This type of disorientation is now often used by mentalists to improve their apparent feats of mental dexterity. While magic and mentalism may seem very similar, many purists would argue that mentalism is actually not magic at all. Since Geller was publicly exposed for using common mentalism tricks, most modern mentalists claim to be psychic artists rather than individuals who possess authentic psychic abilities.

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Mentalism illusion mentalists magician magicians magic tricks Derren Brown telepathy mental book thinking demented imagination. Imagine that you are Derren Brown, The Clairvoyants, Max Maven, Lior Suchard, Jon Finch, Uri Geller, Joseph Dunninger (he influenced many practitioners of mentalism in modern history) or Oz Pearlman, and you have the mental gift of influencing thoughts and making incredible predictions and specific predictions of not only behavior but events. The effect of mentalism on the audience is to read the mind, but when artists such as magicians and mentalists perform, the method and effect are rarely the same.