Rainer Mees & Thomas Heine, ed.
SECRET IMPRESSIONS
$50
THE BLURB:
No matter how we as mentalists interpret and present our
skills, we all are gifted with a more or less healthy mind.
And for this we have the freedom to indulge our art and
passion � the art of mentalism.
We should be thankful for this gift and realize just how
lucky we are from time to time. Usually, we don�t even
notice our good fortune in our daily life. We forget about
it and take it for granted.
But there are children out there who don�t have the chance
to live their dreams like we do. Youngsters who have to
carry a mental burden and who, without help, will never be
able to live something even approaching a normal life.
Obviously we cannot change the world. But we can help to
take the edge off a few problems for some people. We can
help to lighten a few children�s burdens - at least for a
while.
So we initiated a project to do so and invited several
creative minds of the mental community to participate.
The idea for the book's contents was a suggestion from our
friend Paolo Cavalli � we will come back to this aspect
later.
As for the good cause we followed a suggestion of another
friend of ours, Les Cross:
"Those gifted with 'special' mental abilities
helping children with 'special' mental needs"
So all profits from the book will be donated to
International Mental Health Charities to help children with
mental disabilities or mental imbalances.
MY COMMENTS:
Mentalists are a very giving lot. In the past year or so,
there have been a couple of very worth charity projects
which turned out to be some of the year's very best
collections of mentalism.
This is another one. And it's probably stronger than all
the others, although that's not really a fair thing to say
because each is different in its own right and it's a
subjective statement to make.
But just look over the list of contributors in the table of
contents below. One can't get much stronger than that. The
theme, if you haven't guessed, is impressions, specifically
the use of impression devices. And after reading a review
copy, I can tell you that it delivers.
Sure, you won't like everything in this book. That's the
nature of anthologies. And some of the two dozen entries in
the book have been in print before. And one can certainly
quibble about crediting and consistency of quality in the
material. I do, though, think that you will find some
routines and idea that you will really like. Priced at $50,
that's about $2 per routine. Plus, all profits go to
charity.
One more final note on this: The publishers will make their
print run based on the orders they receive in the month of
December. Even though there will be some available in
January when they ship, they probably won't last long and
there will be no additional reprints. So I've been told.
For this reason it will be up on this website only for a
short time. Which also means that if you wish to take
advantage and get this book, I would click on the link right
now and order it. Otherwise, time will fly by and time will
run out.
THE CONTENTS:
MORPH Looch
NOMEN QUOD LOCUS Scott Creasey
THE IMAGINARY GALLERY Thom Bleasdale
ALLEVIATION Rainer Mees and Thomas Heine
CROSSED-THOUGHTS Iain Dunford
THE SPIRIT MOVED ME John Riggs
INCIDENTAL IMPRESSIONISM Dr. Todd Landman
JUSTIFYING YOUR GAZE Dr. Bill
7 DEADLY SINS Dr. Bill
ROY JOHNSON REVISITED Jan Forster
YOU WILL BELIEVE Derek & Andrew Renfro, Elliott Bresler
THE WHISPERED WORD Bill Montana
DUAL MIRACLE Marc Salem
GRAPHOLOGIST VS. MENTALIST Pablo Amir�
PSYCHOLOGY OF THE PEEK Marc Spelmann
DESTROY THIS MESSAGE Simon Edwards
THE DOP TWIST Nico Heinrich, Rainer Mees, Thomas Heine
IMP-OSSIBLE Paul Brook
LET IT RING Paul Stockman
THE ART OF NOT(E) Writing Group of European Mentalists (GEM)
FREUDIAN SLIP Sean Waters
MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE Sean Waters
DDAITY Rainer Mees and Thomas Heine
Epically Impressive Joshua Quinn
Imp Pad Notes Jerome Finley
No matter how we as mentalists interpret and present our
skills, we all are gifted with a more or less healthy mind.
And for this we have the freedom to indulge our art and
passion � the art of mentalism.
We should be thankful for this gift and realize just how
lucky we are from time to time. Usually, we don�t even
notice our good fortune in our daily life. We forget about
it and take it for granted.
But there are children out there who don�t have the chance
to live their dreams like we do. Youngsters who have to
carry a mental burden and who, without help, will never be
able to live something even approaching a normal life.
Obviously we cannot change the world. But we can help to
take the edge off a few problems for some people. We can
help to lighten a few children�s burdens - at least for a
while.
So we initiated a project to do so and invited several
creative minds of the mental community to participate.
The idea for the book's contents was a suggestion from our
friend Paolo Cavalli � we will come back to this aspect
later.
As for the good cause we followed a suggestion of another
friend of ours, Les Cross:
"Those gifted with 'special' mental abilities
helping children with 'special' mental needs"
So all profits from the book will be donated to
International Mental Health Charities to help children with
mental disabilities or mental imbalances.
MY COMMENTS:
Mentalists are a very giving lot. In the past year or so,
there have been a couple of very worth charity projects
which turned out to be some of the year's very best
collections of mentalism.
This is another one. And it's probably stronger than all
the others, although that's not really a fair thing to say
because each is different in its own right and it's a
subjective statement to make.
But just look over the list of contributors in the table of
contents below. One can't get much stronger than that. The
theme, if you haven't guessed, is impressions, specifically
the use of impression devices. And after reading a review
copy, I can tell you that it delivers.
Sure, you won't like everything in this book. That's the
nature of anthologies. And some of the two dozen entries in
the book have been in print before. And one can certainly
quibble about crediting and consistency of quality in the
material. I do, though, think that you will find some
routines and idea that you will really like. Priced at $50,
that's about $2 per routine. Plus, all profits go to
charity.
One more final note on this: The publishers will make their
print run based on the orders they receive in the month of
December. Even though there will be some available in
January when they ship, they probably won't last long and
there will be no additional reprints. So I've been told.
For this reason it will be up on this website only for a
short time. Which also means that if you wish to take
advantage and get this book, I would click on the link right
now and order it. Otherwise, time will fly by and time will
run out.
THE CONTENTS:
MORPH Looch
NOMEN QUOD LOCUS Scott Creasey
THE IMAGINARY GALLERY Thom Bleasdale
ALLEVIATION Rainer Mees and Thomas Heine
CROSSED-THOUGHTS Iain Dunford
THE SPIRIT MOVED ME John Riggs
INCIDENTAL IMPRESSIONISM Dr. Todd Landman
JUSTIFYING YOUR GAZE Dr. Bill
7 DEADLY SINS Dr. Bill
ROY JOHNSON REVISITED Jan Forster
YOU WILL BELIEVE Derek & Andrew Renfro, Elliott Bresler
THE WHISPERED WORD Bill Montana
DUAL MIRACLE Marc Salem
GRAPHOLOGIST VS. MENTALIST Pablo Amir�
PSYCHOLOGY OF THE PEEK Marc Spelmann
DESTROY THIS MESSAGE Simon Edwards
THE DOP TWIST Nico Heinrich, Rainer Mees, Thomas Heine
IMP-OSSIBLE Paul Brook
LET IT RING Paul Stockman
THE ART OF NOT(E) Writing Group of European Mentalists (GEM)
FREUDIAN SLIP Sean Waters
MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE Sean Waters
DDAITY Rainer Mees and Thomas Heine
Epically Impressive Joshua Quinn
Imp Pad Notes Jerome Finley
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