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o.)sTBtTs PICTURES THAT TELL A STORY TRANS-PREMONIT|ON.........

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I M P O S S I BBLAEN KN I G H T . . . . .

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M E N T A L I SITN' S U R A N C PE O1ICY..........

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G E m N GA H E A DO FM Y S E 1 F . . . . . . . . .

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THOUGHTS ON THENAILWRITER..

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A PREDTCTT l NOCNO D E . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . i . . .

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PSYCHOLOGICAL CARDFORCE

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B R E A K I NTG H EB A N K L O V EC O N N E C T T O N HUMMER PSYCHOMETRY. M A R K EF DO RA R E A D I N G BEST KEPT THOUGHTS SECRET".. Oii "iiELSOTi'S PREDICTIO P LNU S L O G I C AH L E A D L I NPER E D I C T | O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . W I NS O M EF R E IEN F O R M A T I O N . . .

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THIRP D E R S OPNS Y C H O M E T R Y . . . . . . . .

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SYCHOMETRY........ U L T I M AP TE

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EMERGENCY MENTALISM

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lilTll|)DUoTI|)s Firstof oll,thonk you for buyingthisbook. I do oppreciote it, ond hope you willfind it of volue ond interest. Let me stote my objective in writingthisbook. I ottempt to creote "mentoleffects",thot ore os closeto possibleos"the reolthing". My emphosisis on method. I wos once introduced by one of the world'stop professionols to o friend,-osq 'creotor of cerebrol mentolism'.At first,I wosn'tsurewhot to moke of the introduction,but os I thought of it more ond more, it struckme os on extremelyoccurote stotement. I om much more of o creotor, thon performer.You will find performonce hintsond outlinesin my work, but they ore mere guidepostsolong the woy, My hope isthot the performersomong you moy find moieriol ond ideos oround which you moy design presentotionsthot fit your style of working ond moy give you greoter flexibility. To the other creotorsof Mentolism,I hope thot you moy find o nice bit of loterolthinkingthot mokesyou smile.lf you find o new or simpler"woyto skino cot", thot moy help solvesomethingon which you've been working, or inspireyou on to somethingnew, I will be pleosed. I likemy methods to be os simpleos is possible.ln foct, the bold, simple method is usuollymore deceptive then the supersubtle,yet overlycomplicoted method, Whilemuch of my moteriol isof the 100%surecotegory, some of my fovorite creotionsinvolvehoving to toke some chonces, ond be oble to "go with the flow". Whilesome of you moy not likethis opprooch, it ismy beliefthot techniquesthot involvechonce toking ore the ones thot will leod us into the future os performersof mysteries, Thisbook wos not meont for Mogicionslookingfor o "mentol mogic trick" to odd to their show. I ossumethot ony reoder of this book is ocquointed with the bosicsof our ort. The itemsin thisbook requirethe unique temperoment of on experienced Mentolist. To cloim credit for the originoliiyof everythingin this book would, obviously,be impossible.EveryMentolistowesthonksto oll of the creotors

lDni-llieks thot hove come before us. lt'so smoll field,with few techniquesto sustoin us.SinceI om not the scholorlytype, ond influencessometimesbecome jumbled ofter mony yeors,I've credited itemswhenever possible, untilmemory or the help of friendsfoiled me. lf l've inodvertentlyfoiled in somewoy, I opologize.I'm surethot ony shoricomingswillbe pointed out. I hope you enjoy this book, ond find it both usefulond interesting,

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BFFßOT: Fourseqledenvelopesore ploced on disploy.You proceed to tell o storyobout the personwho helped you discoveryour mogicol powers.You then remove o ringbox from your pocket, which you open. The ring inside,you go on to exploin,wos o gift from him before he possedowoy. You osksomeoneto come up from the oudience,os you explointhot only one of the envelopes contoinson item thot belonged to the owner of the ring. The other envelopescontoin itemsthot hove no relotionship of ollto your friend. You oskthe ossistontto hold the ring in one hond, ond possher other hond over the envelopes one of o time. She isto see if she is drown to one of the envelopesmore thon ony of the others.As she does so,you explointhot in his lostletfer to you, he told you the ring hos powersthot ore quite out of the ordinory. When the ossistontsettleson one of the envelopes,you ploce her choice on the side,olong with the ring.You tellthe storyof how he wos in love wiih hiswife Ann, ond how she wos hiswhole life. You osk her to open one of the rejected envelopes,while you do the some. Forexomple, the envelope she opens hos on ordinoryphoto of o city street.Yourshos o menu from o toke out restouront.You osk her to get the torget envelope, os you open the lost rejected envelope which contoinso grocery list. Obviously,none of these hove onything to do with the ring.You then osk the spectotor to reod whot isengroved on the insideof the ring.She reods,'To Ann, my one ond onlylove.'Youthen osk her to open the envelope she wos drown to ond remove itscontents.lt iso picture of o 'Ann!" womon weoring the some ring!The bock of the photo issigned, üIBTH|)D: Thisisbosed on on incrediblyclever effect by Ted Kormelovich,firsttold to me by BoscomJones.lthought it wos quite clever, but didn't quite suit my needs, or style of working. 'thicker Thisisone of the few occosions,I thought the effect needed o i

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P*i-llicks loyer of deception" for my comfori, After o greot deol of thought, I come up with thisopprooch. Two of the envelopesore double envelopes.ln one of them iso menu (or other meoninglessitem) in one side ond on outogrophed picture of 'your friend' in the other side.Thesecond double envelope hos o grocery listin one side,ond onother outogrophed picture in the other. Obviously,you con showthe contentsof either of the double envelopesos being eiiher hitsor misses. The othertwo envelopesore ordinory.ln one is on old picture of o womon weoring o ring similorto ihe one you'lluse in the presentotion. Hove it signed Ann on the bock. lf you justshow it cosuolly,no one will notice ihe ring. You con exploinit os o piciure of your ount, But if it ischosen, it con be disployedos o direct hit,since you hove the ring engroved os in Effect. 'regulorcity street'but hos o jewelry store in the The other is not reollyo photo. Moke o smolllobel thot con fit on the bottom of the jewelry box thot hosthe nome ond oddressof this store.Thisphoto con be possed off os one of where you used to work or liveof sometime in the post. But if it ischosen,you tell o storyof how your friend worked 20 hourso doy, so thot he could buy hisbeloved the ring she looked of in the window of thot veryjewelry shop. After on envelope is picked, you hove the spectotor stond of one end of the row of envelopeswhile you locote yourselfof the other end. The double envelopesore on your end, the reguloron her end. Eithershe pickso double envelope From here,there ore two possibilities, or on ordinoryone. lf she picksone of the two double envelopes,you hove her open the rejected envelope neorestto her, which isordinory.Coll it o picture of your ount. You now open the envelope neorestto you. Open it to the proper side, ond show the grocery list.Hove her open the remoiningenvelope, os you get the'torget' envelope. Open it to the proper side,ond re'outogrophed picture'. move fhe

lrsi-llickn lf she choosesone of the regulorenvelopes,YOUopen the firstof the rejected double envelopes.Shethen isto open the remoiningordinoryenvelope, the contents of which you dismisswith on ordinoryexplonotion. You open the lostdouble envelope,os you let her open the torget envelope. lf it contoinsthe pictureof the womon, ofler hoving her reod the engroving,it ollowsyou to point out the ringond her nome on the bock or the picture, lf it'sthe picture of the jewelrystore.ofier hoving her check out the lobel on the ringbox, it ollowsyou to point out the storein the picture.

