Thanks David, a diamond mine of an upload literally littered with Gems. "Propless Mentalism" is possibly the highest road our passion for "Magic" can take. It ain't easy but it is spectacularly rewarding. Passion, perseverance and real-world practice are essential. Never forget the Master has failed gracefully more times than the Pupil has tried. And if it ever got easy, everybody would be doing it. Love and respect.
Thanks for this list. For me mentalism can be more personal than showing a magic trick. To reveal names, places, secrets etc of your volunteer is so powerful. Worth a mention, Marc Paul and Looch from the UK.
Great recommendations to get a SOLID base for your magic library in regards to propless mentalism. I whole heartedly agree with you in saying that just because there are no props doesn’t mean that propless mentalism will be easy. There are a host of things that can and do make this avenue of magic much more difficult, but also much more rewarding. Thank you!
David, nice episode!! Fun info, ideas, material,.. Lots of GREAT comments too. Been a fan for quite some time. Keep up the honest, open and interesting.
Another great video!!! I know it’s taken me forever, but I’ve finally started to add some Mentalism in. Surprisingly, it was an effect from Peter Turner’s “Freeform Mentalism” that really made me understand how patter and performance make an effect.
4:37 in and he still hasn’t started. And propless is not hard it’s actually fun. But I started as a stage hypnotist and been a child stage actor where we did a lot of adlib and in my work as a consultant (special effects, visual effects, engineering), I am called in to do something nobody has before and you have to sell the illusions as if you can solve their problem; fake it till you make it. Playing with equivoque’s is great fun. But also cold reading is great fun. And if you have a pen and paper, you can do things like draw me a tree. Oh and indeed unlocking a cell phone - I don’t consider it propless. I do this with colleagues in IT, I talk about how certificates and keys and public keys work. And I explain the easiest way with a shared key, that both the sender and receiver know. Which is highly secure when you managed to physically hand over the key and store it properly. And basically what it does is take your valuable info, like… oh hang on let me demonstrate. Give me your phone and open the calculator app. Now type a random digit. Imagine this is the shared key. Now multiply that with your Lock Screen key. Okay and show that to me…. Right! That’s now encoded. Clear the number on the calculator and hand it to me. Oh can you lock it please? Now I saw that big number, and I know your cipher was a simple addition. So in order to know the Lock Screen I’d need to subtract it! The maths is basically done in reverse and ciphers don’t use multiplication as such but but shift left and divide is shift right and xor. So I don’t know with what to divide it right. Because you didn’t give me the shared key. What was the shared key…. You forgot… didn’t I tell to remember? I’d they do remember I play it as a polymath trick and do quick division. And either way I unlock their phone. And I explain that you need to guard your shared key with your life. Because I can eavesdrop into your device, I can have cameras recording it or snoop your emails or texts. And I did this lecture for the bank 3 times and it blows people away. And the whole method is trivial. I just press the = on the calculator and with many calculators you’ll get the last entered digit. The Apple calculator does that.
Love performing propless mentalism and this is a good list. I started with the work of Atlas and he tipped me to Joshua Quinn who has great material worth checking out too.
Sleight of mind, if you will!! I think I only started learning one thing from Spidey a couple months ago that was considered mentalism. I didn't lock it in though so this is definitely going to be a revisit if my path every takes me to propless mentalism. Which just looking at some of this stuff... I hope so. 🙏 thank you for the info!!
Jermay's Mind DVD has a deep dive on 'touching on Hoy' and an entire DVD devoted just to cold (and hot) reading. It is brilliant brilliant stuff. A beautiful propless pulse stop is available in Docc Hilford's 'the vault' DVD set. He adds a cut and healing of his finger, but that can be omitted. Luke Jermay also has some work on this idea that he released in a lecture DVD, though it is not as clear and concise as some other teachings / explanations. But he does take it to a ballsy extreme that makes it very much his own. Marc Spelmann put out the DVD 'what am I thinking' which is about impromptu- if not all propless- mentalism. 9 effects And Jon Thompson's 'naked mentalism' has some real gems in it too.
