The humanistic response by emma wooding

Welcome To The Humanistic Response This 50 paged eBook contains five routines. The Humanistic Response – This propless routine allows you to divine three random thoughts. That’s right. A multiphased propless routine where each phase builds. The spectator imagines a colour of a LEGO brick, a number (of how many points the LEGO brick has on top) and a structure they would build with a bunch of LEGO bricks. The performer then divines everything. During the routine, the performer will give the spectator a reading. A reading they will never forget. MAYHEM – During a reveal. Why don’t you create an epiphany? With MAYHEM you do just that. Manufacture an epiphany for the spectator. No preshow. No gimmicks. The Cold Pin – During a reading, the performer stops. Divines a pincode. Then continues the reading. No gimmicks. No props. No preshow. No prior knowledge. No questions. No math. The Entry – The performer asks the spectator to pull out their iPhone. The performer asks them to enter the calendar app and to scroll up and down the app to decide on a random date, month and year. The performer then divines everything in any way they wish. No gimmicks. Easy to do. Requires an iPhone. No pen and paper. The Masterpiece – Holy grail. The performer places a playing card face down onto a table. The spectator goes on a journey and decides on a playing card. At the end of the routine the spectator turns over the card and it’s their thought of card No Equivoque. No Psychological Control. Gimmickless. One card used. Can be done propless. No deck of cards. No indexes. No off by one. Can be performed as an incredibly clean invisible deck. Alongside these five stellar routines you will learn, Vale 1 Vale 2 Vale 3 The Vale series teaches you unique ways to divine a suit. All propless. All different. This booklet is beginner friendly, intermediate friendly and advanced friendly. The book is written in a way that is enjoyable. A way that will make you want to read the booklet again and again to get the most out of it. You’ll learn all of these unique routines and principles and so much more with The Humanistic Response. Are you ready to level up your mentalism? Emma Wooding is a creative young mentalist who can make the experience of watching her feel like genuine mind reading. To that degree, although not all effects in Humanistic Response are surefire, they will teach you some new ways to think about the psychological force, as well as other ways to psychologically prompt or pull ones audience. Alain Nu “This book is definitely worth its price and more. I will use the Cold Pin for sure and The Humanistic Response is a very creative and workable routine that you can perform with nothing on you. One of the best releases Ive read in months. Good job Emma” Nico Heinrich. If you are new to the propless realm, then you will really benefit from the principles explained in this book. If you are an old time level 99 propless master, I still think that you should give this a read as I for one have had quite a few ideas and epiphanies from reading this book. Luke Turner

The Humanistic Response

Emma Wooding

Copyright © 2019 by Emma Wooding

All rights reserved This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal

First Release: 2019

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Contents

Introduction iv

The Humanistic Response 2

Mayhem Principle 14

HOUSE 16

The Cold Pin 18

The Entry 23

The Master Piece 30

Closing 41

Notes 44

Dear Reader,

First off Thank you Yes, you! Thank you for your purchase, I genuinely mean it It’s not a passing remark that should be ignored With your purchase, you are helping me get food on the table! I really want to sin-cerely thank you

Secondly, I’d like to explain the history of the routine, The Humanistic Response For me when I purchase an effect or book I LOVE, reading about the history so this is for the people that love reading the history behind effects In 2014 I created a colour divination routine, titled

“Colours” (I know, such a creative title) Colours was an anagram-based routine where verbally you divine a thought of colour It was sh*t Seriously It was so bad!

I was very silly, but I still was obsessed with the colour divination plot and I have no idea why! I believe that it’s because there is something so unique about colours, they shift our world around us, they create our moods and create moments that are unique Everyone has a favourite colour and a least favourite colour This unites us (did you have inspirational music playing as you read that?) I digress

I continued to work on colour-based routines until realising I can divine

a colour, number and structure under the guise of a Childrens toy I released it inside my 2017 Lecture Notes It was titled Human I felt that

presentation alongside some form of a reading system

Along with The Humanistic Response, you will receive MAYHEM and The Cold Pin MAYHEM is a new unique principle allowing you to manufacture an epiphany for the spectator The Cold Pin is a propless way to divine a pin code

MAYHEM and The Cold Pin both have short histories, I created MAYHEM because I wanted to create a visual moment for the specta-tor that happened within their mind The Cold Pin was created a few years back when I stumbled across a survey of what pin codes people use most