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whot I considerto be on interestingcombinotionof methods,ihis Besides effect olso illustrotesmy own opprooch to usingthe techniques of the 'stroight'mogic. Mentolistto the performonceof BFFBOT: A well known,trustedmember of the oudience isoskedto come on stoge. You proceed to oskhim to confirmthe following stotements: "l oskedyou if you would be so kind os to poriicipoie in o 'test conditions'experiment." 'You ore not o stooge,or ore secretlyhelpingme.' 'l honded you some ployingcordsond ofter you put them in your pocket, only then did I oskyou to thinkof ony ployingcord.' 'You hod o trulyfree choice ond could chonge your mind oll you wonted." "Youdid not write down your choice or tell onyone whot you choice wos." hove no ideo whot cord is You then go on to stote thot you HONESTLY to onyone who con being thought of by him,ond you con offer S.|0,000 prove thot you do! CYes, this istrue you honestlydo not know whot cord is being thought of no forces,or impressiondevices.) The personis osked to toke the cords out of his pocket ond ploce them on the ioble. Theoudience seesone Red bocked ond one Bluebocked deck of cords.You oskthe ossistontto keep the blue bocked deck in front of him. You oskfor the red deck ond remove the cords from their cose, which you fon to showthot the cords ore well mixed ond hove red bocks.You then ploce the red deck bock on the toble, o distonce from the blue deck. Thenyou osk the ossistontto think of hiscord ond concentrote on the

lr*i-llickri blue deck. While he does so,you hove him re-confirmthe foct THAT YOUASKEDHIM TO THINKOF THOSECARDSWEREIN HISPOCKETBEFORE A CARDI Aftero dromotic pouse,you osk him to toke the Bluebocked deck oui of itscose ond find hiscord. He con't, becouseit hos disoppeoredfrom the deck! Youthen pick up the Red bocked deck, fon throughthem foce up, ond oskhim to tell you when he seeshiscord. When he doesso, you then openly remove ii foce up from the deck. You the show its bock - lT'SA BACKED CARD! BLUE Histhought of cord hos tronsportedfrom the Bluedeck to the Red deck under'testconditions'! try to come up ülBTllOD: Beforeyou reod the explonotion,PLEASE with o woy of performingthiseffect. Evenossumingpre show work, how would you do it? Althoughthe "mechonicol"methodsinvolvedore not new of oll,it'sthe sleightof mouth. ond the opprooch thot I believeisthe hollmorkof mogicol performoncein the yeorsto come. the mechonics: First, ond o deck You'llneed o deck set up olo EddieJoesph'sPremonition, olo Ston Loebstein'sPremonitionOutdone. The Bluedeck hos justthe TheRed deck even cordsfrom two blue deck of cords.(i.e.2,4,6,8,10,Q). ond oll hosoll the odd volued cordsfrom o Reddeck. (i.e.A,3,5,7,9).K) lf the odd cordsfrom o Bluedeck, except for the oces. (i'e. 3,5,7,9,J,K) holf. BOTTOM the Red deck isfoce down, the Bluecords moke up the I I

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Pri-l{'icks O.K.,you soy, but how do you liveup to the obove conditions?lt'soll in how you fromeiwhot you ore doing to the personyou choose to porticipote. I osk the personto come over to o quiei spot before the show, ond osk if they would porticipote etc. I hond them the BlueBocked deck ond oskthem to rememberthot I gove them the cords BEFORE THEMANYIHING.After they put the I ASKED blue deck owoy for sofe keeping, I then explointhot I om going to wont them to think of o cord, but if you just osksomeoneto justthink of o cord, olmosteveryone nomesthe Ace of Spodes,or the Queen of Heorts.I then pullout the Red deck, ond keepingthe bocksconceoled, I ribbon spreod them ond oskthe personto justthink of ony cord thot oppeols to them. When he soyshe hos one, I squoreup the deck, put them in the cose, ond osk the personto hold on to them olso. Mechonicolly speoking,the trick isover, lt'snow the presentotionthot will ond vou'll moke or breok the effect. Rereodthe stotementsin EFFECT, notice o few minor inconsistencies: 'l honded you some ploying cordsond ofter you put them in your pocket. only then did I osk you to think of ony ploying cord." deck before Ohe ossistontwill remember thot you gove him ihe BLUE 'l phrose honded you he wos osked onything,but sinceyou usedthe some ploying cords...,theoudience willossumehe hod BOTHdecksbefore you osked him onything.) 'You hod o truly free choice ond could chonge your mind oll you wonted." Ohe osistont did hove o free choice, but only hod Odd Volued cords from which to choose.) don't know whot cord is And it istrue when you stote thot you REALLY being thought of. True,you know it'son Odd Volued cord, but you don't know which one.

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The method isquite simple.You write out "l will correctly ilETftOD: predict the third number chosen' predictionon o piece of poper, which you fold ond put into on envelope. Putthe lorgestvolue billwith which you feel comfortoble in the envelope next to the prediction.Get your noilwriterinto positionond you're reody to go. After you exploin whot you'reobout to do, disploythe bill ond seol the l0

Pni-lliekr envelope.Pretendto print o numberon the envelope ond throw your penciloside.When the third choice ismode, printthe number on the envelope ond you're done. The hordestthing in thiseffect isthe octing. You wont people to thinkyou messedup, but to hove enough sympothyfor you so thot the spectotor will go olong ond choose two other numbers. Peopleoren't stupid,ond if you ploy ii properly,your oudience willreolize iscoming ond will ploy olong. thot SOMETHING

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Thisis obviouslyo lot more flexiblethen whoi l've outlined here. Thiscon give you on excellent out for those "tough"situotions, or odd o bit of humor to on otherwisedull presentotion. BFFBOT: You osksomeoneto thinkof o common word in English(for exomplethey thinkof "house').You concentroteond then reveolthot you think their word is "coffeq".Theysoy you ore wrong. You oskif you're even close,to which they respondin the negotive.You look confused, but try ogoin. Agoin you're woy off. You then oskfor one more try, but you'rewrong ogoin. You then osk whot theirword is. Youthen stote thot this rorelyhoppens, but thot you've got some insursituotion.As you once thot shouldhelp you out of suchon emborrossing 'INSURANCE soythis,you bring out on envelope morked POLICY'. After some by ploy, you open the envelope ond showwhot is inside.lt looks likeon InsuroncePolicyl You explointhot you purchosedinsuronceforjustsuchon occosion,ond then hove the person reod out loud whot iswrittenon the policy, "SinceBruceBernsteinis o policy holder in good stonding with the Psycho Dynomic lnsuronceCompony, we feel the word thot will return Mr. Bernstein's reputotionis'house'." üIBTHOD: The method isquite eosy.The policy isset up os o stondord window envelope ond you noil write in the properword (or number etc.) Therest isoll presentotion. Thisis olso o reol "insuroncepolicy"to keep on hond in cose someone messesyou up on o reol book test or similorsituqtion. Thepolicy,in the window envelope,con olsobe in your pocket for o very effective heckler stopper.The predictionwould reod somethinglike, 'Thenome of the personwho chollengesme fo reod their mind is ( the spoce for the nome iswhere the window is cut in the envelope.) lf someone does indeed give you o hord time, justoskthem to stond, ond very cosuolly,osk their nome. Thenremove the policy from your pocket, ond noil write in his nome. You'veturned o tough position, t2

Irri-lIick* into o killereffect. Another ideo, isto useit in the previouseffect.'Let'sTryOne MoreTime.' lnsteodof just hoving o predictionthot stotesthot the third number will be ihe correct prediction.hove it written on the bock of the Insuronce Policy.Sinceyou con write thisout before hond, you moy hove the spectotor open the envelope, Hove him reod the front of the policy first, ond then hove him reod the predictionon the bock. "SinceMr. Bernsteiniso policyholder in good stonding,hispredictionwill conectly predict the third numberchosenof rondom." Pleosefeel free to usethis orfwork,or if you wish,you could xeroxo reol policy.

