Mentalism & Spiritism

Turn a $10 modern, minimalist wallet into a devastating first-class peek device, and instantly read the spectator's mind.

Everyday use wallets have become smaller and smaller over the years because we have changed from a mostly cash society to a mostly 'plastic money' society. This means a typical wallet today only needs to hold a few credit cards and a driver's license and thus it is much smaller than the wallets of days past. This completely normal-looking peek wallet is small and thin. Purchase it for about $10 and then modify it to turn it into a deceptive peek wallet in a few minutes. ...

This intro price will go up to $12 from November 8, 2021.

The Kryptic Force is an easy yet powerful force but very little known in the field of magic or mentalism. As with any force, here too the applications of the force are limited only by your imagination. A few interesting routines and effects are shared here. But you can surely come up with many of your own routines using this beautiful force.

The actual process to force is very fast and direct. Maybe, depending on your presentation, it may take all of fifteen seconds to perform the force. Or you can stretch it for as long as you...

This intro price will go up to $30 from November 1, 2021.

Pocket Numerology is a physical product which will be shipped to you and comes with PDF instructions which can be downloaded immediately from your digital shelf.

What you get: Along with the instructions PDF, you also get a set of 4 specially designed and beautifully produced plastic wallet cards which are about the size of a regular credit card. With reasonable care, these cards should last you a lifetime, if not more.

With absolutely zero knowledge of numerology, you can perform an entire act of apparent numerology with ...

"Thought Swiper is fantastic! I wish I'd thought of this! There is no faster way to get to the thought-of card. Absolutely wonderful!" - Bob Farmer

"Patrik abhors memory work and mental arithmetic on stage. In "Thought Swiper" a fiendishly clever print gimmick strips a powerful principle older than Professor Hoffmann's Modern Magic (1876) of all its fussy calculations and memorization. The prop visually integrates all the salient technicalities, freeing the mind to sell the elegant effect." - Jan Bardi

A participant chooses a card (mentally) and keeps its identity secret. Guided by the magician's instructions, the...

What is "Bending Minds"?

In this ebook, which will be structured in three volumes, you will see us use cards and simple pieces of paper, to develop mentalism effects that can be conducted live in person, or proposed at a distance, with a video connection or just audio (Zoom, Skype, Meet, etc., or even just on the phone), without the performer being able to see the cards, which are always handled by the viewer.

All descriptions come with a presentation, which is also original, very detailed, and inspired by movies, games, books, or just a simple emotion. A precious dress to be worn whenever...

In this ebook, Nelson sets out the details for designing and framing of the ghost show, securing bookings for the act, the setup and tear-down, and finally, tips and suggestions for the operation of your very own spook show. Previously available only as part of the "Ghost Show Package" direct from Nelson. Now, many years later, this must-have reference is once again available in this revised and update edition, including additional Nelson content not found in the original manuscript: ...

Person of Interest is an upgrade to the original effect "Mental Assassin." This is a pocket mentalism effect that fits inside your wallet that can be performed anytime, anywhere. The participant thinks of a word and a person associated with the chosen word and the mentalist is able to identify both every time.

• No truth teller/liar plot
• No Force. Different word every time
• Can be done via video call

The method used in this effect is based on one of my newly developed principle for identifying chosen words or objects without the obvious interrogation.

"Clever - I like how you are...

Force Multiplier is a concept where multiple forces are applied to a routine or effect so that the overall impact gets exponentially bigger. So the result is far bigger than just the sum of individual parts. In a way, 2+2 does not remain 4 but becomes, say 20.

And this concept of Force Multiplier is used to create 3 effects that are propless, instant and impactful, at the same time. And you do not need anything at all to perform these effects. Just carry the simple and easy method in your head and you are set to perform these anytime, anywhere to anyone to stun and amaze. You can perform...

The performer begins by conversing a little about numerology. Asks a willing participant to come up with a name based upon their birth year. They think of their last two digits of their birth year and by using those digits, they determine their lucky numbers.

A numbered list of various names is introduced, participant locates and remembers the name next to their lucky number. The performer reveals the exact name they are thinking of, not one single question asked.

• self working
• no confusing maths
• list is examinable
• repeat with another spectator with different names
• extra bonus handlings...

Bond Intuition Test is a physical product that will be shipped to you and comes with PDF instructions that can be downloaded immediately from your digital shelf.

What you get: Along with the instructions PDF, you also get a specially designed and beautifully produced plastic wallet card which is about the size of a poker playing card, but thicker and sturdier than a playing card. With reasonable care, this card should last you many, many years, if not a lifetime.

You can play the role of an intuitive James Bond and perform two killer routines with your B.I.T card. In the first routine,...

Enjoy the great mental magic by contributors such as Al Koran, Bill Miesel, Peter Warlock, Dai Vernon, U.F. Grant, Eddie Clever and even T. A. Waters, and of course a good amount by Don Tanner and Jack Dean themselves.

