Ok, so you're new to Mentalism and as such I must ask, how long have you been working with Annemann and Corinda? This are the foundation sources everyone really needs to know before they are ready to venture into the other aspects of the craft. Too, you will need to weigh which path within mentalism you plan to walk; the Dunninger mold in which magic & mentalism are blended together; or the more traditional "Old School" route (many call it the Nelson mold these days, because of the Robert Nelson influence) in which you're a purest that deliberately distances himself from traditional magic as best possible and thus, strives for a more esoteric sense of "belief" from their audience vs. the analytical & logic modes common to the other (such as you see Brown, Banachek and others use).
You might want to take a look here
http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic11429.php for the sake of getting a realistic overview as to what the majority of real world workers have done to get to where they are.