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When I wos proofreodingthe monuscript,on ideo popped into my lnsuroncePolicy,it suddenlyocheod. Whilerereodingthe Mentolist's 'Policy" mightbe usefulin on One Aheod routine. curredto me thot the I pondered it o good while.ond the "mechonics'of whot to do become ......lt wos how to "frome'the routinethot wos the biggestobcleor, stocle. 'mistoke"shouldployos I hope you likethissolution,To the oudience,the o humorousdiversion,yet it excusesthe methodology very noturolly. Any opprooch to the One Aheod techniqueshouldwork justfine. Since olmosteveryone isfomiliorwith "MentolEpic".l'lldescribethe routinewith ihot type of presentotion. BFFBOT: You proposeto predict three differingchoices freely mode by membersof the oudience. You hove o "cholkboord-divided into sixsections.The top three sections hove flopscoveringthem. Ohe ClossicMentol EpicBoord.) You secretlywrite o prediction on the boord underneoth of the firstflop. At your request,o choice of on onimol,(forexomple)is mode by on oudience member.which you write underthe squoreyour predictionwos mode. You moke onother prediction,underthe middleflop. When you osk,onother oudience member collsout, (for exomple)o type of food. Thisyou write under your second prediction. You now moke your third predictionunder the lostflop, but you seem ununsureof whot to predict. certoin........ Finollyyou write down something,ond mutter thot you don't think you're going to be rightthistime.

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Pri-llicks Youthen osko third oudience member to coll out o common nome. Somethinglike Bill,or Joe. When they coll out their choice, you hove o look on your foce thot indicotes thot you did indeed guessincorrectly,but you write their choice on the finolspoce on the boord. You reveolyour predictions,ond you did get the firsttwo choices right, but your "nome"predictionwos Bob,Howeverthe personin the oudience colled out Som. You opologize to the oudience for predictingihe nome incorrectly,but then go on to soy thot ot leostyou KNEWYOU'DBEWRONG. POLYou then pull on envelope out of your pocket, morked INSURANCE just you reyou occosion, for such on took out insuronce lCY.Tellinghow move the Policyfrom the envelope. You explointhot Bob isyour Insuronce Agent, ond thot's why you wrote down hisnome. You hove o personcome on stoge to reod whot the policy soys. It reods: 'A Messogefrom your lnsuronceAgent Bob.' 'Thenome Mr. Bernsteinmeont to predict isSom." \tHBTllOD: I imogine thot you've olreody figured out how thisworks. One nice thing isthot you've eliminoted the force usuollyneeded to moke the One Aheod work,ond reploced it with o littlehumor. 'Clossic'One Aheod. Of course,feel free to chonge the first Justdo the 'logicolly",lthink two type of choices.To moke the presentotionwork out the choice of nome worksquite nicelyfor the finol choice. When you get to tfre third phose, predict the nome of your'ogent". I picked 'common nomes', becouse I feel there is o foir chonce of hoving the personpick the nome you hove predicted. lf you osk for'o simple somethinglikeBill,or Joe", o foir omount of people will probonome........ bly pick Bob. Of course,if they do coll out Bob,you end the routine,ond t6

P*i-lI.iekr toke o big bow. Butwhen they coll out o differentnome, your mutfering obout being wrong"mokessenseto the oudience.

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Butwhen you explointhot you goi insuronce,ond sinceyou KNEWyou were going to be wrong,you hod predictedyour ogent'snome,the oudience willsee thot something'scoming. Allthe by ploy shouldgive you omple opporiunityto get your NoilWriter into position.As the oudience member comes on stoge to reod the Policy, is o perfect time to do the writing. You shouldget o good lough when you whip out the Policy,ond get o nice roundof opplousewhen the predictionisreod.

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Asyou con tell by reoding thisbook, ond othersI hove writien, I moke useof o NoilWriterto occomplish mony of the effects I creote. l'veput o lot of time, energy,ond proctice into leorningto useo Noil Writer.I hove gotten to the point where I con write in scriptthot motches 'normol"writingquitewell, olong with the more usuolnumbers my own ond check morks. ..,BoonWriiI personollyfeel ihot the NoilWriter,ond oll itsvoriotions powerfultools ers,PocketWriters,Bond Writersetc,, ore some of the most 'Under me justhow few people use them ovoilobleto us, lt often surprises fire".True,the proper use of o Noil Writeris not eosy, ond requireso greot deol of proctice to become comfortoble,but think of the rewords. Underthe toughestconditions,you con predict olmostonythinglNumthe imoginotionolmostboggles bers,words,even simplepictures. possibilities! when you thinkobout the 'whot'smy out if somethinggoes How mony timeshove you heord, out. I would be hord pressedto wrong?"TheNoilWriteristhe ULTIMATE get you out of o tough spot. thinkof o situotionwhere one COULDN'T Sowhy don't more people usethem? Proboblythe biggest drowbock to mostpeople isthe problem of getting it into the proper positionto use.Thot'swhy,if o NoilWriterisbeing used, it isusuollydone os on opener.Thotwoy,the performercon positionit properlybefore coming on stoge, ond not worry obout getting it in position from o hold out. Thot'drowbock"iseosilysolved! ln my book "Psi- Tech"I describedthe Noil Writerthot I use. lt con be in my pocket, with keys.chonge, etc., yet I con hove it securelyon my thumb, without looking,in o couple of seconds.Becouseof the 'holdout', itsleod isvery secure,ond l've never hod o breokoge problem.

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Pri-lI.ieks The NoilWriteritselfis noihingnew.....,....., it'sjusto hord plosticthumbtip thot you cut down o bit, so thot yourthumb goes ollthe woy in. Youthen glue o piece of leod into it. I justmoke o smollhole neor the pod of the ihumb, ond use some croz./glue io stickthe piece of leod thot I insert Annemonnond othershove into it. As I soid,thisisnothingnew,.......... describedsuch o writer.But,compored to under noil.ond Boonwriters, this opprooch givesyou on exfremelystoblewriter.lt won't move out of position,or even worse,foll off. It'sthe Holdoutfor thiswriterthot I'mproudof..,..

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I reolizedthot thisthumb tip writerwill fit securelyinto o regulorthumb tip. It'sthe perfect holdout. lt protectsthe writer,ond keepsthe leod from occidentollybreoking.As I soid before,I'vekept one in my pocket with keys,chonge. oll kindsof stuff,ond hove never hod o problem. And getting it into positionis o "pieceof coke".ljustreoch in my pocket, ond feel for the thumb tip. I get the "tip"of the thumb tip between my firstond second fingers,ond move it so thot my firstfinger isogoinstthe "thumbnoil"of the tip. Now if I insertmy thumb into it,the writerwillbe in the perfect positionwhen my hond comes out of my pocket. lt'squite eosy,ond isdone in justo couple of seconds. Of course,you olso hove o thumb tip ovoiloblefor use.Two powerful weoponstogether in o very smollpockoge. OK, moybe l've gotfen you o bit more interestedin usingo Noil Writer, but now you moy be wondering how to go obout procticing with one. 'get my chops togethefl" Here isthe method I usedwhen I decided to I hove the writer on my right thumb. I hold o pod of poper with my left olsocome oroundthe front of the pod, os hond. My right hond FINGERS do my left fingers,but the right thumb is not in contoct with the pod. lt looksto the oudience thoi both my hondsore holdingthe pod, but the right fingers,ot the bose of the polm, only stobilizethe pod o bit. (Obviouslyl'm right honded. lf you're o lefty,just reversethings.) ond when comfortoble lprocticed three bosic things.Numbers,Printing, I moved on to Script. with those,

