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Magic – A Sense of Awe. | Bobby Borgia | TEDxPSUBehrend


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well a lot of people ask me you know one
question how I got into magic and it’s
not how you think when I was four years
old I had a brother he was a year
younger than me who’s three and my
brother he had a dis a bad liver and
unfortunately he was a first successful
liver transplant in the United States of
America his name was Anthony Scott
Borgia unfortunately he passed away of
complications three months after the
operation and I was left at four not
knowing where my little brother went I
had a void that needed to be filled
magic filled that void
I saw a magician his name was Doug
Henning and I saw him on Captain
Kangaroo yeah I just aged myself good
can I borrow that stool just for a
second so when I saw this guy first I
was in shock and disbelief of what I was
seeing what was going to fill this void
of my brother
vanishing I didn’t know what death was
magic was the one thing in my life that
I knew for sure that was going to be my
passion and my journey then you have the
Chuck disbelief when you watch magic and
your mind scrambles what the heck you’re
seeing but then magic has this power to
instill a sense of wonder or a sense of
awe a sense of all we’ve all experienced
it the definition goes all is the
feeling of being in the presence of
something vast or beyond humans
that transcends working for an
understanding of things
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you feel off when you commute with
nature now when you see a rainbow there
the night sky that is the feeling
Oh
people even spiritually
of nature with whitening
watching sunrise
sunset watch Mughal
that is the power of all and I know
you’ve all experienced
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when you watch movies how do we make you
feel
on me I’m inside
cry
take your perception and bring you in
for
same thing with music I love music
just like we saw on that video the
virtual choir that was absolutely
amazing
now I traveled over 70 countries on this
planet and I’ve seen festivals and
groups of people collaborating with
music the power of auditory music
fascinated me interesting
there’s some clips right there of people
around the world all moving from me to
we kind of cool but then there is magic
how this magic make
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you have no magic
rates of market
it’s an everyone
tonight right in this room
I’m gonna give you that sense of
camera to everybody watching live
streaming so what I’d like to do is you
can roll tape right now I have a
question for everybody in this audience
how many people have ever heard of
remote viewing round of applause perfect
I’m going to educate how many people
believe that everything in life happens
for a reason I area nice and loud but
yeah good my mother would always say
that there are no accidents and my
favorite saying there’s no such thing as
a coincidence tonight right in your seat
you’re going to experience a coincidence
with a camera through live streaming
right in your home you’re gonna
experience but that’s like so I want to
separate men and women tonight I’m gonna
have you all think of a number from one
to ten that’s your starting point but I
want all the women to think of an odd
number okay
men think of an even number everybody
got it good I want you to remember the
word next to your number number one is
bright red and number two is mini-sized
number three icy cold
number four is a child’s toy and number
five is eight sweet treats number six a
sporty vehicle number seven fruity
flavor number eight radio
number nine melted Mets number 10 rubber
wheel now by round applause y’all got
your number you were correct
good these words are not connected in
any way shape or form it just randomly
selected and they won’t make sense to
your conscious mind they’re designed to
make sense your subconscious mind
remember
everyone in this room and watching
through the TV this is going to happen
right here let’s see how this operates
I’m going to show you a list of ten
random words find the one word that
matches or describes the word that was
next to your number
first up is a horse blankets next a
remote-controlled car coffeemaker a
cherry popsicle a best-selling dub a
novelty button a ream of paper a yellow
daffodil black shoelace okay and finally
we have amber and nail did everybody
find a match he’s putting it together
right now and hopefully watch live
tweeting you have your final word
remember these words are not connected
to random but coincidence he’s
experienced before what
see if gentlemen put your hands together
if I get this right it is a remote
control card we’re thinking of that
all right women you were thinking of a
cherry popsicle come on and that’s the
sense of awe so having the ability as a
six year old kid losing my brother and
finding my passion I get to travel the
