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Thinking
Allowed Jon
Thompson's journey into mentalism began in his thirties, prompted
by a lifelong interest in psychology. Derren Brown came along, and
people began asking if Jon could use his knowledge to do something
similar. A familiarity with hypnosis led him to study NLP in search
of principles
that would help him create effects akin to those he'd seen onscreen. Unsurprisingly, he got exactly nowhere fast. Nice one, Derren! 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 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 |
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