Experiencing the Impossible Quotes

“Dessoir’s ideas on “negative hallucinations” are also of interest. The opposite of positive hallucinations, these refer to the seeing of nothing where something actually exists. Dessoir wrote, “Who has not hunted for an object that was directly before his eyes? The sense-impression exists, is taken up, not elaborate in consciousness and there in us arises a momentary state of mental blindness.”
― Gustav Kuhn, Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic

“There is often a thin line separating what people consider to be real magic from what they designate as fake magic. We can only fully understand magic by understanding how some people can straddle this line—how they can genuinely believe in things they know to be impossible.”
― Gustav Kuhn, Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic