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Psychological Playing Card Force

Psychological Playing Card Force (Peter Turner) Notes
I. Forcing the Suit
1) Equivoque pg. 6
2) The Bolder Approach pg. 8
3) Not Ed Marlo's Snap Change
    Variation 1 pg. 9
    Variation 2 pg. 12
4) Natural Selection
5) Learning not to care
6) Al Baker - The finger knows and tells  pg. 14
7) Multiple Outs
8) Fishing for the suit before bringing out a card ("but you then")  pg. 15
9) The Wash Principle

II. The Values
1) Piggybacking  pg. 17
2) The Increment force  pg. 22
3) The number 3 / 4  pg. 25
4) The 8 / 9 of clubs
5) The number 2 / 5  pg. 27
6) The Joker
7) The Queen of hearts
8) Aces  pg. 29
9) Missing
10) Lucky Lucky  pg. 31
11) Recommendations  pg. 34







Bigger Fish Files
80-Simple Card Divination 
0:00 - 4:59 Forcing the 7 of spades
1) Pete pulls out a random card from a shuffled deck which happens to be the 7 of spades
Pete: "So I want you to imagine there's a large number 3 written on the back of this card. Now you stare at that number 3 for a few seconds. If I asked you, do you believe there's a number 3 on the face of this card what would you say?"

Participant: "Probably not"

Pete: "Well no, because why would I do that. But what I've done there is to show you how easy it is to envision a number on the back. So for now look down think (snaps fingers) of the first number that pops in your head. Got one (touches shoulder). What is it"

Participant: "Seven"

Pete: "Seven right. And again that's genuinely the first one that just popped into there".

Pete: "So now we have a choice, you could have a red card or a black card, but look at me. Now I'm going to tell you if you take a guess at this, you'll probably be wrong. So just look at me, name a suite at random, what is it?"

Participant: "Spades"

Pete: "Seven of Spades" Then reveals the seven of spades.

2) Shows a subtly where if he was pulling the seven of spades out of the deck, he would place the 3 of hearts on the bottom then give the pack back to the participant face up.

Pete: "Keep hold on these" "Now in a moment I'm going to ask you to follow me. Now it's essential you don't think of this card (pointing to the 3 of hearts). Now just name the first number that pops into your head"...

3) What if the suite is wrong

Pete: "Now if you were to guess, you'd probably be wrong. So just name a suite at random, go"

Participant: "Hearts"

Pete: "Now what did I say to you, if you were to guess it would be wrong and it's completely wrong" (you say and it's completely wrong because you want them to switch colors)."What color do you genuinely feel it is?"

Participant: "Black"

Now you can use the Tom (something) principle or equivique

4) Equivoque to pick suite @3:30
Pete: "Now you just have to select a suite and the way we're going to do this is through a process of elimination, I have reds or blacks, take one, which one are you taking?"

Participant: "Blacks"

Pete: "So you've taken the blacks, are you sure you're happy with that?"

Participant: " yes"

Pete: "So you have club or spade, what I want you to do is just pass me one of them. Which is it?

Participant: "passing you the clubs"

Pete: "Clubs. Is that what you want to use? Happy?

Participant: "Yes"

What if participant gives opposite answers?
Pete: "Now you just have to select a suite and the way we're going to do this is through a process of elimination, I have reds or blacks, take one, which one are you taking?"

Participant: "Reds"

Pete: "Good, so that leaves us with the black cards. So we have the club or the spade. Were going to do things slightly differently. Just imagine taking a club or a spade and handing me one, which do you hand me."

Participant: "Spade"

Pete: "Good, so you got rid of the reds, then you got rid of the spade leaving the clubs."

@5:00 Another version/example



@5:55 Forcing Suite
"Now if you take a guess here you'll probably be wrong"

Mind Games

Equivoque to force the suite color

Say you are trying to force the reds. "Now we have the reds or the blacks" holds hands up as if holding these imaginary options. "Take one from me" 

If they choose red then you go with that as the selection. If they take the black then you say "that leaves me with the reds".

See:
Psychological Playing Card Force (Peter Turner)
Spoken Destination-Psychological Card Force (Bazz Fazacherley)

Restricting Without Seeming Restrictive Principle

The use of verbal directions which subtly restrict a participants selections from a larger group of options to a smaller group. Sometimes these directions are more direct. For instance, If I say

See:

Psychological Forces: Peter Turner

Comparative Uncertainty Principle (CUP's)

The following illustration should help you to understand how this principle works in its most simplistic form.

