Amazing Mentalism Magic!

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Austin_Hackney]Austin Hackney
There's no doubt that of all the kinds of magic tricks that can be performed, the most popular and effective today is to astonish an audience with amazing mentalism magic. This kind of magic creates the illusion that the magician has startling mental powers, or psychic abilities to move objects without touching them or make predictions about the future or read other people's minds.
Of course such things cannot really be done - they are illusions. Nevertheless, this kind of amazing mentalism magic really is the most powerful of all the performance magic techniques as it really is inexplicable from the audience's point of view.
A great advantage of mentalism magic tricks is that they can be learned quite easily with a little practice and performed almost anywhere as they frequently don't require complex props or devices. Any props or devices you might need would be nothing more than a thumb-tip, playing cards, maybe a bit of invisible thread and some magician's wax - all things that you can carry in your clothes. That said, there are many, many effects which can be done without any props at all. That;s one of the attractions of mentalism, coupled with the fact that it is a real crowd pleaser!
Amazing people with mental magic is no new thing. The tricks and techniques employed probably go back to ancient times when priests and prophets and oracles conned their followers into believing that they could see the future or receive messages from spirits and the dead - much as so-called psychics and mystics do today to their very great discredit.
However, the modern profession of performing apparently supernatural feats for the sake of entertainment is an entirely honourable one just so long as you are not tempted to abuse your magical powers as these charlatans and rascals who call themselves mediums and psychics do.
One of the factors that makes the magic of mentalism so uniquely intriguing to any audience is the way in which it can be performed very close up to people and still leaves them entirely at a loss as to any explanation for the effect.
If you watch carefully the great mentalist performers of our own day (such as Derren Brown) you will see that once you have the basic principles of mental magic under your belt, then the perfection of this techniques comes down to style and presentation.
Any modern magician who wants to truly astound a highly sophisticated modern audience, or even just cause real astonishment at parties, would do well to learn some amazing mentalism magic!
Austin Hackney is a magician, entertainer, theatre practioner and writer of many years standing, always keen to share his experience and encourage the novice. His website, [http://www.magic-tricks.ws]The Magic Tricks Homepage is a great free resource for magic tutorials, articles, visual guides, eBooks and more. If you want to learn magic well, not just a huge number of tricks but solid performance skills, the site is well worth a visit. You can download magic video tutorials (including some amazing mentalism effects) [http://www.magic-tricks.ws/magictrick28.html]here which is a great way of learning and building a repertoire.
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