I am looking to learn the Mental Epic effect. I have seen this performed only once in front of a large crowd of about 200 people. I think I know how the effect is accomplished.

Which Mental Epic product is the best to get? I have seen several sizes offered on various magic sites (large stage-size ones to small table-top ones). I am looking to perform this effect for a small, drawing room audience perhaps around a dining room table, etc. Which one is best?

Thanks for your opinions and info -- as always!

Frank

A legal pad works best. I use Danny Archer's Triple Threat. It's probably on his tape, available from LLPUB.COM.

I modified the method slightly so that I use the name of a favorite celebrity, instead of just a word.

I say forget about the Mental Epic boards and learn Bob Cassidy's version on his DVD. I forgot the name of the effect, but it is basically the same thing except that it is ten times stronger. No boards are used, just billets and envelopes. And there is NO force whatsoever. Three different spectators can think of anything they want, and you read their minds one at a time. It will take more practice than Mental Epic, but it is worth it. And you save money.

I agree that using a version with a notepad is better. Using the "Mental Epic board" smacks of "trick". The one that I'm now doing is StenoESP from Richard Osterlind's new booklet. It is very strong and you end clean. My family, which numbers over 100, meets for Christmas Eve dinner every year and they always ask me to do something. This got one of the strongest responses of anything I think I've ever done.
You can get the book from Richard at:

http://www.osterlindmysteries.com

Rick

I agree that Bob Cassidy's "Fourth-Dimensional Telepathy" (available in his excellent "Art of Mentalism II" book and taught on his tape) is the best approach to the classic three-phase prediction effect.

I am not so sure that Bob's Fourth dimensional Telepathy is a prediction!!!

Teny has a very good plastic version
and it can be done close up.
(and then you can move to B'wave)

Toni Binarlei has some Pad epic in his book

happy new year

I have to agree with Philemon on that one also. I think the fact that one of the bits of info being "predicted" is a drawing duplication adds a nice change up in the routine. If you're going to do anything in mentalism, you definitely want to use objects that the audience is very familiar with to reduce the chance of them thinking "trick". Both Osterlind's and Cassidy's versions do this
Rick

"Numbered" index cards. Cost: less than 2 cents

I agree that the Epic board tends to look out of place. If you do get one, I think it must be a white board. It's cleaner, clearer and more often used now days in the "real world." I would also make sure it is gimmicked so as no force is needed as in "Final Epic" by Alan Shaxon in his book Practical Sorcery. He make use of a clever 2nd slide. Haydens looks nice in the ads, but I haven't actually seen it to know it's set up.

Get Richard Osterlind's new book. His mental epic routine is one of the best and uses a steno pad. One of two "epic" type routines that I use. Sorry, I won't discuss the other one.

But Osterlind's is all you really need. It is very good!!!

Thanks for all the info. I'm going to look into the Osterlind booklet. Thanks again!

Frank