“How did you do that?!” is the constant question.
“Can you keep a secret?” he asks.
“I can!” they say.
“So can I,” he answers with a wink.
“Magic reminds us that the universe is still filled with mystery.”
Larry was enchanted by the field of magic in his native Cape Town at age four and has been spellbinding people ever since—on network television, in private parties and corporate conventions, in halls and theaters across the globe, and even over the phone—for royalty, celebrities and everyone in between.
He has bent solid metal, turned flowers to flames and even made a three-and-a-half-million-cubic-foot solid granite monument disappear and reappear before the public’s very eyes.
Larry calls magic “the art of making the impossible become possible.”
“We live in a world where everything feels certain, where we think that we know how things work,” he says. “But magic—magic reminds us that the universe is still filled with mystery.”
Yet there was a time when his own life lost all magic. In his late teens and early twenties, he partied hard, drank hard and often stayed up carousing for days on end. “I gave my body a lot of trauma,” he admits. “By the age of 22 … I felt like I was so old.”
Then he encountered Scientology and its Purification Program. That detox regimen changed everything. “When I was done with it,” Larry recalls, “I felt amazing. I felt new again. I felt youthful.”
Shortly afterwards, a series of big breaks propelled him into the global spotlight. Today, he travels the world with his wife, Sanet, acting as his manager.
“Larry loves what he does,” she says. “You can constantly see his mind working on what else he can do, what he wants to do, how can he make this effect better or how can he make that event better.”
Ever seeking the more astonishing illusion and the more fantastical feat, Larry succinctly sums up his ultimate aim: “I inspire people to believe in the impossible.”
Enter Larry Soffer’s world, and you just might find yourself believing in magic—and an endless horizon of possibility—only on Scientology Network’s Meet a Scientologist.
