Forget about street busking, restaurant table-hopping and small club performances — those won’t happen for a long, long time, but ZOOM magic tricks can be truly mystifying.
First of all, they’re not electronic gimmicks. They’re FEELABLE magic that looks good on ZOOM, and most magic tricks don’t, so pay close attention.
Here’s the breakdown of some smaller tabletop effects that are available for a ZOOM performance that you could easily give — none of these tricks require a lot of fancy sleight-of-hand skills.
Keep in mind that this is not a complete act, as there are about a dozen and a half CLOSEUP effects as well that could slip into this performance if you needed to fill more time.
After you’ve demonstrated mastery of the simple French Drop — no production at a ZOOM workshop, you can learn any of the effects I’ve listed below:
The amazing ancient pottery pieces inside the counter are already sold & shipped out, but the five Greek pieces on the top of the counter are still here, waiting for a good home and some appreciation for their age & beauty.
Okay, enough commercial — back to the magic stuff. So you could acquire hundreds of little tricks, and you’d never be able to assemble a kit like this, which provides you with a full storyline with seemingly natural, fully seamless passages from one trick to the next.
Beginner Tricks:
- FRENCH DROP — $39.95
- ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS DIMENSION SLIDER — $39.95
- THUMBS UP SALT OF ST. PETER — $39.95
More Beginner Tricks:
- HEALING SPIRIT LIGHTS — $69.95
- AMAZING RAINBOW SILK DIMENSIONAL SHIFTER — $69.95
- GOLDEN BUDDHA LEVITATION — $89.95
Three More Beginner Tricks:
- 2,000 YEAR OLD MYSTERY OF THE CHINESE LINKING RINGS — $39.95
- AMAZING FOLDING BANDANA — $69.95
- SILK TO EGG TRANSFORMATION — $139.95
Those nine tricks will give you a very solid magic act that you can delivery without a lot of fuss — the tricks show big, but pack super-small.
Professional Performance Gear:
- PRO-GRADE 10″ CHINESE LINKING RING SET & ROUTINE — $139.95
- PROFESSIONAL GRADE 11-FOOT-LONG LINKING ROPE RINGS ROUTINE — $139.95
- SPIRIT LIGHTS MISER’S DREAM BOUTIQUE BAG — $225.00
Spiritualist & Mentalist Act:
- VICTORIAN VINTAGE SPIRIT COMMUNICATION SLATES — $225.00
- OLD WEST SPIRIT TELEGRAPH — $650.00
- HOUDINI VICTORIAN SEANCE SPIRIT BELL — $650
- GHOST-HUNTER SPIRIT DETECTOR & COMMUNICATOR — $225.00
- DAYLIGHT SEANCE SPIRIT TAMBOURINE — $225.00
Miracle Effects:
- INCREDIBLE DINNER JACKET ESCAPE — $225.00
- OPEN-AIR CHEN-RIG LEVITATION — $650.00
- FAME-MAKER HEADLINE PREDICTION — $225.00
Those are the routines I typically use in my “Magic of Believing” Act.
My best-known routine is “Hallucination”, performed entirely without props or gimmicks or anything, other than my bare hands.
Please note that each “trick” that I offer comes to you as a complete routine — much more than merely the props, they come with an instructional performance DVD to help you learn the mechanics of the tricks PLUS the delivery, punchlines and timing.
Under NO circumstances will you need to develop special handling skills for the tricks I’ve suggested here for the beginning performer, so no worries.
There are cheaper versions of all these effects, but mine is top quality, and you get a solid class on how to perform the effect for work purposes, not merely entertainment, so there’s a whole world of professionalism here. You get what you pay for, and must pay for what you get.
Can you earn a livelihood from this? Just look at all the folks who have done it successfully, and you’ll be amazed, astounded and encouraged!!!
The Club Style Effects are best for large groups and some distance from the audience, as in a Birthday Party, End of Life Celebration, Wedding Reception, Post-Burial Wake, and indeed any social occasion, magic fits in and makes things wonderful — full of wonder, get it???
You’ll find so many applications for your magical skills, but the best feature of all is that SOMETIMES THE MAGIC ACTUALLY WORKS.
Yep, sometimes, in spite of yourself, something truly magical and amazing and unexplainable happens, and that’s the real payoff!
This is the Holy Grail of Performance Magic, and happens for most folks only once, twice or never, but YOU will be able to do it many times.
For you, REAL MAGIC can be a CONSTANT SUCCESS, because you’ll know the secret of how to make REAL MAGIC actually work.
Of course it won’t work every single time, nor probably the first time you try, which is the American Dream — that you won’t ever need skills and don’t even have to actually try, because it’s all free, money-back guarantee, it’s all instant, and it’s all yours, and there’s no postage, because it’s actually an app.
Wake Up!
Don’t be fooled by that zombie dream that you can do magic with an app.
It takes hard work to find The World of Magic that extra dimension right in front of your eyes, that you can’t seem to see.