Excellent video! I do enjoy what I would call "propless" mentalism. I have a few routines that end with me revealing something held in fingerpalm, like a skeleton key. This is something I developed. I also like the one that ends in a penny. I can't remember who did that one.
This is one of your better posts. You obviously enjoy this subject and got some opinions which is great. l learned a lot and thank you. The one entry (which I got to get working on some day) is in Calculated Thoughts by Doug Dyment where he's got an anagram method to do one's Astrological Sign. Many thanks again Sir :)
David, cheers for this. Watched it when it came out. Picked up Atlas Brookings Penguin lecture. Watched it just today and took an idea from it, made it my own and used it to close a virtual show this evening 😂
Fraser Parker - Mentalism Fundamentals is a $3 download that has a bunch of info. It's not propless but it's amazing as an introduction to mentalism generally.
Back when I was still performing, I closed 5 shows with “Two Verbal Card Forces: methods for forcing mental selections, using only suggestion and gesture. no cards are used.” (I used the 3 D force) From Pure Effect By Derren Brown.
Great review and perfect timing as I've been researching propless effects in the past couple of months. While I was looking into Tequila Hustler on Michael Murray's website I came across The Trojan Project by Manos Kartsakis and Michael Murray. Propless in the sense that you can borrow the bill, the coin and the key - and it's a great expansion of the "Which Hand" effect. You can even try the pseudo-effect on yourself before the method is explained. I love Which Hand effects, and I think it's good to have two or three completely different methods so if you are asked to repeat, even if it's days later, you have another option or two in your arsenal to keep things fresh.
great list David … I also like the added “description” and a timed table of contents 👍🏻👍🏻 … surprised Spidey or David Jonathan didn’t make the list (DJ has a great “Mental Mysteries” at Alakazam … Tarbell has several “Mental” releases as well
Great review David. I own most of these resources and I agree wholeheartedly with your comments and rating. The only item I would suggest adding is ElLEMENTARY by Drew Beckenstoss from his penguin LIVE lecture. It’s a PIN revelation where the primary reveal is written on a piece of paper;; however, this can very easily just be a spoken reveal. Thanks
Love your channel keep up the good work. I feel Matt Mello needs more recognition state of mind and the gray area are just a few that have really helped me as a mentalist and stand out as far as the I don't need no problems I can just read your mind. Love to hear your take on it thank you David 🙂
One of my favorites is he shares a method on how to guess a name by having your spectator think of three important people in their life. And you instruct them to imagine each of them standing in front of them you then have them choose which person whether it be on their left middle right etc and focus on that person and their relationship first. Like if this is a friend or a relative etc would you then reveal their relationship and then the name. Pretty awesome stuff. That's in state of mind the gray area I love his take on a liar to tell a routine and using that method to do a witch hand. And he ends it with a three person three different objects and you're able to deduce which person is holding which object super clean super direct no logic puzzles or gimmicks or anything like that.
I haven’t heard of Michael Murray before, I’m going to check him out now though! Question, Luke Jermay has a LOT of material out, what material of his do you recommend for a beginner Mentalist? Thanks again for the awesome reviews, advice, and overall awesome magic content!
Michael Murray's original Isolation and his newest version, Oreality. How about any PK Touches routines that are propless? You haven't reviewed any of Sean Waters material and have done yourself a serious disservice if you like propless or near propless mentalism. Readings? Jerome Finley has the best.
FWIW, I seem to remember the Kickstarter for How to Control Minds as indicating it was suitable for beginners. I sort of doubted that, but I backed it anyway because I was interested in learning more about how this worked. I figured that even if I could do the effects, I'd learn some interesting stuff about how people think and such. I haven't watched much of the content yet, but from what I did see, I think I'm with you that the effects aren't as beginner-friendly as they may have advertised.
Fantastic review, David! I am grateful for your feedback and guidance. Thank you! Quick question, if you could only make one purchase from the list you shared and the $300.00 was out of the question, which one item would you purchase? Thank you!!
