OUT OF PRINT and VERY DIFFICULT TO FIND. Very good used condition.
DESCRIPTION FROM THE PUBLISHER:
From the mind of Germany’s top professional mentalist to yours comes a generous volume of mentalism that pushes the accepted boundaries of the craft to their limits and beyond-into realms truly “paramiraculous”!
Would you believe your eyes if you saw someone concentrate on a borrowed wine glass and, while it was standing in total isolation, you saw it visibly bend?
This is just one of more than three dozen impossible feats explained in the pages of this modern classic, hailed by many as one of the top works on mentalism ever written!
Hardbound with dust jacket. 293 pages.
Copyright 1994. Hermetic Press.
Contents
Introduction (T.A. Waters)
Foreword (Toni Forster)
Notes on My Life with Friends
Chapter One: Tricks Of Raised Consciousness
Dany Ray and Marcelle
The Split Card
The Will De Seive Gimmick
The Jontay Gimmick
The Koornwinder Gimmick
The Breather Crimp
The Principle
The Kismet Connection
Two Decks with But a Single Thought
The More Frequent Miracle
Medium in Your Pocket
Nap on the Ridge
The Out of Sorts Variations
Out of Sorts: Variation One
Out of Sorts: Variation Two
Seer of the Trivial
Princess of the Opera
Chapter Two: Paperworks
Boris Bossi And Eschi
Thoughts Untouched
Black Magic
Dissertation on the Center Tear
Chapter Three: Arsenal
Raxon
Spare Change
The Working Performer’s Switch Pad
Border Intelligence
Dream Decks
Symbolico
Effects for an Invisible Author
The Book Test
Living And Dead
Pseudo-Psychometry
The Mentalist’s Close Up Corner
The Mentalist’s Tablecloth
The Dung Beetle Revelations
The Living Dead
Greased Ghost
Grand Mal Geller
Chapter Four: Promonition
Ralf and Inge Bialla
Pro-Monition
Chapter Five: New Pseudo-Psychometric Exercises
Alexander Adrion
Technicolor Graphology
Cimmerian Psychometry
Black Magic 2
Chapter Six: The Teleport Envelope
Milo and Roger
Serial Killer
Sign Onboard
Herald from the Invisible Realms
The Sough of Horses’ Wings
Chapter Seven: Brainbusters
Billy McComb
News Time
My Telephone Directory
Mind Over Meniscus
Guiding Star
Pay Blaze
Early Edition
Chapter Eight: Mind Bender
Marvyn and Carol Roy
Mind Bender
Do the Right Thing: A Parting Word
We found this EXCELLENT and DETAILED review on one of the magic forums, contributed by LUMAS:
This is a mentalism book which covers so many different aspects of mentalism. I am going to list and describe some of the standout effects in this book.
Chapter one contains a few methods for allowing a spectator to shuffle a deck of cards as much as they want, cut the deck, and the card they cut to is still somehow forced. You immediately know what card they cut to.
The Kismet Connection: This is a great method for constructing a three way out envelope. Everything looks so clean and smooth. You can easily dump out any of the three cards from the envelope at any given time. I’m not much of a card guy, but he has some nice effects using this envelope. The envelope alone is great though.
The Out of Sorts Variations: This is a card effect that was originally created by Max Maven. A spectator removes eight cards from a shuffled deck and only thinks of one of them. All this is done while the mentalist’s back is turned. No fishing needed. There is a slight set-up needed, but you can do it in front of the audience. I usually hate effects like this, but the way the spectator is told to look at the eight cards is justified here. Can’t say more than that.
Seer of the Trivial: This is another awesome effect. I don’t know if I will ever use this, but some great thinking went into this. Essentially, a spectator grabs a stack of Trivial Pursuit (a game) cards out of the box. He grabs about a 100 or so. The cards are all different, the spectator shuffles them and selects one. He then selects one of the 6 questions listed on his card. The mentalist opens up a large envelope that contains another smaller envelope, which is revealed to have the answer to the question. No swami writing, etc. Great effect.
Black Magic: A nice way to learn the word that someone wrote on a business card. This is pretty clean, and his “crystal ball” idea is really clever. A slight set-up is required, but you can do this in about 2 seconds.
Dissertation on the Center Tear: Awesome! I was one of those people who hated the idea of using a center tear because I thought the method was too apparent. This 10-page writing on the center tear has really changed my view. Lesley gives you a basic outline of what questions you should ask the person. These questions make the effect really strong.
The Working Performer’s Switch Pad: This is basically a add-a-number pad. I like this much better than the typical index card pad.
Border Intelligence: A neat little idea on making a crib sheet for a pad. The spectator could examine this and find nothing.
Pseudo-Psychometry: Another effect I use to stay away from, however, Lesley’s presentational idea has changed my mind about this one. I always found the revealing of the people’s items to be quite boring, but Lesley makes it exciting for the spectator by doing each reveal in a completely different way.
Technicolor Graphology: A neat method for a psychometry routine. Very different from the standard method. I like this, but I would probably just stick with nicks, etc. instead of using this method.
The Teleport Envelope: This one if worth the price of the book. A spectator can examine a envelope, see nothing inside, seal it himself, and then open it himself only to find that his thought of card, word, etc. is now inside the envelope. This takes a bit of time to make but is definitely worth the effort.
Guiding Star: A method for predicting a spectator’s zodiac sign. I like this, but you are doing to have to do a bit of set-up for this one. The method is old, but I had never thought about using it for a zodiac revelation before. The method works well with a zodiac sign instead of revealing a random word or a card, which is how it is usually done.
