Clark, James L., MBA, MSc.: Mind Magic & Mentalism for Dummies ©2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, West Sussex, England Softcover, perfect-bound, 9x10", 370 pages

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Comments: Came with a DVD-ROM with videos

Contents (from Book ToC):

1 Introduction
2 About This Book
3 Conventions Used In This Book
3 What You’re Not To Read
3 Foolish Assumptions
4 How This Book Is Organised
4 Part I: Going Purely Mental
4 Part Ii: Getting Tricky: Hands-On Mentaiism
4 Part Iii: Usina The Power Of Your Mind: Hands-Off Mentalism
5 Part Iv: Performing Bizarre Strange And Novel Effects
5 Pari V: The Part Of Tens
5 Icons Used In This Book
6 Where To Go From Here

7 Part I: Going Purely Mental

9 Chapter 1: Messing With People's Minds Without Rabbits Or Hats
9 Understanding That Magic Is All In The Mind
10 - Drawing The Boundaries Between Mentalism And Visual Magic
12 - Separating Mentalists From Psychologists And Psychics
13 Investigating The Art Of Extra-Sensory Deception
13 - Spotting The Modem Fakers
14 - Taking Account Of Ethical And Legal Considerations
15 Bamboozling The Brain
15 - Fooling The Eyes: Optical Illusions
16 - Misdirecting: Cognitive Illusions
17 - Leaving Nothing To Chance: Illusions Of Choice
18 - Messing With The Past: Memory Illusions
18 - Playing With Expectations And Assumptions
20 Using Human Weaknesses: Why Mentalism Works
20 - Being Susceptible: Why People Believe Strange Things
21 - Making Connections Wrongly: How People ‘Know’ What Isn’t So
22 - Using Your Verbal Skills: Fallacies And Illogical Thinking

23 Chapter 2: Playing The Part Of A Mentalist
23 Understanding What Makes A Successful Mentalist
24 - Recognising The Essential Mentalist Characteristics
27 - Noting Other Essential Attributes For Success
30 Creating Your Personal Mentalist Character
30 - Answering A Few Questions
32 - Writing Down Your Goals
32 - Working Hard On Scripting And Patter
33 - Ensuring That Everything In Your Performance Has A Reason
33 - Paring Down To Essentials: Chipping Away Anything That's Not David
33 Maximising Your Mentalism
34 - Being Entertaining
34 - Performing For Others
34 - Getting A Fresh Set Of Eyes
35 - Finding A Mentor To Help You Improve
36 - Videotaping Yourself And Discovering More
36 - Challenging Yourself To Grow
37 - Modelling Yourself On The Experts
37 - Being An Ambassador
38 - Giving Yourself Permission To Succeed

39 Chapter 3: Maximising Impact With Minimal Effort
39 Numbering Maths Among Your Mentalist Skills
39 - Working With The Magic Square
41 - Predicting A Random Number: The Rule Of Nine
42 - Getting An Audience To Think The Same Odd Thing: An Elephant In Denmark
43 - Counting Coins: Martin Gardner’s Delight
44 Enhancing Your Memory Skills
44 - Calling It Out: The Colossal Number
45 - Demonstrating Total Recall
49 Anticipating The Future: The Destiny Of Choice
49 - Dealing In Destiny
51 - Spelling Things Out: The Dictionary Word Test

55 Chapter 4: Making Magic With Money
55 Cashing In With Copper And Silver Capers
55 - Putting In Your Two-And-A-Half Cents
58 - Predicting What's In A Person’s Pocket
60 Raking In The Paper Money
60 - Banking On Winning 50 Smackers
63 - Predicting A Banknote Serial Number
64 - Making Money Work For You: The Telekinetic Banknote
66 Winning Big - Really Big
66 - Faking A Winning Lottery Ticket
68 - Making It Big In Monte Carlo