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Psi-liicks Holdingthe pod os obove, lwould printthe number 1justlefi of center on the pod,then the number2 justrightof center.Then3 just left of center, ond then 4 just right of center. Oou ore octuolly writingover the printed......... you'llsove o lot of poper thiswoy.) Connumberpreviously you reoch 0. Thenstortogoin. After o few doysof this,you'll tinue until hove your numbersdown pretty well. When you feel comfortoble with numbers,then try to print letiers.lfollow the some procedure os obove. I printA just left of center, then Bjust right of center.ThenC left of center.ond D right of center, Continueuntil you'veworkedthroughthe entireolphobet. Thiswilltoke more time to leornthon numbers,so toke your time, ond be potient. Mostpeople give up leorningtheir letterswell, ond thot restricts whot the NoilWritercon do for them. After o while,when you feel comfortoble, continue on to leorningscript. Thisismuch more difficultthon numbersond printing.Agoin,you proctice os obove, only now you mustproctice both upper ond lowercose, ond you connect the letters. Justleft of center you write A, ond connect it to the B you write left of center. ThenC to the left, connecting with the D you write to itsright, ond so on. After o month or two, with o reosonobleomount of slowcoreful proctice in front of o mirror,you'llbe oble to write wiih your thumb olmost os well os you normollywrite, You'llproboblyheor from some people thot you shouldn'thold on item you'renoilwritingon with both honds. You moy olsoheor thot o righi honded personshould leorn to noil write with their left hond. ond visoverso. ln my mony yeors of writingwith my thumb, I'venever run ocrosso problem usingboth hondsto hold whot l'm going to write on, or usingmy rightthumb. I see no problem in mokingthingshorderon yourself,if you thinkit will 20

Pni-l{ickr moke thingsmore deceptive, but the concept thot you might be writing somethingwith yourthumb isWAY out of people'sminds. Ashos been soid,why run if you'renot being chosed! lf you've been unhoppy, or unsuccessful tryingto useo "writer'before, pleosegive thiso try. I believeyou'llbe very pleosedwith thisopprooch.

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Al Koronhod some very clever ideos.One of the cleverestideos wos his 'Code Book"to decipher o previouslydeliveredprediction.Beuse of o cousethe Predictionismode in Code, it con be disployedopenly of the time it ismode. The onlyproblemwos..,......1 didn'tlikethe ideo of the book, ond the work you needed to do to moke it look right,so here'smy opprooch. EFFBOT: An experimentin predictionisproposedby you, os much before on event os you wish.Peoplemoy,ond should,wotch you print out numberson o sheetof poper,which you exploiniso Code. This coded predictionmoy be on public disployuntilihe show. You hond o seoledenvelopeto the personwho isto be the trustee. You explointhot it contoinsthe solutionto the Code, so under no circumstoncesshouldit be opened, On the doy of the event, you oskthot the envelope contoining the Code to decipher the prediction be brought out. The trusteeverifiesthot he hosbeen in possession of the Code sincethe predictionwos mode. You open the "Code"envelope,ond remove o piece of poper, which the trusteeopens ond usesto decipher the prediction. It, of course,sumsup on event in the news! Of course,thismoy be presentedmuch more dromoticolly.........,,,.The code con be put on disployin lorge numbers,ond left in public view until it isdecoded! üIBTH|)D: Agoin, I like to keep it os simpleos is possible.And os before, you hove to do some sneokythinkingto moke it work. You write out o seriesof numbers.The numbersoren't reollyimportont, sinceyou're going to creote o code thot will moke your predictionwork out properly.Once you see whot I meon, try from l0 to 20 numbers,ond try your luck of moking thingswork out. You'llfind on omount thot fitsthe results, heodlinesetc. type of predictionyou ore moking........sports 22

Plri-l{ickr I do recommend thot you do not repeot o numberimmediotely,since thot would requireo repeoted letter,which con moke thingsmore difficult. (lf you wish,in the 'Code" envelope,you could hove o decoding thot will tronsloteolong the linesof, 'l knew you would open this'.) Whot willhoppen of the show,isthot you willhove o piece of poper, with your speciollydesignedCode on it, looded in yourthumb or finger tip. Or use ony other clossicmethod for switchingin o heodlineprediction. Whot'snice in thiscose, isthot oll of the heot isoff of you. You never ever hove to messwith the prediction itself! Here'son exomple of o Code prediction. 1 0 ,r 3 , 6 , 2 5 , 1 i4l , 2 , 1 7 , 1 , 9 , 2, 31 (ljusttyped thesenumbersof rondom....reolly!) Let'ssoy o troin deroiled before your show. I hove l2 lettersto deol with, so I hove to come up with o I2 letterprediction,without immediotelyrepeoted letters. Troin= 5 .|3, try: so it'sno good....."...let's Deroiled= B Hmmmodds up to Crosh= 5 Hmm, might work. Trogedy = 7 Ahhh thot's itl TroinTrogedy= 12,ond no immediotely repeoted letters. So,now you con moke up your "Code poper". letWrite out the numbersfrom I to 50 on o piece of poper. 50 isso thot .|00 ters con be representedby more thon one number.Of course,I to could be used if you con print it oll out cleorlyon o smollenough piece of poper

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lrni-l{iek* After your torget numbers,you print in the lettersyou need. For exomple: 1 0= T 13=R 6 =fi 25=l 14=N ll =T 2 =Q 17=A I =G 9 -E 2 1= D 3 =! Fillin other lettersin the non usednumbers,ond you're reody to predict the future. I thinkthisprocedure mokessense,ond seemsquiie foir ond obove boord.I hope you feelthe some.

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BFFBOT: Youhove o deck of cords,ond ore seento toke o cord ond put it foce down on the toble. You now stote, "l'mgoing to osk you to think of o cord, but don't do it yet. You see, most people if osked to think of o cord, willpick obviousones,likethe Ace of Spodes,or the Queen of Heorts.So when I soy now,justnome some out the woy cord thot c o m e st o y o u rm i n d . . . , . . . N O W . " Theynome theirmentollyselectedcord, ond you turn overthe cord on the toble, Theymotchl OK,this doesn'twork ollthe time, but believeit or noi, I hit ilBTll|)D: of the time, ond obout 25%of the time. I come closeobout onother25o/" when it works,it'so mirocle. Whoi I did for quite o while is osk peoThe phrosingobove isIMPORTANT. ple the obove while keeping the phrosingidenticol eoch ond every time. I discoveredthot o pottern emerged. A lorge percentoge of people would choosethe 2 of Clubs.Theno smollergroup would nome the 7 of Spodes.lt wos quite unconny. A smollerpercentoge of people nomed the 3 of Heorts,I con't guorontee the resultswill be the some for you, so stort out by justoskingthe quesiionin THEEXACTSAMEWAY EVERYTIMEond o potfern will probobly estoblishitselfquite soon. When I get my honds on o deck, I secretlyget the 3 of Heorfsto the top of the deck ond the 7 of Spodesto the bottom. I openty remove the 2 of Clubsond ploce it foce down on the toble. I then oskthe questionos obove. lf the 2 of Clubs,or the 2 of Spodesis nomed, l'llthen turn overthe 2 of Clubson the toble ond cloim o hit. ( lf they soy the 2 of Spodes,o block 2 ispretfy domn goodl ) lf they soy the 3 of Heorts(or Diomonds),l'llput the deck on the toble, 'to mork where hove them cut it. ond then I usethe 2 of Clubs os o cord you cut the deck".CVoudon't moke o big deolwhen you put the 2 of Clubsfoce down. so they don't know whot you were going to do with it.) After I recop whot hos hoppened. I splitthe deck where the 2 of Clubs wos inseriedsidewoys,ond show the cord "theyfreely cut to", which wos the cord on top of the deck. lt'sour old friend,the X, or CrossForce. 26