You will receive issues 1 (October 1962) - 33 (September 1965) and the incomplete issue number 34. Includes a foreword by Paul Alberstat.

No. 1

• Central Time / North Bigbee
• Impromptu Clip Board / U. F. Grant
• Mindevelopmental / Howard A. Adams
• Mental Memos / Don Tanner

No. 2

• ESP Elimination / Joe White
• Long Wave Reception / T. A. Waters
• Shine / Jack Ketch
• Mental Memos / Don Tanner

No. 3

• Bold / Julies...

Tryst is a physical product that will be shipped to you and comes with PDF instructions that can be downloaded immediately from your digital shelf.

What you get: Along with the instructions PDF, you also get a set of 14 cards which are specially designed and beautifully produced. They are about the size of regular business cards.

Tryst can be played as a grand piece if you want. It has 3 phases with 3 powerful hits - more like a 3 punch knockout - a prediction, a prophecy, and a premonition. A captivating introductory patter is also provided. An alternative performance is also explained....

A demonstration of enhanced empathic/telepathic awareness and influence with a positive spin on social distancing and masking requirements. Very old techniques and methods are applied in a new way that can be entertaining but are also very impactful.

A telepathy-type mentalism demonstration that puts a positive spin on social distancing and masking. Three spectators spaced six feet apart make respectful choices based on intuition and the mental influence of the others. (Masks not required). They must balance keeping a secret, focusing on the needs of others, and avoiding distractions....

The Bicycle Word Test is a think-of-a-word effect that uses common props used among magicians and mentalists. The spectator is asked to think of a word using this prop and the mentalist is able to divine the word successfully.

• No asking of questions
• No secret writing
• No anagram involved
• Simple mind-reading method
• Possible to perform via video call or phone

This uses the Bicycle card box as the prop.

1st edition 2021, PDF 6 pages.

"I really admire Jeff Stone's approach to mentalism. His effects are not only especially powerful but also clear and undeniable. And his presentations provide strong theatrical themes while leaving plenty of room for the reader to bring their own unique style. You're in for a real treat." - Jay Sankey

"Stone Cold Mental has solid usable effects for stage and close up. I’ll be using the effects, and I predict you will too." - Joe Diamond

In this series, I'll share with you my personal collection of mentalism I've built up over the past decade and a half or so. The 13 items to follow...

There are innumerable zodiac sign divination methods out there. So then, why one more? Because, the more tools you have in your toolbox, the more prepared and ready you will be for any type of work situation. Propless SignTist, as the name suggests is a completely propless and 100% surefire method. The process is simple, short, justified, and flows smoothly. You can nail the zodiac sign of a stranger, comfortably and effectively, in less than a minute. You can perform Propless SignTist anytime, anywhere to anyone without anything on you by just carrying this simple method in your head.

There...

"Tarot is a deck of cards but the Tarot represents a person. We are the Tarot and we use the Tarot because we live." (Andrea Mecchia)

I don't know if it happens to you too ... when I particularly love a project, I start to collect elements, I work on it a bit, but it always seems that something is missing ... you leave and resume the project, but that something is always missing ... then, one day, it arrives like that in one fell swoop, and makes everything good.

This is the story of this project, which I finally want to share, with the hope that it will also satisfy your desire to present...

Teletrack is a quick propless effect where the performer impossibly tracks the thought of a participant telepathically. Beginning from the 'fate' of the participant and ending with the 'destiny' of the participant, the performer is able to identify the final silent thought.

Nothing is said or written down by the participant. You can perform this completely propless over a voice phone call, in a virtual show, or face to face in close-up, parlor, street venues, or even over a text chat. The method is easy and self-working but creates wonder for the participant. There are no sleights, not...

I have always been fascinated with time, just how precious it is. It's the one commodity we can afford to give away for free. I present to you, two different time predictions one for analog clocks and one for digital clocks. They are simple and to the point.

Volunteer names an hour or draws an hour hand pointing to their freely chosen hour and performer reveals a prediction.

Digital time: they merely think of one specific digital time among many. Associate their time with a time task and the performer reveals that specific task. I also included some extra, super easy impromptu time predictions. ...

Mpeep is short for Mind Peep. It is also an acronym for all the routine names in this manuscript. Based on an innovative combination of classic methods, this novel principle enables you to quickly and deceptively plant a word and then divine it from a participant's mind. 5 routines and a bonus routine are explained. In fact, based on the method, you can create several routines yourself to suit your performance situation or customize for a particular audience or participant. You can perform this completely propless, in a virtual show, or use a couple of your business cards and perform in close-up,...

