The fundamental mechanics: misdirection, Pepper’s ghost optics, psychological forcing, and secret gimmicks.
A comprehensive technical and engineering treatise on mechanical illusion gimmicks, Black Art physics, invisible thread materials science, and expanded coin metallurgy.
A definitive cognitive neuroscience exploration of misdirection, overt and covert attention, social gaze cueing, saccadic suppression, and Tony Slydini’s off-beat psychology.
A definitive optical and theatrical engineering analysis of the Pepper’s Ghost illusion, from Dickens’ Victorian stage to Disney’s Haunted Mansion and modern concerts.
A definitive psychological analysis of forcing techniques, equivoque branching logic, the Classic Force in card magic, cognitive heuristics, and subconscious priming.