Mentalism & Spiritism in Magic & Conjuring: page 42

PK stands for psychokinesis - moving or altering objects with the power of your mind. The four effects in this ebook show you how to bend and fuse coins, keys and how to break a fork in two. Some professionals have built a career with a few tricks like these. Everything is clearly described including photos. These are powerful effects, and for the price it is more than a bargain.

VisiBend
The performer borrows a quarter and places it on his left palm. Using only the tip of his right index finger, he causes the coin to visibly bend into a C shape. The bent coin can immediately be handed out...

A number of cool metal bending, breaking and joining effects.

Bent
A nail, first given out for examination, is held in the left hand and stroked with the right index finger. The nail is seen to visibly bend backward and is once again given out for examination. The performer’s hands are otherwise empty.

Fractured
A nail is shown and may be examined, dropped to the table, and covered with the right hand. Directing a burst of mental energy at the nail, the performer moves his hand away to show the nail is now broken into pieces. Everything may be examined and the performer’s hands are...

Imagine, you show your hands empty front and back. You give a key on a key ring to the audience for examination. You take the key ring back and gently stroke the key. Suddenly the key begins to move on its ring. It jerks and bobs as if manipulated by invisible fingers. It rises in an eerie fashion until it’s extending horizontally from the ring. Then with a mere snap of your fingers the animation ceases. You give the key out for examination once more and show your hands to be unequivocally empty.

This ebook comes with clear and descriptive photos. Points To Remember:

• Starts clean and...

You could start this effect like this:

Have you ever known a great salesman? I mean the kind of person who consistently outperforms his colleagues, who’s able to maintain a high level of sales even during economic slumps? Some years ago I became aware of a study of such individuals, and what was especially intriguing is that each seemed to have the innate ability to project his will upon others, to influence prospective customers in such a way that they invariably did what he wanted. I began to wonder if it was possible to hone one’s own influence to such a degree, and I’d like to share...

Here you will find an ESP Card trick, three PK tricks, one trick with a regular deck, and a book test.

• An ESP Cards Effect
• Mini-Miraculous
• A Numbered Affair
• Misdirection Washer Bend
• Raw Metal
• A Subtle Dime Bend

1st edition 2012, 12 pages.

Five haunted tales for bizarre magic performances. Includes the full script of each 5-10 minute story plus information and complete instructions on how to make and use a correlated magic effect in each presentation. Includes stories from Jim's professional working repertoire, The Invisible Man, Aunt Cora's Haunted Toy, The Ghost of the Lafayette Hotel, The Steampunk You, and the eerie, nostalgic and scary For Whom The Bell Tolls. Audience-tested routines just as they are used by Jim in his bizarre Ohio Spirits programs. Also includes a section on how to put together a spirit show, where to present...

• Foreword
• OBSERVATIONS RE. 'HORROR MAGIC'
• SECTION I: GLOWING HORRORS
  • Hand Of Glory
  • Midnight Seance
  • Poltergeist
  • The Haunted Trumpet
  • Cat Eyes
  • Good Evening Death
  • The Wheel Of Fire
  • The Spirit Of Jesse Harkins
  • The Astral Spirit
  • Count Zartoff
• SECTION II: CHEMICAL CHILLERS
  • Demonolatry
  • To Catch A Vampire
  • Bottled Vampire
  • Night Of The Yeti
  • Picture A Demon
  • Doctor Frankenstein, I Presume!
  • Speak Of The Devil!
  • Black Serpent
  • How To Kill A Ghost
• SECTION III: FRIGHTS WITH CONJURORS' APPARATUS
  • Gargoyle
  • Khaibit Serpent
  • To Conjure A Demon
  • Shrunken Head
  • The Hand Of Kranus ...

A bizarre magic issue.