PERCEPTIONISM - The recognition of audible or visible signals, transmitted voluntarily, or involuntarily, which reveal personal traits and idiosyncrasies. The interpretation of these signals may be used in a variety of ways by the receiver.

Here, Doug MacGeorge presents a streamlined version of his famed "30 Second Memorized Deck." Demonstrate to your audience that you can memorize a deck of cards in about 30 seconds:

• This all-new version is a perfect mentalism piece for close-up or standup.
• It uses only half the deck, so it's faster and easier, and it amazes audiences of any size.
• Required: a deck of cards, which can be borrowed. Also required is the ability to perform basic arithmetic.

"IDD is already a very clever concept in remote mind-reading, but Chris' new ideas and variations take it to the next level. This is a routine that you absolutely must include in your next Zoom show." - Marc Paul

"The brilliant Chris Rawlins does it again. Expanding on his own ideas, he creates brand new mind-boggling and unbelievable mind trips. If you own his previous work, this is a strong addition. If you don't, drop everything and buy this now......not later, NOW." - Marc Salem

Demonstrate with undoubtable proof that you knew and understood an image only thought of - not drawn, not written,...

A multi-phase telepathy or telempathy routine that is unique, entertaining, and profound.

A volunteer selects several random objects on which to focus attention and memory. Sitting back-to-back with no possibility of visual cues of the objects or body language, the performer reveals glimpses of information received through mind-to-mind communication. There are multiple sensory events with different depth and clarity, always different in each presentation. The audience members are participants and not just observers and also serve as referees.

This is a stripped-down version of a routine...

The mentalist invites four spectators for a drawing experiment. Three of them are asked to draw while the fourth spectator acts as a medium between the mentalist and the other three spectators. The mentalist is able to identify the owner of the drawings, including the chosen drawing of the fourth spectator, and then finally, the mentalist demonstrates his skill in drawing duplication.

• No force
• No setup
• No stooges

• What the Spectator Experiences
• The Secret
• Background History
• Breakdown of the Method
  • Props Needed
  • Marking the Cards
  • Card Orientation
  • Spectators' Roles ...

Honestly, I have not been able to trace the author of this principle, which I think is lost in the mists of time. My Master of Mentalism Valerio Bovolenta taught me, and I want to give credit to him. I have done nothing but study it and try to indicate a method to be able to propose it with any number of cards.

The procedure is very simple: the spectator chooses how many cards he wants to use, puts away the remaining cards (they will not be used further), shuffles the cards he chose and, on the instruction of the performer, chooses a number, looks at a card, and reassembles the deck; even...

Fogel's original patter, presentation, handling, and routine are all here. It's an effect that helped take Fogel to the top. It can do so for you.

A trick that took Fogel into many newspaper headlines. This is Fogel's original creation. You walk into any room and ask any person present to collect a few different newspapers ... any type ... any date. Whilst this is being done you write a prediction on a slate, board, or piece of paper according to the conditions under which you are working. This prediction is left in the possession of a spectator. They now select one of the newspapers...

In many mentalistic effects, the spectator answers the performer's questions in a sincere way or not, without the performer knowing the choice made.

The concept of "lie or truth" makes the effect stronger and the idea that the illusionist guesses however reinforces the memory of an effect as an exceptional event, almost a miracle.

In the effect presented here, a further degree of freedom has been added: after the first response, the viewer can decide whether to maintain the same behavior (lie / truth) or if he prefers to change it.

In practice, the two answers can be LIE / LIE, TRUTH...

Owning Pretty N Propless, although advisable, is not necessary to understand and use the principles and effects in this Nxt Gen version.

At its core, this is a quick, high-impact propless piece that you can deploy in almost any situation like on a voice call, in a virtual show, face to face close up, parlour, street etc. The performer divines a word being thought of by a participant.

But the true power is in its mind-boggling range of possibilities. You can literally plant any one of several different possible words in a participant's mind and seemingly read their mind to exactly divine that word. The...

"I think it is very good" - Marc Salem

"Amazing" - Ever Elizalde

The spectator hides an imaginary object and the mentalist is able to determine its location.

• Does not use truth-teller/liar plot
• The spectator answers the questions in their mind
• Can be performed via video call
• Can be performed via phone call
• Propless

1st edition 2021, PDF 9 pages.

Cumberland was a muscle reader who did not claim to possess any psychic abilities. In this work he recounts many such 'thought-reading' encounters with notable people.

From the introduction:

A very detailed description of how Tony Corinda performs his legendary center tear. The effect is as simple and baffling as: The spectator is invited to think of a word and write it on a slip of paper. The paper is burnt and from the ashes, the mentalist reads the chosen word.

This is Number 1 of "Corinda's Selected Effects". From the introduction:

You show six cards with pictures of various socks. A participant freely shuffles the cards and lays them facedown in a row. They turn over one card, that's their target to find the mate to that sock. They are given two chances. Despite all the possible combinations, you remove three and only three cards from your mini-laundry bag, the exact same three sock cards they chose.

