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The Psychic Agenda 1 The Psychic Agenda For Those Unscrupulous Charlatans Who Delight in Convincing the Unwary That They Have Real Psychic Powers! by John Riggs The Psychic Agenda 2 J O H N R I G G S The Psychic Agenda 3 The Psychic Agenda Dedicated to the unscrupulous charlatans who delight in convincing the public that they have uncanny powers! Bits and Pieces of Pseudo-Psychic Entertainment by John Riggs The Psychic Agenda 4 Copyright 1996 by John Riggs. All Rights Reserved. The Psychic Agenda 5 Contents Foreword By Lee Earle Introduction Chapter One: Some Cool Psychic Presentations Poor Man's Room Service (With LePaul Wallet Option) The New Add a Number Book Harmonica Convergence Marc Psiman's Psi-Flasher Design Duplication Using Audience Drawings PATEquivoque They Hell Fire! The Lady and the Lock Bumbershoot Q and A The Bivalve Billetbag Chapter Two Some Secrets of Becoming a Famous Psychic The PK Recorded Tape Secret Aura Reading for the Psychically Dyslexic Right or Left? More Secrets of Private Readings Practical Applications of the Gail Sheehy Pattern On the Road Chapter Three The Seven Psychic Secrets of Success Conclusion The Psychic Agenda 6 The Psychic Agenda 7 Foreword By Lee Earle Mentalism is at a cusp, a point of change from which a new emphasis will emerge. This should be viewed as a natural eventuality. Every performing art must evolve to keep pace with a constantly mutating audience. Resistance to the inevitable is risky. Ignoring change is fatal. Just ask the veterans of Vaudeville and Burlesque. In Mentalism, we have associated important transitions with the names of the movers and shakers of the period, such as Annemann, who helped bring Mentalism under conjuring's umbrella and Dunninger, who elevated our art to new heights of public awareness. Since the era of Dunninger, however, stagnation has set in. The increasing irrelevance of mental magic (magic tricks with a mind-reading theme) and advancing levels of audience sophistication have made necessary yet another metamorphosis. Addressing that demand, Mentalism is beginning to stand more on its own, acknowledging some overlap with the community of magicians but otherwise developing as an independent, self-sustaining craft. At the cutting edge, some would say the bleeding edge, of this flurry of creativity and innovation stand a few hardy souls who are blazing new trails. They are reshaping Mentalism for the new millennium. Future historians will look back on this era and will search for a name associated with the monumental evolution now occurring. I wouldn't bet against them choosing John Riggs. The Psychic Agenda 8 Introduction This book is dedicated to those nefarious charlatans who delight in convincing the unwary public that they have uncanny psychic powers! The ethical debate over this issue is two doors down, in the Skeptics's Corner, where Randi, Penn and Teller, and Carl Sagan are amusing each other with stories about how clever they are. The channeled spirit of Isaac Asimov looks on and smirks knowingly.... We will deal in this discussion with pseudo-psychic methods, real psychic methods, and out and out scamming to create a powerful magickal effect on people who are seeking readings, people who are being read, and audiences in general. Certain moral demarcations will be sternly drawn, however, as we're out to sell a magickal experience, not candles, hexes, mojos, and messages from departed loved ones. • We sternly affirm our abstinence from legal, financial, and medical advice. Our province is the spiritual and psychological arena, and we leave the care of the more worldly aspects of our people to doctors, lawyers, and financial planners. • We stolidly dedicate ourselves to the entertainment of our audiences, by whatever means we deem necessary to create a strong and convincing result. • We lovingly embrace show business and stardom in all its myriad aspects— the dizzying highs, the terrifying lows, the creamy middles. We're not satisfied with the stable, normal life upon which we so stubbornly turned our collective backs! The Psychic Agenda 9 • We further turn our backs on the trickster’s mindset that affirms that spectators are too gullible and stupid to draw their own conclusions and who need to be saved from their own folly. We further resolve to embrace our audiences with all our hearts, and swear to treat them with loving kindness. • We resolve to learn all we can about psychology, counseling, and spirituality in order to better serve those whom we profess to help and entertain. We also promise to help other kindred spirits whenever possible, that our craft may grow and evolve. So mote it be! The Psychic Agenda 10 “You’re about to be deceived by someone who pretends to understand you”
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