Signs of Influence

THE BLURB:
It's been a long time coming.

For many years people have asked me to teach them "How to
hypnotize people with photographs."

Yes, I know that sounds strange, even suspicious. So let me
tell you right now what the big secret is all about.

I use special signs and photographs in performance that
cause people to apparently go into a trance (they actually
may do so), hallucinate vividly, pick up on telepathic
projections, fall under my influence, and more, just by
looking at them. This happens because of the special signs
and photos I use, along with important linguistics and
special psychology.

If you want to perform a hypnosis show quickly and easily
you will find this system to do everything for you from the
beginning "inductions" to the closing finale. It doesn't
matter whether or not anyone goes into a trance because they
will act like they are completely under all the same.

Mentalists who will NOT do trance work will also find this
work useful as the photos may apparently change to reveal
someone special that the spectator has in mind.

You not only read thoughts; spectators occasionally see
their thoughts projected in photos as you read their
thoughts too.

Imagine being able to hire yourself as a SAFE hypnotist or
mental influencer without the concern of whether or not
people will go into a trance, whether it is legal, or any
other typical hypnosis show issue.

People helping you on stage will not be able to explain away
all that they see. The audience will see one thing and the
helpers will see something radically different. This is NOT
the use of old optical illusions as some performers have
tried to sell you as my work. No one has had all the inside
secrets until now.

The use of just a few of these signs in KWA Stage Hypnosis
Training had students reeling. They understood how it is
impossible to escape the influence of the signs, even
without any use of hypnosis or real suggestion.

If you do not care to perform any type of hypnosis show,
mentalists will want to use this work as a way to prove
their power and undeniable influence over others. This
material is highly entertaining, extremely realistic, and
adjustable to nearly any situation.

Here are a few of the things you will do with this complete
system:

* As spectators approach the performer they fall under his
or her influence. The nearer the spectators get to the
performer, the more deeply under they seem to go. A simple
word seems puzzling to the helpers while the audience
watches on with complete amazement.

* A photograph of a mirror is shown... The spectator swears
that various family members fade in and out of the photo, as
if looking into a crystal ball. The audience sees nothing
however.

You're probably thinking "This is all blatant cues and
Kenton's dual reality or something" but that's not really
the story here. Of course I use dual reality, prompts and
linguistics as much as I can.

But the real work here is in the signs and photographs
themselves.

The audience can clearly see a scene, photograph or sign
just the way the spectators under your influence see these
things. The audience may continue to look at the sign while
the spectators insist that they see new images fading in,
cannot read signs anymore, are following subliminal
suggestions, watching beautiful imagery become horrific and
much more.

Look, if I said to you, "You can do a complete hypnosis act
without hypnosis or lengthy training, or you can force
people to see things that others know for a fact are not
there, without anything more than flat paper photographs or
signs" would you be interested?

Here are a few more examples:

* Three spectators look at a photograph of an hourglass.
Because they are apparently under your influence, they claim
they know what time the hourglass indicates. These times are
different, yet the times named are the very ones the
mentalist has attempted to project into the spectators'
minds. Remember - The photo is shown to the audience without
any switches, special lighting or anything else. The
audience sees one thing, but the helpers swear they see
things very differently.

* A photograph of an old chalk slate has SET GOALS written
on it. The performer speaks about the importance of setting
clear goals, one at a time. The spectator is told to think
of two goals at once and try to read the photograph. The
spectator says it is now hard to read as the words are as if
they are written twice, in double writing, making it very
difficult to see. When the helper sits back down and focuses
on one goal only, he can read the sign easily again. This is
an object lesson any seminar teacher, business performer, or
mentalist can put to use right away.

* Many spectators gaze at a photograph of clouds in the
sky... You know how people imagine things as they look at
clouds? The audience may see clouds and sky, but the
influenced spectators vividly imagine angels, a dragon
monster, SEE music, and more. Not only that, they will SWEAR
THAT THESE ARE REAL and not imagined things.

* A woman who nose... A photograph of a woman with a nose
cold is shown. Everyone agrees on what the picture displays.
But due to some verbal influence the rest of the audience
clearly notices, the spectators strangely begin to count
MANY NOSES on the poor woman's face! Those under the
performer's influence will point and agree to seeing the
noses while the audience watches on and can see that clearly
no other such noses exist! But spectators swear the poor
woman has a nose on her eyebrow, her hand, her lip, her
fingers! This is very funny stuff to the audience, as the
spectators helping cannot imagine why what they are saying
is so hysterically funny.

