Digital Mentalism V1 Hydra by Christopher Parrish

IMPORTANT INFO #1: When the “Digital Mentalism” duology was originally released last year, a number of respectable members of the magic community decided to publish their thoughts on the material. For more information, you can read a review from The Mentalist Blogger and watch the Youtube videos The Magic Minute channel has published on this first volume

IMPORTANT INFO #2: To perform the routines, “the Digital Billet Peek” and “An Image of Intuition,” a purchase of Shameer Salim’s Hydra app will have to be made over at Ellusionist.com. A billet-based version of “An Image of Intuition” is also included in this work, and most of the subtleties for “The Digital Billet Peek” can be applied to billet and prop-less name divinations.

“Digital Mentalism” is a new series of e-booklets by Christopher Parrish sharing his avant-garde approaches to using popular magic apps. Christopher believes that many of the apps released to the community are trapped by their original uses and presentations, and has written this series in hopes of expanding what these apps are truly capable of!

The first volume of this series opens with a foreword from legendary app developer and performer, Shameer Salim!

The Digital Billet Peek: Convert your Instagram profile into a peek device, allowing you to peek and divine anything your participants are thinking of! No need to purchase earbuds, smartwatches, or additional add-ons for the Hydra app!

Also contained in this first chapter of “Digital Mentalism” is Christopher’s presentation and justification for having participants Google the names of people they care about! Within the magic app community, this was an issue that very few have worked to solve!

An Image of Intuition: This may be one of the most aesthetically clean versions of the Spectator as Mind-Reader premise on the market! A chosen spectator is instructed to focus on an ancient symbol designed to enhance psychic potential. After contemplating the occult symbol, the chosen spectator is able to accurately divine the thoughts of another participant! No psychological forces or whisper ploys are used! From the audience’s perspective, the performer is simply facilitating the experience, and at no point is it made obvious that the performer knows the participants’ thoughts, too!

Rather than package these two routines together into a booklet and release it, Christopher unveils many other effects and subtleties that can be easily integrated into other forms of Mentalism, ones in which the use of apps is unnecessary! One such example is a variant of “An Image of Intuition” that uses a small stack of billets; no apps needed!

Structuring Divinations: This chapter comes right after “The Digital Billet Peek” and covers two topics-
Tangent #1: An essay detailing how Christopher scripts most of his material, allowing his demonstrations to be seen as a success to the audience, even if the deceptive method(s) fail.
Tangent #2: An essay detailing a modality for Mentalism, allowing you the potential to divine the EXACT thoughts in someone’s mind! No billets, apps, psychological forces, or any deceptive methods are used for this; simply live your life as a mind-reader and get ready to co-create miracles with those you meet!

With the “Digital Mentalism” series in your library, be prepared to wipe the dust off the magic apps on your phone!