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FORCE" CONDITION OFIHE DECKAFIERTHE"CROSS ISNOW SEVEN OFSPADES ABOVETHETWO OFCLUBS

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'direct hits',3 So,insteodof o I out of 52 cord situotion.you hove 3 -pretty "reollyclose hits",ond 2 good hits'which increosesyour chonces for o successfuloutcome to B out of 52,without toking ony psychology into considerotion. Butwhot do I do if none of thesecordsore nomed?l?l?lThereore plenty of outs ovoiloble (seeMentolist'sInsuroncepolicy) but here'sone ideo you con try. '10 Theysoy the of Clubs.Pickup the deck ond fon it with the foces towords you ond hove them insertthe 2 of Clubsfoce up into the deck. Note if their cord isobove or below the 2 of Clubs.lf it isbelow ihe 2 of Clubs(if the deck isheld foce up), rememberthe cord below the nomed cord. lf it isobove the 2 of Clubs,rememberthe cord below the 'glide', ond stort 2 of Clubs.Hold the deck foce up in the positionfor the pullingcords off of the bottom of the deck. When you get to the cord below the torget cord, you know the torget cord is next,so glide it bock ond keep pullingoff cords untilyou get to the 2 of Clubs.Then peel off

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lrni-l{.icks the torget cord. lt seemsthot they insertedthe 2 of Clubsnext to their selected cord. lf the cord wos obove the 2 of Clubs,when you see the cord below the 2 of Clubs,you'llknow thot the 2 of Clubsisnext,so you pull it bock ond do the glide untilthe torget cord comes.Thenpeel off the 2 of Clubs ond you'redone. yourbow. to their cord........-...toke Of course,if they put it in ne>Cr ond itsoffspring,con give you Vernon's"TrickThot Con't Be Exploined", mony effective outs for this type of situoiion.

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ßFFBOT: You propose on experimentihot will need the help of four people in the oudience. As you choose the four people who will be ossisting,you ore seen to ploce o Piggy Bonk,o strongpoper, or stiffplostic bog,ond o hommerin fullview, You then pick up o pod of poper ond o pen, ond osk one of the four people to collout ony singledigit number.You writethe numberon the pod, ond then osk onother of the four to coll out onothersingledigit number,which you olsojot down. (lt could be the some singlenumber, or o different one.) Theno third person collsout hischoice of o single digit number,which you olso record. Forexomple,the numberscolled out ore 3, 7 ond 9. You oskthe fourth personto decide in whot order he would like the three digits.Forexomple, he decideson 739,which you jot down. You oskhim to come on stoge.You then osk him to open the bog ond exomine it, if you wish, ond the ploce the PiggyBonkinsideof it.You oskhim to get the hommer, os you ploce your pod of poper down besidethe poper bog, so thot the numberscon be verified. You recop whot hos hoppened etc., ond then oskthe "ossistonf'tohit the bog with the hommer in orderto breok the PiggyBonk.The bog, of course,isto keep shordsfrom flying oll over. You osk him to pour out the now destroyed PiggyBonk,ond omong the pieces of pig iso folded up piece of poper. You oskthe personto open the piece of poper ond reod it out loud. lt stotes: Deor Piggy Bonk, I owe you $739, Thonks,Bruce DIBTI||)I): Thoseof you fomiliorwith the closic effect 'Mindingthe Store'by Ned Rutledgehove most probobly figured out how thisworks.lf you're not fomiliorwith 'Mindingthe Siore",trock it down - it'sbrilliont!

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lrsi-llick* Thiseffect is o simplifiedversionond the useof the Piggy Bonkmokes it o bit unusuolcompored to the overoge Mentol effect. All you need to perform thisis: l. An eosilybreokoble PiggyBonk. 2. A strongpoper, or stiffplosticbog.thot istollerthen the bonk. 3. A smcillpod of poper. 4. A piece of poper with,

DeorPiggyBonk I owe you S(spoceleft blonk) Thonks,Bruce

5. A NoilWriter. The piece of poper should be folded with the spoce for the dollor omount on the outside. The restisquite'simple.Yourthumb holdsthe folded piece of poper on the pod so thot when you "jot down the numbers"you con olsowrite the proper numb'eron it. Then,when you osk the personto get the hommer, you Justhoppen to" let the lower edge of the pod touch the top of the bog,ond let the folded piece of poper to foll into the bog. lf you hove ony doubt this willwork, forget it - it does! Justmoke sureyou proctice enough so thot it lookscosuol.Of course,when the broken bonk is poured out, the piece of poper mingleswith it. The restis oll build up. lf you don't think this isfor you, moybe you'lllikethisvoriotionon the theme: The effect isthe some except you ore not holding o pod of poper, ond you put the bonk into the bog. Hereyou hove the poper lightlywoxed to the sideof the Bonk owoy from the oudience. When you hove the bog opened, you pick up the Bonk(to be helpful)ond NoilWritethe proper number in ploce. When you lower the bonk into the bog, you give the slipo pushto releoseit into the bog. Continue os obove.

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LOlvB o|)..tBoTl|)s Thisiso PRESENTATIONAL gombit. Thereore mony woysof technicolly ochieving these ends, but the plot fillso need for both Mogicions ond Mentolists. BFBBOT: You've been hired to performof on engogement porty, ond you oskthe future bride ond groom to come up on sioge. You go on to explointhot o gypsyyou knew tought you o method to find out whether two people ore trulycompotible. You oskthem if they would core to be put to the test. You oskeoch to choose o ploying cord. You hove the cords returnedto the deck, ond then you oskthe bride to shufflethe deck while thinkingof the groom. The deck isthen honded to the groom to shufflewhile thinking of hisbride. You explointhot the gypsytought you thot the furtherowoy the cords end up in the deck, the les likelyit isthot the people will end up together, ond thot if the Ace of Spodesis between the cords, their morrioge willbe doomed! You slowlydeolthrough the cords,turningthem foce up os you go, until one of the selected cords isseen.You ore seen to be concerned of this moment of truth. The cord isdeolt off the deck, ond the next cqrd isthe Queen of Heorts,which you exploin is obviouslyo very.good cord, for it is the cord of love. You oskwhot the other selected cord is.You deol off the Queen AND THEVERYNE)OCARDlSTHEOTHERFREELY SELECTED CARD.Sincethe only cord between thelr.cordsisthe Love cord, their morrioge must be blessedl illBTllOl): l'llgive you two bosic methods,but os lsoid before, l'm sure mony of you will opply other methods thot you olreody know from other tricks,both sleightof hond ond goffed. One woy, ond to my woy of thinking,the best,isto do the dirtywork pre show.Askto tolk to the honored couple, ond inquirewhether they would liketo be 'put to the test'. lf they onsweryes,pull out your hondy dondy MARKEDdeck, ond hove eoch of them remove o cord, which they put bock into the deck ond shuffle.When you ore olone, you toke the 32

