Mystery Method

The Mystery Method  is a method of seduction, first popularized by Erik Von Markovik a.k.a "Mystery". The system was initially outlined in posts on the newsgroup alt.seduction.fast. Since October 2006, Mystery is no longer part of the Mystery Method's website, and he has launched his own company. Mystery is responsible for coining a lot of terminology now used in the world of seduction: such as "3 second rule", "set", "peacocking", "indicator of interest", "indicator of disinterest", "last minute resistance", "routine", "neg hits", "canned material", etc. The Mystery Method is now marketed online, via books, DVD sets, and most notably, live seminars and coaching with various instructors, including Markovik himself.

Comfort Building Locations

The location in which you first meet a woman is not necessarily favorable to building comfort. The music may be too loud for lengthy comfort building dialog. The crowd may be too congested. Your romantic interest's protective friends, current boyfriend, jealous ex-boyfriend or family members may be present. You or she may also lack the immediate time to spend 7 hours building enough comfort with each other.

If the meeting location does not allow you the time nor afford a comfortable setting to sit with her and build comfort, you must move her from the meeting location to a comfort location.
All comfort building locations are marked by more quiet and secluded (though often still public) settings where you, your romantic interest and her friends (as well as your friends) may share in lengthy dialogue.

Takeaways

Practice timing your backturns and other indicators of disinterest to coincide with sparks of attraction. Just at the moment when she feels most emotionally stimulated or in need of validation, you turn away slightly, causing her to lean in a little more. "Wait, what you were saying about that little dog?" It takes practice to get the timing down. Remember, the attraction is only a tool to be used as bait.

When she pulls you back, you intermittently reward her with IOIs. Isn't it interesting that a takeaway is best done just after a DHV, when the target has just experienced a spike in attraction? That is the time that she is most likely to chase to get you back. Similarly, it's best to give an IOD just before escalating, since it makes it more likely that she will accept the escalation. For example, if you turn your back on her just before you kiss her, she will be more likely to accept the kiss. These sorts of tilings must be experimented with in the field in order to be properly calibrated. Incidentally, this takeaway aspect of A3 corresponds to the third law of the Tao of Steve: Be gone.


This is a useful time to use sniper negs such as "eye boogers," "you spit on me," "here's a napkin," etc. Remember, you don't get blamed for the eye booger, God does. You aren't trying to make her feel embarrassed, it just happened. It is at this time that she wants to regain your respect, and she wants to feel good again, so when you make your move, she won't get all cocky and pull away. She'll accept it because she felt embarrassed and got all quiet. Of course, you don't want to reward her for being a goof, because that would be incongruent So you amp up her embarrassment by acting disinterested for a bit, then you play nice guy and say, "Don't be embarrassed for being human".. .then you stop being into the conversation for a bit. In that state of mind, she is extremely susceptible to escalation.