THE BLURB:
One of the bestselling mentalism books of recent times is
now back and better than ever!
Luke Jermay has done it again! He has decided to release
more of his awesome material, the routines which he uses to
stun audiences around the world. In this important new
volume, Luke has tipped the real work on using Suggestion
Techniques. Luke covers the Definition = Creation theory
along with several other techniques and teachings. This,
coupled with his ground breaking applications of the four
Convincers, is enough to transform and amplify your
performances right away. But that's just for starters! Wait
until you see some of the effects he teaches.
Imagine yourself performing these routines:
A plucked rose visibly wilts and dies as you talk about the
fragility of life.
An aura reading routine, which climaxes with the spectator
genuinely seeing your aura - and you can provide proof!
You cause the spectator's sense of time to physically slow
down (we don't just mean their watch, although of course
that happens as well!). They are almost unable to physically
move as they are stuck in a single moment of time.
You perform a version of Out Of This World, with a borrowed
deck, with no set-up, no sleights or switches. In fact the
spectator's intuition can even be shown as correct for each
individual card as it is dealt! This is the real work on the
verbal control of a spectator.
Despite being blindfolded, you can read a selected sentence
chosen at random from a borrowed book, with your fingertips!
You can even scan through the whole book with your
fingertips and comment on the story and characters. Did we
mention that the blindfold is real and that you genuinely
can't see a thing and you can do this anywhere anytime?!
Imagine having your spectator actually feel their thought
leave their mind and enter yours - imagine no more! With the
Burst Bubble suggestion, your spectator will believe they
felt the moment of magic happen inside their own mind!
This new extended edition now includes Lukes fantastic
routines Room 101 and Central Reservation!!
Pages: 223 - 6" x 8.5" - Hardcover
MY COMMENTS:
(NOTE: These comments are based on the ORIGINAL edition, not
this new extended edition which contains material from Room
101 and Central Reservation. I will be revising my comments
as soon as I am able to.)
It may be a slim 162-page, 6 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch hardbound
book, but it's filled with some very wonderful ideas.
Luke's strength lies in his ability to create suggestion and
his performing philosophy. Some of the work is very bold
and does not work 100% of the time. As Banachek points out
in his foreword, that is the difference between mental magic
and mentalism. Mentalism does not have to work 100% of the
time for it to be impressive.
The book is broken up into ten sections. The first nine
sections all contain a few pages each and cover Luke's
anecdotes and philosophies in the use of suggestions and
mentalism. The ninth section contains fourteen effects. I
actually found this book quite easy to read and didn't take
long at all, but this one idea-filled book that you need to
read more than once, much more than once, to let it all soak
in.
After what other professionals are saying, there's not much
more to say than that. I've moved the quotes to below my
comments. There are a lot of them. With folks like
Banachek, Richard Osterlind, Kenton Knepper, and Ted Lesley
glowing praise about Jermay's book, you know it's a "gotta
have" thing.
One of the bestselling mentalism books of recent times is
now back and better than ever!
Luke Jermay has done it again! He has decided to release
more of his awesome material, the routines which he uses to
stun audiences around the world. In this important new
volume, Luke has tipped the real work on using Suggestion
Techniques. Luke covers the Definition = Creation theory
along with several other techniques and teachings. This,
coupled with his ground breaking applications of the four
Convincers, is enough to transform and amplify your
performances right away. But that's just for starters! Wait
until you see some of the effects he teaches.
Imagine yourself performing these routines:
A plucked rose visibly wilts and dies as you talk about the
fragility of life.
An aura reading routine, which climaxes with the spectator
genuinely seeing your aura - and you can provide proof!
You cause the spectator's sense of time to physically slow
down (we don't just mean their watch, although of course
that happens as well!). They are almost unable to physically
move as they are stuck in a single moment of time.
You perform a version of Out Of This World, with a borrowed
deck, with no set-up, no sleights or switches. In fact the
spectator's intuition can even be shown as correct for each
individual card as it is dealt! This is the real work on the
verbal control of a spectator.
Despite being blindfolded, you can read a selected sentence
chosen at random from a borrowed book, with your fingertips!
You can even scan through the whole book with your
fingertips and comment on the story and characters. Did we
mention that the blindfold is real and that you genuinely
can't see a thing and you can do this anywhere anytime?!
Imagine having your spectator actually feel their thought
leave their mind and enter yours - imagine no more! With the
Burst Bubble suggestion, your spectator will believe they
felt the moment of magic happen inside their own mind!
This new extended edition now includes Lukes fantastic
routines Room 101 and Central Reservation!!
Pages: 223 - 6" x 8.5" - Hardcover
MY COMMENTS:
(NOTE: These comments are based on the ORIGINAL edition, not
this new extended edition which contains material from Room
101 and Central Reservation. I will be revising my comments
as soon as I am able to.)
It may be a slim 162-page, 6 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch hardbound
book, but it's filled with some very wonderful ideas.
Luke's strength lies in his ability to create suggestion and
his performing philosophy. Some of the work is very bold
and does not work 100% of the time. As Banachek points out
in his foreword, that is the difference between mental magic
and mentalism. Mentalism does not have to work 100% of the
time for it to be impressive.
The book is broken up into ten sections. The first nine
sections all contain a few pages each and cover Luke's
anecdotes and philosophies in the use of suggestions and
mentalism. The ninth section contains fourteen effects. I
actually found this book quite easy to read and didn't take
long at all, but this one idea-filled book that you need to
read more than once, much more than once, to let it all soak
in.
After what other professionals are saying, there's not much
more to say than that. I've moved the quotes to below my
comments. There are a lot of them. With folks like
Banachek, Richard Osterlind, Kenton Knepper, and Ted Lesley
glowing praise about Jermay's book, you know it's a "gotta
have" thing.
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