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LOlvB O0.SBOTI|)il gombii. Thereore mony woysof technicolly Thisiso PRESENTATIONAL ochieving these ends. but the plot fillso need for both Mogicions ond Mentolists. BFFBOT: You've been hired to performof on engogement porty, ond you oskthe future bride ond groom to come up on stoge. You go on to explointhot o gypsyyou knew tought you o method to find out whether two people ore trulycompotible, You oskthem if they would core to be put to ihe test. You osk eoch to choose o ploying cord. You hove the cords returnedto the deck, ond then you oskthe bride to shufflethe deck while thinkingof the groom.The deck isthen honded to the groom to shufflewhile thinking of hisbride. You explointhot the gypsytought you thot the furtherowoy the cords end up in the deck. the les likelyit isthot the people will end up together, ond thot if the Ace of Spodesis between the cords, their morrioge willbe doomed! You slowlydeolthrough the cords,turningthem foce up os you go, until one of the selected cords isseen.You ore seen to be concerned of this moment of truth. The cord isdeolt off the deck, ond the next cord isthe Queen of Heorts,which you exploin is obviouslyo very.good cord, for it is the cord of love. You osk whot the other selected cord is.You deol off the Queen AND THEVERYNEXI-CARD lSTHEOTHER FREELY SELECTED CARD.Sincethe only cord between their.cordsisthe Love cord. their morriogemust be blessed! ülBTllOl): l'llgive you two bosic methods,but os lsoid before, l'm sure mony of you will opply other methods thoi you olreody know from other tricks,both sleightof hond ond goffed. One woy, ond to my woy of thinking,the best,isto do the dirtywork pre show. Askto tolk to the honored couple, ond inquirewhether they would liketo be 'put to the test'. lf they onsweryes,pull out your hondy dondy MARKEDdeck, ond hove eoch of them remove o cord, which they put bock into the deck ond shuffle.When you ore olone, you toke the 32

Irsi-llickr Queen of Heorts,which you hod previouslyremoved from the deck, ond put o bit of wox on both sides.You then stickone of the selected cords on top, ond the other on the bottom, Pui them o few cords from the botiom of the deck ond the restis history.Allyou need to do ismoke surethot there is not o surfoceon which they could riffleshufflethe cords.You wont only overhond shuffles,which won't disturbthe three cordsthot hove been woxed together.When you deolthrough the cords,you seporotethe woxed cords- they mustbe blessed! A more stroightforword method isto hove the Queen on top of the deck with o bit of wox on itstop, ond onother bit of wox where you con eosilyget to it. Ohe cord cose would be o good choice,) Hove the first selectionploced on the top of the deck, (A quick squeezewill stickthem together.)Over hond shufflethe cordsso thot the Queen is now on the bottom. Yourmiddlefinger con eosilyodd the wox to the foce of the Queen. Hovethe next selectionploced on top ond, os you exploinhow eoch of them isto shuffleihe deck, you cut the cords,which willollow you to stickthe second selectionto the foce side of the Queen. The rest ispresentotion. Oh, lf you ore coutious,you moy wont to removethe Ace of Spodes,just in cose.. Forthose of you who do reodings:

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Obviously,thiscon eosilybe opplied to Torotcords. In foct, the useof 'two significoTorotcords octuolly mokes more sense,I reolizedthot this tor"cordsconcept is,to the best of my knowledge o new one, ond con be reodilyopplied to legitimote reodings.Hove the two significotorcords chosen,ond returnedto the deck which isthen shuffled.Do your reoding with whotever cords end up between them. The cordswill represent the thingsthot will hoppen to the couple os they possthrough lifetogether. lt con olso be done with businessportners,o porent, literollyony situotionthot involvesthe relotionshipbetween two people. lf you do your reodingslegitimotely,don't use wox - let the fotes decide the outit is. come, but if you liketo bonk the oddsin yourfovor.............wox

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BFFBOT: Someoneosksyou for o cord reoding.You explointhe oncient concepts of Fire,Woter, Air. ond Eorih. You shuffleo Torotdeck, cut it into 4 piles.os you explointhot the pile to their left will represent "FIRE", the next,"AlR',ond on the other end, the next one, "WATER', 'put their influ'EARTH". Thesitteristhen to shuffleeoch of the piles.to ence' into the cords. Youturn your bock, ond instructthe sitterto thinkof theirquestion.lf the questionisobout themselves,they ore to remove ony cord from the 'FIRE" pile, but if it'sobout someonethey core for, it shouldbe token from "WATER'pile, someonethey know of, but hoven't met, the "AlR'pile, the ond if it isobout on object, not o person,the'EARTH"pile. Thenyou exploin,if theirquestionisobout possion.or love,they ore to re'FIRE" pile,ond ploce in on top of the first move onother cord from the 'WATER' pile. lf cord. lf it isobout Heolth,the cord shouldcome from the it'sobout Schoolor Educotion,it shouldcome from the "AlR'pile,ond if pile. obout Money or Finonces.it shouldcome from the "EARTH" Thisprocessis repeoted severolmore times,untilenough cords hove been selectedto usefor the reoding. Althoughnothing hosbeen writtendown, ond you hove no insideinformotion,you ore oble to give on incrediblyoccurote reoding. ülBTHl)D:

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Thedeck, Torotor reguloris morked into 4 distinctsections.You con eosilyfolseshufflethe cords,ond splitthem into the 4 piles.Shortcords on top of eoch sectioncon help moke thisquite cosuol. When you see. ond observethe sitter,you shouldhove o foir ideo of whot their possiblequestions/ concernsore, so oll you do is hove them help you norrow it down, without them reolizingit. the "rituol"youdescribefor selectingthe cordscon be eosily Obviously, odopted for whomever you ore givingthe reoding. As long os you deso your questionswill WATER, AlR,ond EARTH scribethe functionsof FIRE, QA

Pri-ll.ickr seem consisteni,you con customizethisfor olmostony person. When you turn bock to give the reoding.ond spreodout the selected cords,you will see which pilesthey eoch come from,ond in whot order. With o bit of thought, you con eosilyzero in on justwhot the sitterwonts to know. lf you wishto do this in on impromptumonner,justborrow o deck of cords.Hove them shuffled,ond returnedto you. Asyou cut the deck into the 4 piles,you scropeyourthumbnoilocrossthe sideof the cords,but in o differinglocotion for eoch of ihe piles.When you ore reody to proceed, turn bock oround,ond pick up the group of selectedcords,ond look the sides.You should,with o littleproctice.seethe where the scropemorksore on eoch of the cords.

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Thisconcept isGREATfor onyone who does reodingsin o porty or Psychic Foircontext.lt moy seem silly,but toke it from me, it con be quite powerful,ond con moke o reoding seem much more powerful then it reollywos. BFFBOT: You ore seoted ot o toble, givingshortreodingsto those present.Duringyour reodings,thosewoiching see you leon over ond, in o very soft voice thot no one else con heor, soysomethingthot seemsof greot imporlonce to the personhoving their fortune told. The sitteris then seen to nod in totol ogreement with whot you hove confidentiolly predicted. Thisprocesshoppensmony timesthroughthe night.so thot everyone woiching con tell thot your reodingsore not only occurote, but con delve into oreosthot the sitterswould not wont to be heord publicly,in o coring woy, sensitive, Reoderyou ore,there O.K.- let'sbe honesi.I don't core how good of o.|00% get solidhit, becouse o ore times it would be greot to be oble to you oren't moking ony heodwoy with the personfor whom you ore reoding. Thisgivesthe illusionthot you ore right on torget to those wotching. Nelsontold how he hod decided to personolly Thestorygoes.............Bob deliveron order of ostrologychoris to one of hisbiggest customers,So thot he might see how she wos generoting sucho lorge volume of business.When he sow her givingreodings,he wos highlyimpressedwith the number of solidhitsshe wos moking. All night long, sitterswere nodding theirogreement wiih whot shewos soying,Whenshe wos done, Nelson occurote. Her'secret'wos oskedhow she wos oble to be so consistently so remorkoblysimple.he wos omozed. ülBTHOl): Duringthe reoding, she would leon over so thot shewos closerto the sifter,ond with o coring, concerned look on her foce, she would osk in o sofi voice, "con You heor me O.K.?' Of course,the sitter 'yes', ond nod her heod offirmowould leon forword when she did, soy tivelyin responseto the reoder'squestionond body longuoge. Tothe 38

