Magic Tricks Revealed: The Psychic Projection Illusion

by: George Hutton

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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 Time: 2:48 AM - 0 comments

If you like the idea of convincing a room full of people that you have powerful psychic skills, then this trick is for you. It requires only a couple minutes of set up, and it will powerfully demonstrate your incredible skills of psychic projection. Most everybody will quickly be convinced beyond a shadow of any doubt that you have massively powerful Jedi mind skills.

This is what this illusion will seem like to your soon to be stunned subject. You tell them you have a deck of cards, and you will take each card off the top, and concentrate on the color, red or black. Then you will project the color into their brain, and they will automatically choose the right color. You methodically go through the whole deck, projecting either black or red into their brain.

When you are finished, you will have two stacks of cards. Whenever they guess red, you put the cards to the left, and whenever they guess black, you put the cards to the right. You make it clear that based on simple statistics, if they only get three or four in a row, that can be written off to chance, but to get five or six in a row is something special. You ask them to choose which to check first, black or red. Then pick up whichever stack is that color, and ask them how many cards in a row would convince them of your powers. Usually they'll say somewhere between five and ten.

You then proceed to flip ten cards over, all the exact color that they predicted. You have proven your ability to powerfully project your thoughts into their brain, and they will never look at you the same way again.

Here's how to do the trick. Beforehand, you'll need to separate out all the red and black cards, put them into the deck. What you'll have then is 26 black cards on top of 26 red cards. As you psychically implant the correct colors into their brain, simply go through the black cards, then the red cards. As they will most often choose randomly between black and red, you'll have two stacks of equal number with red on top of black, on either side.

Naturally, they will expect one stack to be all red, and one stack to be all black. So when you ask them which stack they'd like to look at first, just remember which color is on top. If they select black, simply show them ten cards in a row from the top if they pick red, show them ten cards in a row from the bottom. While you pick up the stack they chose, you'll need to keep talking, looking them in the eye, to keep their attention of the deck, so they won't notice which side you pull the cards from. This trick always amazes them, and will convince any skeptic beyond a shadow of a doubt of your psychic projection abilities. Have fun.