Alongside those three you will also receive The Entry and The piece The Entry is a way to divine a month, year and date All you need

Master-is the spectators iPhone, and did I mention all thMaster-is can be done with nothing written down? The Masterpiece is the holy grail of a single play-ing card prediction Although from a birds eye view The Masterpiece may seem incredibly complicated, it’s not Once you understand the routine does all the work for you, you’ll realise how simple it is

It’s my honour to Welcome you to The Humanistic Response

Sincerely,

Emma Wooding

woodingem@gmail.com

Some people believe you can’t effect people without an affect But in reality, you can’t affect people without an effect –

Emma Wooding 2019 (Keep in mind this quote makes zero sense and means surprisingly nothing!)

Part One

The spectator thinks of a colour, a number and a structure The former proplessly divines all three while giving the spectator a detailed reading

per-There are very little propless divination routines that are multi-phased This routine is not only multi-phased but each phase adds more dimension to the notion of impossibilities this routine proposes The routines nuts and bolts are Psychological Forcing, Anagramming and Barnum Statements All three powerhouse principles in the propless mentalism realm, combined in a beautifully choreographed routine Here is a quick run-down of what each of the principles are

Psychological Forces/Forcing:

Psychological Forces are forces that work from talking or moving

in specific ways to implant a thought or suggestion into someone’s

head A few popular forces are the classic 1-4 force “Think of a number from one to four” By saying this, it’s incredibly likely the

spectator will think of three Why? Because when you read it or

say it, you read “one two four” Leaving out three This

subconsciously makes their brain choose three

Another force is the classic “think of a tool” If you ask someone

to think of a tool, most likely (unless they are an experienced builder) they will think of a hammer Why? Because a hammer is

Anagrams/Anagramming/Progressive Anagrams/PA:

An anagram is a fishing system The way many people use anagrams are by stating letters in a thought of word For example,

“Think of One, Two or Three

“There is a T” If the spectator says no, the system tells us that they are thinking of “one” If they say yes, then we say, “and an O” If they say

yes to the O, then the system tells us they are thinking of Two If they say no to the O (no to the O sounds like a game show) the system tells

us they are thinking of three

Anagramming can be used in a variety of different routines and concepts If you are new to this concept, I highly suggest looking into Paths by Matt Mello and Prodigal by Atlas Brookings

Barnum Statements

Barnum Statements are statements or lines that sound specific but

in reality, are quite generalised and would sound specific to

anyone For example, “you have a strong desire for safety” Who

doesn’t?

Here is the script I use for the routine

“What I’d like you to do with me is something quite random What I’d like you to do is just imagine a white Lego block directly in front of me Is it easy

to imagine that?” The spectator replies yes

“Okay that was faster than I expected!” The previous line sets up the

Barnum Statement that follows If the spectator takes a long time

to think of a colour, skip this part Although take note that this rarely happens Make sure, when saying this Barnum Statement, you say it convincingly and in a voice that sounds genuinely

shocked “Being able to imagine something so quickly shows me that recently you’ve been through some form of a rough path and patch But going through all that has created almost a new clean slate for you in some ways Allowing you to look at things a lot fresher and quicker Does that make sense?”

Spectator replies ecstatically “yes!”

“So, what I’d like you to do is imagine this brick slowly turning into a new dark colour” This will force the spectator to think of either red,

purple or blue They won’t think of, yellow, orange, green and pink because they are bright colours and they won’t think of black because I asked them to think of a colour not a shade They won’t

If you are still scared of the spectator thinking of black, you can

say, “imagine this brick turning into a new dark colour like black” By

saying “like black” it will eliminate black from being a choice We don’t talk about the colour of the brick until the end This will create a time delay and make the spectator remember,

“I could have thought of any colour” but in reality, could only think of darker colours

“On every LEGO brick there are the different dots on top, allowing each block to connect to another one I feel with you, you connect with

so many different people regardless of their backgrounds, you focus on how you feel around them before looking at them fully for who they are Does that make sense? Now I’d like you to imagine how many dots are on top of the block” As soon as I say dots, I take my right hand, place out my

index finger and point to the ground three times, going from the left of my body to right of my body As if I’m poking the dots on

a Lego brick This will force the number six

The spectator won’t notice this, as they will see this as a gesture The reason why this forces the number six is because generally the spectator will see a Lego brick as a brick that has a dot on both sides They will not imagine a single strip as normally when a person is asked

to think or imagine a Lego brick, they will imagine a normal rectangular brick that has dots on both sides By pressing three dots into the air it will cause the spectator to decide on six This may sound made up but when you actually think of a Lego block, do you see a single strip?

