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People like Derren Brown tend to blur the two, because he uses hypnosis, suggestion, slight of hand, gaffs, etc in his performances. I'd say that hypnotism "magic" involves having the audience perform while the hypnotist makes suggestions, Mentalism "magic" is when the performer makes the...

This thread has hit hypnosis right on the head. I use the "hypnosis is like watching a movie" reference at the beginning of every show I do, and it still works. Someone else on this forum said something to the effect of "the subject is still steering the car, the hypnotist is just in the...

$147.00???? That's waaay too high. This is exactly what I mean. That's just amazingly high. Trickshop.com has an e-book for $12.95 which is an excellent start for beginners of stage hypnosis. http://www.trickshop.com/hypnosis.html The hardest part of stage hypnosis for me was...

Steerpike is absolutely correct. Don't fall into the "supernatural" trap. I've been doing hypnosis for nearly twenty years and have been doing stage hypnosis for about eight years. I did have some books and read articles on NLP. You know what? 99% of it is hype and nonsense. All you...

Steerpike is absolutely correct. NLP doesn't take a lot of dedication. The basic stuff of NLP is all you need to know. The rest of it is goobledegook. Look, you said you have Kenton Knepper's Two Things, and Derren Browns Absolute Magic and Devil's Picturebook (You dog. I'm dieing to get...

And as always, I'm going to suggest Derren Brown's "Tricks of the Mind". He touches on it a bit, but believe me, a touch is more than enough. Spending gobs of money for lessons and books is just throwing your money in the gutter.

Most likely this is real and no stooges involved. I've seen this before by Paul McKinna (though he's gone into the more "self-help" side of hypnosis) where he instantly hypnotizes people one the street and have them do amazing things. This falls along the lines of Derren Brown's work. One of...

I will pm you with some of the routines I do, for obvious reasons. However, the question of ethicalness I felt should be addressed. Remember - one will not do anything under hypnosis that they wouldn't want to do. Therefore, there can be no force. Keeping that in mind, I advertise...

They are clever. I would love to buy a deck, but there's no where on the internet to buy it. You have to go to their show and actually buy it there. Also, to get to their trick section of their website, you need a password from the deck of cards. ...now I have yet another excuse to get to...

SHHHHH!!!!! Don't give them any ideas!!!!!! But...you know....that one sounds like a fun one.... :D

It has been proven that it can improve memory for incedents like that but there's a warning that goes with that: The reason you can remember stuff better under hypnosis is a simple one: you are focused on the event. Period. Nothing magical, nothing supernatural, just simply you are...

I've been doing hypnosis for almost twenty years. I've only come across something like that once. And that's only because I was digging and she wanted me to. It wasn't by "accident". It's easy to avoid such things. You're not looking to change behaviors here, or play psychologist, you're...

Not to get off topic here, but where can I learn card - to - mouth? I've read a lot of posts where people use it as an out. Thanks. (Now back to the orginially posted topic).

Yeah, In my humble opinion, the trick didn't come off well in the vid. Sorry, but you might consider re-filiming it. I just downloaded the PDF file, and I think you've got a great idea here. :) Dude, definitely re-do the vid. It doesn't do the the trick justice. (Please, don't take...

Don't be scared. Instead do something to save it! This has been going on for a couple of years now. Net Neutrality almost got kicked out in December of 2006, (I think...I have to check my facts). It didn't though. I completely agree with the OP and we should all do what we can to...

Sorry to bring this back, but you know, I don't think that this is a bad idea. I'm trying to work out an effect, and I'm not even sure of how to accomplish it, now I'm not nearly as experienced in magic as most of the people here, so I would enjoy their input. Yet, at the same time, I...

I've got a few, one from magic, the rest from hypnosis, but I'll tell you my magic one. My girlfriend lives in Germany, I live in Connecticut. (Yeah, it's rough) Anyway, she was having a few of her girl friends over. They were drinking a little when my girlfriend decided to call me. Now...

Delete the deleting delete. :D

Hurley, if you want, ship it to me and I'll ship them to you. (My gf is in Germany, so once in a while, I ship stuff overseas. No biggie for me). :)

I don't know if anyone knows this or not, but there's a few people here who are making their own decks. USPC is now offering custom single decks at 19.99/deck. I got this information in an ad card in my recent purchase of a new deck. Just thought people would be interested. The website...