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While it's always nice to hold a physical book in your hands, shipping to some areas of the world can take a long time, and in some far-flung places delivery is sometimes unreliable. No matter where you are, if you have a PayPal account, you can now purchase password protected ebook versions of "Naked Mentalism" volumes I and II, "The Stripper Deck" and "Stripped and Stacked" from me directly. Lulu doesn't handle password protected ebooks, hence the personal service. The ebook versions are also proportionally cheaper than the print versions, and I've reduced the cost of Naked Mentalism by over 15% to celebrate the release of the second volume.
Prices are as follows:
Naked Mentalism ebook: £19.99 - New lower price
Naked Mentalism II ebook: £24.99
Naked Mentalism I & II ebooks together £39.99
The Stripper Deck ebook: £5.99
Stripped and Stacked ebook: £7.99
Please contact me at allstrippedout@googlemail.com and you can be Naked and using advanced stripper deck techniques today!
If you're a member of Talk Magic, contact me there (my username is Tomo) and you'll receive an extra £5 off Naked Mentalism and Naked Mentalism II (that's an extra £10 saving)
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Print: $14.66 Download: $12.74 While this book continues my commitment to publishing quality work for the stripper deck, it’s not all about the world’s most versatile and examinable gaffed deck. Granted, it shows how to use partial stacks to create magic made all the stronger by emerging from a shuffled deck. It also shows how to merge stacks to create full routines, and even shows how to update effects from yesteryear using the deck’s unique qualities.
On the other hand, the 22 professional effects also cover divining random words found by the spectator in a shuffled alphabet deck, how to enhance your reputation with a tarot deck, how to beat tightly controlled experiments by delivering feats of precognition, and even how to test the spectator’s own intuitive abilities.
Click on the title to see the back cover quotes and to read the online preview.
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Print: $11.40 Download: $9.55 NEW LOW PRICE! Make the world's most versatile gaffed deck work harder with this exhaustive range of cuts, shuffles, sleights and other techniques. Create unique stripper-based magic, and in conjunction with your existing sleight-of-hand skills, uniquely strong and convincing effects. Spread throughout are plenty of hints and tips, and 18 demonstration effects to get you thinking about the deeper capabilities of this uniquely flexible deck.
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Download: $15.93 From the book “Naked Mentalism” and presented as a standalone effect, the Fully-Scripted Naked Book Test is a book test like no other. Designed to emulate the powers of a genuine psychic, there’s no physical component: no handling, no gaffs, nothing to write down, peek or burn. Nothing. Simply walk up to a stranger reading anything written in English, ask them to select a word in a fair test of your ability. You reveal the concept the word embodies and the word itself. You can even do it over the phone. The script itself can be learned and used as is, or you can improvise to suit your own style and approach. The data for the model underlying the Fully-Scripted Naked Book Test is presented as an appendix to enable you to do just that.
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Print: $38.72 After extensive testing by experienced performers, the wait is finally over. This book represents a new departure in the field of mentalism. The techniques it contains will enable you to perform impromptu, without the usual tools, techniques and compromises. You could, if you wish, perform naked to prove there’s no subterfuge. Track a spectator's thought process as she makes choices, harness psychological forces, turn misses into hits, perform book tests for complete strangers (even over the phone), but above all, replace the intuition of the psychic with solid models of the world that give hit rates far higher than the real thing can ever hope to achieve. Click on the title for back cover quotes and preview...
Price reduced to celebrate the launch of Naked Mentalism II
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Download: $8.99 Imagine the ability to tell which is a spectator’s card from nothing more than fleeting, unconscious reactions to seeing it amongst several others. This is exactly the illusion you create with “Poker Faced”.
Though this mind-twisting feat of psychological magic is 100% impromptu, success is always guaranteed, leaving you free to develop your performance. Presented as a legitimate psychological experiment, this effect will quickly become a regular feature of your close up mental magic routine, with spectators clamouring for a turn.