• Bizarre Magic in Restaurants? by Eugene Burger
• Walking Around Bizarre-ly by Joe Lantiere
• In The Trenches with Paul Green
• My Turn by Jim Sisti
• Here's a Tip...Accept Only Gems! by Scott Wells
• Ask the Only by Al The Only
• Reviews
  • "Futureclock" by Kuniyasu Fujiwara and Tooru Suzuki
  • "Automatic Miracle Deck" by Bodie Blake
  • "Die-Cipher" by Chazpro Magic Co.
  • "Randy's Rainbow Deck" by Randy Wakeman
  • "Greater Magic" by John Northern Hilliard
  • "The Pass" by Gary Ouellet
  • "Dai Vernon's Secrets of Magic" by Dai Vernon and Bruce Cervon and "Ultra Cervon" by Bruce Cervon
  • "From the Bottom Up" by Jerry Camaro ...

• Mentalism Up-Close by Mark Strivings
• In the Trenches with Paul Green
• The Bar Fly by Simon Lovell
• The Power of Inflation by Larry Moss
• Ask The Only by Al The Only
• My Turn by Jim Sisti
• Reviews
  • "Ultimate Brainwave" by Bob Solari
  • "Dishonest Abe" by Gregory Wilson
  • "Workers 5" by Michael Close
  • "The Restaurant Worker's Handbook" by Jim Pace and Jerry MacGregor
• 1996 Magic Menu Awards
• Thirty-Seven by Mark Strivings
• 50-50-50 Chance by Mark Strivings
• ESP in my Pocket by Mark Strivings
• The Last Word by Chris Hurlbert

The performer hands five ESP cards, each bearing a different symbol, to a spectator and requests that he remember one. The spectator is then asked to shuffle the cards. The magician takes the cards back and, after an apparently fair mixing procedure, correctly divines the selected symbol without even looking at the faces.

The method uses an old mathematical ploy but it is dressed up differently here.

This effect was featured in the May 2005 issue of Magic Magazine.

1st digital edition 2014, 2 pages.

Another masterpiece from Arthur Buckley written together with John Brown Cook. Only 125 copies were printed, but now again available as a digital download. It comes with an introduction by the great John Mulholland.

This is a collection of 33 extremely practical and entertaining mental routines primarily for stage and parlor. They are all clearly described. There are not that many great books on mental magic. This one is definitely one of them.

1st edition, 1947, privately printed, Chicago; 132 pages.

1. Preface
5. Devious Digits
9. It's A Small World
12. Astral Addition
15. Projection
18. Pennies, Nickles and Dimes ...

"All the items are varied and interesting and make a good collection of strong, practical card magic" – Peter Duffie

"BSBCS is very clever" – Richard Osterlind

"What the hell is an ebook?" – his mum

If you have read Mind Blasters you will have encountered one effect by John Holt. John became gutsy and released his own ebook with a collection of close-up card and mentalism effects. He also describes two moves, an excellent full deck overhand false shuffle and a double lift.

• False Overhand Shuffle
• Twirl Double Lift
• BSBCS: A spectator shuffles a deck, which can be borrowed, the performer turns...

Anyone, armed with the basic knowledge provided in this ebook, can perform exactly the same stunts that TV psychics perform on television. All you need is 90% nerve and 10% knowledge.

• The Show
• How Does This All Work?
• Secrets Of The TV Demonstration
• The Audience As Spoon Benders
• Should We Care?

1st edition 1986, 1st digital edition 2013, 11 pages.

"Lifts the lid on all the real secrets of the top TV mind readers." - Steve Crabb, NLP MASTER Trainer

You will learn how to ...

• Suggest playing cards, images and pictures.
• Create powerful hypnotic phenomena, without formal hypnosis.
• Use suggestion and influence with contact muscle reading.
• Learn failsafe methods for practicing these effects.
• Become a more persuasive and powerful communicator.
• Learn how to spot trance states and utilize them in entertainment. And much much more.

"The Art of Suggestion and Influence is a gold mind and must have for any one who wants to...

Cartomancy for the Non-Cartomancer is a collection of two treatises on the art of giving readings with cards. The best card trick John ever did was to tell a diner cook "everything going on around me". You can do the same. Not overnight, but quickly and easily. No cold reading, no spiel reading, no gimmicks or gaffs, just plain old fashioned fortune telling.

1st edition 2008; 26 pages.

This work covers a lot of ground, from various parlor tricks, chemical tricks, card tricks, to a section on two person codes, and a section on artifices of cardsharks.

