Mentalism & Spiritism in Magic & Mentalism: page 77

What was a $5 bargain in 1952 is a bigger bargain today. This valuable product should cost $59 when adjusted for inflation and we are selling it for only $12.

Excerpt from the foreword:

Now for a lousy five bucks, you can take the Counting Feint to a whole other world - a world filled with Tarot cards, mystic occultism and a crazed British madman, Aleister Crowley.

Consulting my Tarot cards, I know you will embrace my shameless hyperbole and fork out the lousy five bucks for Addendum #1 to TCF: The Counting Feint. It's a real deal.

The Addendum consists of four routines involving Tarot cards and a single killer card effect, "Blankjack" (even dice get in the show in some effects).

Any one of the routines will be sure to impress that girl in the bar with the inverted pentagram tattooed on...

The binary effect I always performed the most was called Binary Squares and it combined the binary effect with the Magic Square effect in a unique way. I have always considered this a very special effect and not only one of my best but the most enjoyable of all of my effects to perform. However, this didn't mean that there wasn't room for improvement. So I spent some time working on this, adding some new reveals, refining it, and road-testing it. Also, all the procedures that can so easily telegraph the method of binary style effects have been so well disguised that the final revelations are...

Peek, predict, switch, index.

This intro price will go up to $63 from July 15, 2024.

"200 releases is an incredible amount of material, congratulations! Well done on producing such a phenomenal amount of material, very impressive!" - Marc Paul

"I am happy for your success and I wish you a lot more!" - Luca Volpe

This is my 200th release to the magic community. A big thank you to each and every one of you for making this happen. I am humbled and overwhelmed by your patronage, support, love, friendship, and enthusiastic interactions.

Now about the Nostradum Wallet (NoW):

A special toolbox of physical...

A novel divination system using chess pieces.

"I have over thirty books and manuscripts on divination and tarot reading systems in my library and notebooks. However, because of its unique focal point (the chess pieces) and easy-to-understand explanations of various divination systems, this will be the book I will recommend for people to start their exploration of professional readings and psychic entertaining." - Rolando Santos

Jim Saylor, a 30-year veteran magical and psychic entertainer, brings to you the first-ever book on performing readings using chess pieces. As the world's foremost...

DeToxic is a modern-day approach to the classic number force.

DeToxic is not a variation of the classic TOXIC* force but utilizes a different method altogether.

• It works seamlessly on both Android and iPhones.
• It is devoid of complicated formulas.
• You won't have to worry about prematurely hitting the equals '=' sign.

What is so special about DeToxic?

• DeToxic grants you the option to clear the memory right before your audience
• It also provides you an option to restart the calculation midway during the performance without moving a muscle.

*TOXIC force is a force of a number...

The Sync Book Test is a completely impromptu routine that can be performed anytime, anywhere, using two borrowed books. It is built around a strong, consistent presentation that turns the effect into a genuine test of how in sync the mentalist and participant are. The routine centers on a coincidence between a number and a word, but it sets the stage for a compelling telepathy demonstration - framed as yet another uncanny coincidence: the mentalist is silently thinking of the exact word randomly chosen by the participant.

Here's how the effect appears to the audience:

A participant freely...

Can you recognize a wine just by its smell? Can you do it blindfolded? Can you do it without wine?

You write on three billets the name of your favorite wines (let's say for example "Gevrey-Chambertin", "Pommard", "Saint-Emilion") and display them in front of your participant. As you turn your back, you ask the participant to switch two of the "wines". And two more. It can be any two. And again, and again and again...When the participant is convinced that the wines are properly mixed, you face him, blindfolded, and ask him to hand you the "wines" one by one. You're then able to recognize...

This ebook includes a nice introduction to Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) and a range of tricks from quick effects to longer routines. Note that many of the effects described require some double-face ESP cards.

• The Study Of ESP / Arthur Hastings
• Little Miracles / U. F. Grant
• The Two Card Trick / Bert Allerton
• The Third Choice / Tony Corinda
• That's The One / Joseph White
• Signed, Sealed And Delivered / Joseph White
• Edward Marlo And ESP
  • Foreword
  • Blank Card Prediction
  • Mental Reselection
  • Under Cover Mentalism
  • Behind, Under Or Above
  • Second Method
  • Card Man's Mentalism
• One Out...

This effect has an innovative twist on the traditional Free Will plot, where the spectator makes all the choices. Yet, your prediction aligns perfectly with their selections, a feat achieved using only one prediction. This new approach utilizes a combination of psychological techniques and physical methods, all designed to maximize the chances of achieving the most deceptive and cleanest outcome possible. This effect serves as a fantastic opener, making it a suitable addition to your Everyday Carry (EDC), and best of all, it resets automatically. There are no complex flowcharts to memorize,...

This is the publication where J. B. Rhine coined the term Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP) and reported on the results of his experiments at Duke University using the Zener symbol cards (today known as ESP cards) designed by his colleague Karl Zener during the early 1930s. The results Rhine reported were remarkable and suggested that ESP existed.

However, other academic institutes could not replicate the results. There were many problems with the experimental design Dr. Rhine used. The remarkable results he achieved were likely a combination of sensory leakage and outright cheating. One of...

