frustrated, tense, and depressed. Sick people all wanting a way out, an escape from it all.
And that is why I am writing this book. Its purpose is to help you resolve your problems by proving to you that there is magic in your mind, only waiting to be drawn out. I want to tell you how to attain all your wildest dreams.
For most people and nations, things are always happening which they do not want to happen. I will bring the magic out of your mind, so that only the things you want to happen will come true.
By the power of this magic in your mind, once it is released, you will have that gleaming car, that luxurious house, that holiday in the sun. Why spend time and money on gambling on horses or bingo? You can have that fabulous wealth without spending your time and money like that. And it will be much more satisfying. Every day will be an exciting, happy day, when you will work magic for yourself.
Forget the horses, forget the bingo. You have a power just as magical as Aladdins Lamp. It is a dynamic power with the riches of a gold mine, when you know how to use it. This book is meant to set you on the road.
The Magic of Belief
Mummy, what makes people clever? Why are some cleverer than others? Mummy, why do some boys die before theyve grown right up? Mummy, why do they make poison if it kills people? Why are some people nice and others horrid? Once upon a time there were three bears? Why, Mummy, why?
As a child, my mind was besieged with perplexities; I was always questioning, questioning, struggling in my inquiring disposition to unravel mysteries that had baffled others far, far beyond my years all through the ages.
In a different degree, I suppose that my curiosity has stayed with me through the passing years; for although many perplexities have been resolved for me, others have come to take their place. It is the way with psychologists, the way of anyone who would probe the magic powers of the mind. The seed of curiosity, once it is born, is with you all your life and wherever you are. You can be in the Himalayas, or you can be in the subway. The workings of the mind your mind, and the minds of other people are of such complexity, but so infinitely fascinating to study that, once you have started to probe their mysteries, you never cease to marvel, and the claims of one upon your wonderment are as great as those of another. In their different ways, the lady who professes that a copper bangle around her wrist has cured her of rheumatism is of no less interest and wonder to you than the Fire Walkers of the Fiji Islands, who will walk with bare feet on red-hot cinders. And the ceremonial dances of the Indians when they invoke the rains constitute a spectacle no more awe-inspiring than that of thousands of people traveling to Lourdes.