I think I only have one propless effect, and it's a slight variation of Isabella Star by Peter Turner. Which I think is taught in one of the Ellusionist mentalism kits. Which is a zodiac and birthday divination.
Hey buddy I wanted to ask if you can perform this variation of isabella star accurately and how long did it take you to do so cuz I'm gonna learn to do that
My favourite Propless mentalism is a thing Luke Jemay tipped in the Genii ( Jemay on the cover ) Three spectators, three predictions. Propless. The way mentalism should be. I have a little cousin who is still creeped out.
@@magicorthodoxy I believe it is called “ touched by Hoy” as you mentioned. I remember the trick. I remember who taught it to me( book or download) but not always the originator and hardly ever the name. I’m the guy magic creators hate but I don’t teach people so I have no quilt
Great great great list. Mentioned some resources I was already familiar w/ and some I never really gave a chance; now I’m really interested into them. I was expecting to see PK touches, hypnotricks and contact mindreading mentioned. Those are a lot of what I’ve had success w/. Thanx for making this list.
@@magicorthodoxy Oh, cool. I guess that part kinda flew by me. Something I think about w/ propless Mentalism, something I kinda see as a issue, is that a lot of propless material puts a lot of responsibility in the hands of the spectator. If a person has to spell a word in their head, do math (groan 😒) or follow too many instructions, they could easily ruin it. And we, as the mentalist, can’t blame them for it. We have to own it or fall back on something else. Also, I just thought about Pulse Stops. There’s a couple great ones out there AND they would be great mentalism for deaf spectators.
@@TheMindofRobert i forgot about pulse stops! I do the I one from Docc Hilford's 'the vault' DVD set and it has never failed. Totally propless. Great catch with the pulse stops!
UnVeil and V2 by Manos Kartsakis Silent Running series by Ben Harris Navigator by Reese Goodley Paths and Psyware by Matt Mello Sherlocked by Thaddius Barker I Miss Charlotte by Ali Foroutan The PIN Project by Luke Turner
I love that you made this video :) MENTALISM is my fave part of magic . i apsolutly agree with your list (myv HTCM is too hard to be nm 9 but..). Its interrsting that you didnt mantioned Derren Brown or i missed that, wt do u think about him?
Loving these refreshed top 10s. Here is one that I dont think gets covered a lot and it could be because there arent a lot of modern effects but how about something like top 10 rope/thread/ribbon effects? As always, thanks for what you do!
Propless is so hard. If you do a peek or something, it's mostly showmanship after that. With propless there's a ton of reading the spectator while navigating some kind of memory work. It's also very difficult to practice.
I'm relatively new to your channel (great, by the way), but I haven't seen a review of 'The Oracle System', by Ben Seidman, or maybe I missed it. I think it is terrific, but would like your opinion. Thanks.
best source for readings: Learn a real system. Palm reading is a great place to start. Any proper esoteric or (pseudo) psychological system provides you with authority, silent scripts, organic and built in patterns of human life and a structure no need to stress out about trying to remember long scripts of barnum statements and complicated double negations or greener grass lines
best one that was easy. is a math one. everyone will have same answer.so perform for as many people you want. tell them pick a number from 1 to 10 remember dont tell you.then add 20 to their number.then take away 4 from their total. last tell then take away the number i told you to remember. answer is 16
haha, i was waiting for proteus to be at number 1, and yeah i wasn't disappointed 😜😜 I can't stress enough how much this effect is epic , the reactions are crazy, it is simple and straightforward and it worth the time for learning. i wish if there is a kind of forum only for this specific effect because it is worth.
The other brothers put out a which hand effect where you ask them questions and then depending on the answer they switch hands. They show it with an actual coin but you can also do this conpleatly propless and ask them to imagine it. Hopefully they're a truthful person lol
The problem with most mentalism is that performers drag it out far too long. Spectators are enjoying it and as it continues they lose interest and just want it to be over
For propless mentalism only? Or in general? Propless mentalism probably requires both “detective” work and keeping them entertained at the same time. It’s probably harder than it looks.
