I don't know if you realise this, but, if you wear glasses, it's because you're lazy. With a little effort and a soupcon of science, you can (probably) train your eyes back into perfect shape and throw away those nerdy specs forever.
Here, Australian therapist Bethany Allridge shows us some of the basic movements, her face set in an unnervingly rigid and somewhat sinister expression. We'll come back to this over and over and again and again, until that face stops haunting my dreams.
Glenn Falkenstein (1932-2010) was an American educator, a speech pathologist, a magician, and a mentalist. Here, in a clip from the documentary Age Of The Psychics, he covers his eyes with eight pieces of two inch adhesive tape which help hold in place two half dollar coins pressed over his closed eyes. The dark visor completes the sensory deprivation.
Glenn doesn't need anything as basic as eyes to pick up on the vibrations of the audience, of course, and he's able to provide names, birth dates and even social security numbers astonishingly quickly and at will. I don't know how he does it, and neither do the people whose auras he's reading, so I'm going to stick my neck out and say that it's magic.
