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    How to be a Mentalist: Time Flies
    How to be a Mentalist: Time Flies
    How to be a Mentalist: Time Flies
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    How to be a Mentalist: Time Flies

    By Ian McCoy

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    ,A mentalism, mind reading and magic routine that has five separate moments of pure amazement. Indeed one could argue that it is in fact a professional demonstration of mentalism and magic involving five effects in one extended routine.
    As in my other publications – the main advantage of studying this – is the video links. There is a live demonstration of performance and a detailed video explanation. This in effect is equivalent to getting a free DVD.
    A spectator thinks of a time and a card. Another spectator winds a watch blindly to a random time. The mentalist determines the time - while the thought of card disappears from the spectators hand. The card is found under the watch. When the watch is turned over - the second spectator has inexplicably wound the watch to the time that the first spectator thought of.
    Some professional performers may take exception to me offering this material to the general population. It is true that such material is usually offered by specialist dealers to magicians and mentalists at very high prices. The authors view – like in his previous work – is that people who are willing to put the time in and have a real interest deserve quality material. All to often – the magic and mentalism offered to “muggles” is of poor quality and of little entertainment value.
    Time Flies has great entertainment value and has an absolutely stunning affect on the audience. Some people may decide to just use part of the routine. That is fine. But it has been designed in such a way that it builds - each revelation becoming stronger and stronger until the final devastating climax.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIan McCoy
    Release dateMar 9, 2014
    ISBN9781311253330
    How to be a Mentalist: Time Flies
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    Ian McCoy

    Ian McCoy (www.ianmccoy.com) is a master magician and mentalist, a motivational speaker and teacher, a published author, a musician, singer/songwriter and a writer/journalist.For over a decade he was one of California's top magical acts and performed all around the world for blue chip companies, Hollywood celebrities, a cruise line, Las Vegas hotels and thousands of private individuals. . He also set up magic classes and camps teaching children of all ages throughout the Bay Area of San Francisco. He relocated back to the UK seven years ago and has performed around Britain and on TV.Ian is also a credentialed high school and junior college teacher in both the UK and USA. He has degrees in history and politics and post graduate degrees in education and theology. He is the published author of the book Magic in the Center : God Consciousness and You a work in Philosophy that examines the concept of the Soul. He has also developed an online environmental news and information service with his brother and sister called just4theplanet . Ian is lead writer.Ian's keynote speech Magical Values is a call for people to be their best. It is truly inspirational and incorporates entertaining magic and mentalism to illustrate some perennial wisdom and motivate his audience.In his Kindle books on the art of Mentalism and Mindreading, How to be a Mentalist , How to be a Mentalist II, How to be a Mentalist: Time Flies and In Mind, Ian takes his 35 years study and experience to teach this fascinating art. Every technique and performance has a video link. So as well as reading, the student gets to see both performances and live explanations.His related book Memory teaches incredible techniques to develop your mind to it's full potential.Ian has also published two books on the art of card magic under the title McCoy's Miracle's: World Class Card Magic and one book on mentalism with cards: McCoy's Miracles: World Class Mentaism with Playing Cards. As with his other work - they all have video links to performance and explanation.Ian's book Angels: An insight into their Existence, taps his academic insights from theology, science, philosophy and history. It is a fascinating study.Ian has two publications on the person of Jesus Christ.The Historical Reality of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ examines just that and argues that historians while agreeing with the historicity of Christ's life and death - have been blinded from the historical truth of the Resurrection by a philosophical stance that can not be justified. His other work Jesus Christ: Magic Man? examines the ministry of Jesus through his miracles.In his book the Atheism Myth Ian gives a robust defence of Theism - as a response to the militant atheists led by Richard Dawkins.Ian's largest and most ambitious project The True Magic: God, Mind, Consciousness and You is an all embracing piece drawing on all disciplines in defence of Theism.

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      How to be a Mentalist - Ian McCoy

      Introduction

      As I have said in my previous publications, a mentalist is a magician of the mind. And like a good magician he/she creates a sense of wonder, amazement and awe in an audience. But whereas a magician appears to do the impossible – the mentalist does the very unlikely – the extremely unlikely. For this reason mentalism appears more real than traditional magic. People believe there is more than mere trickery going on. They go away seeing your performance as something no one could do by magic tricks.

      Because of the popularity of psychics most people are aware of the apparent ability of some people to read minds and discover information which they should not know by normal means. I have discussed this elsewhere – but suffice to say that most psychics are fraudulent – either deliberately – or a result of self delusion.

      Most mentalists do not claim to have psychic ability. Some do – and I believe this is a shame. Others present their routines as a magician – happy to inform people that it is all illusion and trickery. This performer/author prefers to present his mentalism – not as magic - but as psychological illusion which uses a number of techniques – including body language, suggestion, psychology and magic techniques. This leaves things a little more open –

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