Mentalism & Spiritism in Magic & Conjuring: page 21

This is a fine contained course in mental magic which not just describes a selection of effects, but the underlying principles as well as other aspects, such as 'The importance of showmanship'. You will learn to force cards, to use the key card principle, to mark and to prearrange, to understand the mirror principle, to work with codes and assistants, and a lot more.

Hugard is known for his excellent writing style, which is clear, accurate and engaging.

Paul Fleming wrote:

Three magic effects (Memories/Poe theme, Mayhem/Jack the Ripper theme, Mephistopheles/Satan theme) with a bizarre premise.

Memories: Mark presents Nevermore (in two versions) where Edgar Allan Poe fondly yet sadly remembers his inspiration for his classic poem, The Raven. (It's not who you think.)

Mayhem: Mark's From Hell routine (originally created for his Shuddershadow Mansion ebook) is amped up for the stage where chilling accounts of the Ripper's murders are added, bringing more tension to the routine through the power of verbal imagery.

Mephistopheles: We take a closer look at Santa's Book of Toys...

The turnover bend is an incredibly powerful impromptu tool. This move allows you to easily work a perfect bend into a borrowed spoon or fork in plain sight.

Dee has been refining this technique for a number of years now and uses this bend at every engagement, you too will get fantastic mileage out of the bend and it's something that you can carry with you at all times.

If you ever do come across a spoon that you just can't bend, Dee has also included his Synthetic Arc suggestive spoon bend, an excerpt taken from the book Proximity Effects.

1st edition 2009; 9 pages.

Eight strong and wonderful mentalism routines.

"Key Caper" for example is a completely ungimmicked version of Annemann's "Seven Keys To Baldpate". The method is simple and easy, a piece of beautiful clever mentalism.

"Music in the Air" makes use of a cigarette lighter that plays a tune when lighted. I have never seen such lighters. They are probably out of fashion these days. However, the effect could very easily be modernized and used together with a ring-tone on a cellphone. The effect is the following. You show a packet of cards, each one has a different song title printed on it. Your...

1st edition 1980; original 36 pages; PDF 44 pages.

5. Contents
6. Dedication
7. Foreword
8. Preface
9. One Out Of Five?...It's THIS One!
15. Living And Dead Test....No.1,269!
18. Prelude To The Classic Book Test
21. The Classic Book Test
25. Brain Echoes
31. The 'Escee' Bluff Switch
34. The Astromental Prediction, Mark 1
37. The Astromental Prediction, Mark 2
39. The Master's Miracle Reading
44. Conclusion

Here are 25 tricks with ESP cards. Some are impromptu (marked below with a single star), some require a bit of preparation (marked below with two stars), and a few require more involved preparation such as gimmicked cards (marked below with three stars).

Most are suitable for jumbo ESP cards as well as regular poker or bridge sized cards. And most use only a single deck of ESP cards.

1st edition 1978; original 29 pages; PDF 32 pages.

4. Dedication
5. Contents
6. Author's Preface
7. Foreword
8. Guessing Gordon*
9. Psycho-Symbol*
10. A Five Star Miracle**
11. The Magical Match-Maker**
12. Mental Simplicity*** ...

Like a nail writer only more practical. For years mentalists have been racking their brains trying to find the perfect solution as to how to make an ink writer. Scott Xavier has found a practical solution you can make yourself.

Unlike other systems, there's no cutting of ink cartridges, instead everything needed can be picked up at a local office supply store! You will also need an old thumb tip. In this video Xavier takes you through the steps to constructing the ink writer as well as how to use it in action.

1st edition 2011; runtime 15 minutes

If telepathy was real, what would it look like?

It's often said that twins possess the uncanny ability to know what the other is thinking, feel what they are feeling. A couple in love often finish each other's sentences. You know when a close friend you haven't heard from in years is on the other end of the phone before you lift the reciever.

Is this kind of unexplainable thought reading capability possible to simulate?

• The Touch is a brand new technique of coding between two performers or a performer and an accomplice.
• This technique could be employed outside of the given routine...

One of the greatest publicity effects ever conceived that can result in free front page publicity worth thousands of dollars.

The effect is that a reporter drives YOUR car while you sit in the front seat on a back country road. After considerable concentration, you cause the engine to stall, and the car coasts to a stop. No attempt by the reporter will start the car. Finally, you get out of the car and place your hands on the hood and concentrate. The reporter is now able to start the car! Another variation has another car passing by that is caused to stall and stops dead in the highway....

Have you ever done a headline prediction and had someone say, "If you knew that was going to happen, then why didn't you try to stop it?"

Now you can apparently change the future and save lives, by stopping things you have foreseen from happening! This is a proven method that Devin Knight has used. It is the same method that caused an audience to give him a two-minute standing ovation for saving a person's life.

The effect is tied in with any headline prediction you are doing for publicity. The press is there to cover your predictions. However, a prediction turns out to be wrong. You then...

Inspired by the classic 13 Steps to Mentalism, Step #9 Mediumistic Stunts is Paul Voodini's very personal look at the world of seance and paranormal entertainment. This extensive manuscript looks at Ouija boards and glass moving, the use of pendulums, table-tipping, red light phenomena, the spirit conductive rope, and the black out seance.

Although Paul has previously written extensively on the subject of seance and paranormal entertainment, this is all new text with Paul going into great detail on many aspects that he has never talked about before. Whether you are an experienced seance...

The owners of this ebook can get Advanced Brain Knewmerology for half price.

This is a unique mind reading routine. It possesses a rare set of qualities. It is absolutely prop less and it can be done totally impromptu. Also, you can read 2 minds at a time. This works equally well one-on-one, close-up group, parlor, walk around, street, platform or even remotely on phone or skype.

