In my first article in this series, I exposed the real truth about magic but I didn’t touch on mentalism because I ran out of writing time. So I am going to tackle mentalism in this article. Just like with magic, mentalists really can’t read your mind. They just know a few tricks that I am going to point you to at the end of this article. After you get the info you’ll need, you’ll be performing mentalist routines with the best of them.
Okay, so what’s the deal with all these mentalists? How do they do the things that they do? Well, like I said, it’s all about the trick. There’s one trick where the mentalist makes you pick a card, takes the card, puts it back into the deck and without even looking through the deck, tells you what your card is and tells you that it’s the only card no longer in the deck. As you look through it, you find that he’s dead on. The card is not there.
Just a parlor trick, that’s all. But what about the really great routines? You know the ones I’m talking about. Those are the routines where the mentalist takes somebody out of the audience and tells him to take an object out of his pocket while the mentalist is turned around, stare at it, think about what it is, and then tells him to put the object back in his pocket. The mentalist then turns back around and after going into his little trance (some of these guys crack me up) he tells you what the object is.
Again, just a parlor trick. I won’t tell you how this one is done because it would really spoil it for a lot of people, but if you want to learn stuff like this, there’s a great resource for doing it that I’m going to tell you about very soon, so hang in there.
Point is, and you can believe this or not, there is no such thing as magic or mind reading. Nobody can read your mind or your thoughts. Without their assistants (yes, they have them) they’d be just another handsome face in the crowd.
But, if you want to learn this stuff, in my signature is a great resource that will actually have people thinking that you can do magic. You can read my review at my blog.
Magic? That’s only for kids.
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Friday, January 9, 2009
How to Learn Magic The Real Truth About Magic And Mentalism
I don’t mean to burst anybody’s bubble here, but there is no such thing as magic or mind reading, mentalism or whatever you want to call it. Now, I could end this article right here and have made my point, but since you’re interested in learning this stuff, you should at least understand what it is that you’re learning. What I am about to reveal here is going to make a lot of magicians and mentalists really angry at me. Well, so be it. I can take the heat as long as you can take the truth.
Let’s start with magic first. You’ve seen all the tricks…the sawing the lady in half, the vanishing woman in the box, the whole nine yards. You watch and you’re astonished. You wonder how they do these things. Well, they’re all tricks and illusions. The key is to simply learn these tricks and illusions. And trust me, some of them come with a hefty price tag. The professional tricks cost thousands of dollars. They professionally designed and there is a lot of spying in this business to try to learn tricks.
If you watch the show Numb3rs, you might have recently seen an episode where a magician ended up getting killer by her own trick. On the show was Penn Gillette from Penn and Teller. In the episode, they actually exposed some of the tricks that magicians do. Now naturally, these aren’t the most current hot tricks, but it did give us a great look at some of the stuff that we were in such awe of. If you watched the episode, you learned a lot from it.
If you didn’t watch it, one of the tricks they revealed was when they put the woman in the box and turn the box around. Well, while the magician is doing this, he pushes a button that produces a false back. So when the box is opened, the false back is revealed instead of the girl, who just happens to be standing behind it. It looks very convincing, but it’s still just a trick.
Okay, so I’ve just killed all your beliefs that magic exists. But what about mentalism? Well, we’re going to leave that for another article. Call it part two. In the meantime, if you want to learn these tricks yourself, check out the review in my signature below. You’ll find a great online resource that will teach you all the tricks you could want to know.
Discover resources to How to Learn Magic at http://howtoleanmagic.com . Learn Easy Magic at the end of the day and impress people around tonight!
Let’s start with magic first. You’ve seen all the tricks…the sawing the lady in half, the vanishing woman in the box, the whole nine yards. You watch and you’re astonished. You wonder how they do these things. Well, they’re all tricks and illusions. The key is to simply learn these tricks and illusions. And trust me, some of them come with a hefty price tag. The professional tricks cost thousands of dollars. They professionally designed and there is a lot of spying in this business to try to learn tricks.
If you watch the show Numb3rs, you might have recently seen an episode where a magician ended up getting killer by her own trick. On the show was Penn Gillette from Penn and Teller. In the episode, they actually exposed some of the tricks that magicians do. Now naturally, these aren’t the most current hot tricks, but it did give us a great look at some of the stuff that we were in such awe of. If you watched the episode, you learned a lot from it.
If you didn’t watch it, one of the tricks they revealed was when they put the woman in the box and turn the box around. Well, while the magician is doing this, he pushes a button that produces a false back. So when the box is opened, the false back is revealed instead of the girl, who just happens to be standing behind it. It looks very convincing, but it’s still just a trick.
Okay, so I’ve just killed all your beliefs that magic exists. But what about mentalism? Well, we’re going to leave that for another article. Call it part two. In the meantime, if you want to learn these tricks yourself, check out the review in my signature below. You’ll find a great online resource that will teach you all the tricks you could want to know.
Discover resources to How to Learn Magic at http://howtoleanmagic.com . Learn Easy Magic at the end of the day and impress people around tonight!
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