Please think of either of the words printed below:

CAT or DINOSAUR

I would like you now to imagine that your chosen word is written in front of you in block capitals. Think about how many letters are in this word...

or if it’s easier you can simply visualise the item itself.

If I had been observing you as you did this, I would have been able to tell you which of the two words you were thinking of. If you were thinking of the word CAT, you would have had no trouble in

thinking of how many letters were in your chosen word. As such you would have been able to follow my instruction without hesitation. DINOSAUR, on the other hand, is a much larger word, and as a result I would have recognised one or more of the following tells: An extended look of concentration, a wandering gaze, a look of confusion or a general pause for thought. In short, there would have been some visible signs of uncertainty.

Ideal word pairings will consist of one word with five letters or less and another with seven letters or more.



See:
A Piece of My Mind: Michael Murray

Star Sign Divination /Astronomical/Monkeying Around - Peter Turner

Anagram (R.A.I.S.E.)

R – No – Leo, Pisces, Gemini
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A – No – Virgo, Scorpio
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I – No – Cancer, Taurus
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S – No – Libra, Capricorn
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E – No – Aquarius, Sagittarius
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Aries


Basic Script:

So I want you to imagine your star sign written in the air. I want you to imagine looking over all of the letters and just projecting them towards me.

And start to randomly go through the letters, projecting one out to me, then moving on to the next.

(1) “Don’t say anything unless I ask you a direct question. Focus on your star sign written in the air between us…like…LEO. Are you seeing it there?”

This is a very important section; the timing is essential here. I first mute the participant—remember at this moment in time we don’t know what the participant’s star sign is. If we get a no on the letter R, we will see looking at the anagram (outlined above) there are three star signs it could be (Leo, Gemini, Pisces). I need to eliminate one of those star signs before any letter is ever thrown out in the eventuality that there isn’t an R in there I need to be on a branch with two signs not three.

I ensure the participant never says a word during this first part of the anagram, I need to stop them from saying - “That isn’t my star sign,” when I throw out Leo.

I do this by carefully thinking about the way that I throw out Leo, as the timing of this is essential.

Take a look at the script,

There is a slight pause before the word “like” and then again a pause before I throw out “Leo.” The reason for the pause is because if the participant’s star sign is Leo, they will react as though you got it right and you never need move any further into the anagram.

*No Hit If they do not react as though you hit their sign you need to follow up directly with,

(2) “Are you seeing the letters from YOUR sign in the air?”

Participant: “I am.”

Performer: “Great. Keep changing through the letters, stop there, go back there’s an R in this, correct?”

*No You now know it is either Pisces or Gemini. I could use Derren’s “Repeat It Principle”: 

focus on your picture and, while focusing on the picture, just keep saying the title of the picture over and over like Pisces, Pisces, Pisces. 

If the participant reacts instantly jump on the reaction, “I was feeling that was your sign.” If they do not react affirmatively, simply respond with, “Just repeat it over and over again like that.” Now you know they must be a Gemini. Seemingly, a miracle has taken place.

Alternatively you could use Michael Murray's CUPS principle.

(3) If you did get a hit move on with “There is also an A.”

*No You now know it is either Virgo or Scorpio. Again either use the Repeat it Principle or the CUPs principle. 

(4) If you did get a hit, move on with “I am getting slightly confused now, like the connection has weakened slightly. There is not a letter I in the star sign, is there?”

This is another important line. By claiming you are getting slightly confused, it gives you leeway for a miss. Remember, probability suggests the further you get down the anagram, the greater the chance there is of getting the response of a No from the participant.

I have taken this into account and have offered another logical excuse/ reminder to wash away the No, and also I have, if you haven’t noticed, applied a ‘closed question’.

The closed question is: “There is not the letter I in the star sign, is there?”

Say this with a little bit of a confused tone, and no matter what the participant answers you have prepared an out.

*No -  You now know it is either Taurus or Cancer. Quickly counter with, “I didn’t think so”, I would then smile like the pressure of doubt has been removed from my mind. “I might in a moment have to resort to you focusing on the picture of this star sign."

(5) If they say yes, say “I might in a moment have to resort to you focusing on the picture of this star sign. An ‘S’ in there.”

*No - You know it is either Libra or Capricorn. “Ok, can you just in your mind count the number of letters in the star sign for me?” The participant starts to count. “In fact, please focus on this as an image if you can.”

Use CUPS or "Repeat it" 

“Wow, this is much better; a wealth of information has just flooded in. (I would usually add scripts here but I will do this later.) I now know you focus on things aesthetically instead of analytically”. "Your a Capricorn/Libra."