Hallo David! My no one,is Orion as well, the best book ( books) I have ever had, and I just finished the first one, Incredible material in there. My no two though,is calculated thoughts, also a fantastic book with very valuable knowledge in there, and I am kind of confused you didn't mention it. What is your opinion about that?
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Thanks David, a diamond mine of an upload literally littered with Gems. "Propless Mentalism" is possibly the highest road our passion for "Magic" can take. It ain't easy but it is spectacularly rewarding. Passion, perseverance and real-world practice are essential. Never forget the Master has failed gracefully more times than the Pupil has tried. And if it ever got easy, everybody would be doing it. Love and respect.
Absolutely!
"DIamond Mine" is right! It's what draws me back to David and Magic Orthodoxy on an almost daily basis.
Thanks for this list. For me mentalism can be more personal than showing a magic trick. To reveal names, places, secrets etc of your volunteer is so powerful. Worth a mention, Marc Paul and Looch from the UK.
Well said!
Fantastic show! In my opinion, this is your best show yet! I have already purchased the Phasma lecture notes and Quinta is next.
Glad you enjoy it!
Great recommendations to get a SOLID base for your magic library in regards to propless mentalism.
I whole heartedly agree with you in saying that just because there are no props doesn’t mean that propless mentalism will be easy. There are a host of things that can and do make this avenue of magic much more difficult, but also much more rewarding.
Thank you!
:D
David, nice episode!!
Fun info, ideas, material,..
Lots of GREAT comments too.
Been a fan for quite some time. Keep up the honest, open and interesting.
Much appreciated!
Another great video!!! I know it’s taken me forever, but I’ve finally started to add some Mentalism in. Surprisingly, it was an effect from Peter Turner’s “Freeform Mentalism” that really made me understand how patter and performance make an effect.
This is GOLD. I do tequila hustler a lot. I have a couple of the other ones I’m working on. Thanks for the tips
absolutely
Love this! I saw when someone ask for this! So glad you decided to do it!
sure thing !!!
Greg it was me 😀
Great list. Quinta is amazing.
I also like Michael Murray's RPS a lot.
YES !!!
So happy you made this video! Idk if you remember but I have actually asked you for this exact video
nice so have a lot of others - great suggestion
4:37 in and he still hasn’t started.
And propless is not hard it’s actually fun. But I started as a stage hypnotist and been a child stage actor where we did a lot of adlib and in my work as a consultant (special effects, visual effects, engineering), I am called in to do something nobody has before and you have to sell the illusions as if you can solve their problem; fake it till you make it.
Playing with equivoque’s is great fun. But also cold reading is great fun. And if you have a pen and paper, you can do things like draw me a tree.
Oh and indeed unlocking a cell phone - I don’t consider it propless.
I do this with colleagues in IT, I talk about how certificates and keys and public keys work.
And I explain the easiest way with a shared key, that both the sender and receiver know. Which is highly secure when you managed to physically hand over the key and store it properly.
And basically what it does is take your valuable info, like… oh hang on let me demonstrate.
Give me your phone and open the calculator app.
Now type a random digit. Imagine this is the shared key. Now multiply that with your Lock Screen key. Okay and show that to me…. Right! That’s now encoded. Clear the number on the calculator and hand it to me.
Oh can you lock it please?
Now I saw that big number, and I know your cipher was a simple addition. So in order to know the Lock Screen I’d need to subtract it! The maths is basically done in reverse and ciphers don’t use multiplication as such but but shift left and divide is shift right and xor. So I don’t know with what to divide it right. Because you didn’t give me the shared key.
What was the shared key…. You forgot… didn’t I tell to remember?
I’d they do remember I play it as a polymath trick and do quick division.
And either way I unlock their phone. And I explain that you need to guard your shared key with your life. Because I can eavesdrop into your device, I can have cameras recording it or snoop your emails or texts.
And I did this lecture for the bank 3 times and it blows people away.
