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Tools for the Professional Mentalist and Mystery Entertainer
Psychological Illusionist - eXtreMentalist - Hypnotist - Memory Expert - Paranormalist
Also performing under the name:
John Dream!
Dealer in Dreams and fantasies
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John has always been a successful businessman but he would not have been so successful without his hobbies and passion projects. John is a very creative person. Besides Mentalist, Hypnotist, Writer, Author and Inventor he is also a DJ and Producer and also a Photographer, a Graphic Designer and Video Editor.
But even with the greatest hobbies in the world, his number one hobby and passion is the love of his life, his beautiful and lovely wife Godie. She is the resin that John is always scheduling and managing his time to be with her as much as he can, because that's real magic.
THE BIG BOOK
In his books John describes many tricks, effects, handlings and systems that he invented over the years and wrote down in his notes that he carefully writes almost daily. But these are just a small part of his inventions that he wrote down in these private notes that he collected over many years. These notes filled with new methods and new ways of thinking, he wrote to remember everything so that he could reread and improve them in time. It is his dream to one day finish his eXtreMentalism Book filled with very strong eXtreMentalism effects collected from these notes!
Consider the first two books a foretaste or a preview of this eXtreMentalism Book that he will be release over a few years.
My name is John van der Linden and I'm from the Netherlands and I’m in love with magic and mentalism for over 40 years.
About 23 years ago I started performing mentalism only. It may be a personal flavor, or maybe it just fits my style and character more comfortably, but I do know I love performing mentalism.
As a mentalist I always try to use the smallest number of props possible, and the tools I do use have to feel organic. My preferred tools are my brain and my mind. With my mind (my control center), I may observe, communicate, influence, hypnotize and interact with the people around me, and my brain is the perfect hiding place for my memory systems, mathematical principles, and linguistic abracadabra. It has also been a repository of information for me as long as I have lived, it controls my emotions and it’s the engine of my body.
They may not always work together as smooth as I would like them to, but they are invisible and I always have them with me, so I consider the mind and brain to be the perfect weapons for a mentalist.
Like most mystery entertainers, I try my best to keep up with the latest knowledge and innovations within our art and once in a while you stumble on something so exciting and amazing. Like when you are reading a book that was not really special until you hit that one golden idea. Your mind fills with a flood of thoughts and you know you have found something quite extraordinary, you immediately start adapting it to your persona, perfecting it as much as you can and you can already see yourself performing...
That moment, you know you have a winner!
I want to stress that I am not a technical performer, but when I learned about teleFoto I immediately understood that this was something special. It's organic, invisible and always around...
Just like my brain and my mind!
Immediately I saw endless possibilities and many other uses, and when I was writing them down, ideas and questions kept bubbling forth. How could I use this knoweledge in a completely different way? What special coding methods and mnemonics are suitable for this miracle. I think I found many of the answers to these questions, and during this journey I have discovered some fascinating new ways to use this amazing genious masterpiece.
The same thing happened when I first saw the professional uses for the Svengali principle.
It was the book 'This Way Up' that inspired me to create new and other material for these pads that lead me to write my sevond book.
After many years of writing and inventing, it was Tenerife an amazing island in Spain, where I started thinking about performing again. The island has an amazing vibe like all Canarian Island, the people are so relaxed and sweet performing overthere is a dream come trhough...
Let's have some fun and let me entertain you!
Believe in magic
and witness the mysteries you have never seen before.
John
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John van der Linden
Netherlands
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