Destruction of illusions
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I fully enjoyed reading this book. It filled in the missing parts of the story that did not come forth in the pilot film of Andromeda. It was great to see what Beka Valentine crew was up or doing for work before they joined up with Andromeda and her captain.
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This game is good. Except this strategy guide is binded very poorly. I've had it for about four to six weeks and while working on the game using this guide, it started to come off it's binding. I didn't mind it at first because that happens, however as it worsened, I figured the guide was cheaply binded, making the price cheaper than its MSRP. Great game though, just poorly binded pages. Tonight it fell completely apart and I threw it out since it's quality was poorly mishappened by the binding.
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DO NOT USE ON PRESCRIPTION LENSES, the product will destroy it.
2884423
My interest is in optical illusions. This book is worth while in my special interest area. My feeling is that it is a bit short on the art side and a bit long on the geometry side. I don't think that this is a bias on my part because I have degrees in mathematics and statistics and have been a college professor. My interest in arts was more a hobby. This is a typical Dover reprint of a good but old book. Most of the art is centered about perspective and misses such things as fractals.
684487
I remember seeing this as a kid. It reminded me of just how gullible we were back then. I watched about 10 minutes before I regained my senses and turned it off.
216879
I would recommend people look up the excellent Wikipedia article on the Bates method. From reading this unbiased, informative article you will see that natural vision improvement just does not work. By 'work' I mean improve your vision to 20/20. It provides scientific explanations for the flashes of improvement that people experience, as I did. These are transient spasm of the ciliary muscle, "blur adaptation", constriction of the pupil, a learned ability to interpret blurred images and a contact lens-like effect of moisture on the eye. So yes, people do report some improvement. It gives them false hope. But you will never improve to 20/20 vision.

To try and get the maximum improvement I went without glasses all the time. Because I couldn't see anything it knocked my confidence, I couldn't make eye contact with people. I was determined to improve my vision because I thought that it was my short sightedness that was holding me back and making me unhappy. I was young and vulnerable. I believed these frauds. I wasted months and years of my life because of the Bates method/eye exercises.

Those who seek out natural vision improvement are normally unhappy people, looking for reasons for why they are unhappy. So I would advise people that if you are unhappy do not think natural eyesight improvement will make you happier. It won't.

There are those who believe, as I did, that there is a conspiracy to hide the truth so that the optical industry carries on making money. There is no conspiracy. There have been studies done and it just doesn't work. I do believe that near work and near play, such as computer games, particularly in childhood while the eye is growing and forming, causes myopia. But I disagree that once the eye is in a certain shape, which is the cause of the myopia, you can do anything to change it.

I despair that this book has got so many 5 star reviews. It is very likely that these people have experienced the momentary improvement in vision, as explained earlier. Note that none of them say they have got down to 20/20 vision.

So, I must reiterate, don't waste your life following these unproven and damaging set of ideas.
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I'm very saddened that so many people are scared of this silly toy, look up the Ideomotor Effect. Yes, I was creeped out too as a little, uninformed kid. Then I learned science. Now, if someone has this, then have a Ouija session with the participants BLINDFOLDED (with an observer or videocamera recording the results). Now, what does it spell?
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The book is obviously a hoax. Many people have said so here: they will get no argument from me. It was put together by person or persons unknown who were associated with the old Magickal Child book store in New York City in the 1970s. They, in the midst of a drug stimulated revelries, constructed several pieces of rituals. These drew from several different magickal systems and mythologies (some of which clearly contradicted each other). They had originally agreed to destroy these writings; and this was assigned to whoever was last to leave these gatherings.

A man known to us as "Simon" was the last to leave. However, instead of keeping his word, he grabbed the writings and ran. For whatever reason, these rituals were compiled into a book and published. Thus, the Simon Necronomicon came into being.

Despite being a hoax, the book is nonetheless, quite dangerous. The rituals are clearly constructed with a number of booby-traps that leave the practitioner unprotected and exposed to psychic attack, invocations of entities that are not what they are said to be, and even deliberate invitations to demonic attack and possession that make it excessively dangerous for even the experienced practitioner.

The introduction mentions a group of people who tested the rituals before the book was published. I knew a few of these people personally. They all told me the book was extraordinarily dangerous, and warned me not to meddle with it. I have also personally known people who were made insane from attempting the rituals in this book. One poor fool ended up trying to carve new tunnels in the New York City subway system using nothing but a wire coat hanger.

I myself has a few frightening personal experiences connected with this book.

