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Free Wallet Written by Pablo Amirá Thanks for respecting this art and keeping this document to yourself.

Copyright: © 2016 Pablo Amirá All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.

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Introduction

Money sometimes can be elusive and you know that Magic and Mentalism as well as be a profession for some, a great passion, hobby, beautiful creative practice and performing art, it is also a business for many and business is all about making money from products and services. There is a lot of wallets available for mystery performers (I am even working in some secret projects right now), but you don’t need them to perform amazing moments for your audiences! They are tools, but just that. Years ago I wanted a stage size “Card to Wallet” but I did not want to invest the money in one. So what I did? I hack what is normal (buying something to get it) and I arrive to a simple solution that I will offer you now. No, I did not steal the wallet from someone. You will use a free of charge wallet that someone will give you and then through a simple modification, you will have a great new tool for mindreading and predictions. As well as the “Free Wallet” method, I will share with you now several interesting effects that you can do it with.

Enjoy this simple hacks and ideas. Pablo Amirá, 2016

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Free Wallet So, how in earth you will get a free card to wallet? Those things are expensive. Well, all banks around the world wants to offer his products and service to clients and potential clients. They offer prices, raffles, competitions and free products. One of them is a checkbook wallet if you get from them a checkbook. If you open an account, they will give you a checkbook wallet that you can easily modify to get a functional card to wallet that looks normal and handles like an “normal” wallet for performance. So your first step is simply going to a local bank, open an account with them and receive your free checkbook wallet that you can use as a stage size card to wallet. The second step is to modify the wallet so it will give you “card to wallet” properties. For this you need just a knife/scissor and some double side tape (or glue/blue tac). You will do a simple cut in the inside fabric so you can have access to an inner pocket from the outside, using the checkbook as a “guide” for your cards, business card or any object that you want to load.

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This is my “Free Wallet” (photo 1)

(photo 1)

As you can see, I keep a bill in there, some old credit cards, papers and a photo. This gives the wallet a natural looking and not like a “special prop”, just an incidental daily container used to isolate the object that will elicit your amazing moment. This is the simple modification that you need to do. As I already explain, you will use the checkbook as “guide” to place the object inside the inner right pocket. To do that you just need to cut the fabric or simple remove it. If you cut the fabric you need to glue the bottom section to the leather so the access will be easier (photo 2) (photo 2)

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So you can place any flat object on that pocket (behind the checkbook) and it can be instantly remove from the inner right pocket (photo 3 & 4)

(Photo 3)

(Photo 4)

Simple right? Most card to wallets work in this manner. There are other clever methods, but you don’t need them. This is easy to do and workable for real world performances. What if your wallet does not have a zipper? DON’T WORRY and stop thinking like a “tragician” (tragic magician). You don’t need do over-proof the fact that the object was isolated. In performance I keep the checkbook in my inner left jacket pocket, with the checkbook slightly removed. In this manner, the insertion of the loaded object is easier. You can place the checkbook wallet in either direction (facing you or facing your audience), that will place the business card or playing card face up or face down. Play with your options. Now, maybe you are thinking… but this wallet is not free, I have to pay to get the checkbook and maintain the account that I open!

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Well, if you don’t want to receive that free wallet (personally I did not pay extra for it when opening my account years ago) you can proceed in other manners. 1. Just go to a bank and politely ask if they have checkbook wallet “for sale”. They have tons of them and if you are kind (and you can even perform something interesting for that employee) they can give you one for free, without opening an account. 2. You can go to a flea market and get a checkbook wallet for a dollar and then modify it. 3. If you don’t want to do the previous options, just ask some friend if they have a checkbook wallet available for you in exchange of a performance. Most persons have a lot of them in their warehouse.

So now, you have free wallet (or you pay $1 at a flea market) and you modify it to have a simple loading system. Because you know this construction now, you can get several different type of wallets (now just this checkbook type) and play with them to have different options. If you need replacement, don’t worry, just repeat the steps and you can get other free wallet! Let see now some interesting effects in which you will use your “Free Wallet” to create predictions and mindreading. Obviously, you can do “signed card to wallet” and other magic effects with this. I will not explore those options because I don’t perform magic tricks.

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Animal Intuition

Outer Reality The performer asks everyone in the audience to think in his personal favorite animal, letting them know that this process is based in a psychological interesting fact. Then a participant is asked to name outloud his decision and 3 reasons why this animal is his favorite. With this information the performer can do an accurate reading about the participant personality. The performer now claims that inside his wallet, previous the performance, he wrote something for the near future. The participant reads outloud the paper and correctly predicts his decided animal

Inner Reality In this precognitive piece we will use a technique that I label as “Single Writing”. This is similar to “Double Writing” but bolder in the psychological aspect, because you will literally will write the prediction in front of the audience AS IF you are writing other information that then you will memorize and read from the card. It is a bold technique that you need to master in the finesses to make it work. If you are not confident enough, use double writing, modifying the necessary steps.

