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The real-life Mentalist ..

August 8, 2014 Rick Carruth

By JESS MCALLEN for Stuff.co.nz

Think of a wild animal, a colour and a number.

If your answers were lion, red and seven then, according to mentalist Timon Krause, you are in the majority and pretty easy to read.

It’s one of many techniques he uses to read minds, these simple questions can show what kind of person someone is and predict their response to future questions.

“You’re a different kind of thinker,” he tells me when I say elephant, maroon and eight.

Little does he know (or does he?) that earlier our videographer had tested me, telling me not to say seven because that’s the number everyone would say.

We also settled on the less-known colour of maroon if I was asked to think of a hue (sorry Timon).

But the 20-year-old Dutch Champion of Mentalism had us stumped when he correctly guessed my four digit number (8140), my little sister’s name (Amy), and, even more spectacularly, was able to melt my 20 cent coin – on camera.

So how does he do it?….

Herald Scotland – The real-life mentalist

July 3, 2014 Rick Carruth

Luke Jermay predicts that Scotland will vote No to independence.

He also says that soon Japanese people living as vampires will be arrested after a botched attempt to rob a blood bank supply company; that Pope Francis will appoint women cardinals; and that, to the relief perhaps of many, The X Factor will come to an end this year.

Over the past 12 months, he has made around 500 predictions, either of global headlines or of events in the lives of individuals, which have turned out to be true – a rate, he points out, though he hasn’t worked out the stats, that is much better than “those who are self-labelled psychics”. But Jermay is not some strange, mystical seer or diviner with a crystal ball. He is a mentalist. In fact, he is often called “the real-life mentalist”, because, formerly he was a consultant on the American CBS hit drama show The Mentalist.

The majority of people, when they hear the word mentalism, are most likely to think of smart-suited, ever-sceptical Derren Brown performing feats of seeming mind control. They don’t tend to imagine a bearded bloke, covered in tats, brandishing tarot cards and doling out predictions of the future like they’re sweeties. That, after all, is the territory of New Agers and psychics, of, as Jermay puts it, “the crazy woman in the bar who predicts someone’s cat is going to die”.

April 29, 2014 Rick Carruth

By Amy Fernandes for DNA..

Meet mentalist Nicolai Friedrich, one among the new breed of magicians who shuns elaborate props and tricks of old, instead harnessing the mind to enthrall and entertain. Amy Fernandes comes away in two minds

He has no rabbits, doesn’t cut women in half, or chain them in boxes only to have them emerge free. Nicolai Friedrich is amongst the new breed that vociferously claim they are not magicians, but mentalists who work with the mind. Your mind!

Like other mentalists, he’s young, chic, dresses casually in jeans and tees, holds stage performances, is funny and witty. And when you meet him, he doesn’t produce a rose from thin air; instead, he presents you with your date of birth, your home address or your grandmother’s name, as he did at the Nicolai Friedrich show held at Mumbai’s Hotel Sofitel.

The German illusionist knows how to play with your imagination and gets you to think what he wants…

January 28, 2014 Rick Carruth

Thanks to Yolande D’Mello and the Mumbai Mirror….

German mentalist Nicolai Friedrich says being a magician isn’t all that different from being a lawyer.

You might want to think happy thoughts around magician and mentalist Nicolai Friedrich. He has been using his mind to get what he wants since he was a toddler. If that doesn’t work, try wearing aluminium foil on your head. Mumbai audiences are going to be the first to witness his mind games, as part of a four-city tour in association with Ashvin Gidwani.

A chat with Friedrich: Read More

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