And the whole method is trivial. I just press the = on the calculator and with many calculators you’ll get the last entered digit. The Apple calculator does that.
great comment - thanks for visiting
Freeform Mentalism was my first propless Mentalism purchase as well!
;)
I love mentalusm6 and I loved this Top 10 list. Thanks David 👍
thanks for visiting and being a subscriber !!
Love performing propless mentalism and this is a good list. I started with the work of Atlas and he tipped me to Joshua Quinn who has great material worth checking out too.
THANKS !!!
Sleight of mind, if you will!! I think I only started learning one thing from Spidey a couple months ago that was considered mentalism. I didn't lock it in though so this is definitely going to be a revisit if my path every takes me to propless mentalism. Which just looking at some of this stuff... I hope so. 🙏 thank you for the info!!
absolutely
Quinta is pure gold!
glad you agree
Great list and great channel! Cold reading must haves are anything by Richard Webster. It’s the real deal
It really is!
Pulse Rate by Matt Mello is propless and really does kill. One of my faves. The reactions are fantastic.
good call
Jermay's Mind DVD has a deep dive on 'touching on Hoy' and an entire DVD devoted just to cold (and hot) reading. It is brilliant brilliant stuff.
A beautiful propless pulse stop is available in Docc Hilford's 'the vault' DVD set. He adds a cut and healing of his finger, but that can be omitted. Luke Jermay also has some work on this idea that he released in a lecture DVD, though it is not as clear and concise as some other teachings / explanations. But he does take it to a ballsy extreme that makes it very much his own.
Marc Spelmann put out the DVD 'what am I thinking' which is about impromptu- if not all propless- mentalism. 9 effects
And Jon Thompson's 'naked mentalism' has some real gems in it too.
thanks ETHAN
Thnaks, loved this video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Absolutely awesome 👏 Bravo!Thank You!
Many thanks!
Thanks for this
My pleasure!
Excellent video! I do enjoy what I would call "propless" mentalism. I have a few routines that end with me revealing something held in fingerpalm, like a skeleton key. This is something I developed. I also like the one that ends in a penny. I can't remember who did that one.
Thanks for sharing!!
This is one of your better posts. You obviously enjoy this subject and got some opinions which is great. l learned a lot and thank you. The one entry (which I got to get working on some day) is in Calculated Thoughts by Doug Dyment where he's got an anagram method to do one's Astrological Sign. Many thanks again Sir :)
thanks for stopping by
Just great. Thank you
Thank you too!
@@magicorthodoxy I'd love to see a top 3 patreon /membership, maybe take this into consideration?
Thanx for fullfiling my request in prev video.
I requested for propless and a***grams 👍
Love you always magic orthodoxy 🎉🎉
You're welcome 😊
David, cheers for this. Watched it when it came out. Picked up Atlas Brookings Penguin lecture. Watched it just today and took an idea from it, made it my own and used it to close a virtual show this evening 😂
WOW !!!
@@magicorthodoxy I honestly couldn't believe how well it worked. I took a bit of a gamble and it payed off in a huge way. Thanks again 😊
Fraser Parker - Mentalism Fundamentals is a $3 download that has a bunch of info. It's not propless but it's amazing as an introduction to mentalism generally.
NICE !!!
Back when I was still performing, I closed 5 shows with
“Two Verbal Card Forces: methods for forcing mental selections, using only suggestion and gesture. no cards are used.” (I used the 3 D force)
From Pure Effect By Derren Brown.
such a great book
@@magicorthodoxy Try the 3D force, scary but worth it.
Great review and perfect timing as I've been researching propless effects in the past couple of months. While I was looking into Tequila Hustler on Michael Murray's website I came across The Trojan Project by Manos Kartsakis and Michael Murray. Propless in the sense that you can borrow the bill, the coin and the key - and it's a great expansion of the "Which Hand" effect. You can even try the pseudo-effect on yourself before the method is explained.
I love Which Hand effects, and I think it's good to have two or three completely different methods so if you are asked to repeat, even if it's days later, you have another option or two in your arsenal to keep things fresh.