Cards not marked, free shuffle, no forcing, different outcome every time, they make all the selections, lots of bonus ideas included.

1st edition 2021, PDF 2 pages.

"Brilliant" - Marc Salem

"I love the style of thinking in using your brain to the extra leg work to create something fun and engaging for your spectators!" - Ben Cardal

The spectator plays a "Charades" like game with the mentalist. And in every round of the game, the mentalist always gets it right. Lastly, the mentalist performs a mind-reading effect that identifies objects that the spectator is thinking of.

• No force
• Can be performed via video call
• Can be propless
• Can include a drawing duplication effect
• Does not use truth-teller/liar plot
• Can use different objects

This was originally published under the title Hummer's Dial A Date Deal.

Where will you go on your dream vacation? Paris? London? Madrid? Come Fly With Me is a stunning psychic mystery using Bob Hummer's ingenious method to name a mentally selected vacation destination with no questions asked and nothing written down.

A spectator lays out a number of cards - some face-up, some face-down. The choice of cards and positioning is up to him. A second row of cards is also laid out. The performer does not at any time see the order of cards. The spectator then selects the name of one of a number...

The effect as perceived by the participant: The participant freely chooses a vaccine mentally from among several options. The participant also decides on a country that will get the vaccine doses first from among a dozen competing countries. The mind reader plucks out the country from the participant's mind effortlessly. This can be repeated several times with different outcomes.

At its core, this is a quick, high-impact propless piece that you can deploy in almost any situation like on a voice call, video call, in a virtual show, face to face close up, parlour, street etc. The performer...

The mind reader begins by saying "Let's play an interesting game. Imagine you are a 'psychopath' on the run and I am a 'psychic detective'. We will use 4 continents and 4 directions...." And ends the effect by absolutely stunning the participant with an impossible-looking divination.

At its core, this is a quick, high-impact propless piece that you can deploy in almost any situation like on a voice call, in a virtual show, face to face close up, parlour, street etc. The performer divines the exact personality trait of a psychopath. The entire routine can be performed in about a minute. ...

"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

Two completely different, leading-edge, thought-reading methods that allow you to know the cards they are thinking of, all with regular decks that can be examined. All new material.

Throw out your expensive, one-trick pony gaffed decks and take a ride on the supersonic train to the future of high octane mentalism.

Warning: This ad contains hyperbole, unwarranted exaggeration, and mere...

"The level of subtlety is simply impressive, as he's left nothing to chance. A no-brainer. Well done Scott." - Phedon Bilek

"This is a killer routine that uses just a few business cards and a pen. Need I say more? It's from Scott: GET IT!!" - Greg Arce

Three phases
Three Spectators
Three Business Cards

Mind reading, prediction and psychometry, including an additional shorter bonus version called 'Trident 2.0'.

Trident is a tried and tested mentalism/psychic entertainment routine I've worked to death for years, using nothing more than three business cards and a pen. In this...

A comedy version of the sometimes tragic bullet catch that plays for laughs and eliminates any danger or controversy. Especially geared for outdoor performances, it allows you to catch a jelly bean propelled by a toy slingshot and can provide welcomed humor and a degree of silliness to your children's shows. Easy to construct, safe and sure to please.

1st edition 2021, PDF 4 pages, video 42 s.

Gregg Webb and Ed Brown teach a mentalism routine that enables you to perform a demonstration of clairvoyance or psychometry. Required are two easy-to-make packets of faces and a matching set of word cards that describe the emotions depicted by the faces. The spectator mixes the pictures and deals them to the table in any order. You deal the word cards face down on top of each face: all of the cards match!

• The cards are unmarked
• The method is simple and the effect is easy to perform, which allows you to focus on your presentation.

1st edition 2021, 5 pages hand lettered text with illustrations....

At its core, this is a quick, high-impact propless piece that you can deploy in almost any situation like on a voice call, in a virtual show, face-to-face close up, parlor, street, etc. The performer divines a word being thought of by a participant.

But the true power is in its mind-boggling range of possibilities. You can literally plant about 48000 different possible words in a participant's mind and seemingly read their mind to exactly divine that word. The combination of principles is so flexible that you can again literally apply it to any theme of presentation you may want. If you...

An ebook of clever mental magic. Here are some of the effects explained:

CLEARLY CHANCE - This is the usual effect, using a tray, but what a refreshing difference. The tray is made of transparent plastic (perspex). Three sealed envelopes are handed out to a spectator. The performer says that one of the envelopes contains a treasury note (e.g. £10) but the other two contain slips of paper only. The spectator mixes the envelopes and offers one of them to another nearby spectator. He then takes one himself and offers the remaining one to the performer. The performer places his down on a small...