Spirit

EFFECT

A volunteer is chosen at random from the audience and joins you on the

stage where they are seated next to you behind a table in full view of the

audience.

A second volunteer is also chosen from the audience and seated at the

table as a close up independent witness to the proceedings.

The first volunteer is then apparently placed into an instant trance state

and their hand is apparently glued to the table by "Hypnotic" suggestion.

In this state with their eyes closed, you seem to control their mind in

some way, because as you point at their hand and lift your own arm into

the air, at the same time their arm rises into the air in a most uncanny

manner! You then pause for a short while in this position and when you

then start to move your arm downwards without saying a word, so the

volunteer also moves their hand back down to the point where it is once

again glued to the table. The second volunteer is then asked to point

their finger at the first volunteers hand and told to say nothing but do the

same as you just did when and only when they decide to. Sure enough

despite volunteer number one having his eyes closed, when volunteer

two decides to lift his arm into the air, volunteer number one does the

same at exactly the same time. And when volunteer two decides to

lower his arm again, amazingly so does volunteer one, even though they

cannot possibly see what is going on and nothing has been said to alert

them to what is happening. The first volunteer is then awoken from

trance and both people are sent back to the audience to a huge round of

applause!

SPECIAL NOTES

The effect of this routine looks the same as the one performed by Top

British Mentalist Derren Brown during his Live Shows and also on one of

his "Mind Control" TV Specials, however I have decided to include my

performance method herein as mine uses absolutely no Hypnotic

Trance and indeed the Linguistic wording is different in order to achieve

apparently the same...