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Let’s say you are visiting the home of friends or relatives. You tell them that you would like to demonstrate a powerful telekinesis skill that you have been developing, you then go on to perform Teleshock!
You begin by asking the home owner to turn on their television, and tune to any random channel. You then suggest that what they thought was a “random decision” (what channel to tune to) may not have been quite as random as they thought. As an example, let’s say that they tuned their TV to channel 31, which is “Animal Planet.” You then request that the same person, or someone else in the room, simply think of a different channel, and that their selected channel should be quite deliberate, not random. You explain that they should simply think of a channel and not reveal it to you or anyone else in the room. Once they have made up their mind and indicated to you that they are thinking of a specific channel, the television (which is still on channel 31 “Animal Planet,”) is turned off.
Not only is the television turned off, but you ask that it is actually unplugged from the wall (provided that the owner of the television doesn’t mind). You explain that this step is important to ensure that the demonstration is absolutely fair and meets laboratory test conditions. If they agree, once the TV is unplugged, you begin your reading , in an effort to determine the television channel that the person is simply thinking of!
The following conditions are important:
With your hands in full view, you request that the television be plugged back in, as you begin to describe that you are watching a specific ‘scene’ in your mind – a scene, which you believe, has something to do with the channel that your spectator has merely been thinking of! You ask, for the first time, what channel your spectator has been thinking of, and proceed to explain how your new skill also enables you to change channels using only the power of your mind. As you concentrate on the TV, explaining that you are focusing your mental energy on it, you request that it be turned on for the first time since being unplugged. When the television powers up, it is, remarkably, tuned to the exact channel that the spectator had been thinking of, and, the scene displayed, is exactly as you had described!
The method consists of three parts, two of which are well established and generally known mentalism methods. The new part is how to switch the channel of a TV unknown to the spectators. Nefesch offers 4 methods to cover all known cases and models.