lrni-lI.ieks people wotching, there wos o whole differentinterpretotion.lt looked likethe Reoderhit on o sensitiveoreo ond wos correct. Thot'sobout oll of the detoil thot Nelsonpossedon to us,so let me fillin the o few of the blonks.ond tellvou obout some voriotionsI've develcpeo. Firstof oll, l'd liketo stress thot the moin ingredienithot helpsthisconcept to work isyour body longuoge.Remember,the reosonpeople think you've "hit"on somethingis becousethey see the sitfernodding their heod in responseto somethingyou've soid.lf you justoskif they con heoryou O.K.,youmoy well onlyget o verbolresponse. YOUWANTTHE TO NODTHEIR SITTER HEAD,SOTHATEVERYONE CAN SEElT!To set up the situotionproperly,you wont the sitterto respondos much, if not moreto your body longuoge then to whot you ore soying. Thinkobout it. lf you ore tolkingto someone,ond you then leon closer ond soysomethingin o soff tone of voice,you ore implyingthot you hove somethingpersonolond privoteto soy to them. lt olsoimpliesthot their responseshouldbe done in the somemonner.lt olsoimpliesto onyone wotching you thot the situotionispersonol,privote,ond posibly importont.lf the personseesyou nodding (eiiheryes or no) os you oskthe question,the choncesore greotlyincreosedthot the onswerwill olsobe o nod. As o techniquefor reodings,thiscombinotionof body longuoge ond chonges in verbol style,is of greot importonce.When octuolly stoting things,it will help leod the sitterto confirm if you ore correct non verbolly, which will help them leod you in the rightdirectionwhen pumping.But in thistechnique,it isof utmostimportonce, lf the only time in the reodingthot you leon closerond softenyourvoice iswhen you osk,"con you heor me O.K.?',they moy look of you likeyou ore nuts.But if you've done it o few timeswith "reolinformotion',the slightlyout the ordinoryquestionwill not seem inconsistentwith your previousbehovior. Another point l've discoveredisthot the questionsdon't hove to be ones thot oskfor o positiveresponse.As long os the sitter'sreoctionsmotch yours,the people wotching will ossumethot you ore correct. ForexomJY

lDsi-li.ickn ple, you leon forword,look concerned ond whisper,"you'renot uncomfortoblein thot choir,ore you?',while nodding your heod bock ond forth (os if lookingfor o negotive response), the sitterwill nod bock ond forth olso.Thiswill olsolook likeo "hit"tothosewotching,justos much os o positive response. Hereore some possiblequestions: " Y o uc o n y o u h e o r m e O . K . ,c o n ' t y o u ? " "lt'sowfullyloud in here,isn'tii?" "lsthot your Husbond?" "Wosthe food good?" "l'm not going ioo fost,om l?" "Aren'ttheseTorotcordsbeoutiful?" I thinkyou've cought the drift.Any questionor stotemenithot seemsoppropriotesociolly,ond thot comesout of "concern"for the sittercon be put to use.

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lDri-l{.icks see whot she lookslike.You oskher to open the envelopeyou hove been holding,ond reod the prediction thot wos seoled inside. It stotes,"Thefirstpersonwho choosesthe torget number,will be o womon with blond hoir," You smiletriumphontly,ond stoieyou ore glod thot your firstprediction wos correct,otherwiseeveryonewould hove o hord time believingthe prediction in the envelope thot you wrote out before orrivingof the show. Aftero dromotic pouse,you oskfor the envelope,remove the prediction to reod it, ond oskyour ossistont It stotes,for exomple ,"Mole, BrownHoir,FS". Of course,he hos BrownHoir,ond hisnome isFronkSmith. OIBTHI)D: I guessthisis o voriotionon the I oheod, but it'so bit more worped,ond more to my liking. Theobove wos describedusingo ConfobulotionWollet. On the top sheet of ihe pod, isyour predictionthot stoteswhot the personwho picksyour torget number in the firstphosewill look like.lt doesn't motier. sinceyou don't reolly print o torget number on the envelope 'ihe torget numberwill be', ond when you soyyou will.All you print is, leove o spoce in which to noilwrite.Youjustwoit to heor whot number is colled off by o personwho comes closeto your prediction description, ond write it in. When the freelychosen ossistontis picked, you politelyintroduce him or her to the oudience, ond you now know their nome. Sinceyou useo pencil with o bit of glue on itspoint to serveos o styluswriterit won't write on the top sheet.You write the descriptionof your ossistont,but insteod the infothrough the corbon poof priniing on the top sheet,it impresses per insideof the Confobulotion envelope. You then teor off the prediction they thought you justwrote out, ond hond it to the ossistontto seol in on envelope ond hold on to for o minute. Putthe pod owoy, ond bring out the envelope,exploiningthot you hod 42

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BFFBOT: You stotethot you moiled o predictionthot will cover some eventsin the news to o trustedperson,He is brought up on stoge ond lTlN confirmsthot he hosthe prediction ond thot NO ONE HASTOUCHED ANYWAY,SHAPEOR FORM.You olso siote thot someone else wos to go ond buy todoy's newspoper.You osk thot the personwith the newspoper come up on stoge.You oskboth of them to verify thot they ore not octing os stoogesetc. You go on to explointhot you hod o dreom obout some eventsthot would be oppeoring in todoy's news, but sinceyour don't hove control over whot you dreom, sometimesyour visionsore o bit odd. You go on to siote thot you rorelydreom obout importont events.ln foct, you'reglod thot you don't dreom obout thingslikeoirplonecroshesor other trogedies,but insteodyou ofien dreom obout weird ond unusuolhoppenings! Forexomple,you explointhot you hod o dreom obout o mon who received o letter moiled 20 yeorsogo. You then open the poper ond show on orticle obout suchon event. You then stote you olsodreomt obout o mon who likesto collect gorboge cons,ond you olso show on orticle obout him. And then you olsotell of o dreom concerning o weight los progrom thot involvessomeone only eoting sordines.Of course,you showthot orticle olso. You now hove the predictionenvelope opened. All your predictionsore correct!

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Pni-li.ickn well ond remove the pogesthot theseitemsore on ond sovethem. Moke surethot there ore not ony other itemson these poges thot will give owoy when they were wriften,On the doy of the show,buy o poper ond reploce the proper poges with the ones thot hove the orticles you hove predicted. Now you use o subtletyinvented by Dr. Joks.Beforethe show,go up to someonein the oudience ond stote,"l hod someonego out ond buy ihis newspoper,bui they hod to leove,so could you pleoseguord thispoper, ond when I osk for you to bringit on stoge,willyou do so? Becouse BOUGHT of how thisis phrosed,people willossumeHEHADPERSONALLY but we know he didn't. THEPAPER, The restis oll presentotionl Evenwithout the Dr. Jokstechnique, this ploysquite well, but it is o touch thot reollyhelpshide the boldnessof whot you ore doing. Whot l like,isthot you reollydon't hove ony "dirfy" work to do. Nothing is switched,ond everythingoppeors totolly obove boord. lt'sthe presentotion thot mokesit seems"logicol".

