Luke Jermay - 7 Deceptions.pdf - L - animga

by Luke Jermay

(Note: 1 Deception, the palm reading, is missing)

7 Deceptions

Contents:

Reversed Gestalt Moment (Spectator forgets their card)

Cold Emotion (Chosen emotion and place is predicted)

For Andruzzi (Stop your pulse and a spectators)

Manipulation of Perception (2 spectators see 2 different words on 1 piece of paper)

Silence is golden (Performer predicts which ESP symbol the spectator drew)

The 7th Deception (Remove a spectator's phobia)

Reversed Gestalt Moment

Effect:

The performer shows a spectator a playing card - which is then shown to the

group and placed face down on the table top or another spectator can look after

the card if they so wish.

The spectator who first saw the card is asked to extend her first finger, the

performer places great focus on this, he then takes a deep breath and touches

the spectators first finger with his own. He then asks the spectator to name the

card they saw. The spectator looks around with a dazed expression on her face

and can not seem to find the name of the selection. She remains confused and

when the card is turned face up is even more so. She will never remember the

name of the card she saw.

Method:

This effect is not a pipe dream! I do it, more importantly I do it regularly. It

combines some sneaky sleight of hand with some even sneakier psychological

trickery.

The basics of the “technical” method is a simple double lift. You begin by cutting

two contrasting coloured cards to the top of the deck and then performing a

double lift and showing the card(s) to one spectator without allowing anyone else

in the group to see the face of the card. You then square the card on the deck

and remove the actual top card and show this to all. This card is then either

given to some one to hold or as I do placed face down on the floor in front of the

spectator or on the table top in full view.

You next cause the spectator to forget the name of the card they saw using some

psychological direction:

This is very similar to what Banachek calls “Remedies or the Old Witch Doctor” in

his landmark “Psychological Subtlies”. It is similar in the fact that the spectator

must firmly believe in your confidence. You must appear self assured and

confident, for the effect to work.

Basically you will place so much focus upon the first finger being extended and

your touching it that the spectator will assume it had to have taken some effect.

This also places their focus away from the card.

You next ask the spectator to name the selection as you do so, you wave your

hand at their eye level a few times. This will confuse their thoughts further and

help make the time delay longer. I suggest a left to right movement for them in

other words, from your right to your left but their left to right, it is more confusing

that way.

Spectators have trouble remembering cards at best - with this theatre added in

and the next trick, a visual distraction designed to confuse them further will have

the effect of rendering them “forgotten”. They will struggle to name the card. At

this point they will only struggle - but will, given a minute or so begin to remember

things about the card. The first thing will be the colour. But thanks to the

combination of the double lift and the psychological work their train of thought is

totally blow out of the water - as they begin to remember the colour of the card all

those around them will disagree (remember the group saw a different card to the

spectator) I then also disagree and turn the card face up to reveal a (for example)

black card. This will now throw them deeply into a confused state. And will

usually argue hard they saw a red card. This is great, the group will argue back

that they defiantly did not. The effect is that the spectator totally forgot the name

of the selection.

Above is the basic method for the effect which when performed in a confident

and theatrical way will work 100% of the time with great effect. Let us now take a

look at the language used in the opening of this effect that will subtly implant the

idea of them forgetting the name of the selection in the first place:

“Lesley would you mind helping.....fantastic. We are going to ‘steal a thought’

rather than just reading them. Don’t worry nothing important just the name of a

playing card . Is that OK with you? It will not hurt one bit and will do nothing but

totally erase the memory of the playing card . It will almost be like one of those

old films, you know when a scene has been cut and it just jumps from one thing

to the next a little confusing but bear with me ”

The text in bold is delivered while maintaining eye contact with the spectator and

with a slightly stronger tone to it. The above wording helps to implant in a subtle

way some very important elements critical to the effects success. It implants the

idea of her being confused, something that will be massively important in a

moment or two and also tells her that it is OK for her to be confused. Now have

the spectator remember the card (double lift see step 1) and show it to the entire

group and place it down on the table top.

