For the first time under one cover, the definitive collection of impractical mental effects, direct from the working... More > repertoire of Lance Norris The Effects: Couldhopping. Using the power of your mind you can control cloud patterns, create and destroy clouds at will, create wind and rain and have a God-like control of the weather.Tea Baggage. You take the tea bag your friend has just used to brew a cup of tea and, reading the patterns and other tell-tale signs, you give an incredibly bold reading of your friend's past, present and future.Also: Lawn Dart Reading, Cold Reading with a Deck of Cards and The Coveted Three Minute Hypnosis Induction. This is the stuff all your friends will be doing in six months, once it's on TV. Be the first to blow them away now! < Less

A collection of Lance Norris' National and International reportage on the underbelly of the beast known as Hollywood.

Ask a Bitter Man, Vol. 1 is a small collection of Lance Norris' writings for Radio, TV, Film, Stage and Print from 1984 - 1999.

Two volunteers are give a copy of today's newspaper. A third person is given two sealed envelops. One is marked with the... More > first volunteer's name. Like wise the second envelop is marked with the second volunteer's name. They both randomly select a page from the newspaper and using the page numbers they are guided to a two separate races and horses in those races. When the envelopes are opened the names of each of the volunteer's horse is found to be inside the envelope that bares the volunteer's name.No switches, no stooges, no slight of hand. Can be played as an amazing prediction or a nefarious plot by the race tracks, the newspaper and organized crime to get the names of specific horses into the hands of their minion across the city. < Less

Lance Norris tips a simple and effective way to mark cards, either for 'advantage play' at poker or for use in mentalism.... More > You will win money using these cards and one day you will also get shot. You have been warned. < Less

Disappearing Elephants is a fun little mix of mentalist and bar bets. Included are the classic Read You Like A Book, where... More > Norris gives you his read on cold reading and even hand feeds you a complete Barnum Statement. Phony psychics have been know to pay hundreds of dollars for this kind of information. Speaking of hundreds of dollars, Norris will also teach you how to slow down, speed up and even stop your pulse, without breaking the bank.Kung Fu Grip and I Was Raised By Wolves are some of the most fun you will ever have in a bar. Eight tricks in all and one dirty joke. < Less

"Perfect code for those of us with short term memory loss" - Ed Mellon. "Is it possible for a trick to be too easy " - J. G.... More > Reed "Now I have an excuse for going to the bar." - Eddie Joseph. Cold and Flu Season is the kind of easy to learn two person code system that you can go out and try tonight if you wanted to. You ask your mark for the name of a famous person, or just a friend's name, or even have them select a card in their mind. You then call over your partner who has been out of ear-shot, and after placing her in a quick trance, she reveals the celb., the friend or the card. It's not meant for stage work, but this is a real worker in the bars. Norris used it for years in bar gigs in Boston. You also get the bar bet That's A Corker, where you seem to defy physics and as an added bonus, the essay The Name Game. All for less than the price of a cup of coffee! < Less

Finally, the real working on Cold Reading with a normal deck of cards. Simple, straight forward, easy to learn and Lance... More > also gives you an alternative 'Quick Hit' method that you can do anytime, anywhere that will blow them away and almost guarantee they'll sign up for a longer, more lucrative reading in the future.Start making money reading fortunes, like all the great scam artist are, today! < Less

Norris has been doing radio for over 25 years. In that time he's put together volumes of tricks and sage advice about being... More > a mentalist on the radio. These first couple of effect are the first part of the series.AND YOU ARE : You make a prediction. The host and a couple of callers give you random numbers. You add a couple numbers of your own and have the host total them up. You then have the host open your prediction and reveal... the name of the host was merely thinking of in his mind (which is my favorite way to think).Ok, why all the math. The host looks on the back of the prediction and there is a decoder. He decodes the name and sees that it breaks is the sum of the numbers called in by the random listeners. Now that's freaky.ALL YOU NEED IS MORE LUCK: In studio or on the phone, you divine the name of the Beatle the host was merely thinking of. And of course, Norris throws in a couple of bonus Bar Bets too. < Less

EFFECT: Using the power of your mind you can control cloud patterns, create and destroy clouds at will, create wind and rain... More > and have a God-like control of the weather.Rolf Alexander, a light opera performer who claimed he could cause cloud dispersal through concentration, demonstrated his theory of "creative realism" in Geneva Park, Canada on September 12, 1955. The Niagara Falls Evening Review reported that from 2:09 to 2:17 that afternoon, Alexander use his "creative realism" to dissipate three clouds, the first in just three minutes.Though never a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan, Lance Norris has undertaken the task of unlocking the secrets of Creative Realism, and presents them here for the very first time! < Less