73 Part II: Getting Tricky: Hands-On Mentalism

75 Chapter 5: Playing With Paranormal Cards
75 Forcing A Card
76 - Mastering The Classic Force
77 - Cracking The Criss-Cross Force
78 - Trying Out The 10-20 Force
79 - Running Through The Riffle Force
81 Focusing On Fixed-Deck Tricks
81 - Seeing With Your Fingers
85 - Grasping The Invisible Deck
87 - Staging A Human Lie Detector
90 Tackling Tarot Cards
91 - Telling A Good Fortune
92 - Pulling Off The Lovers Unite
94 Exhibiting Extra-Sensory Ability: An Introduction To Esp Cards
94 - Discovering Five Miracles
97 - Accomplishing The Automata
99 - Bringing Down The House With ‘Bob’s Your Uncle'

101 Chapter 6: Writing Without Being Detected
101 Hiding Your Writing With Swami Gimmicks
102 - The Nail Writer
102 - The Boon Writer
102 - The Thumb-Tip Writer
103 - The Ring Writer
103 - The Finger Pick Writer
105 - Filling Your Pencil With Lead
105 Understanding That Great Techniques Lead To Success
105 - Bluffing With A Pencil
106 - Holding Out For A Great Trick
107 - Dressing And Undressing Your Finger
108 - Ignoring Your Gimmick
109 - Holding What You're Writing On
110 - Taking Your Time
110 - Practising Your Secret Writing
111 - Writing Secretly In Your Pocket
111 Trying Out Your Skills In Front Of An Audience
112 - Predicting A Name
113 - Performing The Living-And-Dead Test
114 - Anticipating A Country
114 - Discerning A Hidden Drawing
116 - Advertising Your Telepathic Skills
116 - Darting Around For A Prediction
117 - Creating A Great Initial Effect
118 - Pooling Your Resources Tfr A Prediction
118 - Scoring At Football Every Time
118 - Tearing Things Up With A Newspaper Trick
119 - Matching Chairs Colours And Numbers As If You Know The Future
120 - Reading Projected Thoughts
120 Working With Dead Pens
121 - Marking The Spot With An 'X'
121 - Knowing A Circled Word

125 Chapter 7: Sneaking A Peek For Peak Performances
125 Tearing Things Up Before An Audience
126 - Carrying Out The Classic Centre Tear
128 - Conducting The Bernstein Centre Tear
131 - Tearing Away: The Lightning-Fast Centre Tear
135 Glimpsing The Secret
136 - Performing The Acidus Test
138 - Being A Post-It Know-All
140 Producing Funny Business From Your Wallet
140 - Flicking The Switch
143 - Gaining Power With Close-Up Q And A
146 Making A Great Impression In Two Ways

149 Chapter 8: Touching Without Touching: The Tantalising World Of Telekinesis
149 Bending Cutlery: Spooning Leads To Forking
150 - Choosing The Best Brand
150 - Weakening The Cutlery: Scoring And Fatiguing
151 - Influencing Metal With The Push Bend
153 - Bending Spoons Upwards
155 - Throwing In An Optional Extra: The Bowl Drop
156 Fooling Around With Forks
156 - Carrying Out The Tine Bend
158 - Performing The Corkscrew
160 - Putting The Skills Together
162 Touching Invisibly
162 - Feeling A Psychokinetic Touch
164 - Contorting A Coin Remotely
166 Influencing Inanimate Objects
166 - Collapsing A Bottle
166 - Creating A Wayward Compass
167 - Moving A Balanced Pen
168 - Floating A Banknote

171 Chapter 9: Passing Tests To Prove Your Abilities
171 Making A Booking (Or Tomelastic Tricks)
172 Buying Book Tests
172 Thinking Like A Mentalist
173 Performing A Bold Book Test
174 Carrying Out An Impromptu Book Test
175 Making And Using Your Own Book Tests
176 Playing With An Invisible Book
178 Teleporting A Book Page
182 Displaying Your Esp Skills
182 Introducing The No Way No How
183 Stacking A Zener Deck
184 Thinking Of A Zener Card
185 Working Under Test Conditions
186 Being Stepanek: Sensing Through Sealed Envelopes
187 Experimenting With Remote Viewing

