The Paradigm Shift Ebook: Volume Two by Michael Close

The Paradigm Shift Volume Two features groundbreaking essays that will change the way you think about your magic, beautiful sleights that will deceive both laymen and magicians, and commercial, devious routines you will enjoy performing. Included are ideas and routines from Mick Ayres, Roy Walton, Harry Riser, Norman Beck, Michael Weber, Jason England, Aaron Fisher, Joshua Jay, and Ton Onosaka. As with our previous ebooks, we have used text, photos, and video to provide an optimal learning experience.

After more than a decade, Michael Close has finally released his long-awaited ebooks, The Paradigm Shift Volumes One and Two. They are being released at an introductory price.

Here is the table of contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• About This Ebook
• About the Material
• Fair and False Faro Foolery
• The False Faro Placement
• Homer's False Faro
• The FFP and the Classic Force
• The FFP and Vernon's Key Card Placement
• The FFP and Charlie Miller's Spread Force
• The FFP and the Open Index
• A Chaotic FFP
• The Mickey Location
• Roy Walton's Shift Work and the FFP
• The Forgotten Sunken Prediction
• Why it Works
• Seven-Second Delay
• The Shuffle
• The Way of the Duck
• Some History
• I Know What You're Thinking
• Duck Danger - Third Eye
• Jogging My Memory
• Some Good Books
• Some Good Tricks
• Complementary Tricks
• Card Control by the Numbers
• Here's What's New
• Some Useful Memdeck Drills
• Now That's A Coincidence
• The Guatemalan Miracle
• A Little History
• Self-Working Tricks - What's the Price
• Understanding the Method
• Here's the Work
• The Five Cards that Don't Work
• Aronson Stack Chart
• Tamariz Stack Chart
• Trust No One ACAAN
• Not ACAAN
• Tantalizing Tricks
• Norman Beck's Tantalizer
• How Did I Screw That Up
• The Royal Tantalizer
• End Game
• A Few Ideas From Jason England
• Finding the Tipping Point
• Defining Our Terms
• The Christ Twist and The Mechanical Reverse
• The GHP
• Close's Handling of the GHP
• Incorporating the GHP
• The Deja Vu Trick
• The Paradigm Shift
• What's Different About This Shift
• What I Misunderstood
• The Overt Action
• Gripping the Deck
• The Opposing Pressures
• The Devil in the Details
• Some Things to Think About
• Who Has the Power
• Venue Considerations
• Social Skills
• Who Has the Power
• My Favorite Things
• The Atheist Card Trick
• The IKEA Card Trick
• The Matching Miracle
• A Trick for Sheldon Cooper
• The Trick that Fooled Houdini and His Whole Fricking Family
• You Bet Your Life
• The End (of Volume Two)