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• Archive: Millard Longman’s“Millard’s Mental Musings”featuring:Psychic Readings for GroupsPsychic Skills: Readings & HealingsFrom The Fool to The Magician and BeyondSymbols on the PathPlus more…Millard and I started out with what seemed, at the time, a simple enough goal: to re-release his Psychic Readings for Groups.
• If you’re not familiar with this brilliant approach to the Question Answering Act, it’s for a good reason — prior to now, this publication was only available as an exclusive to a well-known association of psychic entertainers.
• Time passes, however, and we felt that Psychic Readings for Groups deserved a slightly larger audience.
• Not too much larger, mind you, since it’s that good.As I was looking for the original manuscript, however, I came across a folder of writings Millard had sent me over the years, and it occurred to me that much of it had only seen limited exposure in emails and on private forums, and needed to be seen by more people in the psychic entertainment community.Millard agreed with me, and we decided to release the collection now known as “Millard’s Mental Musings”.Take a look at what’s in it….
• Psychic Readings for Groups“Psychic Readings for Groups” is simplicity itself:Folded cards are handed out to audience members.They are invited to write questions on them and fold them up again.The performer collects the cards, and proceeds to answer specific questions immediately.Annemann once stated that the key question to ask when developing an act was, “What would a real psychic do?”Based on my own experiences in the real world, the answer to Annemann’s question lies in the description above.When Millard and I first started talking about Q&A acts several years ago, we both expressed an appreciation for George Anderson’s venerable contribution to the field, “Dynamite Mentalism.” As compelling as his approach was, it had two main weaknesses — you absolutely had to have a large audience for it to be effective, and there was the distinct possibility that no one would own up to the answers you were delivering.Millard’s method does not have either of these weaknesses, and will work as well for a small intimate gathering as it will for a large audience.In fact, “Psychic Readings for Groups” may just be the perfect way to begin a psi party.