- Do not press six dots in the air it will appear excessive and will tip the method Three is just enough to not tip the method or seem excessive and still work -

“Now whatever number you are thinking of, this signifies how much you have tured and changed over that number of months Does that make sense to you?”

ma-Spectator confirms

“I feel with you, so much as happened over these past few months, if you were to look back at yourself a year ago, two years ago or even nine months back You wouldn’t believe how much you have changed Does that make sense to you?” Spectator confirms “Finally imagine I give you two hundred of these bricks” When I say

“two hundred” I cup my hands out and gesture towards the spectator

As if I am handing all the bricks to them Note how I didn’t say “two hundred bricks” I said, “two hundred of these bricks” This immediately limits the spectators design choice and colour choice We will later recap this and utilize some Time Misdirection to make it appear like there were two hundred different bricks

“Just imagine building a structure in your mind” As I say this, I place my

hands out parallel to each other while moving up and down once

Again, the spectator will see this as a gesture This will Psychologically Force the image castle/tower This technique is called a physical Psychological Force

“Now Focus on all of your choices okay, now focus on the colour” At this point

we conduct an anagram Every time the spectator says “no” we go right Every time the spectator says “yes” we go straight down

If we say, “there is an R” and the spectator says “No” then they are thinking of blue If they say “Yes” to the R, then we say “and an L” if the spectator says “No” to the L then they are thinking of Red If they say

“Yes” to the L, then they are thinking of purple

“Now focus on this number This is even” This will be correct as they are

thinking of six By slowly revealing the number it helps justify the previous process (the anagram) instead of -conduct anagram- “okay this number is six” It makes sense to slowly divine the colour then the number as well

“Focus on this structure This is tall This tells me that you take pride in your hard work and if you see a friend being attacked in some way, you will also stand tall and defend them” By slowly revealing the structure it helps justify the previous

process (the anagram)

“Look at me Okay you could have thought of any colour, even complex colours like turquoise You could have thought of any number, realistically two to about sixteen and you could have thought of any structure, a boat, car, tree or even a bowl but look at me ” This is simply recapping the whole routine At the end of

the routine, when you walk away the spectator will remember that they could have thought of any colour, number or structure even though they

didn’t have much of a choice “Okay this is purple, six and c-castle”

As you can see this routine provides a simple yet effective colour, number and structure divination You can perform this effect as a prediction With the MultiVelvet Bags from Mentalism Center

What is a MultiVelvet bag?

Well, a MultiVelvet bag is a little velvet black bag that allows you to hold playing cards, coins and billets The bag itself appears like a nice small bag however it has a secret function It is also a multiple out index It can hold up to five outs If we were to use this bag in The Humanistic Response we can easily eliminate the anagram phase

If you own a MultiVelvet bag follow along Begin by writing on three different business cards/billets

Simply have on the first of the three cards

Red, Six and Castle

On the second of the three cards have

Blue, Six and Castle

On the third of the three cards have

Purple, Six and Castle

Once you have written everything down, finish by placing each card in each individual out Once you have the bag setup, you can begin your routine Begin the routine by producing the bag Explain to the spectator that you have a prediction Then simply perform the routine as previously described

Once performed instead of saying “this is an even number”, anagramming the colour and saying, “this is a tall structure” Simply say,

“now you have had three different thoughts Each more complicated than the last A number, colour and a structure You could have thought of any number, realistically two to about sixteen, you could have thought of any structure, a boat, car, tree or even

a bowl and even any colour! What did you create in your mind?”

