Building Blocks by Luke Jermay, used

Excellent condition, first edition 2003.

Luke Jermay has done it again! He has decided to release more of his awesome material, the routines which he uses to stun audiences around the world. In this important new volume, Luke has tipped the real work on using Suggestion Techniques. Luke covers the Definition = Creation theory along with several other techniques and teachings. This, coupled with his groundbreaking applications of the four Convincers, is enough to transform and amplify your performances right away. But that’s just for starters! Wait until you see some of the effects he teaches.

Imagine yourself performing these routines:

* A plucked rose visibly wilts and dies as you talk about the fragility of life

* An aura reading routine, which climaxes with the spectator genuinely seeing your aura - and you can provide proof!

* You cause the spectator’s sense of time to physically slow down (we don’t just mean their watch, although of course that happens as well!). They are almost unable to physically move as they are stuck in a single moment of time.

* You perform a version of Out Of This World, with a borrowed deck, with no set-up, no sleights or switches. In fact the spectator’s intuition can even be shown as correct for each individual card as it is dealt! This is the real work on the verbal control of a spectator.

* Despite being blindfolded, you can read a selected sentence chosen at random from a borrowed book, with your fingertips! You can even scan through the whole book with your fingertips and comment on the story and characters. Did we mention that the blindfold is real and that you genuinely can’t see a thing and you can do this anywhere anytime?!

* Imagine having your spectator actually feel their thought leave their mind and enter yours - imagine no more! With the Burst Bubble suggestion, your spectator will believe they felt the moment of magic happen inside their own mind!

These are just a few of the incredible routines that Luke teaches in this new book. Every routine is accompanied by his suggestion techniques as applied to that specific piece, as well as his full performance script, plus many additional touches and ideas.

His sensational Out of This World is taken to an even more impossible level with just five un-gimmicked ESP cards. He has shared his personal Book Test, his acclaimed work on PK Touches, his thinking on playing cards in mentalism and so much more. He teaches the techniques of Anchoring and specifically how to apply them to magic performances.

By blending up-to-the-minute psychological techniques with some classic conjuring methodology, Luke has created cutting-edge Mentalism and Magick effects that will have your audiences believing that you can do anything! Going far beyond the material in his first release, 7 Deceptions, this new book really does teach you the “Building Blocks” of becoming an expert at previously jealously guarded techniques of suggestion and mind control.

What People are Saying:

"Luke Jermay's Building Blocks is a brilliant and exhilarating blueprint of magic's tomorrow. Not only a collection of stunning audience-centred wonders, but also a clear and detailed guide to constructing your own. Buy it now! It will change the way you do magic forever."
- Caleb Strange

" Luke is one of those rare individuals who brings a unique touch of originality to everything he does. Great thinking and great routines! With fresh presentations like these, I look forward to the future of our craft."
- Steve Banachek

" Unless you want to be left behind, I suggest you get Luke's works. Luke applies Wonder Words, suggestion and psychology in a manner which makes all of us who have gone before very proud indeed. Luke's applications are a must-have for all who would perform the "new magic" and mentalism sweeping the minds and hearts of the public and modern peers. If you wish to continue the journey made popular by some of us, then Luke's offerings are almost required".
- Kenton Knepper

" Building Blocks is simply SENSATIONAL and I like it very much. If you want to enhance the power of your tricks into real wonders or miracles, YOU NEED A COPY OF THIS BOOK! It contains techniques, which you have never dreamt of, but the best thing is: they really work! I recommend this book highly to every serious performer of our art. It is worth its weight in gold, pure gold!"
- Ted Lesley

" We have all long wanted to use the power of suggestion in our mentalism routines, but have not quite figured out exactly how to use it. We need want no longer; Luke Jermay is here to fill our desires!

In his new book titled Building Blocks, Luke teaches us the missing links to making our suggestive mentalism as good as we have wanted it to be.

Luke teaches us, through discussion and example routines, exactly how to use the Building Blocks of suggestive mentalism in our own performances. Luke first describes The Fundamental Building Blocks, followed by The Convincers, and then The Building Block Technique. Luke then gives us many routines using these breakthrough concepts that we can use as is, or adapt to our own personalities.

Luke splits these routines up into three categories:
Routines that actually use no suggestion, but let us practice using suggestion in a risk free way;
Routines that use some suggestion, but have a mechanical method to achieve an effect;
Routines that rely completely on suggestion.

Building Blocks is destined to become a classic text for mentalists and Luke Jermay has secured his place on the list of thought leaders in our beloved art.