ZZgirl: Mentalist book suggestions
Monday, March 10th, 2008Mentalist book suggestions
Ian Rowland
Whilst perusing Ian Rowlands website I came across a list of book recommendations. I’ve been well in to Derren Brown and his tricks and illusions, and showmanship, fascinate me. Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) and all such tricks of the mind intrigue me as a philospher: We trust our minds (usually) to be truthful, if we can not trust our minds then we are lead towards greater skepticism (ie away from a realist view of the world).
Anyway here’s the list with links to buy the books.
Let me take this from the top. The branch of magic and conjuring which deals with “mind-reading”, and tricks with a “psychic” flavour, is called “mentalism”. If you want to learn about mentalism, 95% of everything worth knowing can be found in 15 books.