Hands down by the other brothers & Gerti Reborn
Thoughts on Manoeda? I got it before Tequila Hustler, but I'm not sure if it predates it.
Where is mention of Kenton Knepper? WW? Probably the best linguistic deception series ever! ❤
agreed !!!!
great list David … I also like the added “description” and a timed table of contents 👍🏻👍🏻 … surprised Spidey or David Jonathan didn’t make the list (DJ has a great “Mental Mysteries” at Alakazam … Tarbell has several “Mental” releases as well
great mentions !!!
I just posted a question about this on your most recent video but I’m gonna look into these in the mean time
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Great review David. I own most of these resources and I agree wholeheartedly with your comments and rating. The only item I would suggest adding is ElLEMENTARY by Drew Beckenstoss from his penguin LIVE lecture. It’s a PIN revelation where the primary reveal is written on a piece of paper;; however, this can very easily just be a spoken reveal. Thanks
I reviewed that lecture, so good
Banachek / "Psychological Subtleties 1,2, and 3" are great sources also for much of what you discussed.
great books - I need to review those sometime
@@magicorthodoxy I really wish you would!
These are highly overrated
Love your channel keep up the good work. I feel Matt Mello needs more recognition state of mind and the gray area are just a few that have really helped me as a mentalist and stand out as far as the I don't need no problems I can just read your mind. Love to hear your take on it thank you David 🙂
man, I want to see em now !!!
One of my favorites is he shares a method on how to guess a name by having your spectator think of three important people in their life. And you instruct them to imagine each of them standing in front of them you then have them choose which person whether it be on their left middle right etc and focus on that person and their relationship first. Like if this is a friend or a relative etc would you then reveal their relationship and then the name. Pretty awesome stuff. That's in state of mind the gray area I love his take on a liar to tell a routine and using that method to do a witch hand. And he ends it with a three person three different objects and you're able to deduce which person is holding which object super clean super direct no logic puzzles or gimmicks or anything like that.
nice !!!
I haven’t heard of Michael Murray before, I’m going to check him out now though! Question, Luke Jermay has a LOT of material out, what material of his do you recommend for a beginner Mentalist? Thanks again for the awesome reviews, advice, and overall awesome magic content!
Jermay's Mind th-cam.com/video/nWNcKtFHwe8/w-d-xo.html
or his live www.penguinmagic.com/p/5256
@@magicorthodoxy Thank you so much!
I've seen The Dance being recommended many times, too bad it's sold out.
But a great list! Definitely some things I have to check out.
Hope you enjoy it!
Michael Murray's original Isolation and his newest version, Oreality.
How about any PK Touches routines that are propless?
You haven't reviewed any of Sean Waters material and have done yourself a serious disservice if you like propless or near propless mentalism.
Readings? Jerome Finley has the best.
I put PK touch on the onscreen list but it got lost in editing, there are so many great tricks
FWIW, I seem to remember the Kickstarter for How to Control Minds as indicating it was suitable for beginners. I sort of doubted that, but I backed it anyway because I was interested in learning more about how this worked. I figured that even if I could do the effects, I'd learn some interesting stuff about how people think and such. I haven't watched much of the content yet, but from what I did see, I think I'm with you that the effects aren't as beginner-friendly as they may have advertised.
yea
Fantastic review, David! I am grateful for your feedback and guidance. Thank you!
Quick question, if you could only make one purchase from the list you shared and the $300.00 was out of the question, which one item would you purchase?
Thank you!!
Pretty good roundup. Would like to know your favorite Luke Jermay effects.
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@@magicorthodoxy thank you!!
Touching on Hoy.
It kills
You’re right! I WAS thinking of Propless Mentalism! How did you do that?!!
MAGIC
Code Breaker only works with iphone. What would you suggest for Android?
Just curious, why do u prefer Tequila Hustler over Switch?
Switch by ... who?
