Mark Edward

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark Edward
Occupation	Magician
Date Of Birth	May 19, 1951(1951-05-19)
Age	73
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Taurus

Mark Edward Biography

Mark Edward is one of the most popular and richest Magician who was born on May 19, 1951 in California, United States. Famous for his works as magician, a mentalist and fake-psychic the media personality became an outspoken opponent of pseudoscience. His books include Confessions of a 990 Psychic, Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Confused Medium as well as Seance and Sense.

In the beginning of the 1990s, he met writer and skeptical In the early 1990s, he made the acquaintance of author and skeptic Michael Shermer and began delivering lectures to members of Shermer’s Skeptics Society. and began giving talks on behalf of members of In the early 1990s, he made the acquaintance of author and skeptic Michael Shermer and began delivering lectures to members of Shermer’s Skeptics Society.’s Skeptics Society.

Edward’s involvement in the skeptical movement has been extensive. In an interview with Skeptical Inquirer, he stated his skeptical history goes back to the 1970s, when he became involved with searching out the methods of Uri Geller. Years after working for the Psychic Friends Network, Edward decided to blow the whistle on the $2 billion a year industry. He said the industry soars when the economy tanks. People have moved, changed jobs, and even divorced after receiving a consultation, but psychics have no special abilities. They use specific techniques designed to be vague, flattering, and drawn out. They use generalities that are true about everybody. Psychics at the 900 hotlines were trained to scam callers out of their money. They were told to keep people on the line as long as possible, and to ask for their birthdays, names and addresses. Then the hotlines would start spamming people. The callers would get letters telling them they’re in danger and that they need to call their psychic friend immediately. Another trend involved seeing a psychic over Skype, whereby the customer paid in advance by credit card for the psychic session, upon which the ‘psychic’ on the other end would not only receive the money but was able to see the payer’s itemized credit card history. Then the psychic had information on the sitter and would seem even more credible.

Finding he was near starvation as an artist and realizing he could return to his magic roots and make money, in 1974, Edward formed a street magic group with several other CalArts performance and theater arts majors. After working several years as a street magician at Magic Mountain and in sales at Hollywood Magic Company, he decided it was time to audition as a performing member of Hollywood’s Magic Castle.

His magician grandpa, George Schaeffer, he began performing magic shows in his later years of childhood.

Mark Edward Net Worth

Mark Edward is one of the richest Magician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Edward 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1974, he graduated from the California Institute of the Arts.

In the mid-80s and being billed as psychic medium He began a long career as entertainer for Los Angeles’ famous Magic Castle.

Mark Edward (born Mark Edward Wilson, May 19, 1951, Los Angeles, CA) is a professional mentalist who specializes in magic of the mind. He has written several books on mentalism, séance theory and production and appeared on television as both primary consultant and on-air performer in such diverse programming as A & E’s Biography: “Houdini, the Great Escape,” NBC’s “The Other Side” and “Psychic Secrets Revealed,” The Sci-Fi Channel’s “Mysteries, Magic and Miracles,” The Discovery Channel’s “Forces Beyond,” and on two episodes of The Learning Channel’s “Exploring the Unknown.” His featured segment as a spirit medium on the pilot episode of Showtime’s “Penn & Teller’s Bullshit!” series entitled “Speaking with the Dead” helped secure an Emmy Award nomination for that episode in 2002. Mark Edward is not related to John Edward.

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Edward has been a speaker at a number of skeptical conferences. At Dragon*Con 2012 Skeptrack, he performed psychic readings and demonstrated techniques celebrity psychics use, like hot and cold readings, in front of an audience packed with skeptics. In his talk entitled Psychic Readings for Fun and Prophet, Edward explained that no one can actually read minds or talk to the dead, but that people can be fooled and that they can fool themselves, and he offered a variety of explanations.

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Mark Ranked on the list of most popular Magician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mark Edward celebrates birthday on May 19 of every year.

At The Amaz!ng Meeting 2013, he participated on a panel discussion entitled Magicians vs. Psychics. With him on the panel were Ray Hyman, Jamy Ian Swiss, James Randi, Max Maven, and Banachek, moderated by D.J. Grothe. Swiss criticized Edward, referring to the statement on his website: “Mark neither declares himself as a genuine psychic nor gives any disclaimers, preferring to let his work stand on its own merit and allow each individual to arrive at their own personal conclusions.” Swiss called him a “lower case skeptic,” and said that he didn’t consider him to be an ally in the skeptical movement. “Upper case Skeptics are not just concerned with what you as an individual sees about the world, but are concerned with educating others and improving other’s lot in the world.” In his defense, Edward pointed out that his website has skepticism written all over it, and that anybody who knows him, knows that his work is valuable in the skeptical movement.