189 Part III: Using The Power Of Your Mind: Hands-Off Mentatism

191 Chapter 10: Developing Extra Senses: Seeing Without Seeing
191 Duplicating Unseen Designs
192 Transferring Thoughts In Close-Up
192 Influencing With Subtlety
195 Demonstrating Your Sightless Vision
196 Using Sensory Leakage To Simulate Esp
197 Viewing Remotely
198 Reading Minds With Paranormal Skills
201 Separating A Deck Into Reds And Blacks
202 Seeing While Blind (Apparently)
202 Discovering Different Types Of Blindfolds
205 Performing With Sightless Vision
207 Walking While Blindfolded

209 Chapter 11: Travelling Back To The Future: Making Accurate Predictions
209 Gathering The Tools Of The Trade
210 Boxing Clever With Gimmicked Chests
210 Covering Your Options With Indexes
211 Impressing Your Audience With Devices
211 Working With Magic Wallets
211 Using Billet Knives
211 Writing Secretly With The Swami Gimmick
211 Cheating With Gimmicked Dice
212 Removing Free Choice With Force Bags
212 Performing With Gimmicked Decks Of Cards
215 Exciting An Audience With Envelope Effects
215 Creating A Secret Envelope Slot
215 Owning Your Own Omnilope
217 Predicting A Headline
220 Tossing Out A Spot-On Prediction
222 Predicting On The Fly
222 Fighting A Battle Royale
224 Dicing With The Future
224 Playing Russian Roulette (Safely)
226 Predicting A Random Card
226 Using Psychic Dice
227 Studying Associated Arts

229 Chapter 12: Look Into My Eyes: Getting The Hang Of Hypnotism
229 Telling The Truth About Hypnotism
231 Grasping What Hypnotism Isn’t
231 Investigating What Makes Hypnotism Work
232 Examining Who Can Be Hypnotised
232 Understanding The Power Of Suggestion
233 Looking Into The Mind
234 Suggesting Some Types Of Suggestion
238 Following The Five Laws Of Suggestibility
240 Setting The Scene For Suggestibility: Inducing Alpha
241 Getting Your Performance Going
241 Perfecting Your Pre-Talk
242 Preparing Your Opening Statement
242 Selecting Your Subjects
244 Vetting Your Volunteers: Introducing Suggestibility Tests
248 Putting Your Induction Skills Into Practice
248 Inducting In Three Minutes
249 Performing An Instant Head-Pull Induction
250 Welcoming Someone With The Handshake Induction
250 Terminating The Trance
251 Mastering A Basic Hypnosis Routine
251 Addressing Your Audience
253 Putting Your Participants ‘Under’
254 Being The Real Deal
255 Talking The Talk
255 Conjuring Up Confidence
255 Dressing For Impressing
255 Assessing Your Audience
256 Refusing To Be A Performance Monkey

257 Chapter 13: Chilling Out With Cold Reading
258 Introducing Cold Reading: A Pretty Old Scam
258 - Understanding How Cold Reading Works
259 - Discovering The Different Types Of Cold Readings
259 - Meeting The Clients
260 Understanding The Cold-Reading Process
261 - Accepting Regular Failure
261 - Following A Sequential Process
264 Tooling Up For Effective Cold Readings
264 - Identifying Useful Cold-Reading Statements
268 - Bringing Up Childhood Memories
268 - Sticking To Generalities And Guessing
271 - Acquiring And Using General Knowledge
271 - Hedging Your Bets
271 - Getting People To Say Yes
273 - Handling Negative Responses
273 Extracting Information
274 - Restating Information
274 - Asking Direct Questions
275 - Using Indirect Questions
275 - Veiling Your Questions
276 Forecasting A Perfect Future
276 - Providing A Sure-Fire Future
276 - Giving Em' What They Want
276 - Saying Things Will Get Better
277 - Knowing The Odds
277 - Predicting Safely: It Happens All The Time

279 Chapter 14: In Cahoots With Co-Conspirators
279 Discovering The Tools Of Secret Collaboration
280 - Encoding For Secrecy
281 - Transmitting Information Quietly: Silent Transmission
281 - Electing To Use Electronics
283 Deciphering Secret Codes
283 - Identifying A Secretly Touched Item
283 - Working With The Four Degrees: Pick A Mug
284 Receiving Information Mentally - Yeah Right!
284 - Demonstrating Your Psychic Ability
287 - Picking Up Psychic Vibrations
288 - Showing That You Can Read A Stranger's Mind
288 Communicating With Verbal Codes
288 - Talking About Spoken Codes
289 - Discovering Tee Zancig Code
291 - Creating Your Own Variations