Did I mention this is all very easy to do? That it can be
performed in a living room, platform, on television, on the
street or most anywhere you have an audience?

You will need to have a few feet of distance between you and
the audience, but nothing drastic. This can be performed in
homes as well as in banquet rooms or other small stages.

There is nothing more that you need to buy.

You get over THREE DOZEN signs and photos as JPG files that
can be printed out on your computer. These signs and photos
do most of the work for you. But I also supply an in-depth
90 page book in PDF format to explain every nuance and
detail in using these signs, how they work, and how to make
a complete act, from start to finish, out of these devious
pieces of illusion.

This is a treatise that has taken a long time for me to
write and produce for you, but it is here at last. Now you
know what I have been quietly doing lately behind the
scenes. This work is not like anything else out there.
Unique principles and applications create a system of
seeming influence that you can get to work and use right
away.

PLUS, as if you won't have enough to download in this huge
project ;-)

I have also supplied the original "Kentonism Graphics" that
go with my original "Kentonism" book as part of this system.
These graphics have been long unavailable. The Kentonism
Graphics+ on CD-ROM sold for $25.00 and more. They have no
instructions, as the book "Kentonism" ARE the instructions.
Now you get these graphics as an additional FREE DOWNLOAD
when you buy this complete Signs Of Influence system.

We're all dealing with a slow economy I know, so I have also
priced this entire system well below what peers have
suggested that it sell it for here. This has been a major
project for me, but because I am releasing this direct only
through Wonder Wizards right now you get the best price
possible. I hope this helps everyone.

I have been very pleased with the results of this system in
my own performances and training work. All who see this
system in action swear by it. I am proud to be able to share
this system at last with all the detail and nuance I felt
this important work demanded.

This system brings a whole new meaning to the "Art of
Influence."

NOTE: BIG FILES! HUGE. BE PATIENT! They will download if you
wait for them patiently, ONE AT A TIME please.

Kenton has a LOT in this, so please be patient for these
large downloads... they are really worth the wait!

Downloads are 149.13 Mb, 15.68 Mb, 18.59 Mb, 5.29 Mb

MY COMMENTS:
There is a temptation to say that with Signs of Influence,
what Kenton did for words (Wonder Words), he now does for
pictures. That's not quite accurate, but it's close enough
in spirit. Wonder Words enhances the effectiveness of one's
routines by a careful and deliberate choice of words. This
is a utilitarian collection of photographs that manipulates
an audience into believing that the performer can hypnotize
and control them.

To clarify, though, this is not necessarily a set of tools
exclusively for the hypnotist, nor do you need to be
claiming to do hypnosis in order to use them. You can
certainly demonstrate suggestion or mind control, or even
demonstrate that certain pictures cause certain reactions in
people. As I said above, these are utilitarian and, as the
old saying goes, limited only to your imagination.

In the blurb above, Kenton asks if the following would
interest you: "You can do a complete hypnosis act without
hypnosis or lengthy training, or you can force people to see
things that others know for a fact are not there, without
anything more than flat paper photographs or signs." This
may be a way of getting your interest, but it also may
generate some misconceptions. No one should practice
hypnosis without being fully qualified and no one should
think that a course, even a short weekend course, qualifies
one for being a true practitioner of stage hypnosis. There
may have been quite a few lawsuites, mostly in England,
regarding people who misused and misunderstood their
audience. However, one can claim to give their audience
suggestions or control them and claim that they are not
using hypnosis techniques, thereby making it safer. After
all, the word "hypnosis" is scary to many folks and avoiding
that term is much easier.

Getting back to Signs of Influence, the 91 page e-book that
comes with it details all the photo images that Kenton
discusses. These photos, as the blurb points out, do a
variety of different things and you can use them to do a
complete act or use a few for one routine. Some mentalists
use optical illusions to demonstrate suggestion or other
mental exercises and this is what Kenton is doing here.
This collection, though, is not your standard Internet
collection of optical illusion photos. It's an entirely
original and practical set of photos complete with Kenton's
unique scripting that will enable the performer to provide a
memorable and suggestible experience with an audience.

For those who know me, you know that I just love utilitarian
principles and props because they can be applied to so many
effects and spark so many great ideas. It should come to no
surprise then that I feel that Signs of Influence is one of
Kenton's best releases and, in fact, I think it may provide
much more value to the working mentalist that Kenton's
classic Kolossal Killer. Needless to say, I recommend this
highly.