• description Of The Magician's Table
• How To Make A Person Jump
• The Invisible Chicken, Or Enchanted Egg Bag, As Performed By The Celebrated Wyman
• Scrap, Or Blowing Book, As Performed By Potter
• Gun Cotton - How Prepared
• Sympathetic Inks
• Apparatus For Writing In The Dark
• Dancing Turkeys
• The Self-Balanced Pail
• Sympathetic Lamp
• The Gas Candle
• Ice Made In A Red Hot Vessel
• Magical Colours
• The Magic Nosegay Blowing At The...

Explorations, examples, and routines using equivoque.

Hobson's Choice: the choice of taking either what is offered or nothing else; the absence of choice. [after Thomas Hobson (1544-1631) of Cambridge, England, who rented horses and gave only one choice, that of the horse nearest the stable door]

A retrospective look at Dai Vernon's Five-Card Mental Force.

• Introduction
• The Prototypal Version From Early Vernon
• A Woolgather's Aside
• My Skirmish with the Five-Card Mental Force
• 30 Years Passed
• Five Card Mental Farce / David Acer
• Max on Five-Card Mental Force / Max Maven
• Outtings
• Rescuing the Five-Card Mental Force / Allan Slaight
• The Ultra Effect / Paul Rylander
• Dai-Cipher / Phil Goldstein
• I Have It / Edward Marlo
• Psyboards / Tom Frame
• Indisputably Predictable / Jon Racherbaumer
• Post Mortem

The Bite is a very useful and subtle principle that allows you to mark billets or cards in a unique and exceedingly clever way. The cool part is that the marking is unknowingly done by the spectators themselves without them knowing what is going on. This is perfect because you can have your back turned to them or even be in another room while they are following your instructions.

This idea is not completely new, but pretty obscure and most likely you will be unfamiliar with it. It was first published by Bob Ostin in his 1974 living and dead test entitled 'Vampire'. Later, Tom Stone published...

This is a compilation of three of Prager's effects.

1. The Bite (a way to secretly mark billets)
2. Peeki (a peek wallet)
3. Genocidio (a variation on Kenton Knepper's Kolossal Killer avoiding 'the out')

1st edition 2011; 16 pages.

This is an ebook test. Yes, not a book test done with actual paper copies, but rather a book test done with ebooks, PDF ebooks that is. The advantage here is that you can perform it wherever you have your smartphone, tablet or iPad with you. (For another ebook test see Dracula Ebook Test.)

Effect: A spectator selects any one of seven ebooks, turns to the page of his/her choice as you look away. The spectator concentrates on one word and you name it, even though you don't know the page and there is no fishing.

You will get the following ebooks:

• "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens
• "Around the World...

A deviously clever drawing duplication using an ungaffed, store-bought pad.

"WOW, I just got this today and really like it. It is so simple and to the point that I can’t believe no one has thought of this until now! I have played around with this and think that I like this better than my IMPs pads. No kidding!" - Ray Noble

"Thanks Jose, you have come up with another gem." - NeilS

"Nicely done J. Prager, this is some clever stuff, a great lil peek device." - jaybest

"Love your stuff! Bob Nelson and Al Koran, both very dear friends, would have enjoyed your thinking a great deal....

Remote viewing, mind reading, song revelations, predictions and more... All with an iPhone or iTouch. (Some Android phones can be used for this too).

Swipeit is impromptu, can be performed with a spectator's phone and no special apps or software are needed. Absolutely no funny or illogical moves are involved.

Also featuring additional creative routines and ideas from the minds of Ran Pink, Mauricio Jaramillo and Paul Carnazzo that will give you plenty of concepts to experiment with.

Have an easy remote viewing routine and some very powerful mind reading effects at hand any time you meet someone....

It’s a peek wallet…without the wallet!

Evil Twin is an easy-to-make / easy-to-use gimmick that allows you to obtain information in a super-clean way. You will need some blank business cards or other small cards one can write on.

"It is a very clever idea and will be making one up straight away." - Carl at The Magic Café

"This is an excellent, portable p**k device that will be on me at all times." - Anthony Brandonissio

"I like my mentalism simple and the more I play about with this effect the more I like it." - NeilS

"Jose just keeps putting out those …Wow, I wish I thought...