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The mentalist can now buy blackboards and whiteboards which are capable of writing (apparently) handwritten messages fed to them remotely, small printers which can print a spectator’s chosen number and feed the printed paper into an (apparently) sealed jar, and a host of other technological gadgets which make it appear that the mentalist ...
Automatic writing – The ability to draw or write without conscious intent. [2] [page needed] Bilocation – The ability to be present in two different places at the same time, usually attributed to a saint. Cryokinesis – The ability to control ice or cold with one's mind.
Telepathy: Reading someone’s mind. Clairvoyance: Seeing things that are hidden or far away. Precognition: Knowing future events through gut feelings or with visions. Retrocognition: Seeing past ...
Mind control, or brainwashing, has proven a popular subject in fiction, featuring in books and films such as The Manchurian Candidate (1959; film adaptations 1962 and 2004) and The IPCRESS File (1962; film 1965), both stories advancing the premise that controllers could hypnotize a person into murdering on command while retaining no memory of the killing.
Brain-reading or thought identification uses the responses of multiple voxels in the brain evoked by stimulus then detected by fMRI in order to decode the original stimulus. . Advances in research have made this possible by using human neuroimaging to decode a person's conscious experience based on non-invasive measurements of an individual's brain activit
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Example of a Billet reading method. Billet reading, or the envelope trick, is a mentalist effect in which a performer pretends to use clairvoyance to read messages on folded papers or inside sealed envelopes. It is a widely performed "standard" of the mentalist craft since the middle of the 19th century.