“Now I want you to just relax and remember how easy it is to forget things. We

will remove that memory of that card now. Would you mind just raising your first

finger and pointing it toward my own?”

The words “that card” are used to induce a magnified feeling of isolation from the

cards identify that will further help in confusing the spectator. Next I take a deep

breath and extend my own finger and touch it to the spectators after very slowly

edging it toward hers. I leave it touching for a second or so and then continue:

“ Now (snap other fingers) what was the name of the card you remembered to

forget ...out loud what was the name of that card. (waving hand gesture at eye

level to further confuse) out loud now ”

The above wording helps place the spectator under pressure and will ensure

they are further confused. The hand gestures in an arc at the spectators eye

level two or three times. You now for a moment or two remain totally silent and

stare directly into the eyes of your spectator. She will too remain silent and have

a very confused searching look about her face.

She will usually after around a minute or just under say something along the lines

of:

“I know it was red.....”

At this point the group who are understandably impressed will inform her that it

was not. This is the clinching point of this effect. By the group disagreeing with

her (when in fact she was beginning to recover her true memories) she will

suddenly be further confused and begin to search for new ones. At this point

there is no thought of the actual card she saw. She will struggle for a while at

which point I say:

“You can’t remember can you? Take a look....same colour....same shape we

won’t be to picky. Thank you very much for helping. You were great”

The final lines may appear to be simply a “cute” way of finishing but in fact they

are more. They are a subtle way of informing the spectator that she did very well

and has nothing to feel bad about. And also reinforces the idea of the card she

saw being of the colour of the card on the table.

Comments:

I first revealed the full handling of this along with some other of my other work in

a book written by Kenton Kneeper entitled: Miracles of Suggestion.

I am very proud of this effect - it works well and has an amazingly clear

appearance to the group at large. It has strong theatre inherent in it. Next time

you perform some mentalism throw this number in and see what a reaction it can

get.

With this effect the words are almost the entire method. I have incorporated

many established ideas from the likes of Kenton Knepper and Doc Hilford to

name but a few.

Try this - give it the theatrical staging and presentation it deserves and you will

have an effect that will really leave them talking.

Cold Emotion

Effect

A group of blank cards are shown - on their faces is written a wide variety of

emotional responses. Words that evoke a highly enhanced emotion reaction due

to their semantically loaded connotations. The packet of around 50 are given a

through shuffle and then spread across the table and seen to be mixed, the deck

is squared . A spectator is asked to reach forward and cut to one, look at the

emotional response written on the card and to place it in their pocket. This is all

done while the performer has turned his back.

The performer turns and faces his audience, he asks the spectator to place

herself in a situation she vividly remembers that she associates with the chosen

emotion. She is to “imagine her self in the actual situation place yourself in that

very room, with those very people, at that very time and try to allow those

emotions all to come flooding back to your conscious.

The performer then goes on to name not only the chosen emotional response but

the very scene the spectator is envisaging.

Preparation:

You will need to do a little handy work before this effect will be “ready to roll”.

Begin by getting yourself a double blank deck. Write down 26 different emotions.

These most be emotions that have either conflicting emotions or associated

ones. For example if you were to write Love the conflicted/associated emotion

would be Hate. It is in this way you will construct an entire pack. The pack will

consist of 26 cards with emotions written on them, and then another 26 cards

with the conflicting/associated emotion written on them.

Take the conflict pile and from the short edges of the 26 cards trim a small

amount. Now arrange the all the cards in their pairs. For example place the

normal Love card with the short Hate card and then on top of this place the

normal Pride card followed by the short Embarrassment card. You will now have

a pack of cards with emotions written on their faces, which is arranged in pairs

(Love/Hate) which will in a moment be handled in the very same way as a Mete

Tekel Deck would.

Performance:

1) Begin by removing the pack. Patter about the loaded semantic quality of each

of the words unashamedly emblazoned upon the cards for all to see.

2) You all the while appear to be giving the pack a casual in the hands riffle

shuffle. You will in fact perform a false shuffle that will rather conveniently leave

each of the cards in their respective pairings.

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