![]() This being the case, your own reactions will also be genu me. The unrecoverable misses you do encounter will be genuine. You will sometimes fail, but your hit rate will begin far higher than that of a real psychic's subconscious guesswork, and that hit rate improves steadily as you learn more about how to present such mental feats in ways that suit you, and as you become comfortable with the idea of performing in this way. In contrast to subconsciously applying this ramshackle mental storehouse of knowledge, the Naked approach uses accurate, purpose-built mental maps, deliberately learned 13Īnd accessed at will. You may, in other words, be completely unaware of how you know something. What's perhaps most amazing is that you will probably have come by the knowledge used to create such insights without any conscious effort whatsoever. It all depends on how much you know about the subject or situation in question. Such insights are sometimes breathtaking in their accuracy. However, such insights are delivered without conscious access to the thought processes involved in their creation they simply pop into your head fully formed. Psychology says that such experiences are the personal interpretations of insights provided by the subconscious mind, which synthesizes them from past experience. So, what do you use instead? To answer that, we must examine what it is that people claim as "psychic" insights, for want of a better phrase. For what might be the first time, there's nothing up your sleeve, nothing to peek, crib, write, burn, tear, or erase. So-called Naked effects abandon the physical methods and apparatus usually available to the performer. Once again, our theme is the creation of effects that emulate as closely as possible the natural abilities of the psychically gifted. I 0 IĮlcome to volume III of Naked Mentalism. TABU OF CoNTDTS Introduction to Volume 111. As ever, Celia, Penny and Ricky Paolo Amira Theodore Annemann Chris Beard lain "Abraxus" Dunford Enrique Enriquez Bruce Frey Jerome "TT2" Finley Ian Harling & Martin Nyrup Lewis Jones Thomas Korelin Dr Todd Landman Experimental Psychology Joe Riding Ian Rowland Roni and Larraine Shachnaey Steve "Banachek" Shaw Tony "Corinda" Simpson Matthew "Malchat" Shouten Thank you. ![]() I'm profoundly grateful to the following people past and present, either for helping shape this book by providing inspiration, advice, or by generally keeping me fairly sane. I wish you nothing less than a life filled with pain, failure and frustration, ending with a lingering, agonising death. If you didn't pay for this book and did not receive it personally from me the author, you have stolen it. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the author. This book and its contents copyright © 20 11 by Jon Thompson. Alas however the latter is far more prevalent than the former.FiRST EDITION PuBLISHED AND PRINTED BY M I have always said that mentalism is the best type of magic if done well and the worst type if done badly. ![]() They are after all boring enough as it is when you CAN hear them. I cannot possibly approve of mumbling mentalists. I have seen one worthy who is terribly well known on two occasions do a full evening show of mentalism and I still don't know if he is any good or not. And they should speak clearly so that people who are slightly deaf can hear what the hell they are saying. Mentalists talk far too much and the first thing they should do is to edit their patter and cut down on the constant yapping. One good thing about Al Koran is that he would do 4 mental effects in about 8 minutes and I saw him do this on the Sullivan show. I hate long winded mentalists of whom there are a great abundance. The trouble with this approach is that by the time you get to the end of the trick people have forgotten what the beginning was. If it is indeed true then the fellow should be taken out and shot. It sounds like an exaggeration to me especially when it was told to me by Paul Pacific who likes to colour his stories to make them interesting. They take ten minutes to do one trick and I have even heard of one fellow who does about 4 tricks in a two hour show. A boring mentalist (most of them) can be hell on earth to watch. There are indeed plenty of awful magicians but at least they have the visual element to make up for the awfulness. And dramatic showmen are as rare as good magicians on the magic cafe. The trouble with the propless versions is that they have no visual element and unless the performer is a dramatic showman they just don't hold the attention. ![]() I have seen people kill with the Mental Epic.
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