Baffle and amaze your dinner guests, co-workers, the kids on the block. Schindler, co-founder of the New York School for Magicians, says that the secret is ""misdirection"". If trickery is your bag you can learn to swallow spoons, levitate salt shakers, defy the laws of gravity, tie cigarettes in knots, and display amazing telepathic powers. Basic instructions for the self-taught Merlin.