@@magicorthodoxy I'm sorry I meant Swap by David D. So Happy I made that purchase
Sorry, I dont have that one
I think I only have one propless effect, and it's a slight variation of Isabella Star by Peter Turner. Which I think is taught in one of the Ellusionist mentalism kits. Which is a zodiac and birthday divination.
nice !!!
Hey buddy I wanted to ask if you can perform this variation of isabella star accurately and how long did it take you to do so cuz I'm gonna learn to do that
Thank you for your preamble. SO MANY PEOPLE fail at propless mentalism by BORING their spectator or messing it up.
Thanks TT
Wonderful list of choices David, great review 😊👍😊👍
Thanks! 👍😊👍😊👍
My favourite Propless mentalism is a thing Luke Jemay tipped in the Genii ( Jemay on the cover )
Three spectators, three predictions. Propless. The way mentalism should be.
I have a little cousin who is still creeped out.
sounds awesome !!!
@@magicorthodoxy I believe it is called “ touched by Hoy” as you mentioned.
I remember the trick. I remember who taught it to me( book or download) but not always the originator and hardly ever the name.
I’m the guy magic creators hate but I don’t teach people so I have no quilt
How about making a top 10 impromptu magic rings money etc
good idea
Sibyl by Phedon.. One of the best purchases i've ever made..
So good!
You read my mind David.
Thanks !!!!
Great great great list. Mentioned some resources I was already familiar w/ and some I never really gave a chance; now I’m really interested into them.
I was expecting to see PK touches, hypnotricks and contact mindreading mentioned. Those are a lot of what I’ve had success w/.
Thanx for making this list.
there was a PK touch in the on screen list, but I ran out of time
@@magicorthodoxy Oh, cool. I guess that part kinda flew by me.
Something I think about w/ propless Mentalism, something I kinda see as a issue, is that a lot of propless material puts a lot of responsibility in the hands of the spectator. If a person has to spell a word in their head, do math (groan 😒) or follow too many instructions, they could easily ruin it. And we, as the mentalist, can’t blame them for it. We have to own it or fall back on something else.
Also, I just thought about Pulse Stops. There’s a couple great ones out there AND they would be great mentalism for deaf spectators.
@@TheMindofRobert i forgot about pulse stops! I do the I one from Docc Hilford's 'the vault' DVD set and it has never failed. Totally propless. Great catch with the pulse stops!
and Jermay's 'touching on hoy' is a PK touch routine.
@@rethanwilliams True. I consider it a mind-reading routine, but yeah. Also loved one of the newer versions of it, Touching on Hypnosis.
UnVeil and V2 by Manos Kartsakis
Silent Running series by Ben Harris
Navigator by Reese Goodley
Paths and Psyware by Matt Mello
Sherlocked by Thaddius Barker
I Miss Charlotte by Ali Foroutan
The PIN Project by Luke Turner
great suggestions
@@magicorthodoxy It would be great if you could make a top 5 or top 10 truth teller liar principle based tricks.
Good video sir👌
Thanks and welcome
I love that you made this video :) MENTALISM is my fave part of magic . i apsolutly agree with your list (myv HTCM is too hard to be nm 9 but..).
Its interrsting that you didnt mantioned Derren Brown or i missed that, wt do u think about him?
he's the absolute best
What’s the difference between Proteus and Phasma.
Can you do social top 10 media trick and impromptu trick too 🥰
both great ideas
Loving these refreshed top 10s. Here is one that I dont think gets covered a lot and it could be because there arent a lot of modern effects but how about something like top 10 rope/thread/ribbon effects? As always, thanks for what you do!
Great suggestion!
Propless is so hard. If you do a peek or something, it's mostly showmanship after that. With propless there's a ton of reading the spectator while navigating some kind of memory work. It's also very difficult to practice.
agreed
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Can Quinta and body mentalism be combined for a two pass routine?
Can Quinta work in other language like Chinese?
Bro it dont need any language... U can still perform that without saying a word👍
Nice shirt.
Thanks! 👍😊👍😊
Dang I wish I had those books! I only have 5 so far
I'm relatively new to your channel (great, by the way), but I haven't seen a review of
'The Oracle System', by Ben Seidman, or maybe I missed it. I think it is terrific, but would like your opinion. Thanks.