world and do this and instill a sense of
awe in people all over the world and I
am so grateful next we’re going to try
and experiment that I think is kind of
interesting let’s see if we can roll
music for one moment and we’re going to
cut to live camera just for a second
this is Stewart our live camera operate
everybody wave low to Stuart
there we are hi Stuart let’s get a good
shot of the audience everybody up there
wave hello you’re on TV streaming live
mm-hmm I’m going to use somebody from
the audience they’re gonna be the
antenna for this experiment we’re going
to try deck of cards you all have one in
your house in your junk drawer but when
I did a paper on a deck of playing cards
I found something very very interesting
that a deck of cards nobody knew for
sure who invented a deck of cards on
this planet what year they were invented
or where they came from to me that was
fascinating caught my attention right
away from there I discovered that
there’s an actual code a secret code
embedded in this deck of cards and it
mirrors our life cycle and our life
calendar I’d like to share this with you
and we’re going to use this code to try
something with people in the audience a
deck of cards is made up of four suits
correct and these four suits match the
four seasons
coincidence okay maybe but if you think
about how many face cards are on a deck
there are 12 face cards on the deck
which match the 12 months in the year in
the 12 zodiac signs hold on a second how
many cards are in a deck 52 which match
52 weeks in the year and if that’s not
enough if you want to count every single
pip and buy pip I mean Hart clubs Spade
and diamond guess how many there are 365
one for every day in the year I found
that fascinating tonight we’re gonna try
something what’s your name pal Dennis
can we put you on camera is that okay
ladies and gentlemen a bold man put them
up for Dennis right there that’s that it
and Dennis where you from you’re from
Turkey I’ve been to your country it’s
amazing I was in Kusadasi are you do you
live there you live in this temple Oh
tiny little place yeah yeah beautiful
country while Dennis thank you for
helping me out I’m going to show the
camera first of all that we are
operating with a full deck of playing
cards but I took the Joker’s out and
remember Dennis I told you about this
code within the deck of cards so you
were going to be the antenna for what’s
about to happen aren’t you excited this
Bobby I can’t take it thanks Dennis
Dennis here we go so I want you to just
fan the cards out lightly and stop so
the camera could get a good shot okay
just like that you phantom phantom
phantom fin you can close the cards all
different audience yes close the cards
Dennis those are you going to take this
rubber band and I want you to rubber be
on the deck twice please yep you’re
doing a fine job Dennis and square the
cards up really good on the table and
the other way
mm-hmm would you stand up and look
directly into that camera wave goodbye
Dennis I’m kidding Dennis no no no that
was kidding you’re like I’m from Turkey
I don’t know what the hell’s going on
though here we go
no no stand up look into that camera
Dennis check this out you’re gonna be
the antenna for something cool you ready
okay Dennis I’m not gonna ask you to
pick a card you’re not gonna do that all
right you’re gonna actually think of a
card that you see but by doing this
place them face down in your right hand
yooper yeah or your left hand let’s go
left hand in Turkey we use the left hand
for card tricks that’s good left hand
like this
so Dennis check this out I’m gonna ask
you to just take your thumb and crack it
open and peek at one card go
you got one Dennis okay remember your
card you got it now I want you to turn
around look at all these wonderful
people out here in the TEDTalk audience
oh yeah and what I want you to do is I
want you to name out loud you’re gonna
pick man or a woman it’s up to you you
have three things to do here choice
chance and faith by choice you’re gonna
pick somebody in this room go right
ahead Dennis well just male or female oh
go ahead Willie point do the man in the
what color shirt the yellow would you
just throw the cards right up to the guy
in the yellow there we go that’s why we
have the rubber band let’s acknowledge
Dennis yeah that is have a seat awesome
awesome thank you and what’s your name
Austin how are you today us are you from
Turkey – that would be a coincidence
wouldn’t it Austin Austin check this out
I want you to hold the deck face down in
your left hand and just take your thumb
and peek at one you got one now I want
you to outloud named man or woman you
pick one okay you want a woman okay
Denis has had a rough life sorry I check
this out which woman you’re picking the
okay wonderful
a dentist throw those cards right over
to the wonderful on the count of three
all right then just do it your way
what’s your name dear not Iike you’re
not from Erie are you I didn’t think so
