Preamble - The Secrets of Mentalists.

This book is intended primarily for readers who know nothing about the basic effects and techniques of mentalism. It is meant for those who are just beginning in this discipline, or who simply wish to uncover its mysteries.

For the sake of interactivity, each theme is illustrated by a main experiment whose effect can be seen in an online video using a free QR code, by downloading a reader app onto your smartphone. For obvious reasons of confidentiality, the explanation of the experiment is available only in written form inside this book.

Before discovering the secrets of mentalists, you must now go through a very simple magical ritual. You must say the following sentence out loud three times:

“I have always dreamed of being a a great mentalist!”

Done? Three times out loud? Without cheating?

Then you are now ready to enter the world of mental manipulation. Because mentalism is based largely on our brain’s lack of attention when it is led to perform simple, even semi-automatic tasks.

A concrete example: the sentence you have just said three times — “I have always dreamed of being a great mentalist!” — if you carefully reread the first mention of that sentence, you will notice that it contains the word “a” twice! And yet, there is a very good chance that your brain automatically corrected this mistake and that you pronounced the sentence without noticing the repetition! Isn’t that true?

Do not worry! If that is the case, it means you are part of 90% of the population. Otherwise, it means you are an editor, a printer, or gifted!

So, if you do not belong to those categories, you are now fully ready to be manipulated on every page of this book...