The book includes over fifty incredible effects and sleights, including the famous Benson Bowl Routine, Long Salt Pour, Billiard Balls, Linking Rings, Miser’s Dream, card moves, coin effects, stage magic, close-up, and comedic routines.
You'll also learn from Benson’s essays on presentation and showmanship and the complete text of Benson’s lost book The Second Oldest Profession and his scarce Benson on Magic booklet.
Roy Benson by Starlight also features a complete biography of Roy Benson and an entire section on Benson's teacher, Nate Leipzig, with twenty Leipzig effects, Leipzig's autobiography, and dozens of rare Leipzig photos.
Pages 800
With respective backgrounds in Hypnosis and NLP, authors Ian Harling and Martin Nyrup have created an indispensable guide to powerful mental trickery. But this is no dry reference manual; instead you´ll find this an entertaining and above all, truthful, explanation of a range of techniques - many of which have remained hidden for years. Covering the use of suggestion, waking hypnosis and NLP methods of creating rapport, reading your subjects thoughts, etc, Sleight of Mind is THE book for Mentalists and Magicians at any level.
"...will allow them to believe that you ARE a MASTER in the realm of the mind." Paul Alberstat, Canada's Leading Mentalist.
"Terrific! You can not be a serious performer without it." Henrik Fexeus, Creator of "Mind Melt".
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From the authors of 'Sleight of Mind' comes a book to inspire you to greater deception - 'Geist'. Although containing a wealth of strong, real-world effects and their variations, Geist is also an exploration of how to give your routines more impact by changing them to suit the differing psychologies and beliefs of your Subjects - and how to revitalise and lengthen your existing material using simple strategies.
Geist also includes:
- 28 Effects, many with extensive scripts and handling notes.
- 'Concipio' - a clever gaff that will allow you to predict names, numbers, dates, etc, faultlessly every time.
- 'The Envelope' - an indispensable, ultra-clean gimmick with tens of uses.
- A solution to 'Reversal' - at last, a way back to the Subject's original number!
- An extensive glossary to help you create believeable scripts for your effects.
- 202 pages and over 45 photo-illustrations
Power Plays has been an ongoing project for the last 14 years. It is a close-up "variety pack" of high voltage magic using cards, coins, bills, rings, rubber bands, straws & other ordinary objects. There are extremely visual items where things appear, disappear, change size, and change color as well as mental magic that will fry even the most astute observer. Many items are self working and nearly all the others require only basic sleight of hand.
The 58 routines are illustrated by Tony Dunn and explained in great detail. Click here for a brief description of just a few of the killer routines
Docc Hilford has taken the simplistic course of the Center Tear and given it a new direction. The Jagged Edge allows the Mentalist to know EVERYTHING that is written on a list.
BONUS MATERIAL: In this manuscript, you will receive The Phantom Artist, a clever effect by Percy Naldrett that enables you to reveal a thought through an artistic ability. Published previously, never before has this effect been given such a presentation. An original creation of Docc Hilford for use with The Jagged Edge...
Click here for details of the effect.
