Get the Artful Mentalism of Bob Cassidy Volume 2: Fundamentals. Don’t let the title throw you off, it’s the fundamentals of PROFESSIONAL mentalism. Not only does it teach powerful effects, but it’s teachings are essential to the mentalist. It even has a list (the thirty nine steps) of books that cover everything you will ever need.
I have been looking for this book but it is no longer avaliable on Penguin magic. Do you know where else I could find it.
Does this book actually teach any secrets ?It sounds like you've already got 'started' per se. Well, pick up Tricks Of The Mind by Derren Brown.
It explicitly teaches the METHOD to 2 magic tricks.Does this book actually teach any secrets ?
Sorry for my grammar there. What's ''charmingness''? It's charm. Me and my...It explicitly teaches the METHOD to 2 magic tricks.
It also explicitly teaches the METHOD to cold reading.
It ALSO teaches explicitly the METHOD to hypnotise people.
The book explicitly teaches the METHOD to retain information for much, much longer. Even if you don't use it to do magic (you could) you can still apply it to other spheres of your life. I'm pretty sure you don't ONLY perform magic (?).
But the book's importance is implicit. It teaches how to make a coin vanish, but the book's advice will take it from 0 to insanely good. The book teaches about the mentality one needs to have to perform, and to perform well.
In short, remember this :- I myself, and many other people, gauge a magician's ''coolness'' or ''charmingness'' or ''market value'' by how well they can hold people's attention and appeal to them WITHOUT magic. If somebody is amazing when doing magic, but you take away their cards and coins and sponge balls and ropes for them, and then they are reduced to uninteresting, boring people tiring to have conversations with, such people are not good enough performing magicians for me. This book will teach you how to retain the 'power' even without constantly asking your friends to pick a card. This book is gold (even more valuable than another book written by Derren, the Confessions of a Conjuror, in my opinion).
All right, you've got me convinced, I'm buying. But it's got a heck of a job to live up to the expectations you builtIt explicitly teaches the METHOD to 2 magic tricks.
It also explicitly teaches the METHOD to cold reading.
It ALSO teaches explicitly the METHOD to hypnotise people.
The book explicitly teaches the METHOD to retain information for much, much longer. Even if you don't use it to do magic (you could) you can still apply it to other spheres of your life. I'm pretty sure you don't ONLY perform magic (?).
But the book's importance is implicit. It teaches how to make a coin vanish, but the book's advice will take it from 0 to insanely good. The book teaches about the mentality one needs to have to perform, and to perform well.
In short, remember this :- I myself, and many other people, gauge a magician's ''coolness'' or ''charmingness'' or ''market value'' by how well they can hold people's attention and appeal to them WITHOUT magic. If somebody is amazing when doing magic, but you take away their cards and coins and sponge balls and ropes for them, and then they are reduced to uninteresting, boring people tiring to have conversations with, such people are not good enough performing magicians for me. This book will teach you how to retain the 'power' even without constantly asking your friends to pick a card. This book is gold (even more valuable than another book written by Derren, the Confessions of a Conjuror, in my opinion).