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Hello people!

I'm Henrik, a 19 year old immigrant in the lovely UK - or an international student if you prefer that term. I'm originally from Norway, but travelled across the pond to study photography in Cornwall from last year.

My interest isn't really magic per se, it's more about people. I love delving into body language, psychology - trying to figure out what makes people who they are and what we can do with that information. Mentalism and it's baggage sort of comes as a natural extension of that for me.

I've always been deeply fascinated by the works of Derren Brown ever since a friend of mine showed me his stuff on YouTube a few years ago (you never hear anything about him in Norway unless you look for him), and for some reason I became a "believer" in this business. Whle many of my friends would dismiss it as stooges, entertaining but impossible, and all that jazz, I was rather intrigued by it all and wanted to know more.

I researched it online and got a book or two about NLP, finally starting to understand the "framework" of our heads. Now, since then I've become increasingly sceptical to a lot of the fairly extreme claims of NLP - but it was sort of an eye opener to the massive world of, amongst other things, mentalism, for me. Actually though, I think the major eye opener for me into "applied" psychology and the lot was The Game by Neil Strauss - the book about Pick Up Artists for those of you who have heard of it.

I don't know much about mentalism and hypnosis yet in the sense that I can reproduce anything, but watching shows like The Mentalist and Derren Brown's stuff I can most of the time tell what's going on at least. I've decided to just dive into it all now (good timing with university assessment coming up in a few weeks!) and ordered 13 Steps To Mentalism and The Full Facts Book About Cold Reading (another of my fascinations) as a good start. I really really want Reality Is Plastic as well, but I need to watch my budget a bit.

Hum, this became a bit lengthy. Oh well, nobody's forcing anyone to read it.


- Henrik

Welcome! Have fun here.

Hi Henrik and welcome to TM

Hej og velkommen til Talk Magic

Takk/thanks!

This forum is a brilliant resource, I've already discovered millions of ways to blow off my student loan/paycheck - whichever comes first. Now if Royal Mail would only get their move on and give me my 13 Steps To Mentalism.. ;p

You will LOVE 13 Steps, Henrik!
Welcome to Talk Magic!!



~Paul Pacific

Thanks! Couldn't avoid getting that book, it's mentioned pretty much everywhere mentalism is discussed. Practical Mental Magic and Rowland's cold reading book are also on their way, I reckon these will be a good start (and possibly cause me to fail my course)!