(6) If they say yes, "There's a E.

*No - You know it is either Aquarius or Sagittarius. Use CUPS or "Repeat it".

(7) If they say yes, you know it is Aires.



JS Magic Performance
https://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=239255&forum=15
10s star sign divination

Hand to Hand Switch (Shuttle Pass)

See:
AAA Phone Mystery (Marc Paul)

AAA Phone Mystery (Marc Paul)

Effect:
A spectator is asked to think of a persons phone number. They are given a business card and asked to write the number on the card and then fold it into quarters with the writing inside. During this the performer turns his back so there is no chance of him seeing. Upon turning around the folded card is briefly touched to the performers forehead. The spectator is given a second business card and is asked to write the persons name this time. Again the performer turns his back and again when he turns around the folded card is briefly touched to his forehead.

The spectator is now given an invisible mobile phone and is asked to pretend to dial the number. As this happens the performer watches the actions and at the same time writes some numbers on a blank card. This is placed face down on the table. The performer now opens the telephone number slip and reads out the number. When the face down card is turned over it reveals exactly the same number. Both cards can be given to another spectator to confirm.

The spectator is asked to place the folded card bearing the name into the performers pocket. Next they are asked to pick up the invisible phone and to imagine they are saying hello to the person on the other end. Immediately the performer announces the name! The name card can now be removed from the pocket and handed to another spectator to confirm. Everything is now reset for the effect to be performed again, making this ideal for a table-hopping situation.

Method:

Overview:

This is classic mentalism and relies on two switches and a simple one ahead. 

The Details:

You will need a small stack of business cards. You will need to create a dummy billet by folding one of the cards into quarters. Mark it by bending back the corners (see photo 1). Put the dummy billet and the rest of the stack of business cards in your left jacket pocket. You’ll also need a pen or pencil.

When you are ready to perform remove the stack of business cards from your pocket holding them in your left hand with the dummy billet secretly hidden underneath (see photos 2 & 3)

Deal off the top business card and hand it to the spectator asking them to write down a telephone number. Turn your back while they do this. Still with your back turned ask them to fold it into quarters with the writing hidden on the inside so that you cannot see. Turn back and place the stack of business cards on the table, but retain the dummy billet in your left hand. You will now pick up the phone number billet with your right hand and switch it for the dummy. The easiest way to do this is a “hand to hand” switch. You apparently transfer the billet from your right hand to your left and then briefly touch it to your forehead. This is a standard switch and the photos that follow should make everything clear (see photos 4 to 7)

After being touched to the head, the dummy billet is placed on the table as the right hand picks up the stack of business cards from the table. The stack now hides the stolen number billet. Deal off another card from the top and ask the spectator to write the name on it. Once again while this is done you turn your back, but this time you have a little bit of work to do.

Once your back is turned transfer the stack of business cards to your left hand, open the stolen billet (checking the orientation of the number) and then insert it under the top card (see photo 8). Square everything up. This all takes just a second or two and you will find you have plenty of time.

When you turn back around everything should appear normal. Ask the spectator to touch the name billet to your head (or do it yourself if you want to be consistent). Ask the spectator to mix the two billets that are now on the table (the name & the dummy, but they think it is the name and the number). You will now create a minor effect of stating which billet is the phone number. Hover your hand over both billets and then point to the name billet and announce that it is the phone number. You know this because of the bent corners on the dummy billet (see photo 1 again). You now introduce an invisible mobile phone (room for some comedy if that is your style) and ask them to mime dialing the number. You appear to watch them carefully. Slide the top card of the stack to the right and up; this will reveal the number to you (see photo 9). Angle your left hand so that the spectator can’t see. Pick up the pen and simply copy the number onto the blank card.

Place the card face down in front of them and pick up the name billet, open it out and apparently read the number. In fact your read the number from the card on top of the stack and at the same time you will see the name staring you in the face (see photos 10 & 11). Remember the name.

As the spectator goes to turn over the card on the table you switch the opened name card for the number card by second dealing it into your right hand. This is given to the spectator to confirm that your prediction is a match.

The dummy is still on the table and the name card is on the face of the stack of business cards. At this point you can conclude how you like. I usually put the business cards back in my left jacket pocket and ask the spectator to put the dummy billet (they still think it is the name billet) in that pocket also. I now ask them to imagine that they are speaking to the friend on the imaginary phone and after a suitable build up I announce the name. I now casually reach into my left jacket pocket and refold the name card and then bring it out, should anyone want to check. That’s leaves the dummy billet and the stack of business cards in my left jacket pocket which means I’m reset.