293 Part IV: Performing Bizarre Strange And Novel Effects

295 Chapter 15: Demonstrating Extraordinary Displays Of Exceptional Human Ability
295 Excelling At Puzzles And Games
295 - Solving Sudoku Puzzles With Style
297 - Taking The Knight For A Tour
299 - Predicting The Pattern Of Noughts And Crosses
299 - Tackling Crosswords Without A Cross Word
302 Performing Extraordinary Feats And Stunts
303 - Walking On Fire
305 - Appearing To Be Impervious To A Flame
306 - Chilling Out To The Extreme: Being Frozen Alive
308 - Getting Needled Through Your Skin
310 - Come Fly With Me: Lifting A Person In The Air
311 - Controlling The Weather: Cloud Bursting

313 Chapter 16: Creating Spectator Failures
313 Pinning Down Your Patter
314 Taking Control: Power-Zapping Your Audience
314 - Trying Out ‘The Un-Tearable Paper'
315 - Making Yourself Unliftable
316 - Mastering The ‘Magnetic Box'
317 Disturbing The Balance: Using Applied Kinesiology
317 - Introducing The Ideomotor Effect
317 - Believing Is Halfway To Achieving
319 Sussing Out Some Spectator Classics
319 - Commanding With Your Fingertips
319 - Stripping Subjects Of Their Strength
320 - Becoming The Electric Mentalist
320 - Demonstrating Superhuman Strength

321 Chapter 17: Supernatural Spectacles: Uncovering The Art Of Spirit Theatre
322 Unveiling Voodoo Ashes
322 - Spreading The Voodoo Ashes Secret
322 - Preparing To Ash-Tonish And Amaze
322 - Adding A Touch Of Voodoo To Your Performance
325 Working The Spirit Slates
325 - Sussing Out The Slate Routine
326 - Making Vour Own Set Of Slates
329 - Getting Your Slate Trick Props In Place
330 - Delivering A Slate-Of-The-Art Performance
332 Handling A Haunted Deck
332 - Fathoming Out The Haunted Deck Hoax
333 - Making Your Own Haunted Deck
334 - Getting Your Haunted Deck Into Position
334 - Performing With Pazazz
337 Scaring Your Spectators Stiff
338 - Studying Tile Secrets Of The Séance
338 - Planning Your Séance To Perfection
340 - Serving Up A Startling Séance

345 Part V: The Part Of Tens

347 Chapter 18: Ten Mentalists Who Shook The World
347 Tony Andruzzi (1925-1991)
348 Theodore Annemann (1907-1942)
348 Tony Corinda (1931-2010)
349 Joseph Dunninger (1892-1975)
349 Glen Falkenstein (1932-2010)
350 Url Geller (1946-)
350 David Hoy (1930-1981)
351 Burling Hull (1889-1982)
351 A1 Koran (1914-1972)
352 A1 Mann (1924-1999)

353 Chapter 19: Ten Books To Take You Deeper Into The Art Of Mentalism
353 How Not To Test A Psychic
353 How We Know What Isn’t So
354 Influence - Science And Practice
354 Martin Gardner Presents
354 Practical Mental Magic
355 Psychology Of A Psychic
355 Stewart James - The First 50 Years
355 The Trick Brain
356 Thirteen Steps To Mentalism
356 Why People Believe Weird Things

357 Chapter 20: Ten (Or So) Techniques To Make You Seem A Minor Deity
357 Telling A Bold-Faced Lie
357 Using Dual Reality
358 Getting What You Want Every Time: Equivoque
358 Forcing Things Onto People
359 Marking Codes
359 Being A Step In Front Of The Audience: The One-Ahead Principle
360 Taking A Peek
360 Getting By With A Little Help From Your Friends: Stooges And Confederates
361 Switching Things With The Assumption Swindle

363 Appendix: Video Clips
365 Index