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Irri-lliekr You mix up the envelopes,ond ogoin loy them out in o line.You oskthe oudience to closetheireyes,ond cleor theirminds.You oskthem to let o number between I ond 4 come into theirminds. You find out which of the four possibilities wos the choice of the oudience by hovingthem roisetheir hondsif they thought of 1,2, 3, or 4, The envelope of thot positionisopened, ond ogoin, it isthe one thot contoinsthe neckloce, which you returnto its lovelyowner. üIBTHOD: Thismethod hos much thot oppeolsto whot I like in Mentolism.lt is reollyonly suitoblefor o lorge crowd, but it con be done under conditionsthot seem totollyimpossible. Beforethe show,you go up to someonethot you feel willbe eosy going ond interestedin porticipotingin o psychicexperiment.You explointhot you ore going to wont her to come up on stoge ond thot you will ottempt to try ond find on hidden object by use of your psychicpowers. And if she will be so kind os to help,you hove o gift for her,thot she moy keep. You pullout o 'gold"neckloce ond osk her to weor it so thot it will pick up her 'vibrotions", You thonk her ond tell her to come up on stoge when you osk. Sincethe "gold"neckloce isoctuollycostumejewelry,youhove on exoct duplicote looded in yourthumb tip. (tf you con offord to give out reol gold, send some my woy!) Phosel. Sinceyou hove o neckloce in yourtip, you con choose whotever envelope you wish.When you "quicklysqueeze"the non chosen envelopes,you will discover: ) t

A. Which non chosen envelope it isin. B. Thotyou ore reolly psychic,ond you've picked the rightenvelope. lf A, you then open the torget envelope,ond lood the tip, dumping out the duplicote neckloce.Domn, mokesme chuckle! lf B. Hove her open the envelope ond restroinyourself.

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lrni-llickr Phose2. lf the obove wos A., when she reseolsthe duplicote neckloce in o morkedenvelope,now 2 envelopeshove o neckloce in them. Thisollowsyou o killermogicion'schoice. You mix the envelopesthistime, so you know which envelopeshove neckloces. You exploin,for o beginner,o processof eliminotionoften worksbest. You pick up 2 envelopes,one empty, one with o neckloce, ond osk if shethinksthot the neckloce is in one of these 2 envelopes. lf she soys yes,smileond soy, "OK, now you'llhove to eliminoteone, ond keep one." Roiseone envelope ond soy,this one, or (roisingthe second envelope) *OK, or thisone. lf she picksthe one with the neckloce smileond soy, thot one gets eliminoted",ond eliminotethe lower one. lf she picksthe empty one, you soy,"OK this isthe one you wont to eliminote", ond hond her the lower envelopeto open. lf she soid no to the firsttwo envelopes,you justtossthose two envelopes oside,ond pick up the remoiningtwo, ond continueos obove" lf in Phoseone, you octuolly picked the envelope with the neckloce, this time you justhove the lody stop you over onyone of the envelopes she wishes.You then open it, ond lood the neckloce. Of course,if she picks the right one, go buy o lotto ticket ofter the show! Phose3. Agoin, there will most probobly be 2 envelopeswith neckloces. When you mix them this time, you loy them out so thot they will be in the 2, ond 3 positions. I ond 4, most people will pick 3, ond lf oskedto pick o number between 'l o lot will pick 2......fewwill pick or4. Sinceyou've got o neckloce ot both positionsyou're well covered. ln the rore occosionswhen the choices ore correct in phoses I ond 2, then just hove it in one of the middle positions,ond count from either the left or right depending on the outcome you need. 52

llri-l{iekr Of course,sinceyou would stillhove the looded tip on, you could olwoys odd on extro phose, for exomple,with o personfrom the oudience.

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ThisisMUCHmore then juston effect - it'so concept thot isexfremely flexibleond, on o technicol level,extremelyeosyto do. Evenif you'retotolly unpreporedto perform, in o few minutesyou con be reody to perform on entireoct. Do lexoggerote?l?|2Reod on....... BFFBOT: A while before you ore to stortto perform,severolpeople cords,or blonk help you hond out blonk piecesof cord boord (business people in the oudicord stock is perfect) to o lorge omount of business of informoseveroltypes ence. On these cords they ore to write down o simpledrowing,o question tion, You moy oskfor thingslikeiheir initiols, .|000, their fovorite food, they wishonswered, o number between I ond performing. your After o few minstyleof or onything elsethot fitsin with utes,you osk someoneto collect,ond then mix up ollthe cords.You then toke the cords ond hond them to someone who con be trustedfor sofe keeping. When it comes time to perform,you osk for the cordsto be brought up on stoge.You then ploce them on o toble. of whot you con do) You osk for someone Oheseore merely EXAMPLES to pick up the top cord ond coll out the initiols.You osk thot personto stond up ond you hond them o book. You osk them to open the book to the poge thot motches the number they hqd writtendown, You successfullyreod their mind. OR You toke o cord from the stock, ond reod off the person'sselections.You find the person then slowlywolk through the oudience, ond successfully who filledout the cord. OR You hond on envelope to someone ond then oskthem to toke three cords off the top of the stock.The numberson the three cordsore odded up. You then hove the envelope opened - you've predicted the totolexoctly.

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Irsi-llickr CR You osk someone from the oudience to concentrote on the drowino they mode. You successfully duplicote it. OR Hoveenough informotionto do o ClossicQ & A oct. ANDMORE! OIBTIIOD: As I soid before, on o TECHNICAL level, thisis E)CIREMELY eosy,but it will toke o foir dose of performingsowy to moke it ploy. Whot you need to performthistechnique is o bunch of businesscords,or blonk cord stock, or onything else comporoble, ond o scissors, or cord/poper cufter. Whot you ore going to moke is o modified stripper deck with these cords,You'regoing to trim o bit off the long edge of oll but l0 to 20 cords os in the illusirotion. On the remoining10 - 20 cords, you will trim the long edge on on ongle, like o stripperdeck. When done, duringthe oction of o quick shuffleyou con stripout these l0 - 20 cords,ond get them to the top of the stock.You pencil mork,or noil nick etc. these l0 - 20 cords olo PseudoPsychometry. When it comes time to hond out the cords,you hond bunchesto severol people to help you distributethem, but you retointhe STRIPPED MARKED cords.You hond these out to people who you will be oble to remember, When the cords ore collected,you give them o 'quick cut" ond stripthe torget cordsto the iop. lt shouldlook likeyou're just "fussing"with the cords.Thensecretlypolm off o few, ond then hond the restof them to someone for sofe keeping. When you excuseyourselfto get reody (or the clossic,"where isyour woshroom?"),you look of the cords ond decide whot informotionwill be the best. Thinkobout it, you now know the selectionsof l0 - 20 of SPECIFICpeople in the oudience, without onyone being the wiser! (Forexomple, you see thot the third cord you honded out hos o picture of o puppy. Since the cord wos morked ond you remember who you

llni-li.icks honded the third cord to, you con do o pictureduplicotion.) When you ore reody to perform,justpolm the cords you hove studied ond ploced into on order you con remember,ond odd them to the siockwhen they ore honded bock to you, Any technique for looding o few cordsto the top of o deck of cords could work justfine. Anothertouch, if your oudience islorge enough you con olsoodd o few of your own "ringer"cords.As long os you hove o couple of effects (i.e.Q ond A) where you don't hove to identifythe writer (l sensethe question on thiscord is quite serious,so pleose don't identifyyourself),thiscon be quite useful. Also,if you ore coreful, you could hove o Morked Strippedcord on top of eoch of the "bunches"thot you've honded to othersto help possout. Rememberwho gets these,ond the method will be hidden thot much more. It's hord to put into words justhow flexiblethistechnique is.All kindsof sneokytechniquescon be put to work here. Let your imoginotion go, ond l'm sureyou'll come out with o lot of good usesfor this. I

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