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Midnight Side of the Mind is Paul Voodini's most ambitious and far-reaching book thus far. Encompassing past life regressions, remote viewing, psychometry, and the enigmatic routine called "Kiss of the Clairvoyant", Midnight Side of the Mind has variously been described as "revolutionary" (Jerome Finley), "nuclear powered" (Jerome Finley), "hard-hitting" (Dr. Todd Landman), and "one of the best books on mystery entertainment" (Roni Shachnaey).

Midnight Side of the Mind takes the reader on a journey through the various worlds of remote viewing, past life regression, and clairvoyance, and teaches the reader how to utilise these phenomena for the purpose of magical entertainment. Magical entertainment that resonates on an emotional level and leaves audiences enthralled and mesmerised.

All of the routines are explained in full detail leaving the reader informed and fully equipped to utilise the amazing information contained within the pages of this ebook. After reading this book you will know how to run a remote viewing session, how to transport a spectator back to a previous incarnation, and how to allow a volunteer to actually see and interact with the spirit realm. You will also be able to introduce an audience to their spirit guides! And all with the purpose of entertaining and amazing your audience!

"Enrique Enriquez brought us Acts of Imagination, Banachek brought us Psychological Subtleties, Tomo brought us Naked Mentalism, and now Paul Voodini brings us Midnight Side of the Mind," - Dr. Todd Landman, AIMC with silver star, co-founder of Psycrets, the British Society of Mystery Entertainers.

This book is priced to deter the casual observer. The information contained within is aimed at the serious student and the performer. It is not suitable for those wanting a "quick fix" and the next big thing. Reading and study will be required, but the rewards are enormous.


"It's my belief that Paul Voodini from the UK is the acting ring-leader and current champion when it comes to the new genre and generation of mentalism," - Jerome Finley.

"This book is unique. The powers within it are unbelievable and if you seriously study it, it will transform you from a 'mentalist' to a 'miracle worker'," - Roni Shachnaey, bizarre magick legend.





Cost
£100



Difficulty
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)

This kind of work is based on performance and audience skills rather than sleights etc, so it really depends on the individual.



Review

Paul Voodini's work never fails to astonish me. For one, his ebooks are always written in a very engaging way which feels as if you are in the room with Paul. The text is spiced with anecdotes and that rare commodity in the world of magic books, a sense of humour!.
Paul's work is garnered from real world experience, so you know when you buy one of his publications that it's not filled with impratical pipe-dreams thought up by some pc attached "expert", no, this is stuff that has been honed and developed within the unforgiving medium of live performance. Tried and tested material which is packaged with that valuable and rare commodity - the voice of experience.

Midnight Side of The Mind fits well with Paul's other works and takes things to a new, astonishing and powerful level. Hypnosis without hypnotism? You bet! If the material that is in this volume is performed correctly and in the right hands, you will create the nearest thing there is to real magic. No gaffs and gimmicks.

I have been using something along these lines in my performances and there is so much here that I will use and add to the way I have been doing things. So many nice subtleties....

Some of you may look at the price and be put off. That is the point. This is STRONG material which should be in the right hands. Material which you could easily use to make a career out of. This is for the advanced performer and the concepts and fully formed framework and presentation within are pure gold. A really incredible piece of work which is not only powerful but also practical. Mr Voodini is one of the cutting edge people in the field of the bizarre/paranormal entertainer and this work is something which could take your show into a whole new world - literally!

Full marks from me!


http://www.readerofminds.co.uk/midnight ... nd_29.html

Thanks for the review, Freddie. Much appreciated. I've been over-whelmed by how positively this book has been received.

It really is a fabulous book mate. For me, I love this kind of thinking and material as it fits perfectly into what I am doing. I have read so many interesting yet unusable ideas the past few years so reading this and being able to see yourself doing it as you read is a thrill.

Well done matey, you deserve all the praise you have received for this and much more.

Could someone please give a description of the effects.

Much thanks

Great review and I've long said that yours and Paul's work is underpriced, but.....

Lord Freddie wrote:Cost
£100

....Oooof!

That said if this price point keeps it off Torrent sites and out of the hands of the merely curious then fair play.

UndergroundSvengali wrote:Could someone please give a description of the effects.

Much thanks

It is a principle which can be used for numerous things, but howzabout taking a spectator back in time and having the use remote viewing to describe the bedroom of another audience member in detail. (No stooges, pre-show etc..) and as for the incredible 'Kiss of the Clairvoyant'... wow!

These are Paul's routines and once you understand the principle (which Paul calls 'dreamscaping') you will be able to think of many other applications for it and apply it to your own show. I know that it is a concept that I shall certainly use.

