Houdini, Harry
1874-1926 52 years
1874-1926 52 years
aka: Erich Weiss (original name)
famous magician, escape-artist of early 20th
century
born Hungary
father: Jewish rabbi
family of 7 children
emigrated to US at 4 years old with family
childhood in Appleton, Wis, moved to NYC
public stage acts included hand-cuff escapes,
strait-jacket escapes, water submersion escapes,
etc.
many stunts were thought to be PR acts and magic
combined
in later life spent much energy debunking the
"Spiritualists" of the time, seances, etc. as frauds
died of a ruptured appendix after a college student
hit him in the belly on to test him for his ability to
withstand it
others say he was poisoned as an act of revenge
by the Spirtualists.
buried in NYC
famous magician, escape-artist of early 20th
century
born Hungary
father: Jewish rabbi
family of 7 children
emigrated to US at 4 years old with family
childhood in Appleton, Wis, moved to NYC
public stage acts included hand-cuff escapes,
strait-jacket escapes, water submersion escapes,
etc.
many stunts were thought to be PR acts and magic
combined
in later life spent much energy debunking the
"Spiritualists" of the time, seances, etc. as frauds
died of a ruptured appendix after a college student
hit him in the belly on to test him for his ability to
withstand it
others say he was poisoned as an act of revenge
by the Spirtualists.
buried in NYC
| But I know Bankei will not appeal to you. Sai Baba can appeal to you because with Sai Baba your mind has a logic, a tuning. With Bankei your mind cannot be tuned, it has to be dropped – only then can that tuning happen. With Sai Baba you can understand things; with logic it is the same. What your mind says is that a miracle is happening. This is not religion at all, this is simply magic. And there is no difference between a Houdini and a Sai Baba. The only difference, if there is any, is that Houdini was more honest than Sai Baba because he simply said that “I am a magician. These are tricks.” And all that Sai Baba can do, any magician can do – but you will not pay much respect to a magician because he is so sincere and honest that he says, “These are tricks.” So you say, “Okay, so these are tricks, no miracle...” --Osho A Bird On the Wing, ch. 6 |
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