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It will improve both your techniques and reintorduce some additional creativity to you, far better than just lookingfor a new "trick" to do for a while.
There are things we all forget and doing this will re-energise what you have forgotten. Even if you are familiar with these works, go back and re-learn them. Read each chapter carefully and practice until you have mastered these techniques. Start from the front of the books and learn each lesson thoroughly before moving on. So please, learn from these books properly.
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I may not work with doves but at least I have a knowledge of dove harnesses and know how to use them. Why would anyone in love with this art want to have a half assed knowledge of it and even less experience within it. For the life of me I will never understand how someone with a true love of this art could want to have anything less than a well roundedknowledge of it. Often regarded as ‘the Bible of mentalism’, 13 Steps is the best book on the market for amateur mind readers. 13 Steps to Mentalism is written as a how-to. This article is a detailed '13 Steps to Mentalism' review. The book, published in 1961, is made up of thirteen sections, each of which details one mentalist technique or concept. One must learn all they possibly can, even if later they chose not to use that knowledge or techniques, they should at least have a well rounded knowledge and actual hands on knowledge of the techniques invloved. Number 27: 13 Steps to Mentalism by Corinda This book is for those of you that perhaps are more partial to mind reading or clairvoyance than you are to card magic. Tony Corinda’s classic work, 13 Steps to Mentalism, is generally considered to be a foundational text for mentalism. These are techniques to be learned, not tricks as such.Ī brain surgeon must first learn to be a general practitioner long before they can specialize, and so must a magician (or mentalist for that matter). These works MUST be studied and learned in whole. Each piece builds upon what was learned earlier. it was written to be read and digested in small bits from the begining to the end. The same problem has arisen with the finest book on billets and peeks to ever be published (Peek Performances by Richard Busch). This is NOT what should be done, especially with such books as Corrinda. The problem with so many magicians is that they skim books to find "tricks" and then throw the books on the shelves. 13 Steps to Mentalism is a course that is meant to study and learn step by step. After I read some of the earlier posts talking about skimming 13 steps, it made me cringe.