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When DekEl sent me his Mindcraft: Psionics book to review I was truly intrigued by the idea of Mene, Mene, Dekel. I believe all of us were. So I gave it some thought and had some conversation with Bill and ended up writing some additional notes for this particular effect. However, we both felt that there was something we

hadn’t figured out yet – something that just escaped our hands whenever we tried to catch it. Well, one afternoon I was sitting around, thinking ( as you do ) when I came up with the idea presented to you in this book. If letters have ending points, they obviously have starting points, too. So why not see if I could do the MMD effect with looking at where a letter starts? It would make the whole process a bit cleaner again, and by having them write the word as fast as possible there would be a perfect reason as to why they’d have to have their finger on the starting point while I’m still looking. Usually, I wave my hand really fast in front of their face to demonstrate the afterimage I’m talking about.

DekEl did a great job at expanding on my idea ( which expanded on his idea ) and figuring out practical routines for them. I won’t bother describing everything that DekEl described again but instead inform you about some of the additional

touches to make this effect maybe just a little bit stronger.

Looking away:

As I mentioned in my notes for MMD already I often had spectators suspecting that I was watching out of the corner of my eye what they wrote although I actually turned away far enough and didn’t see anything. That’s why I now instead opt for keeping turned towards them but to have my eyes closed.

In general, if you don’t need to see what the spectator does and want to convince the spectator that you can’t see anything just close your eyes. It’s so much more convincing than a blindfold, I never had a spectator suspect me of having see-through eyelids. Personally I found that this effect is made a bit stronger by just closing your eyes.

Practicing:

Here’s a list I made up for you to practice this effect with a little bit of security. I’ll explain to you how to use it in a moment. First the list:

- NAMES - WATER - PUDGY - DISCS - TROLL - WHITE

This list includes words which, spread over all of them, include all of the blue letters in DekEl’s diagram. Also, I tried to make an effort so that each word would be made up of mostly blue letters.

If you just started learning “The Airwriter” you’ll find this list very useful. Instead of giving the spectator a totally free choice of word, give him the choice of a word from the list. Of course, this isn’t near as amazing as the normal “Airwriter” but until you feel comfortable to have the spectator choose any word you can use this list to get used to the ‘blue’ letters. Obviously, if you know the list you’ll latest after two letters will know what word the spectator is about to write.

Obviously, as always, be careful to instruct the spectator to write in capitals!

Additional ideas:

- Use this principle with Ben Harris’ “Silent Running” procedure. Instead of doing all the fishing, have them write their number into the air and reveal their card.

- Use this in a psychic reading – have them write their problem or the name of a passed away person or someone close to them into the air. Then consult the spirit world and reveal their thoughts. A very nice premise is that while closing your normal eyes you open your third eye to see what they’re writing.

- Use this for a booktest – they’ll be able to choose any word, any page, any book. You determine the word.

- After you know what word they are about to write, say “Alright, we’re going to make this a little bit harder for me. I’ll take my frame away and turn around, you draw the next letter and then wipe over it. I’ll try and still see the after image.” Do so, it works quite well.

I really feel that DekEl got most out of the potential of this technique and although I provided the extended idea he did creative and good work on writing the

instructions and creating routines.

After I saw DekEl’s work on this idea I felt like that’s what we were looking for when we first started on working on additional ideas for Mene, Mene, Dekel. We definitely took this idea further than we first thought and created a great routine.

Most of this resulted out of just thinking about the principle and performing over and over again until maybe something else would come to mind to include.

Thanks to DekEl for his great work and the interesting conversations we had – this shows how far two people can take something were one person maybe has a temporary block.

I am sure you enjoyed “The Airwriter”. [email protected] – my email address in case of any questions.

All the best,

Timon.