The Mentalist

Nicolai Friedrich - The World's Best Mentalist

Up until we booked for this show, I didn't even know what a 'Mentalist' was. For those, like me, who don't know....A mentalist is an artist who uses mental prowess as his art.                 

                            

The show was simply mindblowing.... intriguing........ fascinating.... bewildering.... at times even creepy

Why?

Because Nicolai uses powers beyond what one has seen. He started with magic...sleight of hand kinds, which in itself was good magic.

And then he moves onto mind reading, and that's so amazing to see, because you see his effort, you can see his process. Like one instance, where he asks this woman to go on an imaginary rendezvous with him, and he asks her to imagine the city, any city in the world. Wear a pretty dress of any chosen colour, and then visualize a number as it appear in a reflection of water with rose petals.

He's then watching her intently, and he starts to draw or write from her mind. And he reads them all.

Then there are some amazing card tricks....one in which he involves everyone from the audience too (each of us gets four cards as we enter), and it's mind boggling to say the least. I still get the creeps thinking of that one. It's so seemingly impossible. Defies all rationality.

Then there's making tables fly which seems like mass hypnosis, then there's finding the one right piece of a jigsaw out of thousand pieces, based on sheer intuition..... lots of very unusual and 'a normal'..as in non normal, kind of stuff.

I fortunately got to talk to him a couple of minutes after the event.......and to being asked what power he uses, he said.......I use everything....magic, hypnosis, illusion, telekinesis, energy. 

He says....we have so many preconceived notions we look through. All our perceptions thus come from an expectation. You need to break through that.

Very interesting indeed. And he's so very charming too :)

The Amphitheatre at UB City which hosted the event

         

On a side note....the Christmas tree at the UB city was very different....minimalist  and classy, so here's a couple of pictures

From up close

And it's stuff like this that enable perspective shifts...make you wonder at life.... and man, that bit more. I mean the mentalist...not the Christmas tree :)

Thanks Swaroop.....wouldn't have done it had it not been for you......was a simply amazing experience.