Heckler wrote:Great review and I've long said that yours and Paul's work is underpriced, but.....

Lord Freddie wrote:Cost
£100

....Oooof!

That said if this price point keeps it off Torrent sites and out of the hands of the merely curious then fair play.

Although it may seem expensive, you would pay a lot more for a course or a prop (which you probably won't use). This is information that will be cherished by the working performer and is not aimed at the 'dabbler' or 'bedroom mentalist'. It is also very powerful stuff which should only be in the right hands. If you pay the price it costs then you are serious about using this material and doing it properly. It's then in the right hands.

It really is a great piece of work.I have bought other books that have been highly priced before and have gained very little or just morsels from them whereas this book is packed with great ideas that have been used in performance and have been streamlined and perfected. To be honest, it's worth more than the asking price as you could base a huge part of your show around the concepts within these pages.

Lord Freddie wrote:howzabout taking a spectator back in time and having the use remote viewing to describe the bedroom of another audience member in detail.

Dont know if you ever saw it but Derren did a bit on trick of the mind where he was dressed as a clown and stopped a girl in the street and described her bedroom to her ! Would this be the same sort of thing that you could do using this book ?

Well yes, but even better is that you get a spectator to describe another spectators bedroom. I know many magicians like to take the credit, but it's more astonishing when a volunteer does the work. Not that trickery would be suspected in this kind of performance, but it's more inexplicable when a selected member of the audience does it.
For example, during my seance shows I use a similar technique to make one the audience members a medium and they either talk as if they are someone else and describe them or 'see' spirits around them and ask them questions. If I did this myself, I could obviously be making it up but if someone comes along and their friend/wife/husband etc does it, then it's all the more incredible.

Hi guys. Thanks for the interest in the book (well, PDF actually) and the questions, which I shall endeavor to answer.

Firstly the routines. The book is 110 pages long and contains in total 8 routines/ideas. 2 of the routines are from previous publications of mine but have been included to show the reader the development and evolution of the routines that are to follow. There then follows the 3 main routines. These are Past Life Regression, Remote Viewing, and the Kiss of the Clairvoyant. These routines are intended for stage or parlour performance, but can be easily adapted for close-up.

Past Life Regression - send a volunteer on a journey back in time where she will genuinely experience and describe events, places, and situations that happened before she was born. I cannot over-state the power of this routine. Whether or not you believe that past life regressions are actual memories of previous incarnations, or race memories passed on in the genes, or just the imagination running wild, this is still an enthralling experience for both the volunteer and the audience. No stooges, pre-show, gimmicks or gaffs etc.

Remote Viewing - send a volunteer on a journey through time and space where they will actually see and describe a remote "target" - IE a location far beyond their what their physical senses can perceive. In the book the volunteer journeys to the bedroom of an audience member and describes in it great detail, but any "target" can be used. This is based on the remote viewing experiments carried out by military intelligence, particularly Project Stargate. Again, super powerful with no stooging or pre-show or the use of any kind of gimmick or gaff.

Kiss of the Clairvoyant - give a volunteer the power and ability to perceive the spirit realm, to interact with the spirits, and to describe to a slack-jawed audience what she can see. Probably the most powerful routine in the book, it pushes (IMHO) the boundaries of performance mentalism.

There are then several bonus routines/ideas including From a Garden Darkly, which is a novel and powerful card prediction (believe it or not), a stunning ungaffed method for psychometry, and some ideas for readings using the principles outlined in the book. I have had some amazing feedback from performers around the world who have taken the ideas within "Midnight" and have tailored them to suit their own performances. One guy has even been using the ideas within the book to experience remote viewing and past life regressions purely for his own curiosity and development. If you have access to the "green place" take a look at the thread in Penny.

Secondly, the price. I appreciate that this book is 4 times more expensive than my usual publications. This is for a couple of reasons. Firstly I was worried that the book would fall into the hands of young lads who practice street hypno and similar. There's nothing wrong with young lads being into hypno of course, but I didn't want the info in this book to fall into the wrong hands and hear of lads sending the "laydeez" on journeys through time and space with their "sick skills". This material needs to be used sensibly and professionally. If you've seen the film "Insidious" you'll know what I mean!

I've also invested a huge amount of time and energy into this work. Upon completion I genuinely felt quite drained and emotional, as anyone who has read the intro will know! It was quite a draining experience getting such powerful routines down onto paper, and I know I will never write another book as intense as this one. In fact, right now, I'm not sure I shall write another mentalism PDF. I feel like that road is now finished. A book on aura reading has been mooted but right now I don't know.

