What Our Minds Create: Curiosity

Our mind’s natural curiosity is at the heart of our fascination with magic.  We sit and watch a magician perform tricks that feel supernatural. Magicians are wonderful crafts-people. They design and execute tricks that create illusions to feed our mind’s curiosity.  Without our unique mental ability to enjoy exploring the unexplained (curiosity), a magician would not be thought of as an entertainer but would be burned at the stake.  The magician knows that the mind enjoys being tricked and we ask, “How did the magician do that?” This question is food for our mind’s curiosity as we use logic to understand something that appears magical and illogical.

Poster reblogged from turnofthecentury: Poster advertising an appearance by the magician Howard Thurston, the “King of Cards.” - c. 1915