hey everybody welcome back to my magic orthodoxy my name is David and this is a
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alerted when those videos go live today we're gonna look at the how to read
minds kit from Peter Turner and illusionist comm how to read minds this
was a Kickstarter project allied Kickstarter successfully funded it was
like gangbusters it sold great got mine in the mail last week been tearing
through it all weekend just just totally devouring this whole thing this whole
project just so excited to share it with you let's get into it and I purchased
this product myself so that you always get honest and factual reviews every
single time my reviews are simple I always ask the same straightforward
questions and the first question is what do you get what's inside the box the box
is all done in black and white the graphics are really cool says how to
read minds and there's a skull on the front 20 powerful mind reading skills
taught within taught by the world-renowned Peter Turner including
reveal someone's iPhone unlock code one side says learn skills no one thought
you'd have and the graphics all around say mayhem madness mentalism illusionist
how did you do that never be boring again and the back side has some
promotion has some ad copy for illusionist and tells you a little bit
about the Kickstarter hey that's everything I can say about this awesome
box let's take a look inside opening the box you get two layers there's a top
layer and a second layer the top layer has the marked cohort Dec this is the
second edition this is the e7 stock you're getting a nail writer you're
getting two sets of ESP cards you're getting a USB key that has all of your
video instructions you're getting a bank card that you can put it in your wallet
and you'll get a practice spoon for spoon mending it also includes a UV
light and an invisible ink pen on the second level you'll get a huge stack of
billets you'll get a switch wallet you'll get two envelopes the Dracula
book test and piqué wallet alright so how are the
props are they well made what is the deal like you're getting one
of these beginner magic kits and we've all purchased them right we've all
bought a beginners magic kit at one time it's usually like cheap plastic it's a
bunch of garbage and you know the stuff that you're like yeah maybe I'd give
this to my ten-year-old cousin right is this what you're getting absolutely not
that the the amount of stuff that you're getting in this box and the quality of
the stuff is professional-grade this these are the these are some of the best
props now that I own like of the book test for one the book test is beautiful
the Dracula book looks exactly like a book should it's very easy it's not
complicated to do the two wallets that you get are both real leather they're
really nice I'm gonna I'm totally gonna use these even the billets the billets
aren't like rough hewn edged like blank business cards they actually have a nice
smooth gloss edge to them they feel really good in your hands and they give
you a considerable amount the mark deck I gotta say this is hard for me to admit
because I have the earlier cohorts deck that bicycle printed and now this new
one this is a second edition with the e7 card a mundi stock I like the e7 stock
better I do I had both the X side by side of my hands and I gotta say I like
the e7 stock better the the edges are so much more smooth I love the fact that
they give you a USB key for your instructions I know people were looking
for it in there like Illusionist profile but you know it's this is a Kickstarter
so they have to you know give it to you on a USB key
they don't everybody doesn't have an illusionist profile but I love this over
a DVD because now you have digital files you can take those digital files with
you anywhere I load them onto my phone I take them with me you know in the car or
in the airplane or you know reading in the dentist office like you can take
these files with you wherever you go so that and that's great because some of
them are an hour long so you want to take them with you where you have time
to watch them even though a little plastic credit card that comes with this
set looks like a real credit card I think I've had two or three others of
these little fake plastic credit cards so they never look kind of real because
sometimes they even like your name instead of the actual
name like you know you expected to see have your name or you expect it to have
like phone numbers or something on the back it shouldn't look like a magic prop
and this doesn't this looks like a real rewards card credit card slash gift card
thing that you would have in your wallet and it looks totally this it looks great
these are all top-notch products now don't some of you mentalists that you
know our intermediate or advanced Mentalist so she already owned some of
these props like you've already owned like a nail writer and a switch wallet
you already own a book test absolutely of course you can that's the great thing
about this project also because Pete's giving you introductory level effects
that you can do with these props and so it doesn't matter if you own some of
these props or not because that the teaching that he gives you will apply to
the props that you have as well I mean personally out of all the props
I have ESP cards that I already use and I like mine better so I will continue to
