![]() This book was originally written as a series of pamphlets for sale in “magic shops” all over the English-speaking world. Really fun book, even for someone who has no interest in performing stage magic. Question and answer, akin to Ray Hyman's marvelous work "Cold Reading: How to convince strangers that you know all about them", teaches you to principles and techniques for reading people by visual cues, statistical variabilities and other devious mechanisms. Two person telepathy opens up new possibilities to interact with a close friend or even invent a new internal language tailored for your spesific needs (a fun weekend activity with your significant other, i suppose). On the other hand, most of the book are packed with information which can be quite useful magicians and laymen alike.įor instance the mnemonics chapter can teach you some neat memory tricks (similar to Cicero's Memory Palace/Method of loci) you can use anywhere, anytime. Some takes it one step ahead (like chapter 12) and gives advice only for professional magicians. ![]() Some chapters fully dedicated to stage acts, filled with nice effects and methods. Ii) Pencil, Lip, Sound, Touch and Muscle ReadingĪs pointed out in many reviews, mentalism isn't implying any kind of supernatural stunts (or necromancy for that matter), it's just stage magic. ![]() Lots of good reviews here but let's make a proper one:
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