Le livre en question.
Je n’arrive pas à dormir parce
que mes voisins font un bordel pas possible. Puisque c’est la nouvelle année
(je ne le reproduirai pas par la suite), je vais vous dévoiler l’existence d’un
livre à odeur de soufre, un livre maudit comme dirait Philippe Marlin de l’œil du
Sphinx (l'ouvrage explique avec précision presque toutes les techniques courantes du mentalisme). Il s’agit
de Mind Magic & Mentalism For Dummies
(en anglais) de James L. Clark (123, 39 euros).
Pour ceux qui sont très désargentés, vous pouvez jeter un
coup d’œil sur Google Livres.
Je vous en donne la table des matières résumée et je vous précise la composition du chapitre 1 de la première
partie : « Going Purely Mental ».
A) Table des matières
simplifiée
Introduction 1
Part 1: Going Purely
Mental 7
Chapter 1: Messing with People's Minds without Rabbits or
Hats 9
Chapter 2: Playing the Part of a Mentalist 23
Chapter 3: Maximising Impact with Minimal Effort 39
Chapter 4: Making Magic with Money 55
Part 2: Getting
Tricky: Hands-On Mentalism 73
Chapter 5: Playing with Paranormal Cards 75
Chapter 6: Writing without Being Detected 101
Chapter 7: Sneaking a Peek for Peak Performances 125
Chapter 8: Touching without Touching: The Tantalising World
of Telekinesis 149
Chapter 9: Passing Tests to Prove Your Abilities 171
Part 3 : Using the
Power of Your Mind : Hands-Off Mentalism
189
Chapter 10: Developing Extra Senses: Seeing without Seeing 191
Chapter 11: Travelling Back to the Future: Making Accurate Predictions 209
Chapter 12: Look Into My Eyes: Getting the Hang of Hypnotism 229
Chapter 13: Chilling Out with Cold Reading 257
Chapter 14: In Cahoots with Co-Conspirators 279
Part 4 : Performing
Bizarre, Strange and Novel Effects 293
Chapter 15: Demonstrating Extraordinary Displays of
Exceptional Human Ability 295
Chapter 16: Creating Spectator Failures 313
Chapter 17: Supernatural Spectacles: Uncovering the Art of
Spirit Theatre 321
Part 5 : The Part of
Tens 345
Chapter 18: Ten Mentalists Who Shook the World 347
Chapter 19: Ten Books to Take You Deeper into the Art of
Mentalism 353
Chapter 20: Ten (or so) Techniques to Make You Seem a Minor
Deity 357
Appendix: Video Clips 363
Index 365
B) Détails sur la
première partie : Going Purely Mental, le chapitre 1, «Messing with People's
Minds without Rabbits or Hats ».
Chapter 1: Messing
with People's Minds without Rabbits or Hats 9
Understanding That Magic Is All in the Mind 9
Drawing the boundaries between mentalism and visual magic 10
Separating mentalists from psychologists and psychics 12
Investigating the Art of Extra-Sensory Deception 13
Spotting the modem fakers 13
Taking account of ethical and legal consideratlons 14
Bamboozling the Brain 15
Footing the eyes: Optical illusions 15
Misdirecting: Cognitive illusions 16
Leaving nothing to chance: Illusions of choice 17
Messing with the past: Memory illusions 18
Playing with expectations and assumptions 18
Using Human Weaknesses: Why Mentalism Works 20
Being susceptible: Why people believe strange things 20
Making connections ... wrongly: How people “know” what isn't
so 21
Using your verbal skills: Fallacies and illogical thinking 22
Voilà. C’est tout pour le moment. Amitiés à tous.
