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during or after a cloud busting demonstration. After the participant has selected a cloud, proceed to
tell them a bit about themselves, based on the cloud they have chosen. Use stock lines if you must.
This is a nice little touch to add to nearly any routine or demonstration with clouds.
Scrying with clouds also works well. This is much like scrying with any crystal, bowl of
water, black mirror, etc.
For great sources on cold reading, I recommend the following:
The Classic Reading, Lee Earle
Completely Cold, Kenton Knepper and Tank
The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading, by Ian Rowland
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EFFECTS AND IDEAS FOR PRESENTATION
Besides the obvious cloud busting routine (which is my normal route), you can incorporate various
other routines WITH cloud busting and melting, as I have done with metal bending. A little
imagination and some work with applying these principles, and they will become known. Here are
a few of my favorites.
THE ODDS CLOUD SCULPTING ROUTINE
In this demonstration, I have used the ODDS (Osterlind Design Duplication System). I urge
readers to consider this fantastic drawing duplication, and obviously will not be revealing the
workings here. Many thanks to Richard Osterlind for this beautiful drawing duplication. I use it
regularly and here is how I incorporate it into cloud sculpting.
After the volunteer has a picture in mind, I either duplicate the drawing IN THE CLOUDS,
or on paper, later sculpting the drawn image INTO the clouds WITH the spectator. Remember to
give them credit as often as possible.
So this becomes a drawing duplication/cloud sculpting routine with different approaches.
Also, with ODDS handy, you can do a bit of Devin s work, forcing the correct image in the clouds
using a suitable ODDS card. I figure, I carry ODDS with me anyhow, why not use the system in
this fashion and kill two birds with one stone?
If you are carrying ODDS, keep another blank card or two handy. This way, if you notice a
cloud formation which looks like something, you can very quickly MAKE a proper card, and
FORCE that card on them. A very simple criss-cross force should be enough. Run through the
cards and show that there are many DIFFERENT objects and pictures to choose from, and then
force the one you need.
Use suggestion if the image is not exact. You could do as I have; the spectator makes their
drawing, and attempts to transmit that drawing to you while you focus on the clouds.
You begin to sculpt the sky, describing small bits and pieces of the drawing AS YOU
SKETCH. It appears as if the cloud is receiving the spectator s thoughts as well, and forming itself
to show you the image.
If you are receiving the image WHILE looking at the cloud, it implies that the cloud is
shifting to BECOME that image. We are looking at the cloud and apparently receiving some very
exact information, which we later reveal. With some logic, it is not hard to see how this also
implies the cloud now LOOKS like the drawing being duplicated.
Now, you duplicate the drawing and compare, and then focus your attention back on the
cloud(s). Using suggestion, they will see it drawn in the clouds as well. Remember to look at any
clouds that might already resemble their drawing (free choice when using ODDS system).
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Using these same principles, you could forgo the drawing duplication, and instead duplicate
it in the clouds only. This is for the skilled psychological performer.
CARD IN CLOUD - A thought of card appears in the cloud, and then vanishes from a deck
This is one of my favorite effects if I am going to incorporate cards into my cloud busting
demonstration (rare).
Effect: A volunteer thinks of a card from a pack of playing cards. Concentrating his psychic
energies, the performer sculpts his or her impressions IN THE CLOUDS!!! A card is revealed in
the sky, the 7 of Hearts. The participant agrees, this is the card they were thinking of! As a
miraculous kicker, the performer busts the cloud, causing it to vanish. Going through the deck, one
card is missing. The 7 of Hearts!
The method is simple. Begin by forcing whatever card you can easily see in the sky. You
don t have to go for value and suit. Often, value is enough, and you can use suggestion to cause
them to also see the suit. Refer back to Devin Knight s section on spotting the proper clouds for this
effect. After you have forced the card, control it to the top of the deck and palm it off as you give
the volunteer the pack of cards to hold.
If you do not like palming, one could use any number of other methods to get rid of the
card. I have been so bold as to reach into my close up case to retrieve the card box, and simply
thumbed the top card off as I boxed the deck. It is not as clean, but done with confidence and
casualness, it will fly by unnoticed. Make sure they hold the deck as you proceed.
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