where you from dear you’re from India
and I must stay okay give it up for
India come on yeah say your name one
more time nut tikka no tikka I’ve never
met you before in my life
you see Dennis here took control of the
deck of cards and then he picked the
gentleman in the yellow and now we’re
going over to you and I want you to do
me a favor hold them face down I want
you to cut them peek at one go right
ahead
you got it perfect would you mind
tossing the cards from person to person
we’re just going to keep them on the on
the desk down here okay one two three
wonderful yeah just there we go and
perfect so here we go oh do we get it
nobody moves security got it what Dennis
I’d like to acknowledge you please stand
up and acknowledge Dennis and Dennis you
pick your Astana sand stand up and the
tikka stand up let’s hear it for them
listen to me closely
I cannot read minds I’m not gonna
pretend to be a mind reader when you see
a magic show and they pretend to read
minds well that’s not what’s going to
happen because tonight I shared that
there’s a code within a deck of cards
and I hope you guys found that
fascinating we’re gonna try something
with one question I need one question
ask Dennis we’re going to start with you
what month were you born you were born
in July you had a that’s tough I was
gonna say a black card but you’re you’re
thinking of a red card am i correct not
great yet sir no yes red card
tada Austin what month were you born oh
you had a red card
you’re not breasts are some Dec you’re
like yeah yeah how many fingers am i
holding up to a good day I don’t know I
said you picked the tika from India what
month were you born dear you had a black
card am I correct no hold on one second
a red card now it would be impossible
for me really no I’m just seeing what
month you were born and wanted to know
I’m gonna name a card I’m gonna name two
cards actually three cards if I name
your card correctly would you please do
me a favor and acknowledge me that I got
it right by just sitting down now if I
get one right the audience you’d be kind
of impressed maybe that you want you
want all three you pay damn good money
for the TED talk tonight I understand
five of diamonds six of Hearts eight of
clubs go boom but we got it oh we got
two good Oh three come on everybody put
your right hand in the air
I feel like Joel Osteen right now
I’d put it down and how did you all do
that
you thought about it
your thoughts cause control and direct
every single thing you do in life from
the moment you wake up to the time you
go to bed now I’ve researched and
studied a lot of books on the law of
attraction round of applause if you know
what I’m talking about the law of
attraction the secrets yeah
well mmm this is interesting because
whether you believe it or not gravity if
you can’t see it if you jump off a
building you’re going to fall and the
law of attraction I have really
researched this and applied it in my
life and found it yeah there is
something kind of cool here so we’re
going to try and experiment like we did
with my man Dennis here being the
antenna from Turkey thanks again pal
we’re going to use your birthday is that
okay okay cool
so you were born in November correct
July sorry July and you were born in
July quince
if you’re born in the month of July and
even through the internet if you were
born in the month of July I’m going to
ask you to stand up right where you’re
at and stay standing and please
acknowledge all the July birthdays yeah
there we go
wonderful wonderful wonderful my
question is this is it possible for
everybody that is standing right now to
somehow all be connected together as one
and share the same thought well we’ve
talked about it you’ve read about it and
tonight we’re going to try this
experiment now before we get up with
three people let’s go do a little
tougher so if you’re Stan remember you
were selected for a very important
reason there are no accidents and
there’s no such thing as a coincidence
so check this out it took some cards
from the deck we’re going to cut to live
camera right now
and what I’m going to do is I’m going to
show the camera right here in my hand
one two three four five and six cards
now there they are
we get a good shot of that great
everybody that’s standing with the power
of your mind I want you to think of one
of those cards remember the color number
and suit of your card please you got it
good I’m going to close them and I’m
going to mix them just like that it’s
impossible for me to note card
everyone’s thinking of but I do know
where your card is it’s in my hand
I’m lying to you I really am because the
card you’re thinking of is not in my
hand it’s in your mind I really want you
to check this out one two three four and
five now one card has left my hand
please acknowledge me by sitting down if
your card is missing I want to say thank
you for having me here tonight I had a
blast
my name is Bobby goodnight god bless
thank you
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