Thanks! You can always use the search feature on the main page: th-cam.com/video/T19dfpIsugY/w-d-xo.html
Trying to be a propless mentalist without first being a mentalist is like trying to be an astronaut when you aren't a pilot
or like trying to be a pilot when you've never made a paper airplane
best source for readings: Learn a real system. Palm reading is a great place to start. Any proper esoteric or (pseudo) psychological system provides you with authority, silent scripts, organic and built in patterns of human life and a structure
no need to stress out about trying to remember long scripts of barnum statements and complicated double negations or greener grass lines
What is your favorite type of magic tricks? Both to see as a spectator and do yourself
card tricks
Just add a few mesmeric suggestions, have to disagree that mind controls is difficult, all simple suggestion tests. ;-)
yup
Great video! It gives me a lot of inspiration... What about Anyweb 2.0? I think this could also be good for "propless" mentalism.
yea probebly
Wow. It seems amazing. Somehow you manage to extract their thinking like their birthdate from absolutely no knowledge of them!
I know, right?
@@magicorthodoxy do you just have to keep asking questions?
wow this is full blown
THANKS !!!
Also my entire channel now a decade old is all about mental magic
nice
Orville Meyer's Telepathy in Action
www.penguinmagic.com/p/S11174
best one that was easy. is a math one. everyone will have same answer.so perform for as many people you want. tell them pick a number from 1 to 10 remember dont tell you.then add 20 to their number.then take away 4 from their total. last tell then take away the number i told you to remember. answer is 16
THANKS John!!!
your welcome
haha, i was waiting for proteus to be at number 1, and yeah i wasn't disappointed 😜😜
I can't stress enough how much this effect is epic , the reactions are crazy, it is simple and straightforward and it worth the time for learning.
i wish if there is a kind of forum only for this specific effect because it is worth.
You and me both!
U mean no PHYSICAL props-u still need concepts, lesser known math quirks, magicians force, misdirection, clever patter, etc
yep, math and misdirection are not considered props
Maybe Isolation!
Yes! Great idea
The other brothers put out a which hand effect where you ask them questions and then depending on the answer they switch hands. They show it with an actual coin but you can also do this conpleatly propless and ask them to imagine it.
Hopefully they're a truthful person lol
Yes HANDS DOWN - it's a great trick th-cam.com/video/cdmmUPKWc1E/w-d-xo.html
I've got Phedon's ''Sybil'' ... a fantastic mentalism effect, but not exactly propless, as it does utilize a scrunched up ball of paper. :)
I love that trick
Before I even watch the video, I predict the name Peter Turner will be mentioned in it lol. Let's see how good a mentalist I am
LOL
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The problem with most mentalism is that performers drag it out far too long. Spectators are enjoying it and as it continues they lose interest and just want it to be over
If this is happening to you, you are most likely doing it wrong.
yea, sounds like they need to tighten up their presentation
@@magicorthodoxy Its not me, at this time I don't do any mentalism, my view is just from watching some perform
For propless mentalism only? Or in general? Propless mentalism probably requires both “detective” work and keeping them entertained at the same time. It’s probably harder than it looks.
toxic city, psychic surgery, 1089 revistited, think of ANY card
nice list
You forgot to add fraser parker's projects, Opus and Sui Generis are simply groundbreaking
those are good to - my video can only be so long couldn't mention everything
What's all this I hear about topless mentalism? Where am I going to hide my props. ...What? Nevermind.
this post is worthless without pics
@@magicorthodoxy 😂😂!
Hallo David! My no one,is Orion as well, the best book ( books) I have ever had, and I just finished the first one, Incredible material in there. My no two though,is calculated thoughts, also a fantastic book with very valuable knowledge in there, and I am kind of confused you didn't mention it. What is your opinion about that?
here is my review th-cam.com/video/9J-oqL7kKe4/w-d-xo.html
Derren Brown is the master of all mentalism.
Agreed