The man was a colossus in New York. He parlayed The Magic Show into an annual TV spectacular called World of Magic. In his second World of Magic special, in 1976, Henning made an elephant disappear and transformed a beautiful girl into Michael Landon. In an unscripted moment, a Bengal tiger escaped backstage and chased talk show host Tom Snyder into a bathroom. He ended the show by saying Anything the mind can conceive is possible.
Nothing is impossible.
All you have to do is look within and you can realize your fondest dreams. I would like to wish each one of you all of life s wonders and a joyful age of enlightenment. But what the audience at home didn t know was that Henning was deeply committed to Transcendental Meditation. At one point he floated about the stage for a time cross-legged, like a yogi. He believed that enlightened people could fly, and he flew through mechanical illusion to inspire enlightenment.