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MindCraft: Perceptions

Postby kartoffelngeist » Mar 15th, '11, 17:12



The Effect

A collection of effects that deal directly with thoughts. Only three of them need anything tangible, and only one requires writing; the rest can be performed naked. Combat with your thoughts, divine birthdays, scam bar mates, use two different cold reading presentations, make your spectator see words they never saw, verbally force cards in seconds, psychologically force thoughts, bend the wills of an audience; let your spectator read your mind, another spectators mind, or even speak life into being.

Part 1: Hacking the Mind

# Thought Dueling: Duel a spectator with your thoughts, and get them right!
# Let's Make a Deal: A mathematical bar scam.
# Birthday's Rock: Discovering a spectator's Birthday through an elaborate process where in she never writes or names either the month or day she was born on.
# On Thin Ice: A powerful reading system that deals primarily with a client's subconscious.
# Gone: Via your hypnotic influence; make a spectator think of a word that was never there.
# Black: A true think a card. Nothing is ever consciously spoken or acknowledged by your spectator. Not surefire, but when it works, it bloody kills.
# Invisible Book Test: You predict a word a spectator will think of. They open an invisible book to any page, remember any word on the page, and you were right.

Part 2: Bending the Will
# The Fair: Equivoque at its finest.
# Prime: A psychological word forcing principle with a near 100% hit rate.
# Colors: Your spectator thinks of a color, then a planet. You read their mind.
# In Spirit: A spectator freely chooses a fruit in their mind. You both examine it, then you name it.
# Mental Epic: One ahead with Prime.
# Intuitional Power: Slip a ring on the finger of a spectator and give them the power of intuition.
# Thought Catcher: A blank index card catches their thought.
# Other Languages: Adaptations for Spanish, Italian or German speakers.
# (In)Visible Book Test: Impromptu book test on the fly and some ideas.
# Hive Mentality: Bend the wills of even the largest of audiences to your own.
# Prime Cards: Catch, identify, and name random thoughts your spectators have during your show.
# Tossed out Thought: Tossed out deck; with words, from the brilliant mind of Ran Pink.
# Drawing Duplication: An impromptu drawing duplication.
# Thought Dueling: Stand back to back in a thought face off. This version uses Prime.
# Realizer: Give your spectator the chance to be a god, just for a moment, and create life by a mere breath, a single word.
# PK Time: Your spectator just thinks of a time. No words are spoken. You bring your watch into view.
# Psychological Card Force: A psychological card force using Prime, with an incredible hit rate.
# Prime Reading: A powerful cold reading presentation.
# Other Forces: Still other words you can force with prime.
# Beautiful Miracle: A spectator thinks of a month. You spin around a ring on your finger to reveal that month's birthstone. A beautiful memory is created.
# World Traveling: Take your spectator on a global adventure that exists only in their mind.

Part 3: Notes
# Ran Pink's Notes
# Giani's Notes
# Paul Carnazzo's Notes
# My Notes
# Conclusion

Cost

$19.99 from www.lybrary.com

Difficulty Technical-wise: 1, but obviously takes a bit of presentation to be anything but a clever trick.
(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)



Review

When I first read through this, I was seriously under-impressed. The first half or so of the ebook has nothing which excited me at all. Some interesting ideas, but nothing amazing.

The second half is a lot more exciting. The Fair is quite a smooth use of equivoque to force a card. A lot faster and more subtle than the usual red/black, spades/clubs style. I use this one a lot. It looks very psychological but it's completely failsafe. Nice.

Prime is, for me, the highlight of the lot. In fact, the whole second half of the ebook is essentially different applications for this concept. It's hard to say too much about it without giving it away, but it runs pretty much as advertised. It's based on a well known mentalism principle (we're talking cereal box stuff here), but it just takes it that step further. It works very well (pretty much 100%, I've never had any real issues) and the applications of it that are given show how versatile it is.

If it's used by someone with a working knowledge of Tomo's Naked Mentalism, it could be extremely powerful. NM just gives you the extra understanding of the thought process to just take it that bit further and use it to force seemingly quite obscure words with no writing down of anything. Especially if you're not afraid to take a few risks with NM.
There is some faffing about (if there wasn't, it would just rely on you actually reading minds), but not so much that it's unjustifiable. Having said that, you'd want to be careful about using it all the time with the same people.

Should also point out that the psychological card force using Prime is quickly becoming my quick, impromptu, 'what's all this mentalism stuff all about?' effect.

Overall

Prime is really the only thing of interest, to me at least, in this ebook. However, it's a really clever tool for some quite powerful impromptu mentalism. It's not going to change the way you view mentalism, but it's a really neat way to force words. This is either really handy when mind reading comes up in conversation but you don't have your trusty ESP cards. Or it's really handy in a one ahead routine, if you want to make a bigger thing out of it. Both of these are really good uses for it.

If you have read Tomo's NM, this is a useful application of it. If you haven't, then you probably should.

All in all, thumbs up!

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Postby kartoffelngeist » Mar 15th, '11, 17:14

Also meant to add that, with a little bit of thought, it can be used for different languages. He gives some examples in the book, but it's not difficult to work out. I've used it in French and it works nicely.

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