Empirical Empathy Book

The performer talks about a secret wartime society set up to investigate psychic phenomena. Alleged to have carried out thousands of experiments during this time, the performer claims to have got his hands on the original instructions for one such experiment issued by the Institute Of Psychical Phenomena that uses nothing more than a pack of playing cards and a few volunteers.

The performer produces the document in question and invites someone to read out the twenty step-by-step instructions for the experiment. The performer promises to follow the instructions as closely as possible for the entire procedure.

A pack of cards is shown to be mixed throughly leaving the audience in no doubt that the cards are randomised and the performer has seen none of the card faces.

Two spectators choose a card under test conditions, including further shuffles by themselves, yet later on in the experiment each is able to pick out their counterparts card with their eyes closed by touch / feel / empathy alone.