Mind Mysteries Too

THE BLURB:
Mind Mysteries Too continues on from the high-water mark set
by the first Mind Mysteries series, one of the best-selling
video sets in magic history. Transcending the boundaries of
traditional mentalism and magic, Mind Mysteries Too
completes the circle of Richard Osterlind’s life work to
date. You’ll see Richard captivating and astounding a studio
audience with his original material and then you’ll go
behind the scenes once again, along with host Jim Sisti, as
he explains every nuance of the inner workings of each
effect. What’s more, each set of performances is arranged as
a mini-show, demonstrating Richard Osterlind’s classical
approach to routining, an invaluable lesson in itself! If
you enjoyed Mind Mysteries, as thousands did, you’ll love
these Mind Mysteries Too!

VOLUME 5
Set One

ULTRA BOARD—For the first time on video, see Richard
Osterlind perform his classic Mental Epic type effect with
an ungimmicked board!
SPOON BEND—A totally new bend with an ordinary spoon that
looks impossible! This takes spoon bending to new heights!
FORK BEND—Three forks just melt over at the mentalist’s
command! It looks like power shoots from the mentalist’s
hands!
THE VERY MODERN MINDREADER—This is a whole act that uses
nothing but a few cards and envelopes. This one can make
your reputation as a mind reader!
DIGITAL FEEDBACK—This is the best calculator effect ever!
You will stun your audience numerous times and leave them
with an ending they will remember!

Set Two

INSIDE THE FOLD—This is one of Richard’s most cherished
secrets! An audience member calls out a number. He is handed
a folded card which has been in the performer’s empty hands
from the beginning. The chosen number is predicted inside.
It is that clean!
STAINLESS STEEL BLINDFOLD—This is one of the classics of
mentalism. See Richard perform his favorite routine right
out of the manual!
PENOMENALLY (PSYCHIC CONTROL)—A pen placed on a bottle moves
at the mentalist’s command! There are no threads and the
movement is totally under the performer’s control!

Set Three

STOPPING A WATCH—The actual mechanics of stopping watches
and changing the times are demonstrated. Richard discusses
the applications to many types of watches. Also included is
controlling a compass and how to mentally destroy a hotel
room key!

VOLUME 6
Set FOUR

MIRACLE FLYING CARDS—See Richard do his classic routine in a
new updated fashion in front of a large audience. You will
see why this has been called one of the best stand-up card
effects ever created!
SPIRIT WRITING ON CARD—This is a totally new routine! A
number of blank and ungimmicked index cards are displayed.
One is chosen and a design is called out. When a lighter is
run across the card, the chosen design is burned into the
card! Richard also shows how to control the flame of a
lighter!
MULTIPLE KEY BENDING—This is Richard’s personal routine for
bending a number of borrowed keys in the hands of a
spectator! See how Richard uses suggestion to first cause
her hands to lock together and how she feels the keys
bending! The best method for bending keys on stage!
CLIP LINE DELUXE—Once you see this effect, you will really
understand what’s so special about Richard’s thinking! The
classic Clip Line effect is performed in such a way as to
look totally impossible even if you know the original
secret! This is spectacular!

Set FIVE

AMAZING MEMORY DEMONSTRATION—This may be the most important
routine in the series! Not only will you learn one of the
most stunning demonstrations you can perform, but the advice
Richard gives could change the very way you live!
STENO ESP—This is Richard’s method of doing the classic
Mental Epic-type effect with nothing but a steno pad! Not
only is this easy and fun, but you will see how Richard’s
thinking reverses some of the workings!

Set SIX

OUT OF HAND—This routine has long been unavailable. It won
widespread acceptance when it first appeared on Richard’s
Challenge Magic. With this, you will have one of the most
entertaining Six-Card Repeat-type effects ever invented!
INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH LINK—The performer repeatedly links and
unlinks a large industrial spring from a coat hanger with
ease while the spectator fails every time! The routine grows
in impossibility until the spring actually unlinks in the
spectator’s hand!
COIN SNATCH—Richard Osterlind’s own way of doing the old
classic with a clever new addition which will convince your
audience that you have the fastest hands in the world!
ORIGINAL INSIDE OUT—This is the first time this effect has
appeared anywhere! A single folded card repeatedly turns
itself inside out with just a wave of the hand! The effect
grows as a paper clip is placed onto it. What’s more, the
card is given out at the end!

