In today's society most people have heard of mentalism, but very few people know what is actually is.
Let me educate you on this now.
We can define mentalism as a sub-category of what we know as magic but it focuses on tricks involving what we call 'mind power'.
This involves tricking the audience in believing that the magician can tap into the mind of those in the audience and can actually use his/her mind to move objects and other things.
Whilst some people may think that this involved some sort of spiritual connection between realities, magicians actual use learnt mentalism strategies and tricks as in any other form of magic.
We could take the mentalist darren brown for example, it has been shown that he can actually make people fall asleep over the phone!! Not that he actually has any special power over these people he does this too; he just know the psychology and tricks of how this form of hypnosis / NLP actually work and he can use it to good effect.
In effect he just know the trick of the trade as to speak to make people do what he says.
Much like a stage hypnotist, he uses human psychology to very good effect and in no way dabbles in the occult.
Due to the dramatic effect / illusion of this type of magic, the interest in mentalism is rapidly growing and one the most popular forms of magic being performed today.
Dareen brown is just one of the array of highly talented magicians performing this type of magic today.