See:
The Anytime, Anywhere, on Anybody Phone Mystery - Ebook

Marc Paul ACTS of Mentalism
Marc Paul Penguin 1st Lecture @2:16:20

Gimmicked Decks

Invisible Deck
-A rough and smooth deck where the deck is spread face-up and the named card is the only one that is face-down.
Performance

Brainwave Deck
-A rough and smooth deck, similar to the invisible deck. The deck is spread face-down and the named card is the only one that's face-up. As a second climax, this card is turned face-down and shown that its back color is different from that of the rest of the deck.
-How to make a Brainwave Deck Tutorial
Performance

Stripper Deck
-A tapered deck allowing a card or a group of cards to be easily located
Performance
Performance

Svengali Deck
-Deck alternating between normal and shortened cards where the shortened cards are usually the same. When the deck is riffled front to back, only the normal cards are visible; when it is riffled back to front, only the shortened cards are visible.
Performance


Mental Photography Deck
Deck which combines rough and smooth and shortened cards. Every other card has a blank face and the others a blank back. All the blank face cards are a little shorter than the blank back cards. Fanning the deck (with a little pressure) you can show all the cards are blank. Riffling the cards in one direction the cards appear blank. Riffling in the other direction they appear normal.
Daryl performance

Omni Deck

A deck of cards placed in a spectators hands transforms into a solid, see-through piece of Perspex. 

Forcing Decks
Pop-Eyed Popper Deck
-A rough and smooth deck where every other card is the same card (the force card).
-Performance

One Way Forcing Deck
-All the cards are identical

Two Way Forcing Deck
-Two sets of identical cards, one set comprising the top half of the pack and the other the bottom half.
-Tutorial

Three Way Forcing Deck
-Comprised of three different sets of identical cards.

50/50 Forcing Deck
-the top half is made up of the same card and the bottom half is composed of indifferent cards

Marked Decks
Butterfly Playing Cards



https://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Mechanical_Decks

Repeat It Principle

This is a principle that has become so popular that most mentalists should know this principle. I first read of this principle in a routine called ‘Smoke’ and after reading it I thought it was genius, it is one of those principles that you will instantly start using as it is that good.
Let’s assume that you are down to knowing that the participant is either an Aries or a Taurus, you look at your participant and address them –
Participant: “Look at me, in your mind say your sign over and over again just like Aries, Aries, Aries”.
If your participant reacts then you know they are an Aries, you smile and then proceed.
If your participant however does not react, quickly counter with –
Performer: “Saying it over and over until you hit a nice pace”.
You now know that the sign is Taurus as you have eliminated Aries as the participant thinks that you was using Aries as an example.

See:
Peter Turner Star Divination vol 9

Key Card

A key card is a card that leads the performer to the card a spectator has chosen. The key card may be directly above or below the chosen card, or it may be a known distance away from it.

See:
Card College Vol 1

Finger Clip

Tutorial

Thumb Palm

Tutorial

Classic Palm

Tutorial 

Finger Palm

One of the easiest and natural palms. The coin is held at the base of the curled second and third fingers

Tutorial 

New Deck Order

For Bicycle playing cards sold in the US, new deck order is:
A->K of Hearts, then A->K of Clubs, then K->A of Diamonds, then K->A of Spades

Psi Phenomena/Parapsychology

PSI
A general blanket term, proposed by B. P. Wiesner and seconded by R. H. Thouless (1942), and used either as a noun or adjective to identify paranormal processes and paranormal causation; the two main categories of psi are psi-gamma (paranormal cognition; extrasensory perception) and psi-kappa (paranormal action; psychokinesis), although the purpose of the term “psi” is to suggest that they might simply be different aspects of a single process, rather than distinct and essentially different processes. Strictly speaking “psi” also applies to survival of death, the third category of psi.(1)

Parapsychology is the study psi phenomena. As such, it studies the three categories of psi (ESP, PK, Survival of death).

I. Psi

  A. Extrasensory Perception (ESP) 

    1. Telepathy

    2. Clairvoyance

      a) Clairsentience/Psychometry/Object Reading

      b) Clairaudience

    3. Precognition

  B. Psychokinesis (PK)

  C. Survival of Death

    1. Apparitions

    2. Channeling

    3. Reincarnation

    4. Near Death Experience (NDE)

The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) was founded in London in 1882. It's formation was the first systematic effort to organize scientists and scholars to investigate paranormal phenomena.

