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Remembering "The Amazing" James Randi, Dead at 92
James Randi in 2013 (photograph by Aaron Bristol)
On Wednesday, news broke that James Randi, renowned magician turned debunker of all things psychic and paranormal, had died earlier in the week at the age of 92. A charismatic showman and escapologist in the tradition of Harry Houdini, Randi would remake himself in his post-performance career as a skeptical investigator of the pseudosciences, ultimately launching the nonprofit James Randi Educational Foundation to support his research.
I was fortunate enough to meet “The Amazing” Randi at his Plantation home in 2013 for the
Boca magazine feature “Can You Read My Mind?” about local psychic mediums. I was astonished by his second-story library of books about magic and all things supernatural, and he even performed a little “mind reading” on me. Here is the excerpt from that feature, which went on to win a Florida Magazine Association award the following year.
James Randi in 2013 (photograph by Aaron Bristol)
On Wednesday, news broke that James Randi, renowned magician turned debunker of all things psychic and paranormal, had died earlier in the week at the age of 92. A charismatic showman and escapologist in the tradition of Harry Houdini, Randi would remake himself in his post-performance career as a skeptical investigator of the pseudosciences, ultimately launching the nonprofit James Randi Educational Foundation to support his research.
I was fortunate enough to meet “The Amazing” Randi at his Plantation home in 2013 for the
Boca magazine feature “Can You Read My Mind?” about local psychic mediums. I was astonished by his second-story library of books about magic and all things supernatural, and he even performed a little “mind reading” on me. Here is the excerpt from that feature, which went on to win a Florida Magazine Association award the following year.