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So you have your “Free Wallet” ready in your inner left jacket pocket (if you are right handed), ready to receive your prediction. Also you need a stack of cards in which the 2nd card is written in this manner:

The animal will be

The space below is blank obviously so you can fill the necessary animal. Now you guide your audience towards this “psychological interesting fact” (Credits to Kenton Knepper for the utilization of this psychological games). Then you select your participant, ask for his name, do a “double lift” and apparently write the name on the top card, in reality you will just move the pen as if you are writing. This will indirectly stablish the idea that you are writing information in your card. Now ask him to name outloud his decision. After you hear it, smile (communicating indirectly that you are correct in your prediction) and follow immediately with the next question: “Now give me 3 reasons why you think in that animal” Let your participant name his reasons and “write them”, in reality as you know you will just mimic the action to write. When you

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write the 3rd one, you will just write now for real but the animal on the proper blank space. Now you will turnover two cards and place the “written card” (in reality a blank one) on your top pocket or in an available place in which your participants can see it. In this manner the prediction is on top of the stack, ready to be palmed. Now invite your participant onstage (or in parlor situation you can approach him) and while this is happening just palm the card and load it inside the wallet while you claim that before everything happens you wrote something and place it inside your wallet. Let the participant take the card face down. Now take the blank visible card (your participant thinks that you wrote his name and the 3 characteristics) and read it! This is a great indirect technique to communicate them that you wrote the information. Now read your prediction while your participant confirms everything and give the prediction as souvenir.

Extra Ideas 1.As you can understand, this method is a really interesting manner to predict a thought of animal, and with a little of thought from your part, anything that you want! 2. You can also add to the wallet any of the special envelopes available to do a prediction inside a sealed envelope.

Credits and Reference This effect is based on my “Impromptu Prediction 3.0”, released in my eBook “Anywhere Predictions”, which originally just use business cards (perfect for impromptu situations).

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Believe in Mindreading Outer Reality The performer takes a deck of cards, looks deeply to a member of the audience while he is thinking in any card, takes one specific card and place it in his wallet. Then the participant is asked to name out loud his decision which is exactly the card that the strange psychic placed in his wallet moments ago.

Inner Reality This is a mindreading piece which use the dramatic progression of my piece called “BelievESP” from my eBook “E5P”. The dramatic progression allows you to have a funny relaxation moment in which you can load the palmed card in the wallet. On stage take your deck of cards and share the theme of “belief”. This will be congruent with your actions and will give the performance more entertainment and interest. Ask for a participant who believes in the remote possibility of mind-to-mind communication to stand up and to think in a playing card. Now look one participant deeply as if you are reading his mind, and after that “you read his mind” in your subtext just spread the cards in your hands, take one card (it can be a psychological force/archetypical choice such as Ace of Spade or Seven of Hearts) and place it in your wallet openly. You can place it in the same pocket in which you retrieve the loaded objects or even the left

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side pocket (in my case). Do it casually and no one will notice then the illogical procedure, just focus in being natural. Now ask the participant to name his card outloud. If you guess correctly the card, you don’t need to do something extra, just reveal the card while you say: “You believe right?... Because you believe, you will see…” while you turn over the card and receive the applause. If you don’t guess correctly, you will simple add: “Do you remember that at the beginning I look you directly, I spread this deck of cards and I place one card on my wallet?” While you say this, you will literally spread the deck, find the named card and placed on top of the deck. Now you will show your palm empty indirectly just gesturing, dramatically take the wallet, open it, show just the back of the card, look it yourself and say: “That is exactly right, your thought of card…” Now just place the card back again and place the wallet again on your pocket but this time take a little bit of the checkbook so you can then load the card. At this moment you will have a funny relaxation moment in which you audience will act skeptic about the revelation. At this moment palm the card in your right hand and load it on the wallet while you remove it again and say: “I sense that you don’t believe… You told me that you believe right? …Yes And because you believe, you will see”. And now you will reveal the correct card.

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As you can see, a great way to predict a thought of card and to engage the whole audience into a process that you can use deeply to do readings and for other creative uses.

Extra Ideas 1. You can use also “Mene Tekel” decks to do the work even easier. 2. With extra thought you can do a prediction piece rather mindreading, remember to study the moments correctly so you are congruent at every aspect during the performance.

Credits and Reference This card piece is inspired by my “BelievESP” from my eBook “E5P”, which is originally based on the work of Francis Carlyle's Homing Card from the book Stars of Magic.

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George is Psychic! Outer Reality The performer announce that a strange and funny thing was made prior the performance with a dollar bill. Then three member of the audience name three presidents from USA (or your local country), from which only one is the chosen one. After this process, you take from your wallet a folded bill which shows the printed figure from the bill with a message that predicts exactly the decided president.

