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This new year, fake your own death. Here’s how.

FAKE YOUR OWN DEATH 01 Nathan Allen The Maniac of Magic Comedian Magician Entertainer Entertainment Des Moines IowaThis might make your friends hate you.  You tell your friends that you have the ability to drastically slow your pulse, simply with the power of your mind.  They don’t believe you, so you offer to demonstrate.

With a friend feeling your strong-and-steady pulse, you appear to fall into a trance-like state.  Your pulse slows dramatically.  Your breathing becomes shallow.  Your pulse slows even more… even… more… and… then…
…STOPS.

Your eyes roll to the back of your head, and you slump forward in your chair, lifeless.  Your friends FREAK.  You have NO PULSE.  You appear DEAD.

As their panic crescedos, your pulse starts up again, slowly at first, then faster and faster until it’s back to normal.

You sit up… smile… and try to decide what to name your new religion.

To download the instructions, CLICK HERE.  This download will only be available for a day or two, so if you want it, get it now.

Update: Sorry, the link has expired.  BUT… Take a look around on my website.  You might just be able to find this available for download somewhere else.

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I was on Norwegian television – A moral dilemma

So… Here begins my distrust/ disdain/ contempt of television execs, apparently.

Earlier this year, I was on Norwegian television…

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The deal they made was they would provide a high-quality DVD of my episode, and a link to where it could be viewed online, so I could share it with friends.

The DVD was never shipped.

The episodes are available to watch online (after they’ve aired), BUT they can’t be viewed here, overseas.

Grrrrrr.

I was able to use international proxy servers and some clever software to rip the video from the site in Norway, though… So I do have a copy…

I just can’t decide if I should respect copyright law… or just go ahead and post the clip online so you can watch it.

It was ME providing content (for which, I’m sure, the production company was compensated handsomely), after all.

What to do… What to do…

It just broke twenty-thousand views

20,002, to be exact. Huh. That’s pretty neat.

The secret of levitation

If you’ve ever wondered how magicians do that…

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…Now you know.

How magicians win at cards – A confession

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I’m going to start cheating when I play poker.  I’m going to use what is called a “marked” deck.

I just finished making one.

If you look closely, you can see the subtle markings in the pattern on the back of this deck.  This will secretly allow me to know what cards my opponents are holding.

NOTE: You may have to click the picture, to enlarge it, in order to see the secret markings.

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