Finally after nearly a decade, I've decided to release my version (with permission, of course) of Wayne Dobson's Big Revelation, Third Eye.

Effect:

The participant freely thinks of any card, then reveal the participant's thought of card as you unfold a sheet of paper with a series of jokes and gags disguised as an eye exam for her Third Eye with a final reveal that seems impossible.

Once she's thought of the card, and after you've apparently read her mind, but before she ever says it out loud you can place the thought of card on the table for her to turn over. She then names her thought of card...

This is the greatest series of ESP card tricks ever published. It features tricks from Nick Trost, Werner Miller, Howard Adams, Max Maven, and many other of the great trick creators. They are all easy to perform, and sometimes routined, and streamlined by Aldo himself to make them even better.

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

Answer To Life is a multi-phase routine that uses multiple methods to provide multiple moments of mystery. It is in fact a complete system by itself.

WHAT YOU GET - You get 5 specially designed and beautifully produced cards which are of poker size. These will last you a very long time with reasonable care. You can easily carry this set in your wallet or pocket.

The various phases of the routine are a delicious mixture of personalities, emotions, and mystery....

AI here does not stand for Artificial Intelligence. It is the key to the method used in the routine.

It is a self-working effect based on a classic principle wherein a participant freely chooses any USA State name and the performer is able to reveal the same.

This routine uses double-blank business cards. There is a one-time preparation and a 3-second setup is required before each performance.

You can use the underlying principle not only for the USA States theme but also for myriad other themes and premises.

1st edition 2024, PDF 6 pages.

Find two thought-of E.S.P. cards without even looking at the deck.

A deck of 25 colored E.S.P. cards (a.k.a. Zener cards) is introduced. It contains five different symbols in five different colors. In other words, every card is unique. The magician shuffles the deck and tables it.

After he turns his back, two spectators remove a card from the deck. They create their own card — combining the symbol on one card and the color on the other card — and hide their selections face down under the cardbox.

The magician faces the spectators again and asks them to visualize their thought-of...

After a lengthy introduction, it describes and explains the performances of the muscle-reader Mr. Brown. It also describes and explains the performances of the brothers Outerbridge whose purpose it was to prove that these types of experiments are based on muscle-reading and not any other mysterious mental forces.

This talk was given before the Social Science Association on May 12th, 1875.

Persifor Frazer was an interesting character. For example, he was internationally respected as an expert on handwriting. He devised a process for detecting forgeries through composite photography, leading...

Here you will find the history, method, and routine of the famous Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine book test developed by Richard Himber and staged to perfection by Stanley Jaks.

This Ellery Queen booklet from 1951 can occasionally still be found second-hand in its original edition. This means that nothing stands in the way of a faithful re-enactment of this effect.

1st edition 2024, PDF 20 pages.

Poly-graph; where the precision of a Lie Detector meets the artistry of Drawing Duplication.

Poly-graph is an unconventional yet logical fusion of two realms of mentalism - The Lie Detector and Drawing Duplication. Both plots unfold in tandem, with the Lie Detector concluding prior to the Drawing Duplication.

Start your act with the entire audience and end with drawing duplication with one, two, or more people.

Casually put, it is an everyday worker's material, a 100% surefire with no funny or tricky questions. With just an hour's preparation, it provides a solid 8-10 minutes of...

A prediction effect with an alphabet deck that fits in your pocket.

The magician picks four spectators to play a word game. He makes a prediction that he leaves face down, in full view, on the table and introduces a packet of alphabet cards: Thirteen cards with a different letter on both sides. Each spectator cuts, deals, and flips over the cards. The magician puts aside one card (a 'bonus card') and deals the rest of the cards among the four spectators.

The game is divided into two phases, a warm-up and the real deal.

THE WARM-UP: The spectators are asked to make up the longest word...

Two for the price of one here as with Credit Transfer you get a mental effect and a piece of magic together. A borrowed credit card is slipped into a small envelope. Two paperback books are shown and the pages are riffled of one of the books until a spectator calls 'stop'. The credit card in the envelope is dropped into the book to mark the place. The second book is now opened to reveal an envelope is already inside it, and the page it rests on turns out to match the page just selected in the first book. Then the credit card vanishes from the envelope in the first book and arrives inside the...

This is a quick, easy, direct, and impactful propless routine that you can easily carry in your head at all times, ready to deploy whenever you want. The entire routine takes up about 45 seconds to under a minute.

Based on the linked thoughts premise, you take your participant on a mental journey across the various continents of the world and you are able to impossibly reveal the country where the mental journey ends, to the utter surprise of your participant.

There are 3 routines explained. Your participant needs to have a mobile phone which can search Google. Or you can lend your phone...

This product is included in Scripted #41: A Taste for Words.

In the event that a mentalism effect fails, this is a script, process, and handing that allows you to fairly easily switch tricks mid-stream, unnoticed by the audience, and still present a strong trick.

This was originally designed if [lp= Scripted #41: A Taste for Words] routine failed, but the technique can work for many mentalism routines.

Three different handlings, 2 scripts, and 1 core concept protects the mentalist from complete failure in many routines.

NOTE: This was also specifically written for parlor and stage, but could easily be done close up with appropriate handling changes. ...

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...