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I think I read somewhere (possibly on this site) that Banachek's psycholgical subtelties book is to be brought back into print along with psycholgical subtelties 2.

Does anyone know if this is true?

http://www.magicinspirations.net/pssubtleties.htm

They haven't got that much time left in 2007!

PS3 on the cards too? My wallet's going to take a pounding....at some point.

Yes, but there's been talk of PS3 for ages. Don't hold your breath!

What are psychological subtleties?

.:Ham:.

Psychological Subtleties, if I'm not mistaken, is a book, (soon to be a series of books) written by the mentalist Steve Shaw (Banachek). In them , he teaches ways to make mentalism effects more realistic and powerful. i own the second volme only, but from that and what I've read about the first book, I'd say it teaches how to avoid seeming like a 19th century mediumistic con artist. Instead, you get to be a 21st century pretentious psychologist. Just kidding (sorta). PS has many psychological forces and convincers. The old witch doctor is one that Luke Jermay cites in several of his books. I read that he teaches some of Dunnunger's methods in it as well.

The reason why it's so sought after (coincientally) is that it's been out of print for a year and a half or so. Ellusionist stocked it (as well as Absolute Magic) for a while, so I would guess that many of the copies going up on ebay were originally purchased from Ellusionist.

I hope that answered your question.

Thanks for the info!

.:Ham:.

I have PS2 and although I enjoyed it and found some parts useful and informative, I found that I already had experience of much of the material from other sources.
This will sound like heresy to some but to me it is slightly overrated and certainly very expensive for what you get, in comparison to some other mentalist books.