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trickyat86 Special user Pittsburgh, PA 595 Posts |
I'm working on my senior project for school, and I'm doing it on mentalism. Does anyone know of a good way to predict a drawing or writings of an audience member.
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drwilson Inner circle Bar Harbor, ME 2191 Posts |
If you don't mind my asking, do you intend to perform this or to explain how it is done?
Yours, Paul |
Suffolk Veteran user 400 Posts |
And this ladies & gentlemen, this is the problem with a forum where membership is completely unregulated.
The only advice I can give you is: read the basics!!!! I'm sorry if I sound harsh but if you have studied mentalisim in any way or shape at all you will have stumbled across at least several dozen ways of producing that effect. Go buy a copy of 13 Steps to Mentalisim by Corinda and do some work. Good luck, Doug |
Necromancer Inner circle Chicago 3076 Posts |
Forgive me, but I'm guessing that you chose the subject of your senior project. If so, why would you do it on mentalism before knowing how to perform a simple prediction?
Whether you chose the subject or it was handed to you (as unlikely as that may be), please read Karl Fulves' Self-Working Mental Magic. That should give you plenty to work with, from a "tricks" standpoint. But remember that mentalism, while it can look like the usual magical deception from a magician's point of view, is from the audience's point of view something much more fascinating. It is entertainment that is ambigious by design: maybe it's the exhibition of real powers, and maybe it's not. There's a lot that we don't know about the human mind, after all. So mentalists display skills that appear to all the world as legitimate demonstrations of psychic ability -- telepathy, clairvoyance, telekinesis, precognition, mediumship -- then, leave the perception of reality up to the individual audience member to decide. It's that area -- audience perception of realities and unrealities about the human mind -- where the most thought-provoking presentation will probably come from; not from the display of a few mental magic tricks. Perhaps you can riddle your classmates with obscure facts about the human mind, phrased as true or false questions, and let them demonstrate where they draw their own realities on the subject. From there, you can include questions that address their beliefs in deja vu, or of dreams that eventually came true (everybody has a story to tell about this). Then explain that this is the area -- the space in which we may have some instinctual experience but in which there is a lack of scientific support -- that is precisely the playground of the mentalist. At this point, I will stop writing or risk writing your presentation for you. I will add, however, that as an ending, you can give ONE demonstration of your own -- and neither confirm nor deny that it is a real demonstration. (Whatever you do, practice it until you can do it in your sleep, and rehearse it in front of people you trust before doing it in front of your classroom.)(Also, I would recommend that you NOT do a prediction, as precognition is one of the most difficult phenomena for even professional performers to have an audience accept as real). Good luck. And for heaven's sake, don't expose anything. Best, Neil
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Samuel Catoe Inner circle South Carolina 1268 Posts |
What he said!
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matthu Regular user UK 170 Posts |
What a fantastic reply, Neil!
Even if previously we had one scholar in our midst not yet able to demonstrate a convincing interest in mentalism, let's hope by the response you gave him he will develop a lifelong interest in the subject. Maybe you will publish parts of your finished project in this forum, tricky? Good luck! |
peterng25 New user 90 Posts |
Banachek was about college age when he fooled University researchers to declare he had real powers. So if anyone can walk into a senior class and create such faith and conviction in metaphysical powers, more power to him!
If you have doubts you can do this, and will end up just end up exposing stuff, then it could be a very boring presentation. In this field, boldness is everything, and to disassemble a piano to show how it works would be to do art a disservice. |
ESP Guy Regular user Falls View, Vermont 137 Posts |
I suggest performing the Cups & Balls as telekinesis...
Thom |
trickyat86 Special user Pittsburgh, PA 595 Posts |
I plain on performing only, not exposing.
I'm sorry, I should have explained better in my opening topic. I do know a few ways for this effect, and countless simple predictions, and I'm was asking for help because I mostly am a close-up performer, and I am also preforming a bending spoons routine (that I've done for a for a long time) for my project. |
mystic1 Veteran user 342 Posts |
So do your project on close-up.
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