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- Herausgeber: Crown House Publishing
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2003
Including authentic background information on recorded telepathy demonstrations and objective evidence of mindreading, Ormond McGill offers the opportunity to practice and hone your own natural telepathic abilities. " A spectacular piece of work ... an exciting and fascinating volume of enormous mental experiments that will enthrall your audiences over and over again."
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Secrets of Stage Mindreading
Ormond McGill
Contents
Title Page
Foreword by Charles Mignosa, C.H.T.
Preface
Introduction
Part One The Art/Science of Telepathy: Historic Résumé
Chapter One Proof of Telepathy
Chapter Two Telepathy in the Waking State
Chapter Three Telepathy in the Hypnotic State
Chapter Four Telepathic Control of Movements
Chapter Five Oriental Telepathy Techniques
Chapter Six Silent Psychic Influence
Chapter Seven Yogi Mental Broadcasting
Chapter Eight The Telepathy of Love
Chapter Nine Telepathy Research Then and Now
Part Two How to Perform REAL Mindreading
Chapter Ten Introduction to REAL Mindreading
Chapter Eleven Developing Visualization Time
Chapter Twelve Developing Body Awareness
Chapter Thirteen Contact and Non-Contact Mindreading
Chapter Fourteen Performing Contact Mindreading
Chapter Fifteen The Ormond McGill Method
Chapter Sixteen Practicing Contact Mindreading
Chapter Seventeen Contact Mindreading Exercises
Chapter Eighteen Mindreading Show Routines
Chapter Nineteen Mindreading Theater Drama
Chapter Twenty Designing Your Mindreading Show
Chapter Twenty One Advice for an Effective Mindreading Show
Chapter Twenty Two Intimate Mindreading Experiments
Chapter Twenty Three Opening a Safe by Mindreading
Chapter Twenty Four Mindreading Misdirection
Chapter Twenty Five Non-Contact Mindreading
Chapter Twenty Six A Brief Review of Successful Mindreading
Chapter Twenty Seven The Successful Stage Show
Appendix Self-Hypnosis for Mindreading
About the Author
Copyright
Foreword
It’s Entertainment!
“Mindreading is the popular showbiz term for telepathic demonstrations.”
What you learn in this performance book will advance your perception and sharpen your senses. This moment it’s entertainment. The future may find it a form of daily communication.
Ormond McGill’s masterful textbook, The New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnotism has become known as ‘The Bible’ of stage hypnotists. It is an international best seller. This textbook, Secrets of Stage Mindreading, is a companion volume.
Being encyclopedic in scope, this book provides an authentic background to telepathy demonstrations with scientific prestige.
In performing mindreading, you present a full-stage production. In fact, it’s a full auditorium production as many of the feats are performed in the auditorium, right in the midst of the audience. The show is a very personal entertainment of audience participation that blends in perfectly with your stage hypnotism demonstrations. Stage hypnotism and mindreading go together like ice cream and apple pie.
It’s thought-provoking entertainment that can never be forgotten. It’s the Magic of the Mind.
Charles Mignosa, C.H.T.
San Jose, CA. U.S.A.
2003
Introduction
Telepathy is sufficiently mysterious as to become popular with magicians as Mental Magic (which Theo Annemann called the most adult form of magic) in which pseudo-demonstrations of telepathy are presented. You will find no pseudo-demonstrations of telepathy in this book. Its direction is exclusively genuine telepathy.
However, if you are looking for mental magic tricks, get a copy of any one of these three books:
• Practical Mental Effects by T. Annemann
• 13 Steps to Mentalism by T. Corinda
• The Handbook of Mental Magic by M. Kaye
Most magic shops can supply these, and they will give you plenty of clever tricky stuff that is entertaining. But don’t look for such tricky stuff in Secrets of Stage Mindreading. In this book, you will learn the genuine, and you can’t beat the genuine, because mind makes the most wonderful magic of all.
Do you believe in genuine telepathy? In our current technological age, the majority of people do. How can it be otherwise when unexpected flashes of mental communication are constantly occurring in our daily life?
Who has not had the experience of receiving an unexpected phone call, and a thought flashes in as to whom is calling, even if you have not heard from that person for years?
Who has not found themselves thinking of an old friend almost forgotten, and on turning the corner you literally bump into the person?
Such spontaneous telepathic flashes are not infrequent. Mostly they happen between people who have a rapport with each other, such as mother and child, man and wife, sweethearts and close friends.
Rapport means a harmonious mental connection of some kind existing between the individuals involved.
Telepathy is a mental phenomenon of communication between individuals. Actually, all communication between individuals is a mental phenomenon. For our most common communication we use speech to make the connection, but it is so common we often forget that speech too, is a mental phenomenon. Telepathy is simply a mental connection made directly between people without the need for speech.
I will venture a prediction …
Speech is such an indirect way of mind-to-mind communication – so very slow. As technology advances the time will come when speech becomes more silent and telepathy makes the noise. What does the future hold?
In Secrets of Stage Mindreading are timeless reports of experiments in telepathy that give objective proof of its existence. Telepathy seems to be a talent, and like every talent, some people have the gift naturally whilst others have to practice to obtain it. This book will show you how to develop telepathic talent for yourself. And, if you wish, how to present a marvelous entertainment of REAL Mindreading.
