What They Say

Reality is Plastic: The Art of Impromptu Hypnosis

Is it possible to walk into a shop and leave with any goods you choose without paying?

Is it possible to become ‘invisible’?

Is it possible to pay people with blank paper rather than cash?

Is it possible to make people collapse with laughter on your command?

Can you get free drinks by convincing bar staff you are a superstar?

The answer to all of these questions and many more is YES. The techniques in this book will show you how.

What I Say

It’s true, buy it now!

Reality is Plastic by Anthony Jacquin is one of maybe three magic related products I have bought that the blurb isn’t either lying, lying by omission or just plain old making shit up. Everything Anthony claims is perfectly achievable, I have done three of the five and only haven’t done the other two cause I haven’t had the chance!

I will also add a couple of my favorite things to the list:
-Make someone do the funky chicken, for your entertainment.
-Make someone do the YMCA and then forget about it entirely, for your entertainment.
-Make someone do the funky chicken, so funny I mentioned it twice.

The teaching in the book is also excellent. Anthony explains everything concisely with all the relevant suggestions suitably phrased and highlighted. Obviously it’s better to adapt it to you rather than repeat it verbatim but it’s handy to have what a guideline to base your speech on.

The two largest focuses of ‘Reality is Plastic’ are Set Pieces and Inductions.

A Set Piece is a preliminary routine that is designed to convince people of your hypnotic power, they often have an underlying physiological cause which you assist with psychological suggestions. Set Pieces are done on fully conscious subjects and work on 90+% of people, in fact I’ve never had one fail. Ant spends a good deal of time emphasising the importance of set pieces, a utility device dismissed by many for their simplicity and high success with everyone and their grandmother. As a convincer they are excellent and can easily be used as an effect in their own right!

The chapter on inductions is also excellent listing a large number of inductions including the increasingly popular handshake induction (people no longer shake my hand or look my in the eye in my local). There really is a host of other inductions to suit all eventualities.

The, for lack of a better word, routines section of the book matches up to all the previous chapters genius and teaches you the blurb material. It’s all excellent.

While I have been focusing on the purely hypnosis side of things up to this point, I’ll now turn my attention to the two PDFs Anthony sends you if you coyly hint you are a magician.

Ant is also a magician and has written the two outstanding accompanying documents that deal with using hypnosis as a mentalism tool, both are excellent and each one contains an incredibly strong routine as well as a vast number of points and suggestions. All the info is being worked into my act at the moment!!!

And now, I have unfortunately run out of superlatives so I can’t say much more. Of all my purchases ever, this book is the best value for money, the best for content, the most useful and the book that has paid and will continue to pay for itself so many times over. I hate giving anything a numerical score as I feel a single integer value between one and ten is inadequate for explaining the intricacies of a products value, however ‘Reality is Plastic’ is as close to perfection as it comes and any less anal reviewer would give it a ten out of ten without hesitation. And while I’ve still got your attention, I’d like to publically thank Anthony for this awesomely insanely aggravatingly perfect book.

‘Reality is Plastic’ is currently available from Anthony Jacquin’s website for £22.50 + postage (£3.50 will get it here to Ireland)