This is completely self working and instantly repeatable with a different outcome each time. Very easy to perform. You can perform it within 10 minutes of reading the instructions. No electronics, no stooges, no preshow and no sleights. ...

The owners of Brain Knewmerology can get this ebook for half price.

A participant mentally chooses a precious stone. Another participant mentally chooses any day of the week. The performer not only divines both these thoughts but also deduces some related thoughts as well.

An absolute reputation maker in the right hands. This is a more advanced mind reading routine when compared to my Brain Knewmerology. It is still more impossible and stunning from the audience point of view.

Nothing is spoken or announced by the participants.

And it possesses the same set of rare qualities.

• It is absolutely prop less and it can...

Performer shows a prediction envelope on both sides and keeps it on the table in full view. A normal deck of cards is freely shuffled by a participant and she starts dealing the cards face down on to the table. She stops anywhere she wants. Totally free choice.The card she stopped at is accurately predicted in the envelope.

A cool routine The Kohtalo (which in Finnish means destiny or fate) is included along with an alternate handling and multiple options for ending clean. The included second edition contains many tips and ideas graciously shared by Mr. Houdini. The included third edition...

The owners of this ebook can get Wallet Brain Knewmerology for half price.

The great response to Brain Knewmerology and Advanced Brain Knewmerology is the motivation to build further on them and the result is a mind boggling triple impact routine. Here one single effort gives triple payoff. This is the brain knewmerology principle on steroids.

One list with over 100 items. Three participants. Three choices. Nothing is spoken. Yet the performer divines all their thoughts exactly.

Almost propless and self working and instantly repeatable with different outcomes. Just one list to carry in your wallet along with a few of your business cards and you are absolutely...

If you own Sensory Brain Knewmerology or buy along with this, you can get this ebook for half price.

Just 3 cards for you to carry in your wallet or pocket. One mystic card, one emotional card and one funny card. All are business card size. All are pre-written (or pre-printed if you so wish.) And you are ready to perform anytime, anywhere to anyone.

You can, at a moment's notice, entertain a single person or a small group by involving up to 6 participants.

Completely self working. Instant repeatable with different outcomes. Nothing to reset. Easy to perform. No stooges. No sleights. No preshow.

The main routine...

A Close-Up Mental Mystery with Business Cards

Effect:

The performer displays three business cards. One is handed to a spectator, who is instructed to write the name of a loved one on the blank side of the card. They then turn it face down on the other two cards, and mix them up so the location of this card is unknown to anyone. They lay them out in a row.

The performer then uses his mental abilities to correctly isolate the card with the name on it. Finally, without touching that card, he correctly reveals the name itself!

Greg Arce: "I can see this being something to easily carry around...

Beyond Heaven is a PDF and video project on a series of effects which relate to the plots of Saint and Sinner divination form photos (close up version) and a Living and Dead Test which is suitable for stage, parlor and close-up acts.

Effect 1 (Basic effect Outline)

Living and Dead Test: stage, parlor and close-up version

Even before the show starts you hand your spectator a picture in a photo frame which is one half of a complete photo and an old newspaper article, which acts as a prediction. Then you hand the other spectator a stack of photos which are torn in half, and the spectator...

This also includes Future Test 2020 and Future Test 2022. This routine can also be performed in a virtual show over Skype, Zoom, Instragram Live, Facebook Live or even a basic one to one video call.

Future Test is a 'packs small plays big' kind of effect. Actually packs very small in your wallet and plays very big to a full room or in a virtual show or even over a video call. This effect is done on the back of your business card which you can later leave with the participant as a souvenir or send over to the participant's phone as a virtual image as a 'digital souvenir'.

The performer...

A-C B-T is an unconventional instant access billet tear, that is very quick and easy and can be executed with a minimum of fumbling. Two versions are being taught. Ideal for instant access or a delayed read. There are no fiddly moves and the peek pops into view and disappears just as quick.

1st edition 2020, PDF 10 pages.

Ezorb stands for "Easy to Absorb Zodiac Resource Booklet". It contains several special tools, ideas, and inputs for improving, polishing, or embellishing your performances of zodiac-related effects and routines. No routines are included.

1st edition 2021, PDF 17 pages.

A minimalist storytelling mentalism card routine.

"This is a truly thoughtful and beautiful presentation - the sort of thing that really warms my heart. The presentation here is the thing. And what's really nice about it, is that it is easily adaptable to other effects if one so desires. I love it!" - Sudo Nimh

A special competition was underway at a famous monastery and all the monks were quite eager to do well. The Master had pointed out a very special tree that lived in the woods surrounding the monastery grounds and the monks had been asked to write a story about this tree. The winner...

Perhaps the worst enemy of any mentalism is being challenged with the following words: “Well if you are a mind reader can you read my mind?”

Working as the house mind reader at America's oldest magic bar the safe-house Scott has developed a series of hard hitting effects that can be performed with little or no props. This is ebook one of a series of books that will explore the various effects he has developed over the past few years hustling customers at the magic bar.

In this ebook Scott is proud to reveal the secret to his "New Grail" effect. Where the mentalist lays out five ESP...

"This is my favorite effect of the year." - Rob Jacks

"David Jonathan is one of my favorite creators... and this is one of the very BEST effects I've reviewed in a long time, and the BEST effect for the money. It's an absolute steal." - Rick Carruth (The Magic Roadshow)

"This effect is an almost perfect example of a great self-working trick. It gets my highest recommendation for anyone who loves impactful magic with a theme that suits both adult and children audiences. 10/10!" - Alex Hui (Alex Magic Review)