Mysterious? You bet! It makes a great show!
Becoming a star with telepathy and presenting a genuine mindreading stage show will bring you great prestige, as everyone wishes they could do what you can do.
Dunninger did it….….Polgar did it…….Kreskin does it.
YOU CAN DO IT!
Part One
The Art/Science of Telepathy
Historic Résumé
Chapter One
Proof of Telepathy
Chapter One
Proof of Telepathy
It is well that you have some historic background in the research of telepathy. It provides an importance to the subject plus providing effective patter themes to embellish your show.
You stand as proof of the existence of REAL Mindreading. For example, unquestionably you will have noticed, while attending a social group, when a person makes a remark, someone across the room will exclaim, “Why that’s just what I was going to say”. Nearly everyone has experienced knowing what a person was going to say before the person spoke.
It is historically told that Mark Twain spoke of a plan he had frequently practiced, i.e. that of writing a letter to a person on some subject, then addressing the envelope and inserting the letter. He then tore the whole thing up instead of mailing it. Mark Twain stated that in a large percentage of such cases he would shortly receive a letter from the person to whom the destroyed letter was addressed, answering the letter that had never been sent. He tried this experiment with people sometimes many miles away. It worked for him.
Academic Evidence
Some of the best evidence for the existence of REAL Mindreading comes from university experiments in parapsychology.
The English Society for Psychic Research records the extraordinary case of the Reverend A.M. Creery and his three children. The father reported he had begun by practicing the old ‘Willing Game’, in which one of the party leaves the room and the company selects some object to be hidden. The person is then invited to return, while the company concentrates upon the hidden object. The person is willed to find the object.
In response to the group concentration, the subject would often move about the room and find the hidden object. The experiments of this nature performed by Rev. Creery and his children were remarkable. This report tells the story…
“We began by selecting the simplest objects in the room; then chose names of towns, people, dates, playing cards, and finally full lines of reading material from a book, etc. We used anything or series of ideas that those present could keep before the mind steadily. The children seldom made a mistake. As an example of their successes, seventeen playing cards were correctly named in succession. We soon found that a great deal depended upon the steadiness with which the ideas were kept before the minds of those mutually concentrating, and upon the group energy with which they willed the ideas to pass to the children.”
The Experiments
The Society for Psychic Research began a series of careful experiments with the Creery children, which lasted for a full year. The experiments were all carefully controlled to affirm evidence for REAL Mindreading and/or Telepathy.
Having selected one of the children at random, a member of the investigating committee would take the child out of the room. While the child was completely out of sight and hearing of the experimental room, the remainder of the committee would select a card from a pack, or else write down a name or number that occurred to them at the moment. The report continues:
“On re-entering the room, the little girl would usually stand with her face to the wall. But sometimes she would stand with her eyes directed towards the floor for a period of silence varying from a few seconds to a minute. She would call out some number or card, as the case might be.
The report states that in the case of giving the names of objects chosen, the little girl scored six correctly out of fourteen. In the case of naming small objects held in the hands of members of the committee, she scored five out of six. In the case of naming cards, she scored six out of thirteen. In the case of stating names chosen by the committee she scored five out of ten.”
Another of the experiments is reported as follows:
“One of the children was sent into an adjoining room, the door of which was closed. The committee, as a group, then thought of some object in the house. Absolute silence was observed. On recalling the child, she usually would appear with the mentally selected object in her hand. No one was allowed to leave the room after the object had been decided upon. The child’s only instruction was to fetch one object in the house that we wanted her to bring to us. We would all concentrate upon the object chosen. In this way, we wrote down, among other things, a hairbrush – it was brought. An orange – it was brought. A wineglass – it was brought. An apple – was brought, etc.”
The Society’s report sums up the following results: three hundred and eighty-two trials were made in the series. In the test of naming the chosen letters on an alphabet card and numbers of two figures, the chances against the three girls were 21 to 1, 51 to 1, and 39 to 1, respectively. In the cases of the experiments of naming chosen cards it was calculated that mere ‘guessing’, according to the law of probability, would correctly name but seven and one-third out of a total of three hundred and eighty-two trials. The actual results obtained by the children were as follows:
“On the first attempt, one hundred and twenty-seven; on the second attempt, fifty-six additional, and on the third attempt, nineteen additional – making a grand total of two hundred and two successes out of a possible three hundred and eighty-two. On one occasion, five playing cards straight running were successfully named on a first trial. The mathematical chance of mere guessing was estimated at over a million to one.”
The interest in the Creery children attracted the attention of Professor Balfour Steward, LLD, Fellow of the Royal Society. He testifies:
“In the first instance, when I was present, the thought-reader (child) was outside a door. The object being thought of was written on paper and silently handed to the company in the room. The child was called in; within a minute she told what was written on the paper, on which all were concentrating. Further, various objects in the room were thought of, and in the majority of cases the answers were correct. Also numbers were thought of and the answers were generally right. In the cases of names being thought of, some of these were in error. In the case of cards being thought of, a good many of these were right.”
