Five Effects for you to enjoy

Back to Back: Performer and a spectator stand BACK TO BACK both holding drawing boards. Spectator begins drawing along with the performer! The spectator draws any object they like and it is unseen by the performer. Yet the performer is still able to duplication their Drawing.

Forgotten Memories: Your spectator is lead on a journey back through time. Traveling past yesterdays and long forgotten memories she finds herself in a past life and standing in the lobby of a busy hotel. There she must choose a room for herself and the man she is to marry. Through a series of unfortunate events, tragedy strikes and she is brought back to the present. There she finds a ghostly written message that appeared on a business card held between her hands.

Focus: Information reveals itself through the scribbling chaos of a spectator. Spectator thinks of a playing card, word or symbol as they stare into their own pencil scribbling. Slowly they become aware of something taking focus. Appearing through the scribbling is the card, word or symbol that they were thinking of.

This routine can be used as great mentalism or a very bizarre routine for a séance. Play it straight or with an evil twist.

Fear Not: A lady writes a fear that she has on your business card. She picks up your pendulum and holds it over the card. The pendulum starts to swing as she imagines her fear vanishing and how it would feel if it was gone. Turning over the card she finds her fear has indeed vanished.

The Draw: A deck of cards is shuffle and placed on the table. A spectator then cuts the deck. The cut to card is shown and let’s say it is a five of clubs. The spectator then counts down five cards from the top of the deck. They remove this card without showing it to anyone. The performer holding a pad of paper and a pen ask the spectator to concentrate of their card. The per­former draws on the paper and when the selected card is revealed it matches the performers drawing.

Ray Noble retired from the Army with over 20 years of honoring service. he also holds a 5th degree black belt in the martial art called Hapkido, and is the State Representative for the State of Florida in the World Independent Hapkido Federation. He was an award winner for both stage and close-up at the International Brotherhood of Magicians Convention, He has performed in Germany, Korea, USA, Honduras and the Middle East. He is the creator of a self-levitation called "One". He now sends his energy performing both magic and mentalism programs along with giving lectures on the Power of Persuasion.

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