Hello everyone,
I've been doing card magic for a few months now. I've come to understand (from some posts), that asking for redirection to learn certain effects or methods is alright as long as there is no exposure. If not so, please ignore this thread, as this is my first.
After some time, I delved into stuff like coins (basically, impromptu forms of the art), and other stuff, but eventually came back to cards. Sometime around this point, I got obsessed with the Berglas Effect. This peaked my interest in mentalism. I've not studied much on this subject, just some portion of Annemann's Practical Mental Effects. Most of the stuff I've come across, till now, is with billets. However, I find footage of magicians like David Blaine perform effects where he simply asks the spectator to name a card. I know a lot of stuff is cut out, and the concept of multiple outs as well as subliminal forcing. Is this kind of a force possible to a reasonably high rate of accuracy? I understand this would probably be something well prized among the community, so, if this is not something that can be freely disclosed, can I find other stuff, like guessing who drew what, what number someone is thinking about, the card someone thinks out of 5 or 6 cards, etc in Annemann? If what, which books should I check?
Note: I've checked out Peter Turner'' pdf, but I find fishing a bit 'fishy'.
Thank you.
I've been doing card magic for a few months now. I've come to understand (from some posts), that asking for redirection to learn certain effects or methods is alright as long as there is no exposure. If not so, please ignore this thread, as this is my first.
After some time, I delved into stuff like coins (basically, impromptu forms of the art), and other stuff, but eventually came back to cards. Sometime around this point, I got obsessed with the Berglas Effect. This peaked my interest in mentalism. I've not studied much on this subject, just some portion of Annemann's Practical Mental Effects. Most of the stuff I've come across, till now, is with billets. However, I find footage of magicians like David Blaine perform effects where he simply asks the spectator to name a card. I know a lot of stuff is cut out, and the concept of multiple outs as well as subliminal forcing. Is this kind of a force possible to a reasonably high rate of accuracy? I understand this would probably be something well prized among the community, so, if this is not something that can be freely disclosed, can I find other stuff, like guessing who drew what, what number someone is thinking about, the card someone thinks out of 5 or 6 cards, etc in Annemann? If what, which books should I check?
Note: I've checked out Peter Turner'' pdf, but I find fishing a bit 'fishy'.
Thank you.
