Mentalism & Spiritism in Magic & Conjuring: page 13

This volume is about Character building and Storytelling. From one of the world’s top mentalist probably this is one of the most valuable information you can learn. In this volume Peter Turner talk’s about the following topics:

• Why is finding your character is so important?
• Do you have to tell stories in your act?
• How to construct a story
• Philip Larkin’s rule of thirds
• Do people believe it?
• What makes someone fake?
• Being believable
• PDE vs. MDE
• The Fortune Cookie
• Little methaphorical moments
• Beautiful symphony
• The Approach
• The Shakes

1st edition 2016, 48 pages.

Join Peter Turner in an exploration of "Observational Mentalism". If you like mentalism that is simple and uses less known psychological techniques, this is for you. Observe, watch carefully for subtle cues and read minds like no other. Open your eyes, open your mind and get this eBook full with new applications and effects that look incredible and at the same time, credible mentalism. Not just ideas and routines from Peter, but also contributions from Fraser Parker, Ben Cardall, Kenton Knepper and more.

1st edition 2016, 130 pages.

This ebook teaches the illusion of hypnosis; you don't need to be a hypnotist to perform these mind blowing effects.

Hypnosis is one of the purest and real forms of mentalism; in essence you are apparently a true master of mind control, with the ability to make anyone do anything you wish. With great power comes great responsibility. From mentalism effects with a hypnosis flavour, to self working hypnosis-esque miracles, it's all in here. If you have followed the rest of the monthly course volumes, you'll know that each month is packed with effects, routines, principles and ideas from a range...

Throughout the duration of this volume Peter pays tribute to the giants that have come before us.

Too many times the classics are dismissed as outdated or no longer relevant because of the props utilised in those texts.

In this volume Peter examines routines by Orville Meyer, Martin Gardner, Theodore Annemann, Bev Bergeron, Bob Cassidy, Michael Mence, Corinda and Richard Osterlind to open the readers eyes to just how relevant a lot of the classics are today whilst adding a twist and update to those ideas and routines.

This may be your favorite volume from the series.

1st edition 2017, 126 pages....

Two devious peek devices for mentalists.

Every mentalist needs an arsenal of peek methods, be that a device, or a folding peek. The Peeks of Chaos contains two peek devices, each using the card box: the "Mockra Peek", and the "Meanas Peek". Each method is very deceptive, and the peek happens at a natural moment, with no funny movements.

1st edition 2017, length 30 min

• Doctor Bob Live and in Persona!
• A Day at the Movies
• Doctor Bob's Opening Routine
• Doctor Bob's Killer Miller Caps
• The Billet Reading Portfolio
• Smear and Hear
• BONUS: Questions and Answers about Dr Bob and his important message to you!

1st edition 2002, 17 pages.

Great mentalism routines most don't know about.

• Foreword
• Chapter One: A Couple Of Starters
  • Is There A Mind-Reader In The House?
  • Technique Of The Swami
  • Swami Four-Thought
• Chapter Two: Something More Than Coincidence?
  • A Word From Atlantis
  • The Ultimate Seventh Key To Baldpate
  • Will Dexter's Routine For - Seven Keys To Baldpate
• Chapter Three: E.S.P. Of One Kind Or Another
  • Those E.S.P. Cards - Were They Designed By A Conjurer?
  • The Psychogram Test
  • The Third Eye
• Chapter Four: They Need To Laugh Sometimes, Don't They?
  • Will Dexter's Spirit Message Slates
  • Electro-Static...

With thanks to Leo Behnke for the initial concept from his book Corporate Presentations and his permission to share it here, this has proven itself an energy producing closer for many of my corporate shows over the past twenty-five years.

The magician proposes a fun game of Bingo to close his program, and Bingo cards are distributed to everyone in the audience. As the magician hosts the game - drawing and calling the numbers, audience members begin to cross out squares on their Bingo sheets with each person crossing out different squares from those around them. Due to the fact that there are sixteen completely different...

This is not so much an effect in itself, but a concept and a simple, logical piece of script that enables you to perform seemingly fair-looking and direct prediction routines, with variables that are apparently freely provided by audience members. This was originally conceived for live performances; however it is discussed in this write-up as adapted for Nique Tan's virtual show, "Nique Tan: Online".

The Effect:

At the end of the show, the performer calls attention to 12 attendees. He tells everyone that before the show, he gave each of them a special assignment via private messages,...

"I am delighted by this book. Not only the methods, but many brand-new themes. Mentalists look for this, as they can tire themselves and the audience with seemingly repeated effects. Michael has dug deep and I look forward to using some of these on stage. BTW, for those who care, there are many new methods. Michael knows what he is writing about. Confident, sincere, original. I love it." - Marc Salem

Card Mentalism is a collection of simple but effective mentalism effects with cards. These effects have been field tested and require no complicated moves to execute leaving you, the performer, to concentrate solely on your presentation.

The effects included in this PDF are:

ANIMAL PREDICTION: A cute mentalism effect involving cards bearing animal pictures on them. Although the cards are mixed by the spectator both he and the mind reader end up on the identical animal card as if by coincidence.

ESTIMATION: A deck of playing cards is introduced and shuffled. A spectator is instructed...

Explorations of a 100% hands-off "volunteer as psychic" plot and method.

