Overview of Mentalism Techniques and Routines

This guide merges Corinda’s insights from 13 Steps to Mentalism on billets with Ralph Read’s techniques from One Man Mind Reading Secrets.

Part One: Techniques

• Introduction
• Essential Guidelines for Working with Billets
• Corinda’s Variation of the Centre Tear
• Punx and Meir’s Centre Tear Technique
• One-Handed Centre Tear Method
• Corinda’s Backward Centre Tear
• Preparing the Billet for the Centre Tear
• Reading the Billet After the Centre Tear
• Bare Hand Billet Switch Technique
• Annemann’s Billet Switch
• Corinda’s Bare Hand Billet Switch
• Billet Switch Using Lapping
• Magnetic Clip Billet Switch
• Corinda’s Billet Pull Method
• Will Dexter’s Matchbox Switch
• Eric Mason’s Star Trap Billet Switch
• John Henley’s Eclipse Billet Switch
• Summary of Billet Switching Techniques
• Marking Techniques for Billets
• Using Billet Stands
• Incorporating a Crystal Ball
• References for Billet Techniques in Other Steps

Part Two: Tricks and Routines

• Stanley Jaks’ Crystal Locket
• Corinda’s Three Little Questions
• Corinda’s It’s a Record!
• Corinda’s Living and Dead Test Presentation
• Punx’s Great Minds Think Alike
• The Flames of Zor (Chemical Reaction)
• Corinda and Fogel’s Card and Billet Routine
• Al Koran’s Inexplicable

One Man Mind Reading Secrets by Ralph W. Read

• Introduction
• The One-Ahead Principle
• Original One-Ahead Method
• Stealing Folded Billet Method
• Subtle Glimpse Technique
• Thumb Tip Method #1
• Thumb Tip Method #2
• Cards in Envelope Technique
• Faked Pile of Magazines Method
• Innovative Idea for First Question
• The Double Cutter Technique
• Old Fashioned Mediums Switch
• The Double Envelope Switch
• The Calostro Three Finger Shell
• The Slit Envelope Method

1st edition 1976, 46 pages; 1st digital edition 2015, PDF 54 pages.Word count: 25,603, equivalent to 102 standard pages of text.