use my ESP cards I have a nail writer that I use and I like better so I will
continue to use that so I mean that's the great thing about this kit is
everything so interchangeable alright so pocket space how big is
everything the wallets are really nice and small and thin billets you know you
can take a smaller stack as you want and carry it with you the UV pen is you know
the pen size even the Dracula book is something that's probably small enough
that it would fit in your back pocket or your inside jacket pocket so even if you
carried every single thing in this box which you never would write even if you
did you probably could load it all on your person with an outside jacket I
think you probably could do it so none of these props are large or take up a
lot of space all right so what's the overall quality in production value of
the videos you're gonna get one performance video it's a long our live
party that was filmed in South Point Tavern in Miami Beach Florida and you
get to watch pete work the room and he does all the different effects sometimes
he doesn't exactly like the teachings sometimes he changed a little bit but I
think when you watch it you'll pick up on that as far as the explanation of
videos you're gonna have Peter talking to Garrett Clark and Brad Christian and
Dwayne Williams from illusionist he's usually you know like a
at a in a white room with a white marble table there a big window of Florida in
the background or he's filming over in Manchester England he's gonna give you
theory all the way through this the videos are very conversational Pete is
such a generous teacher he gives away so much more than just tricks he gives you
extra ideas and tricks all the way through this and fact I've loved these
videos so much this is a great little USB key I've watched several of these
videos more than once just because I feel like I wanted to go back and pick
something up as far as Ray's gonna teach you I'm
gonna go through this really fast because there's so much but I want to
give you the breakdown there's 20 videos in all first there's an introduction
where Pete just briefly you know says hi it's about two minutes the first video
covers the bullets and it's 32 minutes long you're gonna learn two tricks on
that the second video is really an illusionist video it's guaranteeing to
you about how to read the markings on the cohort deck it's eight minutes long
then you're gonna get Pete again on the third video he's going to cover the mark
deck it's a 33 minute video he's gonna cover and any card to any number he's
gonna cover the crisscross force and he's gonna cover how to read somebody
with these cards then the fourth video covers the switch pad that's 43 minutes
you're going five tricks on this video 5 is the envelopes that's 11 minutes long
this is the trick he did with pink cake pig cake in that video had three
envelopes your kit only comes with two but it's teaching you a single trick
video 6 is the bank card it's 31 minutes long you're gonna learn five tricks just
with this fake card alone video 7 is the whisper that's a seven minute video and
you're gonna learn one trick video 8 covers the nail writer that's 13 minutes
and you're gonna learn two tricks video 9 is a double-sided presentation video
it's 15 minutes long you'll learn a single trick video 10 is a life equation
trick that's 20 minutes long again you learn a single trick video 11 is a
theory video it's 9 minutes long and Pete talks about predictions and how to
turn some of these tricks into predictions and not exactly just
revelations video 12 covers the peek wallet it's 11 minutes long and you're
gonna learn three tricks video 13 is the ESP cards that's as almost an hour it's
53 minutes long you'll learn five tricks video 14 covers the Dracula book as 24
minutes long you're only learning the single trick
just there's only one trick for the book video 15 covers how to do readings
that's 20 minutes long again this is a video on theory and it's an essay kind
of like on ambiguity and reading a stranger video 16 is the spoon Bend
that's eleven minutes it's a single trick video seventeen covers the UV set
it's 25 minutes long and he's just working out different ideas for
Revelations video 18 is the phone unlock it's 20 minutes long he's gonna give you
several methods video 19 is the performance video like I said it was 52
minutes long in total and video 20 is just a URL video that covers where to
find refills for this kit once all the kits have been mailed out to the buyers
all in all this is 8 hours and 20 minutes of instruction 32 tricks and
ideas I counted right it literally counted I counted up all the minutes I
counted up every single trick 8 hours and 20 minutes 32 tricks and ideas
alright so positives what are the positives about this kit like I said the
quality of this is amazing every single piece in this is a great piece and I
could definitely see using it in real life
I think Pete's teaching is also very entry level which I loved I have a ton
of Pete's material and I always watch it and I always love watching it but then
there's a part of me that's just I don't know a little fearful of approaching his
style of magic because it is his style and it seems to work for him and I don't
know how well it would work for me but this as an introductory level to
mentalism I think is great I think this is a wonderful start for anyone that
wants to do mentalism or to do what Pete does so really I think this kit does two
