Explore the inner working secrets of private mediums and clairvoyants. Intimate details of their methods of operation; setting up in business, without legal interference; hundreds of convincing patter lines for psychological readings; legal aspects of fortune telling; and other inside information.
Learn the techniques of the medium's 'tricks of the trade', with illustrated instructions, plus improvements and subtle pieces of business. The complete reading technique is explained in detail.
Also included are further exploits of Dr. A, written from his personal notes and transcribed recordings. Much of the material in this book is based in the actual techniques of Dr. A.
This is a complete and ruthless expose of the Secret Methods of Private Reader, complete with a glossary of medium's secret terms.
More of Dayton's innovative effects for close-up, club and stage perormers. Many of the effects are accomplished without special apparatus, others require some simple construction, but are all clearly explained and illustrated for excellent results.
The book is divided into three sections. Section One I Magic with Cards; Section Two, Magic with Ropes; and Section Three, A magical Grab Bag. Some of the effects are: Ace-tronomical Odds, The Freedom Deck, The Computerized Cords, The Twice Severed Loop, The Come and Go knot, The Slip Away Vanish, and Dye-Mond Die.
Here is a book of intriguing mental effects and do-it-yourself ideas for making secret gimmicks and modifying standard equipment. Many of the effects presented will be new; some are baffling variations of older principles; all are meritorious.
The author describes a number of effects (twenty-seven in all) suitable for one and two person acts. Many contain ideas pertaining to the manufacture of individual mental gimmicks and contain ideas useful to the mentalist in his everyday show.
Illustrated by the author, this is a reproduction from the first edition.
Real secrets, the kind that can only be discovered through experience and performing, are seldom revealed. This book is an exception which the working mentalist will want to read.
The author provides the reader with tried and tested mental effects selected from his many years as a practicing mentalist. Joseph (Micro) White is the author of five previous books and numerous magazine articles, in addition to his practical experience.
Good mental effects aren't cheap, but here you have twenty-nine of them in a single volume, fully explained and illustrated.
8 1/2 x 11 - 33 pages - Illustrated - Index
Manual ISBN: 0-919230-78-4 PRICE: $ 10.75 (USA Currency)