Inner Reality I create this piece time ago with only one goal in mind, which is using that classical joke to write a “speech balloon” in a bill which predicts a thought. I work this simple idea and I decide to use named presidents to predict. The workings are very easy. Fold a bill in quarters and write something like this (photo 1)

In the 3rd quarter you will leave a blank space to then during performance, fill the one that you will force. (photo 1)

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Fold the bill in quarters in such a way that you have access to the 3rd quarter, place it in a notepad in this manner and you are ready to perform an interesting and fun prediction (photo 2)

(photo 2) Introduce the theme for your performance and announce that you need three members from the audience to stand up while you explain that in your wallet there is a bill folded that contains something for the future. Tear a page from the notebook, place it on top of everything but keep the access to the bill and let three members of the audience to name three presidents. Write the first two but the 3rd one write it directly to the bill (this is a form of Single Writing, the technique that we use in “Animal Intuition”). After the three presidents are named, invite one of the participant to join you on stage while you palm the dollar bill in your right hand. Then leave the notebook in a table or appropriate place and while you apparently just hand the wallet to your onstage participant, load the bill. Now comeback to the notebook and announce outloud the “three presidents” (as you know, you only have two written, but you will read them as if there are three). Now you will ask the participant to just imagine “the three

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presidents floating invisible in the air” and you now you will use Equivoque to force the appropriate one. I will explain you a basic method for 3-element Equivoque in here based in the work of Annemann. If you want to expand your knowledge about it, you can study several other sources for detailed explanation and finesses. “Imagine that 1, 2 and 3 are floating in the air (1,2,3 are the presidents, 3 is the one to force). Only one will be selected, the other ones will not be important now. So please take one in each hand imaginary and announce which ones you took” If you participant takes 1 and 2, you continue with: “Ok, so only one remains, which is….” Let the participant reply. If you participant takes 3 and other one, continue saying: “And hand one to me as the final decision” Now, no matter what happens, direct attention to the “3” and you are done. Now slowly recapitulate everything, take the wallet from your participant´s hands, take your bill, do the action to open it (that will indirectly communicate that the prediction was in the inside) and reveal the president! A fun and different type of prediction with a lot of audience participation.

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Extra Ideas 1. You can also use a coin to predict thoughts. I have a routine in my “Anywhere Predictions” eBook that you can use impromptu with a borrowed coin. 2. Keeping the theme congruent with the objects used, you can also ask not just for presidents, but also for historical figures in your country.

Credits and Reference As far as I know, the use of a “speech balloon” in this way for a prediction is original. This handling is based in a routine called “Numerology Prediction”, offered in the instructional video for my “Universal Peek Device”, in which I mix the use of secret writing and equivoque to arrive to the prediction.

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Reversed PIN Outer Reality The performer announce that he feels that four audience members are very intuitive and they will know something very personal. After a relaxation ritual, each one thinks in a single digit number in their mind. After that the four digits are announced outloud. For the surprise of everyone, the performer from his wallet takes a credit card in which his PIN code is written, which is exactly the four-digit number created by the intuitive audience members.

Inner Reality This is a prediction piece that uses a common object such a credit card to reveal again, a piece of information which is coherent with the object itself, something interesting to start to think about it. The setup is very simple, you have already the wallet ready with the chechbook protruding (so you can do the load) and a credit card with a big blank sticker to one side placed in your pocket. The sticker must be face up. In your pocket also you need a tiny pencil because you will use “pocket writing” to secretly imprint the 4 digit numbers on the blank sticker while your participant are naming them. This is a very easy pocket writing routine because your surface is very rigid and you can palm it then to load it in the wallet. Remember to be engaging and to understand the moments that this routine provides you. You can play it seriously at the beginning doing the “relaxation ritual” so your participants start to receive

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impressions and then for the climax you can be comical about the fact that now everyone knows your PIN number.

Extra Ideas 1. You can use “Double Writing for this” or even the “Single Writing” technique that we saw previously. 2. You can also predict with this method the PIN of other audience member, but I prefer to do it in this manner.

Credits and Reference For more pocket writing work you can check John Riggs and Mark Strivings material. As far as I know, the use of a credit card as “pocket writing” surface is original but inspired by the work of John Riggs in “PW”.

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Conclusion I started my personal creative journey in Mentalism 10 years ago. I did not have the money that I “need” to get a good toolkit, so I took the hard route of creating my own variants and options to expensive gimmicks and props. I am glad that I started in that manner, because I learn a beautiful lesson. All I need is inside my mind. Far more important that the method to get a “free” wallet, the method to transform it into a “card to wallet” or the techniques, effects and mindset that I offer in this short eBook, the best lesson in my opinion is to understand the value of your own creativity. Of course, the effects presented in here don’t need really the special wallet. You can use other method to load or switch the predictions, this is just an interesting way to do it. Don’t take your limits as limits, rather opportunities to run in new directions. Enjoy your performances and your new wallet!

Pablo Amirá , 2016

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