Good mind reading effect?

[xTH3+1+AND+ONLYx]

Heyyy i really need some help finding some Good mind reading effects. I looked all over and all i saw was Emotional Intelligance(E.I) by Luke Jeremy on Penguin, If anyone has E.I can you please tel me about it? And iif not is there any other good effects out on the market?

Please Help.

 

[Sean_Raf]

A key card used in the right way can be one of the most devestating mind reading effects you'll come across.

This is like your second thread about so-called "GREAT" and "GOOD" tricks. I said it in the thread before and I'll say it again. Tricks alone aren't "good", performances are.

Tricks don't get reactions (usually), performers do.

Seriously, try just using a key card and build the effect up in the most dramatic way. Mind reading is so much more different than a card trick, you have to create believability. Otherwise it doesn't become mind reading, it becomes somehow finding out what their card is physically; obviously this is what you're doing in most cases but the spectator should genuinely feel as though you're reading their mind.

Go ahead, use a key card to find the identity of their card but don't reveal it physically. Instead put the deck away and just "keep it between the two of us" and read their mind. Don't just look into their eyes and make what I like to call 'Doctor' noises: "Mm, yes." "Aha, I see." "Ooh." UNLESS if you could actually read minds, that is what you'd do. When "reading minds" you need to seriously consider how you'd read minds if you could really do it. Would you touch their forehead? Close your eyes and press two fingers to your temple? Whatever it is you would do, do that; if you genuinely believe you're reading their mind, so will the spectator.

- Sean

P.S. Please don't take offense to this, you're not the first to ask and you won't be the last either.

 

[xTH3+1+AND+ONLYx]

Wow man thanks alot, i read aot of threads and i see u in most of them, you never give the answer the person is looking for but its allways the right one! Thanks alot i think i will try that... But i have money and im just looking for an effect not using cards or anthing along those lines.

 

[Sean_Raf]

Your welcome. I wouldn't say it's always the right one though, everything I post comes from me (Unless I'm quoting someone or something)and as such is merely my speculation and opinion.

And also, to answer your question, may I recommend a simple center tear routine of some sort. I believe Richard Osterlind has an excellent center tear available for purchase but I do not own this so I could not say for sure the quality of it.

Hope that helped.

- Sean

 

[jpmorganjeromy]

hes right richard osterlind has many good effects. His breakthrough card system is something i use regularly. But also learn to memorize an entire deck in an order that looks totally random. personally i use his. You can put that deck face up in the middle of the table or give them to a spectator to keep forever and they will never figure out its in order lol. Its a devastating effect combined with a total memorized deck will destroy any laymen, and many amateur magicians.

 

[adjones]

Richard Osterlind's Center Tear is called "The Perfect(ed?) Center Tear", and can be bought either as an Instant Download or PDF on I believe his website. Supposedly it is the best out there, so I think it would be worth looking into.

**Sorry for bringing back an old topic... I'm still trying to get caught up from when I was gone for a week and a half!

 

[TeeDee]

I would say, technique-wise, all you need is a card force and a billet peek to acheive amazing results.

However, like Sean_Raf says, the effect comes from you the performer. For example, the strongest thing I do is a mind-reading routine that I've honed and perfected over a period of over a year. There is one move involved right at the start, a riffle force, and the rest of the three or four minute performance is about showmanship and presentation. So, I would say, learn a card force and a billet peek (Scott Xavier's "Phoenix Peek" is one that I like), and then invest in some books on presentation. My favourite of these is "Absolute Magic" by Derren Brown, which is out of print, but is still available from a few places. If you do this, you will be able to formulate a full mind-reading act for yourself that blows your audience away every time.

 

[MentalAlex]

Learn Acidus Novuus! Seriously, if you only learn one thing, make it Acidus Novuus. It is one of the single most useful and powerful, and at the same time, easiest moves in all of mentalism and magic.

It's even explained on the Stigmata DVD, it's also on Richard Osterlind's Mind Mysteries Vol. 1 along with His Perfected Center Tear, it's used in the watch routine.

Learn a good card force, and learn a good stack. Si Stebbins will work, but Osterlind's Breakthrough system is better.

If you are working standup or stage, learn a "Major" effect, which is a method of gaining large amounts of information from the audience, like a Q&A act, or a dunninger-esque audience reading act. Both Bob Cassidy and Richard Osterlind have lots of work on this. This is what will make you a legend.

If you are looking to buy something, buy The Mind Mysteries dvds, at least #1 and #2. In just these 2 dvds, you will learn the center tear, acidus novuus, a Q&A method, one of the best card stacks on the market, and the radar deck, which is something I keep on me all the time, amongst a whole bunch of other stuff. Seriously one of the best values out there.