Opening Locks with Your Mind
Opening locks “Uri Geller” style could become the latest craze in mentalism if you go for it. Just as Uri makes “broken” clocks tick again, you can make locks and doors open while appearing on a radio or T.V. show.
I suggest you warm up the host with a few related effects such as Key-Erect, Tele Kinesis Key, a spirit lock or mysterious cuff, perhaps. Then tell your listening audience that you are going to attempt an experiment in concentration. Instruct them to think of a drawer, or lock, or safe, that they cannot get open. While you concentrate they are to go and try to open it.
You are simply playing the law of averages, but it will work with lots of locks. Honestly, there are thousands of doors, drawer, padlocks, safes and things that are not really locked at all, but people think they are.
Some are stuck and they didn't pull hard enough the first time or the wood around the edges may have been swollen before. Naturally you don't tell the audience this, you just tell them to try and open the door or drawer again while you are concentrating.
If you wish, you could have a few plants call in to prime the others to call and describe their success.
I can give you three examples I have encountered in my own life that would play into Norman’s “experiment.”
First I have a file box with a faulty lock at no key. I can't explain why but some days I can open it right up and on other days I have to pry it open with a screw driver.
Second, where I work there is a tight fitting wood door which opens easily in dry weather but “locks” shut when it swells on damp days.
Third, sometime back I found an old rusty padlock in my cellar. It was locked shut. Apparently the mechanism inside was well rusted too because when I tossed it onto my workbench it snapped open to my amazement.
If you have had some similar incident of opening “locked” things, or understand my examples, you can see why some clever person could well make a name as the world’s first “psychic locksmith,’ Don't laugh, there is probably someone reading this right now who is not laughing… an you may be reading about him or her in the future.
-N. Bigelow