The book also features intros by Jerome Finley, Dr. Todd Landman, Roni Shachnaey, and Iain Dunford - all of whom were kind enough to say wonderful things about the book. Jerome Finley said, "It's my belief that Paul Voodini from the UK is the acting ring-leader and current champion when it comes to the new genre and generation of mentalism," and Dr. Todd said, "Enrique Enriquez brought us Acts of Imagination, Banachek brought us Psychological Subtleties, Tomo brought us Naked Mentalism, and now Paul Voodini brings us Midnight Side of the Mind." How do I possibly top that or live up to it?

This book is not for everyone. But if it's for you, it will hopefully change the way you look at routines and it will make you a more powerful performer. That's the idea anyway!

I have only just got time to sit down and read this and i am blown away by how good this is. The material is very strong and even though it may not suit everyone, it is material that will get you reactions you want. Paul has delivered the goods once again and this is a great investment.

Well, I've been reading this for over a week now so it's about time I added my review!

I admit it, I'm a Voodette. It's pretty safe to say that of all the 'modern' releases (I'll exclude Annemann and Corinda et al), Paul's work has influenced my performances more than any other single person. Both Reader of Minds and The Paranormal Entertainer have both become essential reading in this field of mentalism and I think Midnight Side of the Mind tops those two. I'm very fortunate to see Paul work and discuss ungimmicked mentalism with him as often as I do and as such I had a very strong idea of what was contained within the 100-something pages of this book. I'd already seen two brilliant Past Life Regressions performed by Paul using the techniques in this book and discussed some of the nuances of the techniques with him afterwards so I was well aware of how powerful this material is.

It would be very easy to describe this book as a set of techniques in which you can perform some of the miracles that you've already read in previous posts but it's far more than that. Indeed, this book could have been much much smaller if it were. But rather than Paul simply delivering a formulaic presentation of "To achieve this, do this, that and say this", Paul gives us a full history of how this material came to be. He describes the evolution of his techniques, including routines which were the stepping stones to the final 'product'. Those routines themselves are worth adapting and performing in their own right. All this makes sure you have a real solid understanding of not only what works and how, but also why. This is vitally important to the ungimmicked mentalist.

I know many people, as highlighted in earlier posts, will concern themselves with how many 'routines' they get from this material and the answer isn't a numerical one. Yes, Paul gives you 3 'main routines' but in truth the answer is 'your imagination'. There's very little you couldn't apply this to. That said, those routines which Paul does give us, completely scripted no less are as strong as you could hope for. I've already incorporated Past Life Regression into my act some time ago, though with the implementation of this work they are now stronger, more streamlined (incredibly important for performance work) and, quite frankly, a whole lot more fun for both the volunteer, audience and even myself. The Kiss of the Clairvoyant is going straight into my Seance shows, no questions. At present I open with some spiritually themed mentalism effects and this is replacing two of those without hesitation. It's amazingly powerful.

It's fitting that a book that is designed to fire up the imagination of your audience does just that to you as a performer, this really is limitless stuff. In short, if you're involved with any kind of stage or parlour readings shows, seances, paranormal magic etc etc then you need this book. End of.

This is incredibly powerful material. Without a doubt has to be one of the most thought provoking releases this year. To the person asking what effects are in it, this is not about a set effect or tricks. Several routines are detailed and ways of incorporating the techniques into existing routines. You could use it to enhance something like Outlaw sanctum, but in my opinion that would cheapen a very powerful experience for the participant. It won't be to everyone's taste, but chances are if you've enjoyed Paul's other offerings it will interest you. It is bringing lots of the best elements of good old fashioned mentalism, esoteric beliefs and entertainment together. It brings elements of the past, while simultaneously pushing into new ground. Reading through it I could imagine the routine perfectly. Paul's writing style is excellent. He manages to be funny and engaging while still giving you plenty of detail. It really is a masterpiece.

I think this is excellent. I fear, however, that there will be a number of magicians who will fall over themselves to get it, and then will fail to "get it" (like all the idiots you see on some forums who think they have a better idea of whether a trick works than the person who created it and has performed it for a dozen years). I sincerely hope that I am wrong and that Paul does not receive any such undeserved moaning.

It reminds me of some of the stuff Kenton Knepper has written (such as his Time Machine effect), but I think it's been taken to a new level. Good stuff, but not for those magicians who have no imagination.

Part-Timer wrote:I fear, however, that there will be a number of magicians who will fall over themselves to get it, and then will fail to "get it"
.....
Good stuff, but not for those magicians who have no imagination.

I think you're entirely right. Which is one of the reasons I'm happy to see it priced as it is. If anyone reading this and is considering getting it but is unsure because they don't quite understand what the 'trick' is.... Don't buy it.