Subsequently the Creery children, at the home of the well-known investigator, Mr. F. W. H. Myers, in Cambridge, England, proved equally successful. The children were Mary, age 17, Alice, age 15 and Maud, age 13. The percentage of successes obtained at Mr. Myers’ house tallied very well with those obtained elsewhere.
One remarkable result was obtained though that had not been obtained before. Mary was asked to name the suit of cards chosen one after the other, e.g. hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades were drawn, observed by the committee, and then thought of. On this occasion she scored a run of fourteen straight consecutive successes.
The chances against this success were 4,782,969 to 1.
All the experiments in mindreading were scientifically conducted by the Society, in every way guarding against deception. REAL Mindreading was sought. The Creery children were excellent subjects, but by no means exceptional. By following the instructions given in this book, you can perform with high success.
The proof of REAL mindreading is mindreading.
In this Secrets of Stage Mindreading, you will be taken back in time to observe fascinating experiments in telepathy researched by scientific investigators of the nineteenth century. You will take a jaunt to India to learn of the Yogi modus operandi in relation to telepathy – referred to in the East as ‘psychic influence.’
Part One of this book gives you a historical background for research in telepathy.
In Part Two you are shown how to present demonstrations in telepathy for yourself. With mindreading you can present a great show to thrill your audiences.
You will first learn how to perform ‘Contact Mindreading’ and present demonstration after demonstration. Great show business advancing from the simplex to the complex. Finally, you will learn the art of ‘Non-Contact Mindreading’, which is direct perception. You will advance with greater and greater skill into the realm of telepathy.
The Appendix to this book provides a method of self-hypnosis, which you can use to advance your skills as a mindreader.
Once you master how to do what this book tells you to do, and combine it with your mastery of Stage Hypnotism, you will have at your command the greatest magic in the world, for beyond question there is no greater magic than the magic of the human mind.
Chapter Two
Telepathy in the Waking State
Chapter Two
Telepathy in the Waking State
“These reports are of early research into telepathy. Feel free to carry out research yourself.”
There is nothing new about telepathy. We have recognized the phenomenon for time immemorial. Here are reports from eminent investigators of their times.
Professor Barrett
In 1876, Professor Barrett of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, in a paper read before the British Association at Glasgow, drew public attention to the importance of the study of telepathy.
Up to this time, the majority of experiments with telepathy had been conducted with hypnotized people. Professor Barrett reported success with telepathy in the waking state.
The ‘Willing Game’ was just coming into favor and was frequently played as a party diversion. Especially among young players, cases were reported in which actions willed had been performed between subject and the person(s) willing apparently beyond the possibility of any normal means of communication. Children seemed particularly adept at it, as with the outstanding case of the Creery children previously described. Results were sufficiently striking as to warrant research.
NOTE TO READER: Why do children seem to have more success playing The Willing Game than do adults? A supposition:
Because children play the game and follow their mental impulses, while adults try to guess what they are willed to do. Playing is subjective. Guessing is objective. Telepathy is a subjective (subconscious) phenomenon.
Some people seem especially alert to telepathic influence; others are not. It seems to be an innate ability. In conducting telepathic experiments, researchers try to obtain the most responsive subjects possible.
In 1881, Professor Sidgwick, Professor Balfour Steward, Edmund Gurney and F.W.H. Myers joined with Professor Barrett, began a long series of experiments, and further seemed to establish the occurrence of telepathy in the waking state.
Some of the experiments conducted are listed here.
Transference of Tastes
This particular form of telepathy involves the impression of different tastes being mentally transmitted from researcher to percipient. In the experiments, the percipients were fully awake and blindfolded. Containers with the various substances were placed beyond their range of vision, either at a distance or outside the room. The researcher and percipient were seated on opposite sides of the room. Strict silence was observed. The researcher would take up a bit of the different substances, one at a time, and taste it while thinking what it was. Here is a report of the experiment results:
Substance tasted by the researcher was vinegar. The percipient’s response was, “It has a bitter and nasty taste”.
Substance tasted by the researcher was mustard. The percipient’s response was, “Mustard”.
Substance tasted by the researcher was a pinch of alum placed in his mouth. The percipient’s response was, “Makes my lips feel puckery”.
Substance tasted by the researcher was a sip of port wine. The percipient’s response was, “Hard to say, something between eau de Cologne and beer”.
Substance tasted by the researcher was a cube of sugar dissolving in his mouth. The percipient’s response was, “Tastes sweet”.
The researcher placed a pinch of salt in his mouth. The percipient’s response was, “Definitely salt”.
NOTE TO READER: Telepathic transference of taste sensations is highly experiential. You can experiment for yourself.
Transference of Pain
Experiments in the telepathic transference of pains are significant. Mr. Guthrie at Liverpool conducted numerous such experiments. Some trials of this kind were carried out with the same percipient, Miss R. during a nine-month period in 1884–85. The percipient on each occasion was blindfolded and seated with her back towards the rest of the party, who simultaneously pinched, pricked or scratched themselves causing a mutual pain response in the group.
Examples of this form of telepathy are given here.
