Thinking Allowed
by Jon Thompson

Eventually, he stumbled upon books such as Corinda's “13 Steps to Mentalism” and Annemann's “Practical Mental Magic”, but these left him disappointed at the gulf between cause and effect. Classics they may be, but these were definitely not what he thought mentalism was going to be
about.

This led Jon to use a blend of psychology and statistics to create an innovative approach to mentalism that abandons the usual apparatus and methods. Instead, “Naked” or method-free mentalism techniques deliberately model the natural, intuitive abilities of those who consider themselves genuinely psychic, but with vastly improved results.

A freelance technology writer by day, Jon is already the author of several works on both magic and mentalism: “The Stripper Deck”, “Naked Mentalism”, and “The Fully-Scripted Naked Book Test”. He's about to publish his second volume of stripper deck magic, titled “Stripped and
Stacked”. Jon also wrote and appeared in the DVD version of his first book for the stripper deck, called “Strip – With Jon Thompson” (produced by Big Blind Media and available, as they say, from all good magic shops). He's also currently working on volume 2 of “Naked Mentalism” and wondering where it will all end.