Difference between revisions of "The Handbook of Mental Magic"

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Introduces the basic concepts of mind reading and mental magic for the beginning or experienced magician with emphasis on showmanship. Includes information on hypnotism, ESP, prediction, and more.

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Contents

• 6 Acknowledgments

• 11 Introduction

• 17 Part One: The Theory Of Mental Magic

• 17 1. Mental Magic—From Sorcery To Subtlety

• 27 2. What Attracts People To Mental Magic?

• 31 3. ESP Experiments In The Home
• - Preparing For Esp Tests
• - Testing For Telepathic Skills

• 41 4. Are We Mental Magicians Or Frauds?

• 50 5. Showmanship In The Mental Act
• Working Within The Traditional Mode
• Working Outside The Tradition

• 65 Part Two: The Practice Of Mental Magic

• 65 6. Essential Fingerwork And Forces
• Billet Switching
• The Center Tear
• Deck Switching
• Card Identification
• Forces

• 82 7. Pinpointed Telepathic Tricks
• Tricks Depending On Forces
• - Sweet Tooth
• - Spellbound
• - Wayward Thought
• - Reading Serial Numbers
• - Book Tests
• Tricks Depending on Discoveries
• - Stage-Sized Book Test
• - If You Have the Nerve
• - Peek-a-Boo
• - I'm Ok - You're Wrong
• - Naming the Name
• - Three-Card Divination
• - Telepathy at a Glance
• - Criminal Intent

• 112 8. Partners and Volunteers

• 115 9 Messages, Questions and Codes
• Advanced Effects With Assistants
• - The Missing Mentalist
• - The Acid Test
• Mnemonic Effects for One and Two Persons
• Code Systems
• Question Answering and Message Reading
• Cold Reading

• 148 10 Creating Plot and Atmosphere
• - Hail to the Chief
• - Hello-Scene Game
• - The Damned Thing
• - An ESP Carnival

• 159 11. Predictions
• Pinpointed Predictions-Forces
• - Complementary Colors
• - The Future In Futures
• - All-Bets-Covered Force
• - The Challenge Prediction
• Confederates
• - No Influence At All!
• - Winning Combination
• - A Mathematical Prediction
• Predictions Based On Discovery
• - An Uncomplicated Premonition
• - In The Rough

• 192 12. Miscellaneous Mental Mysteries
• Control
• - Stop Me When You've Heard This One
• - Schizophrenic Control
• Sympathy
• - Trading-Card Trade
• - Sympathetic Colors
• Psychometry
• - Nicky Welt's Single-Hair Reading
• - Special Deliveries
• PK And Astral Projection
• - A Shattering Thought
• - In Stygian Depths

• 209 13. Mental Magic For Children
• - Thinking On TV

• 215 Part Three: Related Forms Of Mental Entertainment

• 215 14. Super Memory And Rapid Calculation
• Mnemonics: The Link System
• - Try To Remember
• Mnemonics: The Peg System
• The Peg-System Card Deck
• - Back And Forth
• - A Head For Figures
• - Mathematical Discovery
• Rapid Calculations
• - Adding Large Numbers
• - Rapid Squaring
• - The Magic Square Demonstration

• 244 15. Sightless Vision and Other Strange "Powers"
• - That certain feeling
• Sightless-vision effects
• Onstage Demonstrations
• Effects in the Audience
• Publicity Stunts
• Miscellaneous Wild Talents

• 263 16. Entertaining with Hypnotism
• How to Hypnotize
• Suggestions During and After Trance
• Waking the Subject
• Do's and Don't's
• Entertaining with Hypnosis
• Staging Modes
• - Hypnotic Routine For Single Subject
• - Hypnotic Routine For Five Subjects
• Selecting Subjects
• Full-Scale Hypnotic Shows
• Disguised Hypnosis
• Pseudo Hypnosis
• - The Great Rigidity Test

• 287 17. Ghost Shows
• Staging Ghost Shows
• - Ghostly Signature
• - The Blackout Routine
• - One-Man Ghost Show Blackout

• 304 18. In Conclusion

• 305 Appendix: Supply Sources Of Magic Tricks And Literature
• 307 Annotated Bibliography
• 318 Glossary

Courtesy of Doug A's Magic Book TOCs

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