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RICHARD OSTERLIND'S "TRANSPARENT FORCES" — A COMPLETE SYSTEM FOR FORCING AND INFLUENCING YOUR AUDIENCE'S THOUGHTSRichard Osterlind’s Transparent Forces—a professional-grade, clear change bag system for mentalism that lets you force thoughts, objects, names, or images under seemingly impossible conditions. Developed and used by Osterlind for decades in his corporate and stage work, it includes a heavy-duty transparent bag (far superior to ordinary freezer-bag versions), silhouette templates for The Phantom Artist, the Errata (disctionary book test routine), the Seafire Sequence effect, and a detailed manual. Limited only by your imagination—and one of the strongest forcing tools in mentalism.Priced at a steep discount to sell fast. Only one available, so act now!The Effect: What The Audience Experiences
A large, clear plastic bag is shown. Because it’s completely transparent, everyone can see that it contains a mixed assortment of different objects— slips of paper with different names written on them, drawings, playing cards, whatever you want to "force". The objects are visibly different from one another and can be seen by all.
Several spectators are invited to reach into the clear bag and each freely remove one item of their choice. The selections appear completely free and random because the bag is transparent and the contents look mixed.
A previously written prediction (sealed in an envelope or simply set aside earlier) is then opened and read. It correctly names every selection that was made: the particular name that was drawn (or card, or drawing etc etc)
The entire process looks clean and impossible because the bag stays transparent the whole time, the items look different, and the spectators themselves are the ones reaching in and choosing.
Richard Osterlind teaches these exact routines with his Transparent Forcing system:
- The Phantom Artist: Spectators name or select a famous person; you then cut a silhouette of that exact person from a piece of paper using the supplied templates. Highly visual mentalism!
- Seafire Sequence: A multi-revelation book test with several strong hits, explained in the provided booklet.
- Errata: A dictionary book-test effect, again, described in detail in the instructions. (You provide your own dictionary, book, etc)
The core experience is the same across the system: a clear bag full of visibly different items, free choices by spectators, and a prediction that matches every selection.
Richard Osterlind is one of the best-known working mentalists, and everything here comes from his own company, Osterlind Mysteries. Transparent Forces is out of stock everywhere & very hard to find. Grab this while you can. It's a worker!
Key Points:
- A complete system for forcing and influencing audience thoughts
- Transparent 2/3-way change bag
- The complete "Seafire Sequence" book test routine
- "The Phantom Artist" with three contemporary silhouette templates
- "Errata" effect
What You Will Be Getting
Richard Osterlind's Transparent Forces: the 2/3-way transparent change bag, three contemporary silhouette templates for "The Phantom Artist," and a detailed instructional booklet that includes: the complete "Seafire Sequence" book test routine, and Errata dictionary force routine, and the original transparent change bag routine.
Both book routines come as written instructions in the manual: the ‘Errata’ effect works with any dictionary, and you receive the entire “Seafire Sequence” routine — previously out of print, highly sought after, and completely re-written and improved for inclusion in the Transparent Forces package.
Condition & Collector Provenance
- Excellent "like new" condition, unused.
- From a private collector's home.
Shipping
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