Quote of the Week: Harry Lorayne
In my beginnings the work of Harry Lorayne gave me not just fun knowledge and techniques, but an understanding of confident attitude as essential in my work. I highly recommend you to study his huge corpus of ideas, both in written and visual form. Watching his fast-paced script and excellent timing allows us to learn all those essential elements of a performance.
In one of his video lessons, teaching a simple 4 Ace trick he said this quote, and this stuck with me until today. The secret to create an ambiance of security in whatever you do is not just doing the mechanical actions but also, as important as that, the ability to convey security and confidence.
This is especially relevant when studying Equivoque. If you hesitate, you lose all the needed foundations and trust from your audience. Whatever the participant says is correct, you are just guiding the meaning of that decision through apparent clarity and non verbal confidence.
If you hesitate, you lose.
Keeping a firm ground needs practice and rehearsal. Yes, learn the "moves" but go beyond that and learn how to contextualize that technique through your body and words.
Only in that way you will be able the create the needed ambiance so your audience and participants can feel the mystery.
If you are interested in learning the power of ambiguous effective communication be sure to check our Equivoque related releases.
Support the Elders
Magic and Mentalism as artforms are still babies in development.
Imagine that you are a guitar student and you are able to take lessons with Paco de Lucia directly using the wonders of online sessions.
Imagine that you love the surrealism from Dali and Dali himself can give you direct insights and inspirations for your paintings.
Well, thats a reality for us❗️
Most masters in Magic and Mentalism offer you this option, just contact them. We live in a magical era of emails and zoom events.
IA is a cool resource, but nothing beats the power of being able to create meaningful mentor-mentee relationships.
In my beginnings I did that as a young man avid for inspiration and guides. Some people never replied me, and that gave me perseverance. Some of them declined, and thats fine. But a powerful group of masters were kind and open, and thanks to them I am one of many carrying the flame of Mentalism.
Support our living legends directly, they are worth it. Before taking classes and lessons from me or any other young colleague and author friend talk to the elders.
They deserve our love.
The Process Podcast
Thanks Stephane for your kind invitation
Enjoy our conversation!
Xmas Book Test
Our "Xmas Book Test" will allow you to create powerful and memorable moments of mindreading and precognition using this classic Xmas story!
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Quote of the Week: Theodore Annemann
Our grandfather in Mentalism was a pioneer in our modern understanding of Mentalism. Simple and direct, no extra unneeded stuff, clever techniques and most importantly, a powerful attitude rooted in excellence and love to the craft.
This quote from Ted comes from "The Omega Card Act", a fundamental principle from his creative work. You can use as little as possible and create wonderful mysteries.
Mentalism needs to be feel like a real fiction, not just a fantastic one. We can use some interesting props from time to time for sure, but dont let that steal the attention from the true meaning of the experience.
If you know my work you know that I love "Minimal Mentalism" for this same reason. It is cool to have the latest electronic gizmo and the gimmicked whatever but you really dont need them. You want them, but you dont need those objects.
If you want to learn more about the attitude of the Minimal Performer you can check our "Minimal Mentalist" Videocourse
Thanks Theo for your perennial wisdom
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