Most people who succeed in life usually do so one step up their biggest failure. My first tip isn’t so much of a trip as it is a piece of advice. Some simple magic tips for aspiring mentalists
If you are completely new to this kind of magic and want to learn a little bit more, then bear in mind the simple steps which you can utilize straight away if you want to start testing and using trial and error. If I’m being honest I owe my start of a fascination of this type of entrancing magic to Uri Geller, but I feel he has been far succeeded by the likes of many other modern-day mentalists and mentalism techniques. Many of his techniques involve the use of chemicals on his fingers to bend spoons. He definitely brought a lot of attention towards this type of magic though. Uri Geller is a little old-fashioned in his techniques and his style of mentalism really doesn’t inspire me much. It was brought to light in the mainstream and to the general public by Uri Geller. Mentalism has been around for longer than you may know, it can be traced back to the 16 th century. It goes into tremendous depth in it’s teaching and includes exclusive interviews with David Blane and Chris Angel. I have found a guide which I think is great and stood head and shoulders above all the others you can find that book here. I took a more sensible route and bought a book, to be honest I bought quite a lot and most of them weren’t worth the money they were written on. You have a lot of options here the best is to go to mentalism university but unfortunately that will set you back thousands of pounds and I think with the alternatives available its best to get some ground work done before going to university if you are that serious about it. You could perhaps get there if you dedicated 25 years of your life to trial and error but trust me paying for a high level guide book will elevate your skills faster than you thought possible. If you really want to become good you are going to have to pay.
I tried learning better more impressive tricks and increasing my knowledge of the fundamentals for free, reading free guides and watching youtube videos and I did learn a few tricks (that I consider quite goofy compared to what I can do now). This is really simple to do but also pretty cool but you quickly find out that not everyone is open to the power of suggestion which is why you screen for hypnotism acts. If you have watched much Derren brown you will know that he has great influential powers over people and with suggestion he can make you do things you wouldn’t normally do and I believe this contributes to why it’s so hard to find someone who will teach you mentalism.įor me my journey into mentalism started with really simple tricks such using the power of suggestion to beating people at paper, rock and scissors. But I always had that burning desire to knock people off their feet with magic that made them believe I could read their minds or even influence them. I spent a lot of time being involved with magic first learning card tricks and coin tricks which is a great place to start.
You can pick up bits and pieces by using YouTube and other websites that have a few easy tricks for free but no one at the world class level of David Blaine or Derren Brown would teach you their secrets for free. The type of magic Derren Brown performs is definitely one of the most rewarding and mind blowing forms of magic but also one of the hardest to master. The practitioners such as Derren brown are known as mentalists they appear to have enhanced mental abilities such as telepathy, clairvoyance, mind control and also hypnosis amongst over skills. If you don’t know what mentalism is then its most easily described as the type of magic that Derren Brown performs. The major problem is due to the audience inspiring nature it is a very closely guarded secret and it’s hard to find people or material that can teach you well. Appearing to have the ability to read someone’s mind really blows your audience away and make some question everything they know about reality. Being able to do card tricks and tricks with coins can be quite impressive, but I firmly believe the strongest branch of magic is mentalism. Mentalism magic is one of the most impressive types of magic that you can bear witness to, It is by far my personal favourite.