If the spectator says “Red, Six and Castle” Pull out the first out

If the spectator says “Blue, Six and Castle” Pull out the second out

If the spectator says “Purple, Six and Castle” Pull out the third out

The MultiVelvet bags can be purchased through Mentalism Center

http://multivelvet.blogspot.com/

I hope you are excited to perform The Humanistic Response So much work has been put into this routine and I am so proud of how far this routine has come

Part Two

The Mayhem Principle is a principle that allows you to perform a revelation routine with a full circle realisation moment from the spectator The Mayhem principle is essentially just scribbling different lines on a piece of paper, giving the appearance that the performer is just scribbling crazily However, at the end of the routine it’s revealed that the performer actually was divining a thought of word This will create

an epiphany for the spectator

Start by retrieving a word via an anagram, peek or force (a great peek you can use is Typhon from Remastered Volume One – Billets) scribble the first line of the first letter on a piece of paper (for example if the word is Red we would scribble a line of an R) and once we scribble we

would say, “Does this make any sense?”

The spectator would decline, and we would continue to scribble messily

an R We then messily scribble an E and show the spectator But, don’t ask any questions this time around, just show it to the spectator Then

draw the N and show it to the spectator “Anything, no?” The spectator

will say “no” Because we have primed the spectator to believe that we are simply just scribbling random things

“Let me flesh out the details for you” At this point underneath the scribbles I write “Red” in normal handwriting “Oh! Sorry, so messy! Does this make sense now?”

Now take note, the Mayhem principle can be used to reveal names, numbers and words Have fun with this unique revelation principle

After peeking an image of a house, perform like so (take note: this is an example of what you can do with various drawings) I’ve started from left to right In the third image I scribbled moving from the right side, towards the middle This throws the spectator off the metaphorical scent

As you can see, I drew a clearer image of a house over the image of a scribbly house This is done because utilising MAYHEM with drawings isn’t as impressive as utilising MAYHEM with words Some people

Part Three

The performer divines the spectators pin code with zero process and zero preshow

This is something I’ve worked on for quite a while now, I have performed this effect (if you could even call it that) for a few years now Reading this now you may think, “what the hell? This has no chance of working” But it works, and the beauty of this principle is if it doesn’t work, it still works If you have been following my work for some time now, you would know that I have three stock Barnum Statements that I have created myself A Barnum Statement is a statement that is utilised within a reading It sounds ultra-personal to the spectator however you have in reality said the same statement to everyone else!

For the people that aren’t aware of my Barnum Statements, I’ll give you

a quick rundown of my three signature Barnum Statements

You like the idea of being mysterious

You owned a diary once or twice when you were little You get angry at weird things

This is what I say before I reveal a private piece of information (like a

first kiss) After these three lines I say, “does 2580 mean anything to you?”

When you break it down, 2580 is one of the most popular iPhone pin codes I personally believe the reason why is because it is simple to remember (It’s just a straight line going down)

Now the beauty of this line is, if the spectator confirms that it is or has been their pin code then it appears that the performer just divined their pin code if the spectator says, “that means nothing to me” Then you

simply reply with a, “it’ll show up in your future Keep an eye out for it” This

way if the spectator is ever hanging out with a friend and they see their friend type in their passcode, chances are it’s 2580

Why 2580?- 2580 is one of the most popular passcodes as of a census from June 11th 2011

iphone-passcodes-are-simple/

https://www.webpronews.com/most-used-The other passcodes that are popular are, 1234 and 0000 It would seem obvious that we have looked up a census if we would say to the spectator “does 1234 mean anything to you?” Same with “does 0000 mean anything to you?”

The census seems old (being that it was 2011) however 2580 is still an incredibly popular pin code and whenever I perform The Cold Pin, I regularly find people that have 2580 or have used 2580 as their pin code

I want to include with The Cold Pin an extra little piece I have used over

the years Enjoy

“May I borrow your phone for a minute? Awesome Look at me ” At this point

I secretly type 2580 with my thumb If it unlocks, I say “focus on your code” As I say this, I open up their phone app (the phone app is almost

always in the bottom left corner on the phone If it isn’t simply swipe downwards You will see a screen with a keyboard Type down “phone” The phone app will appear and tap on it This should only appear as if you are typing down the spectators thought of pin code) Once done, look at their most recent call I look at who the person is Most likely this person is a close friend, family member or partner to the spectator Meanwhile all this is happening, the spectator just believes I

am just reading their mind and pressing random numbers “Actually instead, hold the phone” At this point I exit out of the phone app and turn off the phone “Look at me focus on your pin code 2580?” Later when I

am performing another routine I can say, “who is -insert name-?”