text: chris angel? some of you love him, others hate him, and now i can see why. he charges 300 bucks for a movie to show you how to levitate, and your thinking your getting the whole package, when really he just shows you the basics (levitate up to a chair with your leg by a hole in your pants, and the corny one foot tippy toe david blain levitation). but what about flying between buildings, ripping women and himself in half, being eaten up in a wood chipper to show up on the other side fine, warping others and himself to mass distances in a second, making people disappear on concrete ground with a 360 audience, and walking through glass. these tricks have made me question my sanity and my reality. other people have died from attempting magician’s tricks. i've always pride myself for finding all the loop holes in a magician’s bag of tricks, but with angel guy, he's going to put me in the nut house. is there any info on these things? anyone willing to restore my sanity? the principals of stage magic are the same today as they were centuries ago. they have a text from the days of the inquisition, written by a stage magician of then, explaining the tricks, and how they were entertainment, and not powers of the devil. being accused of witchcraft, and consorting with the devil, was a real danger for a stage magician at that time. the things it describes from then, are the same as they are today.  misdirection, and optical illusions. all the same. making you look where the magician wants you to look, and not where he doesn't want you to look, and fooling the eye into thinking it sees, what it really isn't seeing...  these are the same tools used by all, and used fo hundreds of years...chris angel just puts it into a more "heavy metal" package, and gives it a really different spin, but it's still the same stuff. i will admit, he's very good, and i'd like to catch one of his shows live.