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Mr. Woolery Inner circle Fairbanks, AK 2149 Posts |
Fascinating! You were functioning as a human dowsing rod!
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Marko Ragnos New user 65 Posts |
"Master Mentality" by Stanton Carlisle. Is there information in this book that is not in others?
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Matt Pulsar Inner circle 1130 Posts |
Thanks for sharing these links. That beyond belief episode was fantastic. I’ve seen Kreskin find his cheque live and it was a wonderful closer for an amazing show. The subject had the cheque in their shoe so he had to ask them to stand up and then search a bit before asking them to take their shoe off. Great stuff. I’ve had some great success with CMR and I recommend osterlinds work on it. But I’ve not put it into my formal show simply due to the feeling that I need more practice. But part of that is just the fear of being wrong.
Belief Manifests Reality.
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9982 Posts |
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On Jun 24, 2018, Matt Pulsar wrote: The secret (shared with me by Arnold Furst) is to never perform Non-contact mind reading unless you KNOW it will not fail. Part of that means not having it be a scheduled segment of nay show, but to only use it when you know the setting/conditions are correct. The second meaning is that any fear on your part will cause or increase the chance of "being wrong." I get directions from the entire audience as much as the volunteer, so my task is to want the audience to see me succeed so badly that they insure my success. This means completely focus attention and participation of the audience - difficult to achieve these days. Actually, I have not performed Helstromism since smart phones came out. Even if you ban such devices, their mind is still out there in the car wondering what they have missed, or thinking of who they will share this experience with when they do dash to the car. Thus, I do not refuse to perform out of fear of being wrong - I know the situation is wrong so I don't. I don't do conjuring either -- why bother.
"the more one pretends at magic, the more awe and wonder will be found in real life." Arnold Furst
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9982 Posts |
Sorry - meant "contact or non-contact mind reading" -- Arnold made distinctions about audience requirements for both, but made decisions about which demonstration to perform "on the fly" based on audience participation and attention. He never performed a specific demonstration "on demand."
"the more one pretends at magic, the more awe and wonder will be found in real life." Arnold Furst
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David Thiel Inner circle Western Canada...where all that oil is 4005 Posts |
Learning CMR is one of the greatest exercises you can do in learning mentalism. I got my very best teaching from Osterlind's book on this topic...and it's very powerful because it is as close to real mind reading as you can get. It's one of the few times where what you say is true: you really don't have any idea where the object is hidden, you ARE going to find it based upon reading your subject.
When I was learning it, my failure rate was very high...cause I was...well LEARNING. I worked at it for months until I was confident I could a) make a wise selection of volunteer and b) find the object that was hidden. The first time I did the effect for an actual audience my knees were sweating. I kept thinking "If I don't get this, there's no out." I was genuinely worried about it. It worked well enough that I put it into my show -- but I still found myself approaching the CMR segment with real anxiety. What if it didn't work? What if I misread the volunteer? It always worked -- but my anxiety was still there. THEN one day I had this thought: How was CMR any different -- from an audience perspective -- than a CT...or a book test? Why wouldn't they see me as relieved when I "got it" in one of these cases as I was when I was successful with CMR? That one idea revolutionized my performances. There's a degree of tension now...the audience sees me really working to get to the answer/reveal. The dynamic of the whole show changed instantly and it's much stronger now. My uncertainty about the outcome or how I "do" what I do adds a whole new dimension to the performance. CMR can be very difficult to 'get' -- but most of the other performers I've discussed it with talk about that "aha" moment when understanding it clicked and came into perfect focus. It's like that moment when you realized that you COULD ride a bicycle. You never forget it. David
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