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The Annotated M.I.N.T. series grows. Thanks to Ed Marlo and Wesley James, M.I.N.T III, IV, V, VI, and Annotated M.I.N.T. 1963 through 1966 are already available. The release of this volume takes another major step toward the availability of the entire run of Marlo In New Tops material with Wesley's extensive annotations, supplemental, and Bonus material. The content of this volume is notable for the range it explores. It includes eleven articles, Ed missing only in April. Three of Ed's contributions are of special note. One is pivotal to the development of Bottom Deal techniques, another is the basis...

This is a physical product that will be shipped to you. The accompanying pdf can be downloaded instantly from your digital shelf.

Visper Telepathy stands for Visual Perception Telepathy. This is an extraordinary set of mindreading effects using only colors and shapes making it a very visual piece of mentalism.

The underlying principle here is a novel and innovative concept of an Invisible Magic Square where the principles of a magic square are used invisibly without using numbers in a grid. However, this is a completely different approach to my earlier Why A Magic Square Should Not Be a Magic Square ebook.

WHAT YOU GET: You get...

Insights from within delves into the transformative power of self-reflection and inner wisdom.

In a world filled with distractions, this eBook invites you to explore the depths of your own consciousness and uncover profound truths of the Art of Magic. It is both thought-provoking and a path to self-discovery that can help you to cultivate clarity, resilience, and authentic growth.

Let's embark on a soul-stirring journey that will awaken your innermost insights and unlock your true potential.

In this first of the six planned volumes of Reflections, the topics covered are:

• Magic as...

Vol. 19, No. 2, May 2023; 60 pages

Cover: Chris Cross

4. Welcome to Issue #110 - Editor's comments
4. The Team
4. What's Inside
6. Reader's Letters
8. Chris Cross - cover article
   14. Conjuring After Covid
   16. The Chris Cross Convention
   16. What's Next
18. Masterclass
    18. Tribute to Mullica - Michael O'Brien
    19. Coin Switch - An Alternative Handling for the Bobo - Gregg Webb
    20. Reaper - Brian Johnson
21. New Quick change World Record Set by Solange Kardinaly & Arkadio
22. The Right Cube for the Job - Kev G
26. The Bochord Club - Iain Moran
    • Focus by Phil Goldstein
28. Classic One-Liners - Bob Monkhouse ...

A spectator is handed an invisible deck and is asked to spread the cards and note that all the red cards are bunched together and all the black cards are assembled together. Splitting the deck so that he holds all the invisible red cards in one hand and all the blacks in the other, he hands over one half which is placed by a second spectator into the invisible cards box.

Now the cards are spread again and the spectator is asked to note that all the court cards are together, and all the spot cards are together. Splitting them into their two groups he is invited to hand either section over...

A collection of visual magic to add to your standup act.

• Dedication
• Author
• Foreword
• Candle Shell
• Candle Ring: With this setup, a Fantasio vanishing candle can be held at the middle and tossed from hand to hand, and then instantly vanished. This has been reprinted from my book Stage Cool.
• Color Change: A white, lit candle changes quite spectacularly into a red candle. The color change is done openly and it is very startling to the audience.
• Pocket Scarf Vanish: A red pocket scarf is placed in front of a red candle. The scarf magically adheres to the candle. In a flash, the pocket scarf...

A revelation of a freely selected card.

EFFECT: The performer places an envelope containing a prediction on the table. He shows a deck of cards, and he begins to deal cards onto the table. A spectator says 'stop' at any moment he likes. The stopped-at card is placed aside and kept by the spectator who chose it. Several cards before and after the selection are clearly shown to be all different, while the performer states that the spectator could have stopped him on any of them. The spectator reveals the chosen card, for example, the King of Spades, and the prediction is seen to be a Jumbo...

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:

You will learn a new way of handling a silk vanish. This is accomplished with a thumb tip or dye tube. A real crowd-pleaser. Very angle-proof chock full of misdirection, and deceptive handling. Not the typical silk vanish. I have been performing this version for 25 years because ... it is different. This silk vanish throws everyone off of the scent of the thumb tip.

Edition 2.5 2023; video 14:13

Dedicated to those kindred spirits who also tread the seldom trod paths of strange and unearthly magic. This weird concoction, known as 'Witches' Brew', is offered to necromancers, sorcerers, and all those nighthawks who dabble in the strange and mysterious. Long may your midnight oil burn and your candles splutter in your pursuit of the Forbidden Arts.

• The Power Of The Pentagram
• Out Of The Body
• Ten Talons Of Taz
• Power Of The Mummy
• Ritual Of El Shaitan
• Old Mother Long Nose
• Pages From The Book Of Thoth
• Mirror Of Fate
• Dial H .....! For Hell
• Catch Me A Demon
• The Whispering Skull ...

Erklärungen der wirkungsvollsten Kunststücke zum Wunderkartenspiel.

Mit einem Wunderkartenspiel war ein konisches Spiel gemeint. Damit sind schwierige Griffe und Kartenkontrollen eliminiert. Sämtliche Kunststücke können von jedermann sofort vorgeführt werden.

• Das Wunderkartenspiel
  • Das Finden gezogener Karten
• KUNSTSTÜCKE, welche sich mit dem WUNDERKARTENSPIEL ausführen lassen
  • Die aus einem Glase verschwindenden Karten
  • Die roten und die schwarzen Karten
  • Links oder rechts
  • Die drei behexten Pakete
  • Das Rendez-vous der vier As-Karten
  • Er und Sie
  • Die wievielte Karte?
  • Ein...