things if you're a beginner and you're just starting off I think this
definitely gets you up and going but if you're an intermediate or advanced level
magician and you receive this I think with your eyes you would see the
potential so much greater then someone just starting off I mean for instance I
am NOT gonna use the switch wallet at all the way Pete teaches in the video
and I won't use any of those tricks because as soon as I saw the switch
wallet I thought oh my goodness this would be great
for cribs this is the most perfect prop for cribs and I probably have three
tricks right now that either involve a crib sheet where I have to memorize
certain words in the book test or I have a business card trick that involves a
bunch of math utilizing phone numbers and URLs or on the business cards and
there's a lot of calculations involved this switch wallet is me perfect because
I'll be able to show the wallet show the you know this is my paper here's my pans
and I'm gonna write on and as I turn around boom my cribs already opened they
never saw it and I could probably put three different cribs on that and be
ready to and then I could close it and it could open it later do another trick
you know or you could even say you know I think there's an A in this yeah than
this word and I think there's a there's that L in this word you know in fact I
don't even need this list anymore let's just let's just talk like this and then
you've eliminated and ditched it but this
I'm totally gonna use a switch wallet for cribs all right I don't love
memorizing lots of different things I like my magic to be a little bit more
self working and so this crib wallet is gonna help me out a ton but going back
to people just starting out beginner Mentalist if this is your first time as
an introduction to Peter Turner welcome but if you devour this kit and you love
it and you want to get something next I would suggest freeform mentalism from
Peter Turner I think a lot of his stuff is very advanced level but I think if
you went from this to freeform mentalism I think they'll be a good next step in
his material all right so negatives what are the negatives you know there's
always good and bad with everything one of the things I had mentioned earlier
the ESP cards I did not love them there's a feature to them that
illusionist even tells you about they say oh look at this cool feature I
didn't like that feature I think it's I think it's too noticeable and like I
said I already have marked ESP cards that I love and use all the time and so
I'm gonna use those okay but that was really the only prop that I didn't love
in the whole set the other thing I would just warn you about is 2500 people back
this campaign right 2500 people which sounds like a lot right that means
there's 2500 other people out there we'll all 2,500 people devour this kit
and become medalists and get out there and work probably not right there'll be
a good number of them that just look at it as novelty and they'll probably never
go back to it there's there's there's always those people but as a mass
marketed item it just means that a lot of magicians a lot of people will have
these props and know how these things work okay so it being so mass marketed a
lot of people are gonna understand and and have this kit but but let me just
say like personally for me like I know I live in a community of maybe five
thousand people right five thousand people in my community I'm probably the
only one that holds it in my entire community so 2,500 people sounds like a
lot and it is but in the grand scheme of things you know and you're talking about
the world or the United States it's not a lot of people who would like this I
mean I've been saying this with the whole entire thing people who want to
get into mentalism I think another another consumer that would really like
this it'll probably somebody like me who loves Peter Turner loves Peter Turner's
work gets everything Peter Turner does it's excited about it but then also is
very hesitant about performing his work because Peter is so bold he takes he
takes risks sometimes risks that maybe an average magician wouldn't take
doesn't have that same confidence that he has I think if you wanted to take a
step back and then enter his mind with this kit this is a great entry-level
product and I think that's something that has been missing in the magic
community is an entry-level mentalism kit from Peter Turner so I think
definitely people that like Peter Turner's work will love this I think
even the intermediate and advanced Mentalist would like this too like I
said the props are awesome and it's just great to hear his teaching I always
learned something listening to him I mean just listening to him talk about
theory and confidence and working smarter and not harder and keeping
things simple those are all good things to remember is it worth their money
illusionist had this for $100 on their campaign you can pre-order it if you
didn't pick it up at illusionist calm for one hundred and twenty dollars so it
is one hundred dollars now if he didn't originally back
it but again even at a hundred and twenty dollars it's definitely worth
their money all right I've talked long enough that's
everything I can say about the how to read minds kit from Peter Turner and a
lucious calm like I said if you would like to pick this up head on down to
illusionist com to place your order thanks guys I'll see you next time bye
you