The author/s of this book are among the most irresponsible, sociopathic, and perverse people in the occult world (and that's saying a lot!). The text, and the very existence of the book itself is an obscentity.
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I have no idea what is going on, but now two of my classroom Flip cameras have been destroyed by these cables. We could not get the devices to come off of the cameras! I gently but firmly pulled on the cables and in two instances the cable stayed stuck onto the USB of the camera and pulled out the connection of the USB from the camera. Now two of my classroom cameras are not usable and destroyed. I only had six cameras so now I am down to four. This was a very expensive product to try. I now keep them in a drawer and forbid students from using them. Since I bought all the cameras with my own money, this one product has just about destroyed my film-making unit of study. With only four cameras, the student groups are now too large to be effective. I cannot afford to buy new cameras. Sad.
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I have always enjoyed Optical Illusions and have several books of them in my library. For the last few years,there is often one,but seldom more than one at any time ,even in a large bookstore. Optical Illusions have been around for hundreds of years,and Impossible figures have also been quite common for a long time. However,in the last few years there has been a virtual explosion in the number and types of things classified as Optical Illusions. Many of the books often repeat the same Optical Illusions over and over.
 This book is pretty good ,and fairly inexpensive introduction as to the types of Optical Illusions that have been created. However it is not  extensive ,nor does it give much information on the originator,history,or how the mind and eyes interact scientifically to create the illusions. There is no Bibliography of the many excellent other books of Optical Illusions that exist ,some of which I have Reviewed. You can find several here on Amazon by  the authors Al Seckel,M.C.Escher,Del-Prete,Gary Priester & Gene Levine,GianniSarcone & Marie-Jo Waeber,and others.
 However ;in this book the author has given a website he operates,[...] is updated with a new optical illusion each and every day. This is an excellent website with a plethora of optical illusions. After checking this site,I decided to search the web under Optical Illusions;and was amazed how many sites there were and there are literally hundereds,and maybe thousands of Optical Illusions,of every type to view and enjoy. One thing you will find is the many illusions that incorporate motion;something impossible to do in printed form. If you like Optical Illusions;you'll love what you can find on the net.
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Published by Twilight Creations, creators of ZOMBIES!, When Darkness Comes, & Grave Diggers.
I found that when I first played this game I got frustrated with it. But after playing it a few times I found that it wasn't the game I was frustrated with but how much I wasn't paying attention to the rules. It has a difficulty level somewhere between chess and checkers. If you choose to play this game remember to read all of the rules and remember them.

Game Synopsis: This game speculates that the statues (Moai) of Easter Island were, in fact, beam weapons created by two very powerful wizards. These wizards used the statues in a giant game, with the island itself as the board.
You are one of those wizards. The goal of the game is to destroy your opponent's statues while protecting your own from being destroyed.
Each player starts with 4 Moai each to place on the board. Then each player takes 2 movements. The movement options are placing a Moai, placing sun tokens, rotating their Moai, and if a sun token has been placed of their own color they may flip and direct a sun beam. The one exception is if the sun token was put out as the first movement it cannot be moved as a player's second movement.
The sun beam is the tricky part of it. If your statue if hit by a sun beam in its front or back it is destroyed. If the beam strikes the sides then it is directed out the face of the Moai and directed straight ahead. The beam will destroy the last thing it touches unless it touches something a second time.
Suggested ages for this game are 8 & up. 2 players. Retail price is $24.99.
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Really? He replaced Adan and Eve for Annabelle & Aiden, the serpent for an owl. There is not creation but magic... keep lying to this generation and believe to evil dress up in a colorful book full of magic. :(
1845402
This is my 60th year as a performing magician, and I love illusions...so I had high expectations for this book. It presents the principles in an organized manner, and I have learned new things as a result. I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to understand and perform stage illusions.
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This must really be a great book if someone was worried enough about its contents to organize a campaign to trash it.  Apparently it was organized through this site  http://timhoward717.com/2015/01/17/peter-wallison-voodoo-economics-scholar-or-sociopathic-liar/
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This history of the destruction of the library at Alexandria was very sobering.....the destruction of so many scrolls of ancient knowledge preserved for posterity and haled by the Christians/Jews as heresy.  Alas...the loss of so much.....the brutality of hate in the profession of love for God as seen through Jesus.....why.
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"The victory of deception is the unawareness of our defeat." (Kole Eremos)
This book proves beyond a shadow of doubt that Yoga, Martial Arts, Contemplative Prayer, Freemasonry, and a host of other socially acceptable involvements are nothing more than subtle demonic deceptions. (No wonder New Agers hate it.) The author deals a tremendous blow to the powers of darkness by revealing that LOVE WITHOUT TRUTH is the clarion call of the New Age Movement. He also shows clearly-by their own statements-how false prophets and teachers such as Henry Nouwen and Ken Blanchard (sadly, both promoted by Rick and Kay Warren), Thomas Merton, Richard Foster, Thomas Keating, Basil Pennington, Wayne Dyer etc., etc. etc. are such effective tools in Satan's hands. The author constantly reminds us that God's LOVE does not exist apart from TRUTH, so it follows that this is a work which above all, lifts up and glorifies the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who alone could say, "I AM The WAY, The TRUTH, and The LIFE: no man comes to the Father, but by ME." (John 14:6)
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interesting theories.  The last book I read was Jonathan Livingston Seagull.  Reading original Illusions now