How do magicians or mentalists learn any tricks if a magician never reveals how its done?
First let me address your main question. There is a plethora of written material that can be found at the public library or in magic shops, which will help prepare someone to become a magician. Magicians themselves tend to share their craft with those they feel have made a sufficient effort to learn the basics on their own. They want to be assured that they are sharing their work with those who are truelly interested in the craft rather that meerly curious. Secondly, let me assure you that most of the workings of magic are simple. But in the prformance there is very little in magic that is just a “simple” card or coin trick. The artistry comes in the presentation of the material. Trivializing magic and magicians based on the modus operandi is like saying that Robin Williams lacks talent because you can tell the same joke or that Luciano Pavoratti had no talent because you know the words to the aria. The talent and artistry in performance art is in the doing. Finally, let me point out t
