Persuaders The History And Secrets Of Mind Control

Persuaders: The History and Secrets of Mind Control will be an iconoclastic andrevelatory book. It will open readers' minds to the amazing abilities we can, it is said, foster in ourselves without being born with special abilities. Based on a chronological narrative of the development of mind control from Mesmer to Blaine, Persuaders promises to inform and illuminate, as well as providing huge amusement by teaching readers to perform classic 'mentalist' effects themselves. It will also cause controversy by exposing many of the jealously held secrets of the mind controllers. It will be accused of spoiling the fun of illusion for some. But it will also open our eyes to the psychology of conmen. deceivers, liars and propagandists - people whose methods should no longer be effective on an educated public, but invariably are. Margolis will recount enticingly and entertainingly the historical story of magicianship, miracle working, mind-over-matter, hypnotism, mediumship, psychicism, faith healing, confidence tricksterism, cold reading and the rest, in a tone that will be light-hearted, but dense with fact and illustration. It will also expose as definitively as possible within 100,000 words how these methods of mind control are achieved - or, in the case of effects like Geller and his spoons which have long defied explanation - how rival illusionists think they are achieved.