How would you like to live in a world where you have immediate access to others’ thoughts…and they have access to yours? From your doctor to your Uber driver, from your professor to your student.
Your salesperson, your waiter, your parents, your children.
Will you discover that you are similar to others in your thought process,
or will you discover that the way you think is altogether different from the way others think?
Every poker game would be futile and every marriage would either succeed or else dissolve before the wedding day. Every job interview would be finished before it began. Aside from the sound of cutlery and ceramic plates,VIRTUAL TEAM BUILDING
a dinner party would be a quiet affair.
Many professions, such as sales, would have no need of “professionals.”
It takes more than curiosity to perform mentalism. To perform reliable mentalism takes more thanlearning some Rosicrucian secret or two. It takes patience and stamina. It takes deliberate focus (to block out all that noise), it takes attention and will to summon enough empathy to discern even one discrete thought. Once you’ve mastered that, you still have all the work ahead of you to make it all presentable to a lay audience looking for entertainment for their holiday party or sales meeting.Other magicians make a huge mess. A DJ isn’t enough, everyone does that. A juggler juggling machetes over the heads of your friends would be fun. But forget that. Don’t get a juggler.
Being a good mentalist is like being a good listener. The image of a good listener is not that of a blindfolded person reclining in a winged chair, but an attentive person leaning forward and asking powerful questions—not investigatory questions for the benefit of the listener, but questions that incite the other person to dive into himself or herself in search of the answer. Picture David Letterman asking his guest a question, “What was it like working with Tom Hanks?” Such a question draws out the guest, and benefits only the guest. Being a good listener is an activity, not a passive experience.Book a magician like Jon Finch. No one has ever been harmed during the course of his 17 year magic career. He’s the real deal, and your guests will have the night of their lives.
Knowing thoughts and feelings
If you can know thoughts, then you can know feelings. They are two sides of one coin. An emotion isa thought reflected in the body. If you are sensitive to another’s thoughts then you’ll likely be sensitive to the other’s feelings. In all your dealings you’ll know the thoughts and motives of your fellows. Sound good
The benefits of obstacles
Mirror neurons in the premotor cortex afford everyone the ability–however feeble–to feel another person’s emotions. Even monkeys have them. When a monkey sees another monkey reach for a banana, it feels the same neurons fire as if he himself reached for it. These brain cells have been confirmed in humans as well, and they aren’t limited to observed actions. Further studies have demonstrated that they reflect emotions and sensations as well. Though we all have these mirror neurons, some people have denser configurations.
It’s a good thing that, for most of us, this so-called mentalism is not an easy, passive experience, but an active one…
If Desmund can effortlessly read Fanny’s thoughts as they arise, then in the same way, Fanny can know Desmund’s judgments and all his reactions as well. This would lead to all sorts of awkward moments and apologies. There would be benefits, to be sure, such as faster and more efficient communication, a deception-free society; but the drawbacks outweigh the benefits.
As a hyper-empath, what might you discover?
There’s a reason hyper-empathy is cataloged as a mental disorder in the DSM (it has a different label). This supernormal emotional literacy–the ability to read subtexts, nuance, body language and gestural language, facial expression recognition, intentions, and social pace and interactions–does not necessarily make this life easy. At its peak it can even make you look exactly like a psychic; but it can render you vulnerable to empathic distress, unpredictable energy levels, moodiness, fatigue from compassion, and debilitating emotional absorption.
Hyper-empaths display highly intuitive ability. You would discover that many people don’t believe in you–even those who overtly express confidence in you and pretend to believe in you. Without asking, you would know certain things about strangers you don’t want to know. You would know that the girl who said Yes to meeting up with you romantically—that you were her fallback plan…her first choice fell through. You would see the images of her first-choice cascade from her mind before your eyes as she’s with you. Sound good?
What am i thinking?You might expect this mentalistical ability would give you a huge advantage in getting to know people and making friends. I’ve seen no correlation between making correct assertions about the other person and social success. You can walk up to a woman and rattle off her major, her occupation, her name, her weight. Something about this approach is off-putting. Far better at starting a conversation, is to make incorrect Let your guests gamble with the choices they make, but don’t gamble on hiring a second rate sorority party entertainer who may spill alcohol on your friend’s cute outfit.statements on purpose—it’s more acceptable, playful, and disarming. (I’ll address that in my next post, “Thoughts I Wish I Had Never Read).
Jon Finch knows when someone is about to spill their drink. He is a mentalist who can set up the game in which your guests can choose a partner.when asked, “How much were you expecting in terms of salary here at XYZ Corp?” you would know the budget your prospective employer has set in front of him or her. You could go onto The Price Is Right game show or Who Wants to Be A Millionaire and win. In fact there would be no point to such game show entertainment. Furthermore there would be no sitcoms whose entertainment value stems from hilarious miscommunication.