Il grandissimo Lewis Ganson è stato un vero maestro nell’arte di descrivere e insegnare routines di grandi prestigiatori da tutto il mondo. Molti dicono che le sue spiegazioni dettagliate siano pari all’insegnamento in presenza. Le sue spiegazioni hanno il pregio di essere sempre chiare e accompagnate da foto esplicative. Oggi ti presentiamo, per la prima volta in italiano, la sua accurata e completa descrizione di una spettacolare routine di Aldo Colombini. Leggi attentamente perché, te lo assicuriamo, ne vale la pena.

Ecco cosa dice Ganson Stesso:

Have you ever wanted to perform a card linking with a card signed by the spectator? With this method, it is possible to link a signed card with itself, and in the end, give it away as a souvenir. The preparation of one card takes about 7-8 minutes.

1st edition 2023, video 1h 6 min.

This is a Print & Perform routine.

Bold Bet is a powerful routine where you bet a $100 bill (you can use any denomination bill, of course) that you will be able to accurately influence the thoughts of your participant. In each routine 5 poker-size cards are used (you can print these 5 cards in any size you may want).

There are three different routines explained with different themes.

1. Bond Routine : You use 5 well-known Bond actors for this routine. The participant chooses one of the actors and you prove in a very novel manner that you have successfully influenced your participant....

Excerpt from the foreword:

• Foreword
• Part One: Satanic Sorcery
  • Introduction
  • Riches By Sorcery
  • Spirit Photography
  • Cards Of Horror
  • Saint Or Devil?
  • Stab In The Dark
  • Key Of Fate
  • Mentalism...

This is the answer of spirit mediums to the book Spookland which revealed some tricks and spirit medium frauds.

Excerpt from the Preface:

A collection of cool magic effects to heat up your stage performance.

• Dedication
• Purple / Green Santa
• Author
• Sparkle Matches: Matches are produced lit in your magic act, with electrical sparks showering off them. The sparks accentuate the lit match productions.
• Confetti Packets: Produce a burst of shiny mylar confetti at any time during your magic act.
• Throw Streamer Packet: A colorful burst of throw streamers appears at any point in your act. This setup makes them easy to steal from any pocket, table, scarf, or any place you wish.
• Funbrella: At the end of a scarf routine, an umbrella...

You, a spectator, a deck of cards, a miracle!

A spectator shuffles a deck of cards, you instruct them to hold the cards face up, under the table, so that only they can see them. Despite these test conditions, you apparently display a genuine feat of 'remote viewing' by attempting to name each card in turn, as if you are somehow able to 'see through the table'. With an accuracy way beyond the odds you are able to prove to your audience that they are witnessing a real demonstration of 'psychic' ability and what you claim to be true, must be possible.

This effect will completely 'blow away'...

Here Ken de Courcy took a clever cut effect by Gerald Kosky, changed it, and altered it to make it completely self-contained and also impromptu. Whilst doing this, Ken hit on another use and here you are getting two for the price of one.

EFFECT:

A borrowed pack is shuffled by the owner, then the magician extracts two cards from it, hands the cards to the spectator and asks him to place them into a convenient pocket. The deck is placed on the table and the spectator is requested to cut off about two-thirds and lay it face-up alongside the remainder. He now cuts the larger packet roughly...

The title of this eBook hides its inspiration ... The effect is totally impromptu, self-working, quick and easy to perform (only eight cards are used), does not require any kind of card magic technique, and introduces the spectator to the possibility of secretly choosing whether to lie or tell the truth in response to the few questions that the mentalist will ask him during the experiment. In spite of all this, a merely thought-out card will be punctually found at the end of the experiment.

Noting the possible whispering in the room (especially if there are fellow magicians present, I say...

Il titolo di questo eBook, che letteralmente significa “La Mia Carta Inquietante”, ne nasconde l’ispirazione ... L’effetto è totalmente impromptu, di tipo automatico, facile e veloce ad eseguirsi (si usano solamente otto carte), non richiede alcun tipo di tecnica cartomagica ed introduce per lo spettatore la possibilità di scegliere segretamente se mentire o dire il vero in risposta alle poche domande che il Mentalista gli rivolgerà durante l’esperimento. Nonostante tutto questo, una carta solamente pensata verrà puntualmente ritrovata al termine dell’esperimento!

E la...

A very effective parlor or stage effect. Cards or tickets can be used, or ESP cards or even tickets were drawn on the spot by the spectator on which to carry out an effective act of reading in the final revealing phase.

The spectator receives 4 cards, and shuffles them several times, at his discretion, while the mentalist has his back turned: at the end, he will be able to describe the correct position of all the cards.

To simplify the final phase for the performer, we propose the use of an ingenious "homemade" gimmick, which allows you to operate calmly, without fear of forgetfulness...

This is an all-mentalism issue, and the first essay is about the various kinds of mentalism, to help you describe your "powers" to your audience. These include Thought Reading, Remote Viewing, Precognition, Drawing Duplication, Clairvoyance, Psychometry, Living and Dead Tests, and also Metal Bending, and Psychic Healing (Faith Healing) and unusual "powers" such as Handwriting Analysis. Calling your feats by the correct type of power will go a long way in establishing yourself as an expert.

The next essay is about presentations that may be new to you so that your act will have more thought...

Both ebooks include original tricks using previously unreleased VR Stack Pro, which is explained in detail.