Hi Carl – I will ask Mike to comment on a podcast. I do not have mentalism skills so I’m not the best person to answer. But having said that, from observation, I think that mentalism + psychology, NLP, hypnosis means that you can now come across as an influential authority with a huge bag of language tricks under your belt, on which to make your mentalism effects much more impressive. Mike does this all the time. We get lots of magic students taking hypnosis lessons for exactly this reason, I suspect.

I was wondering is there any strict border which would divide mentalism and psychology, let’s say NLP. What I mean by that, if I want to learn mentalism tricks, do I have to go directly to mentalism which is magic of manipulation of people’s mind or I can go to NLP or other practical forms of psychology and then put the knowledge in action which may be then called as mentalism as well.

thank you,
Carl