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    In Mind: Lessons in Mind Reading and Mentalism
    In Mind: Lessons in Mind Reading and Mentalism
    In Mind: Lessons in Mind Reading and Mentalism
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    In Mind: Lessons in Mind Reading and Mentalism

    By Ian McCoy

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    Would you like the ability to read other peoples’ minds? Predict the future? Give incredible demonstrations that would strike awe into any audience?

    In Mind - will give you this ability – guaranteed.

    With the popularity of the excellent American crime drama “The Mentalist” there has been a resurgence of interest in what may be termed “tricks of the mind”. Patrick Jane is a mentalist who works for the California Bureau of Investigation. Week in and week out he solves murders using his techniques of mentalism.

    In Mind will teach you the amazing techniques of mentalism.

    Do you want to be a mentalist?

    Mentalism or Mind Reading is the most exciting performing art. Once you dazzle your friends, family and acquaintances with a series of devastating seemingly psychic feats – they will forever hound you until you agree to give an encore. Wherever you go you will be pursued, pested and plagued by people who yearn to see you perform. It will change your life forever.

    EVERY ROUTINE IN THIS BOOK WILL ALSO BE SHOWN ON VIDEO WITH AN ONLINE LINK– so as well as reading this revolutionary material – you will also have access to live performances and explanations. In essence – you are getting a free DVD!

    The term “psychological magic” has also become quite popular in recent years, perhaps reflecting a style of presentation in which results are achieved through the use of psychological techniques, rather than via a magician’s trickery. Mentalist Derren Brown has stated on his TV show that results are obtained through a combination of “magicians’ techniques, showmanship, misdirection and psychology”. This is undoubtedly true, but the implication that these performers actually use more psychology than trickery (as opposed to say a children’s magician or a comedy magician) is most definitely not true. All magical performers use these elements in some combination or another. The difference is that in mentalism it is implied and presented in a way - that psychology is the main methodology.

    In all the techniques and routines throughout this book you will convince people that you have an ability to read faces like a book. You will convince them that every mannerism – every twitch, blink, smile frown, every eye movement – every expression – gives you an insight into their minds. You will also ask them to repeat some “keywords” which will also give you an insight into their thoughts. While performing you will keep these two concepts uppermost – FACBOOK and KEYWORDS. This will make your role as mentalist believable. You never claim to be “psychic” – you claim to be intuitive. Every face is like a book – and you have spent years developing this facebook technique.

    So I offer you something rather unique –In Mind - How to be a Mentalist. Prepare to learn some of the most powerful and closely guarded secrets in mentalism. You will be equipped with an arsenal of stunning and devastating mindreading effects that you can unleash on your audiences – large and small. Once you start there is no turning back. The existence you have known up until now will be changed forever.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIan McCoy
    Release dateNov 17, 2012
    ISBN9781301530618
    In Mind: Lessons in Mind Reading and Mentalism
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    Ian McCoy

    Ian McCoy (www.ianmccoy.com) is a master magician and mentalist, a motivational speaker and teacher, a published author, a musician, singer/songwriter and a writer/journalist.For over a decade he was one of California's top magical acts and performed all around the world for blue chip companies, Hollywood celebrities, a cruise line, Las Vegas hotels and thousands of private individuals. . He also set up magic classes and camps teaching children of all ages throughout the Bay Area of San Francisco. He relocated back to the UK seven years ago and has performed around Britain and on TV.Ian is also a credentialed high school and junior college teacher in both the UK and USA. He has degrees in history and politics and post graduate degrees in education and theology. He is the published author of the book Magic in the Center : God Consciousness and You a work in Philosophy that examines the concept of the Soul. He has also developed an online environmental news and information service with his brother and sister called just4theplanet . Ian is lead writer.Ian's keynote speech Magical Values is a call for people to be their best. It is truly inspirational and incorporates entertaining magic and mentalism to illustrate some perennial wisdom and motivate his audience.In his Kindle books on the art of Mentalism and Mindreading, How to be a Mentalist , How to be a Mentalist II, How to be a Mentalist: Time Flies and In Mind, Ian takes his 35 years study and experience to teach this fascinating art. Every technique and performance has a video link. So as well as reading, the student gets to see both performances and live explanations.His related book Memory teaches incredible techniques to develop your mind to it's full potential.Ian has also published two books on the art of card magic under the title McCoy's Miracle's: World Class Card Magic and one book on mentalism with cards: McCoy's Miracles: World Class Mentaism with Playing Cards. As with his other work - they all have video links to performance and explanation.Ian's book Angels: An insight into their Existence, taps his academic insights from theology, science, philosophy and history. It is a fascinating study.Ian has two publications on the person of Jesus Christ.The Historical Reality of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ examines just that and argues that historians while agreeing with the historicity of Christ's life and death - have been blinded from the historical truth of the Resurrection by a philosophical stance that can not be justified. His other work Jesus Christ: Magic Man? examines the ministry of Jesus through his miracles.In his book the Atheism Myth Ian gives a robust defence of Theism - as a response to the militant atheists led by Richard Dawkins.Ian's largest and most ambitious project The True Magic: God, Mind, Consciousness and You is an all embracing piece drawing on all disciplines in defence of Theism.

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      In Mind - Ian McCoy

      In Mind

      Lessons in Mind Reading and Mentalism

      Ian McCoy

      Copyright 2012 Ian McCoy

      Smashwords Edition

      Table of contents

      Introduction

      Hollywood Dreams

      The mentalist reads the mind of a spectator and guesses the name of a famous person she is thinking of. The spectator is then temporarily given the mentalists power and correctly guesses the name of a Hollywood personality the mentalist had a dream about.

      Mental Dice

      A spectator thinks of a random number using three dice. The mentalist is able to correctly tell what that number is. . There is also a lesson on Cold Reading in this chapter.

      Cold Reading

      A lesson in extracting information from your spectator

      The Mind Blowing Book Test.

      After a spectator chooses a random page from a book – she then thinks of any word on the page. The mentalist writes his impressions down. When these are checked – the spectator is dumbfounded to see that the mystery man has both guessed the correct page numbers and the exact word chosen

      .

      A Mentalist a Card and Dice

      One subject is asked to think of a random number using two dice. Another is asked to think of a playing card. The mentalist correctly divines both the number and the playing card

      A Mental Meal

      A list of dishes is shown on a menu. A friend is asked to write down –unseen- any three digit number. The mentalist and two other people are assigned a meal based on the freely chosen digits. After some thought our man of mystery is able to tell everyone which meal they are thinking of.

      History Mystery.

      Mindreading and an incredible prediction! The subject is asked to name anyone from history. They are then asked to think of any King or Queen from British history. The mentalist correctly discern the thought of monarch. Then a prediction is shown. It has the name of the the person in history that the subject mentioned minutes before.

      Book Me.

      The mentalist reads the mind of two subjects. One is thinking of a random word from a book – while the other thinks of their favourite author. Our mystery man is able to guess both the word and the author. A miracle.

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