"I find 'Entropy Dropping' an amazing piece of work. Jan creates a world of new possibilities and I doubt anyone else could have tackled the topic as thoroughly. Every nuance is addressed. Many applications are covered. Accompanying his explanation are dozens of routines. Being a card man at heart, I was especially attracted to the four card magic chapters. Great inspiration all! I envy Jan's clarity and how painstakingly thorough he is in explaining the material and creating so many effects. I know how difficult that...

"Most of us only know how to show off with our magic skills, Adam is putting his to worthwhile and inspiring use. Excellent stuff." - Derren Brown

"This book is full of original ideas for the mentalist performer, I wholeheartedly recommend it." - Marc Oberon

• Introduction by Marc Oberon
• A Named Card in Envelope:...

"Bob Farmer is an interesting man, who creates interesting magic, and that's all one would need to know. With Mind Reader he has once again topped himself, as it might very well blow your mind!" - Roberto Giobbi

"Compared to fully gaffed decks that accomplish the same effect, Bob's work gets you to the selected card faster and leaves you with a deck that can be examined/used for other effects. Final Rating (1-10, 10 being best): I rate this a solid 8 on 10 and a strong recommendation, especially if you are a fan of Bob's other works." - Chris Aguilar

"I have never seen Bob Farmer perform. I have never...

A special offer for the holiday setting of small groups and unknown audiences. A demonstration of enhanced empathic/telepathic awareness and influence ideal for casual events with an unknown audience. Very old techniques and methods are applied in a new way that can be entertaining but are also very impactful. There is a lot of material here beyond the effect description: presentation theory, psychology, volunteer selection, and more.

There are three different approaches for presenting this routine: Triple Influence, Prelude and Embrace. The latter two use advanced techniques of Aware&Cue,...

The presentation of a magic effect is linked to many aspects, from the personality of the performer to the type of audience, to the type of show to be staged. Mentalism is only a pretext, it lends itself better than other spells to the discussion, especially on the definition of the character, the construction of the story, on the revelation. What we will analyze is not only useful for those who want to be a mentalist, but it is a stimulus to the realization of any magical effect and to improve one's communication process, with anyone on any subject. It's a mini-course in communication/NLP...

Hardly anybody knows Gene Marvin today. During the 1970s and 80s, he was a successful mentalist billed as "The 21st Century Man". He was all over the magic press, performing left and right, TV bits, and corporate work. Then he dropped off the radar. This is the book he released during the 1970s.

Excerpt from the introduction:

This product includes Scripted #42: Mentalism Fail-Safe.

Have you ever wanted to do mentalism without a mentalism theme? Where someone writes a word on an index card and you figure out what the word is?

A tried and true method that is simple, deceptive, and very well covered. One that doesn't use a peek, and doesn't require that you memorize anything. A routine and script that justifies each and every part of the trick with very little in the way of props.

You will receive a video recording of a performance. And as a bonus, a fail-safe concept, 3 different handlings, and 2 different scripts are given in case anything...

Written by paranormal entertainer Stephen Ward, this ebook is designed to help and inspire you to be original when performing paranormal entertainment. Inside the ebook you will find a wealth of information concerning subjects such as choice of material, character development and planning a show. You will find out about popular storylines, planning a script and the basics of writing it. Although there are no routines in the book there are plenty of ideas to help give you the confidence to write and perform your own material. All of the tips and ideas have been used to create real shows for real...

Dee Christopher's work on the John Riggs Add-A-Number pad from The Psychic Agenda^*.

With the Broken Wings device, you can easily:

• Predict impossible things
• Make writing appear, disappear or transform
• Create dual realities
• Force cards
• Automatic writing without special pens
• Peek information
• Drawing Duplications
• Switch billets or cards

There are no complex mechanisms to go wrong, no technology to fail,...

A collection of thoughts.

Belief is the new ebook on mentalism by Dee Christopher. In this ebook, not only will you find some versatile techniques and a devestating full close up mind reading act, you will also find several essays on creating the most powerful demonstrations possible and making the demonstrations that you already do ten times more powerful.

The ebook also contains the full explanation of 2009's The Isolation Experiment video. A demonstration Dee devised using a readily available but under used prop to create the illusion of bending a fork while it's completely isolated....

This new ebook picks up where Belief left off, not only will you learn some incredible effects and techniques, you will also learn some of Dee's thoughts on performance and he'll teach you some of his techniques to improve your performances and make them ten times more powerful.

In this brand new installment, you will learn some brand new, never before published material, the ebook features:

Building Trust & Rapport: Getting over the first hurdle when approaching a new table or group of people, destroy any preconceptions they may have and get them on your side instantly.

Blinded: A propless...

Four years have passed since I released the original Pieces at 3am. The book that came to be one of Dee's best selling collections and the single publication that spawned most variations by other artists of his original thoughts and ideas.

Dee has had the thought of doing a second volume for years, but he has never had the correct collection of effects and concepts that he felt could adhere to the original thought. All of the effects in the original book were ideas that came to him as he woke in a cold sweat at night. They were pieces that entered his conscious mind after dark, usually at around 3 am. ...

• Powerful.
• Easy to do.
• 100% Success rate.
• No markings or magnetics.
• Brand new method.
• Logical items to carry
• Can be performed in any situation.
• 1 minute set up and you're good for hundreds of performances.

"Dee Christopher has managed to find an exciting and original way to introduce a dangerous stage classic to the close-up arena. A marvel idea from an amazing artist." - Daniel Madison

"Great bit of original thinking mixed in with the prospect of burning things. Double win! Sadly, it always works...so it's terrible for pyromaniacs." - Paul Brook Mind Reader

From the introduction by Dee...