How to Get Lucky: Real Magic for Everyday Life

By Allen D. Allen

Real magic is a method of making things happen through an exercise of will in the absence of a physical cause. This book shows you how to use real magic and lets you see it work, starting with a simple card game. Several examples show you how real magic can benefit you in various aspects of your daily life. Examples include, The Cheating Spouse, The Promotion, Who’s Baby is It?, The Horse Race, Picking Stocks,and Who Killed Dahlia Jones? The card game expands as used and explained throughout the book so you can see for yourself that real magic really works. Because it does, use real magic at your own risk.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hillcrest Media Group
• Release date: Jan 2, 2015
• ISBN: 9781634133012

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Foreword

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Unlike magic tricks and illusions, real magic involves no deception, no smoke and mirrors. It lets you make things happen using just your will power without any physical cause. But it’s not as simple as speaking some incantation or cooking up a potion. It has to be learned and practiced in order to develop your skills. For that purpose, this book uses a simple card game to teach you the basics of real magic. If you truly grasp what is going on when you see real magic work, you’ll question your intuitive concept of cause and effect. It will make our ordinary world seem more like the mysterious world of the atom, where reality is spooky, to use Einstein’s word.

To apply real magic to everyday situations, fate has to be substituted for the dealer in the card game that illustrates real magic. In other words, the opportunity to use real magic depends upon the hand that fate deals you. You need to learn to recognize it when fate provides you with such an opportunity. That takes some learning and practice. To aid you in this regard, real-life examples of how you can use real magic in your everyday life are sprinkled throughout this book.

In short, if you want to use real magic in your everyday life, then you must learn how to do it, just as you have to learn how to play a musical instrument. You can’t just follow some rote instructions as in the movies. After all, the movies are make-believe. But real magic is for real. Because it is real, and because you should be careful of what you wish for, I’m compelled to offer a caveat:

USE REAL MAGIC AT YOUR OWN RISK

Good luck. And may the fates be with you.

Allen D. Allen

Los Angeles, California

October 20, 2014

1. Magic Versus Superstition

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A1959 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American carried an article by Martin Gardner on the Three Prisoners Problem. This problem is sometimes called Bertrand’s Box Paradox. Because the same principle has been used on game shows and other television programs, it’s also been called The Monty Hall Problem. Although based on an obscure phenomenon known to mathematicians, it’s very hard to believe. It’s just too, well, magical.

The phenomenon in question becomes even more magical when it’s applied to daily life instead of being presented as a puzzle or game, something that, until now, hasn’t been talked about much. When you learn how to use this phenomenon in your daily life, you’ll be able to make things happen just by flexing your will and without any physical cause. Is that not real magic?

Because real magic has mathematical roots, it might also be referred to as black magic, which is what the ancients called