Pure Effect: Direct Mindreading and Magical Artistry

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I believe the first edition, self-published by Derren, includes one or two sections that were withheld from the later editions (I have never had a first edition to check! The Devils Picture Book DVD was re-released and it is the effects for Pure Effect with maybe one or two missing.

Brown offers in an early discussion of "My Aims and Priorities:" "Enough magicians have asked me about the wisdom of combining magic and mind-reading in performance. Brown frankly appears to attach little importance—but is in fact a theatrical question, and that the traditional effects and approaches of mentalism, by their very nature, have too long lived their meager lives out somewhere between the desert towns of Dullsville and Endoftheline. The material ranges from the ephemeral—risky conceptions like two purely verbal (if somewhat heavy-handed) card forces—to the demanding but practical—such as an extended and cleverly constructed routine (somewhat reminiscent of Rene Lavand's work), in which, despite the fact that the audience repeatedly shuffles the cards, the magician is able to convincingly divine quantities of cards in sequence. Plus those looking to discover the wonderous treasure trove of Derren's unique psychological methods will quickly come crashing down to earth upon reading this.

Pure Effect is good if you want to learn some good card tricks and various other effects however Absolute Magic is much more about Derren's opinions on the presentation and philosophy behind magic. Burger, who has now been writing publicly on magic for some 18 years or thereabouts, have now taken hold on a new generation of magicians. Which is a pity, because if you know Derren's work outside of his TV specials, he is an extraordinarily talented card magician. ej16 wrote:I have got both Pure Effect and Absolute magic and would like to ask what one you think is better as no one i know has either.

I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings; In the blood of calves, lambs and goats I find no pleasure. The one trick that many will be talking about but few will use, entitled "Smoke"—in which a thought-of card (from a face-up deck that is ribbon spread upon a table) is quite mysteriously divined, then instantly vanishes from the deck, whereupon the cigarette the performer has been blithely (and actually) smoking shockingly transforms into the card itself—in many ways crystallizes the ideas at the core of this book. But as I say, the stated rationale for not re-publishing the books seemed to me to be very strangely or awkwardly worded. I was recently looking at this product and I had read many reviews and in many of the reviews it said for it to be any song you needed an assistant and if you were doing it solo you needed to force the song.There is much more material to be found in Pure Effect, and much of it is far more certain in its outcome. If I believed in spirits, I could almost hear the gleeful cackling of the late and foresighted Tony Andruzzi. Like Kierkegaard in the world of (later) non-Christian Existentialists, the point is that once you have an understanding of your world, you are free to do as you need to live as you should for He who you know. to amaze the experts, drawing from hypnotic skills and breathtaking psychological artistry This is brand new mindreading without compromise;. In Bob Cassidy’s work, including his extraordinary Mental Miracles DVD, he argues that we should avoid the typical “card trick” or the use of cards to in your own mental miracle.

This is, stated baldly, unquestionably the most provocative magic book I have read in a very long time.Then again, the castle notebooks still seem to be in great demand, and Erdnase will always remain out of my reach. English student living loans will once again rise by less than the rate of inflation, the Government has announced. Here are our closest matches for Pure Effect, Direct Mindreading and Magical Artistry by Derren Brown.