Magic Video - Joshua Quinn - Ascension

Unleash Unforgettable Intuitive Power

Step into a realm where genuine intuitive abilities are not just imagined, but demonstrably proven. Joshua Quinn's 'Ascension' system empowers you to transcend the ordinary and provide a truly inexplicable experience for your audience. Imagine setting the stage by challenging the age-old wisdom of a common supermarket horoscope magazine. You present a volunteer with one of these magazines, asking them to silently read their horoscope for a chosen month and then assign it an accuracy score. No matter their verdict, you confidently declare that you can do significantly better, preparing them for an encounter that will redefine their understanding of intuitive insight.

Beyond Cold Reading: A Profound Personal Revelation

With 'Ascension', you're not just performing a trick; you're delivering a deeply personal and astonishingly accurate reading that will resonate profoundly with your volunteer. After the horoscope challenge, you turn to face them and proceed to paint a vivid, insightful portrait of their personality and current life circumstances. This isn't mere 'cold' reading; it's an outpouring of specific, detailed information about their character, actions, and situations that you seemingly had no way of knowing. Delivered with unwavering confidence and clarity, these revelations strike at the heart of their experience, creating an emotional connection that transcends simple entertainment.

The Zenith of Mentalism: Clean, Untraceable, Unassisted

'Ascension' stands apart as a masterclass in clean, direct, and powerful mentalism. The culmination of this routine sees you effortlessly revealing the volunteer's zodiac sign, sealing their belief in your extraordinary abilities without any pumping, guessing, or suspicious maneuvers. The brilliance of 'Ascension' lies in its multi-layered methodology, designed to deliver the most impactful and memorable personal details in a completely untraceable manner. You'll perform in real time, with no need for writing, no laborious setup, no external assistance, no pre-show work, and absolutely no stooges — instant or otherwise. This system is pure, unadulterated mentalism, allowing you to focus entirely on the connection with your audience and the profound impact of your reveal.

Elevate Your Reputation and Impact

By mastering 'Ascension', you not only outperform any arbitrary benchmark like a horoscope magazine but also establish yourself as a mentalist of unparalleled skill and insight. The intimate, inexplicable experience you provide will be etched into your volunteer's memory, talked about long after the performance concludes. This isn't just about demonstrating unusual intuitive skills; it's about crafting a moment of genuine wonder and connection. The power of the information you reveal, delivered with such elegant simplicity and untraceable methods, puts the ultimate creative freedom in your hands. How you choose to utilize this profound insight to inspire, entertain, or mystify is entirely up to your imagination.

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Imagine...

After establishing yourself as a person with some unusual intuitive skills, you say you'd like to put those skills to a real, measurable test. In order to do that, you need some sort of benchmark to compare them against. There are various items that could serve this purpose, from tarot cards to personality profiles. But, you explain, because you like to set the bar high, you've chosen the divinatory tool which, throughout the several-thousand-year history of esoteric practice, has generally been regarded as the most trusted source of metaphysical wisdom and insight into the human condition: a horoscope mini-magazine, direct from the supermarket checkout counter.

You give such a magazine to a volunteer, pointing out that it deals with four distinct areas of life: love, money, health, and leisure. You then turn your back and ask your volunteer to look up her horoscope -- either for the current month (if it's far along enough to get a good sense of how it's turning out), or for the previous month (if it's too soon to tell how this month is going yet). In either case, she silently reads her horoscope. When she's finished, you ask her to consider how accurate it seems in hindsight. She does, and arrives at a "percentage score" for the magazine's accuracy, which you write down. No matter what it is, you say you think you can do better.

You then turn to face the volunteer again, and proceed to give her a disarmingly accurate and insightful description of her personality and her current situation in life. This is no mere "cold" reading, as it contains a wealth of specific information that you had no way of knowing, including personal details about her character, actions, and circumstances, delivered confidently and unequivocally. You then wrap things up by revealing her zodiac sign, with no pumping or guesswork. With that, not only have you done much better than the magazine, but you've given the volunteer an intimate, inexplicable experience that she'll never forget.

ASCENSION really is just that clean, direct and strong. It's a system that uses layers of methods to deliver, in a completely untraceable way, the most powerful and memorable information that we as mentalists can reveal: personal details about someone's life. Furthermore, it does so in real time, with no writing, no setup, no assistance, no pre-show, and no stooges (instant or otherwise). How you use that information is then up to your own imagination.