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Download: $14.34 Electronics is a world seldom visited by most magicians or mentalists, and yet top-flight performers regularly use electronics in their acts to create miracles that fool not just audiences but also others in the business. In this first volume of “Electronics for Magicians” I introduce a cast of electronic components and show that they’re simple to understand. I then show you how to combine them into useful modules, and finally I present several full projects. Fascinating but above all practical, “Electronics for Magicians” will spark your magical creativity in ways and directions you never thought possible – while leaving all the dull theory behind. "I love it and you can quote me on that" - Paul Brook
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Download: $9.55 Newly released!
Just Routine contains three strong and reassuringly mature multi-phase routines, which develop the concept of partially stacked stripper decks I first explored in the book "Stripped and Stacked".
“The Broken Deck” revolves around the idea of a deck being somehow faulty. No matter what the performer does, the same card keeps appearing at points in the deck designed to be as random as can be. “The Right Envelope” is about a long chain of randomness leading to a sealed prediction that has been in the spectator's possession all along. Finally, “Your Card” begins as a cheap trick but soon descends into the strange, psychological world of muscle reading - but without the risk of failure.
Contains full details of all the stripper deck sleights you'll need.
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Print: $47.03 This book takes the 27-page priming section from the previous volume and expands it into a full second book.
At its core are the 66 priming categories along with notes about their individual properties. The majority are in print here for the first time. There’s also a full description of why various priming techniques work, extensive advice on their use (including how to reveal a difficult spectator’s unspoken, discarded options – in the order she has them), a section of full effects, and an extensive appendix of extra data.
Also described is the powerful and flexible Pragmagram technique, used to create revolutionary effects such as the Naked Book Test. When combined with priming, this allows you to deliver seemingly genuine precognitive insights into the spectator’s thoughts before she has them.
Please read the online preview and back cover for a flavour of the content of this book and what people say about it.
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"STRIP with Jon Thompson" is a special DVD that grew out of my book "The Stripper Deck". I teach the techniques, Dave Forrest demonstrates 10 very strong tricks. It comes complete with a high quality USPCC stripper deck to get you started. This is not the usual 101 disturbingly similar tricks with a stripper deck but a whole new approach to creating very strong magic indeed.
Click on the image for more details and an online demo video.
I write "Thinking Allowed" over at Online-Visions Magazine If you have any comment or questions about my work or something in my column, need help with a purchase or a technique in one of my books, or have an idea you'd like to pitch, please feel free to contact me by clicking on the link below. I don't bite, and I'll do my best to answer by return. Please also use this address for press enquiries:
"At Tabula Mentis I had the pleasure of meeting Jon Thompson, author of a notable book called Naked Mentalism. In his book, Jon presents intriguing ideas for effects indistinguishable from real psychic ability... It's clear Jon has a rather unusual mind, and I await his future writings with interest" - Ian Rowland
"The most powerful section of the book [Naked Mentalism] is the Naked Book Test, which is an anytime, anywhere book test. You can literally walk up to someone in the park reading a book, ask them to select a word, and get the word correct!" - Dr Todd Landman, metaphysical magician and co-founder, British Society of Mystery Entertainers
"I cannot praise this work [Naked Mentalism] enough. I hope Jon charges an arm and a leg for it, the book test alone is worth 10X more than he will ask for it." - Jerome "TT2" Finley
"I am now able to accurately describe people's thought processes. The impact of this cannot be overstated. It feels like the 'real deal' because, essentially, it is." - Matthew "Malchat" Schouten.
"He begins [The Stripper Deck] with two anecdotes about two different magicians using a Stripper Deck. The first magician creates a miracle, the second performs a pedestrian revelation. These anecdotes frame the discussion throughout the book, namely, how can we use the properties of the Stripper Deck and think laterally about presentation to produce powerful and completely baffling effects?" - Dr Todd Landman
"I love it and you can quote me on that"
- Paul Brook commenting on Electronics for Magicians
"Stripped and Stacked, a book by Jon Thompson, is a delightfully thorough and enjoyable examination that breathes some life into the classic methods and gives the reader both something to think about and something to astound with." Review of Stripped and Stacked at Online-Visions Magazine
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