VOLUME 7
Set SEVEN

QUESTION AND ANSWER ACT—This act is worth the price of the
whole series! Questions are written by the audience and
collected in open view. Still the mentalist answers them in
an impossible way! Not only is this act new and stunning, it
is the simplest Q&A act of them all! You will LOVE this!

Set EIGHT

TEST CONDITIONS II—Remember the Test Condition Card Effect
from Richard’s first series? This is another effect with the
Breakthrough Card System that will floor even advanced card
men! You find a chosen card under impossible conditions
after the spectator returns the card himself and shuffles
the deck!
TRIBUTE TO TARBELL—A spectator thinks of a card. Another
spectator brings her hand down on the spread deck and finds
the first person’s card! A killer anytime, anywhere mystery!
PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPOSSIBILITY—A mentally chosen card
mysteriously vanishes from one half of a deck to appear in
the performer’s pocket! See how Richard takes a standard
effect and turns it into a major mystery!
MATCHBOOK PREDICTION—This is one of the most entertaining
and mysterious card effects you can do! A chosen card
appears on the inside cover of a book of matches not
once—but twice! The audience howls with delight!

Set NINE

ESP STACK—Richard shows his new ESP stack and how it is used
to duplicate the actual tests devised for these cards. This
routine looks just like the real thing!
OSTERLIND DESIGN DUPLICATION (ODDS)—Richard’s revolutionary
method of doing the design duplication effect. This routine
was developed based on actual laboratory techniques for
testing ESP and is the closest thing to real ESP!
ASHES ON THE ARM—The classic effect is updated by Richard. A
spectator writes the initials of a family member on a piece
of paper which is burned. The ashes from the burned paper
are rubbed on the mentalist’s arm (or hand) and the initials
appear in the ashes! This looks uncanny!
Set TEN

PEN PADDLE MOVE—This is Richard’s trademark routine which he
uses in trade shows. The writing on a pen repeatedly appears
and vanishes. You will be amazed at the effect Richard
achieves using this classic principle!
DAD’S FAVORITE—The spectator cuts a deck of cards over and
over into four final piles. The top cards are turned over
and found to be the four Aces! This amazing effect was
actually taught to Richard by his father when he was a young
boy!
HAUNTED KEY—Richard performs the classic Haunted Key effect
using the methods from his classic book, Making Magic Real.
You will see how the key turns over with no movement of the
performer’s hands!
SOLID GHOST—This classic is one of Richard’s favorites! A
solid ghost appears inside the dark recesses of a folded
handkerchief! It is tapped with a spoon and felt by a
spectator before it disappears back into nothingness! Watch
how Richard uses this to close the show!

MY COMMENTS:
Let's see: Richard's first four volumes of Mind Mysteries
rank as one of L&L Video's all-time best-sellers. They
contain some of the best work from one of mentalism's most
creative minds and became an instant DVD classic of
mentalism. This new set of three DVDs is the sequel and
it contains most of Richard's material that was not
included on the first set, including material created and
marketed since that first set was recorded and released.

Even though there are only three DVDs in this series, as
opposed to four in the original set, there seems to be just
as much material and the material is just as good. Only a
few of the routines require special apparatus that Richard
sells. And Richard presents only a few card effects (for
those concerned about that statistic). Even though you
don't have to have the first set to enjoy this new one,
there are a couple of places where Richard refers to
material on the earlier DVDs. For instance, one effect uses
his Breakthrough Card System, but it's not explained on this
set.

It's very difficult to be objective, but this really is a
no-brainer decision. These are a must-have for any
mentalist's DVD library.