But when you learn to see The Kingdom, it’s the only world worth living in. I highly recommend living in a Higher Plane, and this is definitely THE way to do it.
Performance Magic will literally LIFT YOU OUT OF THIS WORLD. You WILL experience a Higher Plane from time to time, and when you learn and master the Secret, you WILL EXPERIENCE LIFE ON A HIGHER PLANE ALL DAY LONG.
Closeup Street & Stage Magic Routines:
- FLEETZIE & FLOOTZIE THE ACROBATIC FLIES — $49.95
- ORIGINAL MAGIC PENDULUM ROUTINE — $49.95
- FLOATING GHOST BALL — $49.95
Easy Predictions:
- POKER CHIP PREDICTION — $59.95
- VOODOO DOLL PREDICTION — $69.95
- KIRWAN BOX DOLLAR BILL PREDICTION — $225.00
- INSTANT RUBIK CUBE COLOR CHANGE — $225.00
Foolproof Fast Street Routines:
- GUILLOTINE FINGER CHOPPER ROUTINE — $49.95
- OKITO PILL BOX ROUTINE — $49.95
- GEM ROD ROUTINE — $49.95
Pro Busker Routines:
- “ALCHEMIST’S DREAM” GOLD PRODUCTION — $225.00
- BRASS BALL & TUBE ROUTINE — $49.95
- COPPER CUPS & BALLS ROUTINE — $99.95
- “TIME-STOPPER” WRIST OR POCKET WATCH — $225.00
I’ve tried to deliver these effects and illusions at a reasonable cost to the performer. Most of the routines are customized to my purpose, which is to present illusions that illustrate Cosmic Truths and introduce the concept of Maya, the World of Illusion, and the Bardo Journey Between Lives.
Reincarnation, Quantum Logic and Apparent Denial of Laws of Physics are my main topics, and the tricks merely serve to illustrate each point, as you’d use drawings, paintings or photographs in an illustrated book.
Every routine presented here has a twist that brings it back to the subject at hand — The Work and How You Can Work For The Work. I have no other theme.
Take Your Time Easing Into It.
Learning takes time. I’ve listed the effects in the order in which they’re easiest to learn, from one mastery to the next. Total time on each effect will vary with your confidence, bearing and style, not your prestidigitation, meaning you don’t need sleight of hand to perform any of these effects.
Some hand-eye coordination is a must, but nothing special is required of you, just your willingness to participate and your ability to look as if you’re totally confident even if you’re shaking apart with fear and apprehension.
Don’t cave in. Anxiety is normal. Ask Carol Burnett. Don’t worry about anxiety, it just makes it worse, like shooting Mongo — it just makes him mad, and then there’s the mess to clean up.
My intention for the upcoming Labor Day Convention & Workshop on Magic & Healing is to perform an entire act, consisting of fourteen routines as listed above. Each routine may require as many as six or seven “tricks” to make the routine work.
One most amazing FACTOID:
Magic takes two paths, one of which is the “normal” path, where you’ll need a gimmick or a misdirection to create the effect.
The second is where you happen to SLIDE into another dimension in which magic is normal, and the laws of physics are very or slightly different from the ones you’ve become used to seeing every day.
Sliding into another dimension is technically called “SLIPSTREAMING”, and unknowingly, you do it all the time.
When you use Performance Magic to REINFORCE the Slipstreaming Effect, you put the whole thing into your own control — your destiny is, for once in your life, literally in your own hands.
If you know how to orchestrate the routines and activate them with powerful Spiritual Allies and Defenses, you’d be On Top of The World.
CONTROLLING YOUR OWN DESTINY is a powerful tool, but it must be used in connection with The Work, or it won’t hold for very long. Everything that is not aligned with the Work is short-lived by any standards, and very short-lived by Reincarnation Standards, which transcend entire Kalpas — Creation Cycles — of which this universe is a small, actually unmeasurable, percentage.
Light speed is a polite fiction that has served to explain why it can’t be achieved, but it can, and when it is, it’s instant transportation. The photon extends infinitely and is always everywhere along its path.
Don’t let that distract you. Magic is everywhere. Your job, Mr. Phelps, should you and your Mission Impossible decide to accept it, is to help people around you to SEE THE MAGIC.
That’s why you must practice to PERFECTION. When you flub an effect, it breaks the spell.
Practice, Practice, Practice, just as you do every day on guitar, only five minutes a day, no more. One trick, just one trick, over and over, until you’ve GOT IT, then on to the next, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, millenium after millenium, like my grandfather did for your grandfather.
Of course, the rates have gone up.
One bit of advice that’s good anytime:
The longer you wait, the harder it gets.
You’ve still got some energy and dexterity left. Why not use it while you still have the chance? It won’t always be like this…it gets worse, not better, as age creeps up and your Last Day comes closer on the horizon.
Your Last Hour of Life will not be a good time to decide to finally make your move.
Don’t let your Afterlife Anti-Social Media on Faceless Book be a pathetic explanation for your end of life comment, “Huh — I musta stepped on a rake.”
See You At The Top!!!
gorby