Mind, Myth & Magick Book by T.A. Waters

Have you ever dreamed you could walk out on stage, ask the spectators to call out at random a multi-digit number, then turn to reveal a card pinned to your back in a position where you obviously can’t reach it - a card that states the precise number just stipulated?

Have you ever wished you could record for later verification - hours or days before the fact - the appearance of a perfect stranger who will sit in a specific seat in your audience?

Have you ever wanted to conjure up a live, sixteen-inch-tall demon in a candle-lit séance room, or divine a mentally chosen name with the aid of a mysteriously animated talisman that floats in a bottle of Atlantean seawater?

Have you ever desired to answer an audiences innermost concerns and questions without a whisper of chicanery - to tell people things about them that you couldn’t possibly know, just by touching some possession of theirs - to divine the astrological signs of total strangers without having the slightest knowledge of their birthdates?

These are but a few of the things that T.A. Waters has dreamed, then taken as challenges, and to which he has devised ingenious and practical solutions.

Mind, Myth & Magick is packed with exciting ideas and keen insights on mentalism, thoughtfully and thoroughly explained in this remarkable book by one of the field’s finest thinkers and most inspired innovators - T.A. Waters!

You have studied your Annneman, consumed Corinda. As a mentalist, what is the next step? You hold in your hands the first genuine postgraduate course in mentalism. This volume contains over 800 pages filled with more than 200 fresh and innovative feats of Mind Reading and Bizarre Magick. In addition, T.A. Waters sheds penetrating new light on the entire field of mentalism through a series of extensive re-examinations of fundamental subjects like:

Psychometry
Book Tests
Spirit Tests
Fortunetelling
Symbol Tests
The Three-Phase Prediction
The Newspaper Test
Billet Work
Working with the Tarot
... and much more

T.A. Waters is recognized as among the most original and knowledgeable minds in mentalism. His work has been widely praised by Bascom Jones, Charles Reynolds, Tony Andruzzi, Ricky Jay, Ted Lesley, John Thompson, Irv Weiner, Phil Goldstein, and many others. In the 1980’s he released twenty-one booklets of his exclusive mental secrets, which were sold to a select clientele for a total of more than $300.

Mind, Myth & Magick contains all these works and additional material, revised, updated, and extensively illustrated. Within this one volume lie material that will set you apart from the generic mentalist and make a lasting and powerful impression on those who experience your performances.

T.A. Waters is the author of numerous books fictional, nonfictional, and magical. These include The Lost Victim - a Detective Book Club main selection - and novels in the genres of science-fiction, crime, espionage, fantasy, and Gothic mystery.

Among his nonfiction books are the best-selling Psychologistics and the Christopher award-winner, Encyclopedia of Magic and Magicians.

Mr. Waters has also appeared in several New York stage productions ranging from Shakespeare to experimental drama, and is a member of the Screen Actors Guild. His long-standing involvement with mentalism has encompassed varied performance venues spanning the Arctic Circle to Tokyo.

He worked for a time for Nelson Enterprises, the well-known mentalists’ supply service, and is the author of many respected articles and monographs on mindreading and kindred topics. He resided in Hollywood, California until his death in 1998.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket
7 x 10" Trim Size
828 pages