Bauta

THE BLURB:
Imagine, as a psychic entertainer or mentalist, being able
to give precise and eerily accurate "readings" to people
throughout your performances. Imagine, as you perform an
effect, noticing a person's hands, and giving them an
on-the-spot reading that is based on solid principles rather
than cold reading ruses. Imagine, as a mystery performer,
being able to offer "readings" as an adjunct to your stage
performances.

In this book, Scott delivers some tools that will
dramatically and successfully change your Tarot readings,
palm readings, personality analyses, and mentalism
performances, in general. Scott uses some of these same
techniques in his "Thinking Magically" seminars because the
concepts you will be learning go far beyond the confines of
a mere performance.

These tools have been used in corporate boardrooms,
university classrooms, on cruise ships, and around the
world. They are also written about in his book "The Mask of
Tarot" which is being released for the new age public, This
can help give YOU as a reader/performer as much credibility
as possible. The principles presented here are new for the
Tarot community and you can instantly refer the curious to
popular booksellers, like Amazon, and, in so doing, your
clients can learn just a little more about your cutting-edge
skills, but not, of course, the secrets found behind THIS
mask.

The basic Hiding Places system is a diabolically clever
technique where the client provides you with all the real
information. That is why we say it turns Cold Reading into
Hot Reading, where you are literally handed all the inside
info by your client!

This unique book offers many Special Bonuses for purchasers.
The original purchaser of this book is eligible to purchase
Scott's book "The Mask of Tarot." Directly from the
publisher while supplies last, to be used for Back Of Room
sales, and/or as a text should you wish to teach the basics
of how you will read for those you entertain. This first
edition is limited to 500 copies, signed and numbered. It
includes several worksheets that you can use in readings and
when teaching. It includes Scott's "Pocket Palm Reader"
camera ready art work; this is a hand out and tic sheet that
can be used as a fast reference for palm reading or simply
allow your audience to follow along when doing group
readings. This book also includes 2 Audio Cd's!

CD 1 discusses memory queues to make the learning of this
sophisticated material easier. There is discussion of the
background of the Hiding Places system. Scott begins by
setting up some mutual outcomes for the cds and where you
will go throughout them. There is much more expansion of
ideas only touched on in the text and includes a mini Tarot
workshop which teaches exactly how Scott uses this system.
Scott also explores how the technique can be used with
palmistry, personality profiles, ESP symbols and much more!
Scott goes into detail on the "alchemy of human needs" from
the book and discusses using these systems in group readings
settings.

CD 2 goes deeper into the actual process of doing a reading
and has several demo readings. You will learn about using
the techniques in group readings, small sessions, corporate
lectures and more. Scott touches on using an Internal Tarot
system, doing readings without using a real deck. This
recording goes into detailed discussion and exploration of
the sample readings from the book. Palm Reading is discussed
as it relates to the Hiding Places system. Scott talks about
his Pocket Palm Reader TM , the artwork for which is
provided as a free bonus with this book. For those who
prefer to do things other than Palms, Tarot or the like,
Scott offers a system of ESP Symbol Readings that also flows
seamlessly into the rest of the Bauta concept.

So- you receive: The Signed, numbered, hard cover, dust
jacketed, 180+ page book. 2 audio Cd's featuring the author
teaching you further details on the techniques, special
secrets and sample readings to help you learn. Purchase
rights for Scott's publicly released Tarot book to be used
for back of room sales. Art work and reproduction rights for
Scott's Pocket Palm Reader (For your personal use). This is
a system that can and WILL make you money and help you
improve your skills many times over. It is not a free ride,
or a gimmick that you will use "with no skill 5 minutes
after reading" and the work you put in to it WILL be worth
it!

I will end with a small warning that this book is NOT for
the beginning student. If you are fairly new to doing
readings as part of your mentalism presentations, or are
trying to learn "cold reading" this is not a good place to
begin by itself. On another hand, in reading it I was struck
that there ARE indeed many tools that I think all beginners
SHOULD have and be exposed to, but if you are new I
recommend getting some more basic texts in addition to this
one. As your experience grows, you will find new layers of
understanding unlock and illuminate within this text. I
would consider this a college level equivalent text!

"For those who don't know my (Dean, the human who owns
Leaping Lizards and helps the lizards with the typing.)
background is extensively as a reader. Tarot, Palms, you
name it. I don't often come across a book for psychic
entertainers on the subject of readings that makes me go
wow. This book made me go WOW! Please Make Sure You Read The
Warning!

Richard Webster, in his Foreword to this book, says "It's a
wonderful feeling to start reading a book on a favorite
subject and immediately know you're going to learn valuable
information." I couldn't put it better. I also agree 100%
that this book gave me that same experience!

Scott Grossberg, inventor of "Mindcast" and experienced
performer and reader has written this master class with the
unusual title, "Bauta." A bauta is mask worn in long gone
days of Venice to disguise the identity, but allow one to
socialize and frolic with freedom and total anonymity. A
member of royalty could party bawdily with a peasant or a
wash woman could bed a duke with total freedom. It was an
equalizer in a way. Herein, Scott teaches you how to remove
the masks of your client/spectators during a reading,
quickly and easily."

- Dean Montalbano

MY COMMENTS:
By far, this is one of the most intriguing concepts for
reading Tarot cards that I've seen, although it's not just
for Tarot cards. At first glance, there are a lot of charts
in the book and that makes it seem overwhelming, but the
charts merely provide illustrations to make it easier to
follow, not complicated. And the technique is quite easy to
understand. But that doesn't mean that this system is one
that someone unfamiliar with Tarot can pick up and use
easily. Personally, I'm not an experienced Tarot reader, so
I wouldn't be able to use this effectively right away. I do
know enough, though, to understand the technique easily and,
had I more experience, could begin to use it quite
effectively.

A bauta is a Venetian mask and the technique revolves around
being to identify which masks people wear. The masks
correlate to the Tarot cards, much the way the do to
positions in a spread and have very definite relationships
to other masks. There are four different types of masks.
What Scott explains is how to identify one of these masks
and then you know what the other three are. And it is, as
you might expect, quite accurate. One must be familiar with
the meanings of the Tarot to identify the cards and their
meanings and the relationships between them.

As the blurb says, this is NOT a system for beginners. You
must already be a student of the Tarot in order to use this
and fully understand it. If you're a beginner looking for a
good system to begin with, I'd recommend Enrique Enriquez'
THE INVISIBLE TAROT. Once you get comfortable with that,
then study this. That's assuming, of course, it's still
available.

One more thing, the blurb stresses, and I'll repeat it, that
Bauta covers others type of readings, including palm
reading. So you can certainly adapt this technique to other
readings as Scott explains, which this book attractive to
those who do other types of readings besides Tarot.

Another very nice part of this package is the enclosed CDs.
The blurb explains what's on there and that, on them, Scott
gives sample readings, additional info, and art work and
reproduction rights. This really is a very complete and
impressive package for the serious reader. This is a
limited edition, so if you're at all interested in this, I'd
not wait much longer to order it.