Largely due to the support of psychologist William James, the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) opened its doors in Boston in 1885, moving to New York City in 1905 under the leadership of James H. Hyslop.(3)

In 1911, Stanford University became the first academic institution in the United States to study extrasensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK) in a laboratory setting. After conducting approximately 10,000 experiments, Coover concluded "statistical treatments of the data fail to reveal any cause beyond chance."(3)


Rhine era
In 1930, Duke University became the second major U.S. academic institution to engage in the critical  study of ESP and psychokinesis in the laboratory. Under the guidance of psychologist William McDougall, and with the help of others in the department—including psychologists Karl Zener, Joseph B. Rhine, and Louisa E. Rhine—laboratory ESP experiments using volunteer subjects from the undergraduate student body began. As opposed to the approaches of psychical research, which generally sought qualitative evidence for paranormal phenomena, the experiments at Duke University proffered a quantitative, statistical approach using cards and dice. As a consequence of the ESP experiments at Duke, standard laboratory procedures for the testing of ESP developed and came to be adopted by interested researchers throughout the world.

Rhine, along with associate Karl Zener, had developed a statistical system of testing for ESP that involved subjects guessing what symbol, out of five possible symbols, would appear when going through a special deck of cards (Zener cards) designed for this purpose. A percentage of correct guesses (or hits) significantly above 20% was perceived as higher than chance and indicative of psychic ability. Rhine stated in his first book, Extrasensory Perception (1934), that after 90,000 trials, he felt ESP is "an actual and demonstrable occurrence"(3)

The parapsychology experiments at Duke evoked much criticism from academics and others who challenged the concepts and evidence of ESP. A number of psychological departments attempted to repeat Rhine's experiments with failure.(3)

Illusionist Milbourne Christopher wrote years later that he felt "there are at least a dozen ways a subject who wished to cheat under the conditions Rhine described could deceive the investigator". When Rhine took precautions in response to criticisms of his methods, he was unable to find any high-scoring subjects.(3)

The Parapsychological Association (PA) was created in Durham, North Carolina, on June 19, 1957. Its formation was proposed by J. B. Rhine at a workshop on parapsychology which was held at the Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke University. Rhine proposed that the group form itself into the nucleus of an international professional society in parapsychology. The aim of the organization, as stated in its Constitution, became "to advance parapsychology as a science, to disseminate knowledge of the field, and to integrate the findings with those of other branches of science" 

In 1969, under the direction of anthropologist Margaret Mead, the Parapsychological Association became affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general scientific society in the world.(3)

Stargate Project

Beginning in the early 1950s, the CIA started extensive research into behavioral engineering. The findings from these experiments led to the formation of the Stargate Project, which handled ESP research for the U.S. federal government.

The Stargate Project was terminated in 1995 with the conclusion that it was never useful in any intelligence operation. The information was vague and included a lot of irrelevant and erroneous data. There was also reason to suspect that the research managers had adjusted their project reports to fit the known background cues.(3)

https://slate.com/health-and-science/2017/06/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real-showed-science-is-broken.html

https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Extrasensory-Perception-Fact-or-Fiction

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/1806524/a-taxonomy-of-psi-phenomena

http://www.eso-garden.com/specials/encyclopedia_of_occultism_and_parapsychology_1.pdf

http://www.eso-garden.com/specials/encyclopedia_of_occultism_and_parapsychology_2.pdf

https://www.britannica.com/topic/parapsychological-phenomenon

https://newrepublic.com/article/142268/united-states-government-embraced-occult

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jfkihlstrom/ConsciousnessWeb/MindBody/MindNoBody.htm

(1)Parapsychological Association: Glossary of Psi

(2) Psi Phenomena: Daryl J. Bem

(3) Parapsychology: Wikipedia

My Prophecy Move Trick

Script: (10 of hearts for example)

I'm looking for a card that I think will be relevant in a moment. Ok, here it is.

So I want you to take this card and stick it somewhere in the middle of the deck. Great. 

As you know, except for the Jokers, there are two parts to every playing card in a deck. The suit and the value. So with the card I chose (do the prophecy move) the suit is hearts and the value is 10. 

And the reason I chose the 10 of hearts is because I wanted it to serve as a prediction as to where you would insert the card into the deck. (Spread the deck and drop the 10 of hearts as well as the card above and below it.) So if I'm right, the suit of the top card would also be a heart.(turn over top card to reveal it to be a heart). But as interesting as that is, by itself it's not that impressive since I have a 1 in 4 chance of being right. What would be really impressive is if the value of this second card was also a ten. (Turn it over) and sure enough it is.