Genuine Psychics versus Entertainment Mind Readers with Mentalist Jonathan Pritchard. Episode 63
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Guest: Jonathan Pritchard Entertainment Mentalist + Mind Reader
For 15+ years Jonathan Pritchard toured the world as a Mentalist which is type of entertainer specializing in apparently reading minds, predicting the future, instant hypnosis, and other impossible skills. Eventually he realized his talents could do more than entertain people, and that’s when he began consulting for the world’s largest companies.
Jonathan Pritchard is the founder of ZAVANT enterprises and the author of multiple books focused on the power of applied psychology.
Having a stage mentalist on this podcast can show the difference between a genuine psychic medium and an entertainer.
He is the founder of several consulting companies, a multiple author, world-traveling entertainer, and public speaker for high stake businesses. His client list includes BP, Discover, State Farm, United Airlines, and more.
His journey has taken him from doing 19,000 performances at Universal Studios to appearing on America’s Got Talent to entertaining United States troops stationed all over South Korea. Currently he is brought in to share his secrets with sales teams, delivery teams, and anyone else who needs to deliver results in high stake environments.
His unique perspective of working with thousands of audiences has given him powerful insights into the art & science of communication, influence, persuasion, and high stake negotiations.
This makes him not just a thought leader but a genuine mind reader. Now his mission is to empower more than a million business people to accomplish their most ambitious goals in less time than they ever thought possible.
He does this through workshops, keynote presentations, consulting, as well as ‘hands on’ experiences at tradeshows and beyond.
While not on the road you can find him at home in the mountains of North Carolina with his family.
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In this episode:
- Jonathan Pritchard is an entertainment Mentalist.
- He uses psychology for his performance.
- He always did magic tricks and found mind-reading the most fun.
- Mentalism got its start when spiritualism was popular.
- Since, as he claims, there was no valid results in Parapsychology (obviously we don’t agree with that, but that is the general consensus until people delve into the research), mentalism then went to being about Psychology.
- He wants to make sure we know he is doing tricks. Nothing he claims to be genuine mind-reading.
- Reading faces is not real. And not how he does his mentalism. He uses tricks to mimic it.
- How will new technology change tricks?
- Magicians tend to be the first to adopt new technology.
- If AI can act like it can read minds, how will a human mimicking that be entertaining.
- Range for human amazement is getting smaller as technology grows.
- There is an enjoyable mystery when you dont’ know the method used in magic shows.
- Once you learn the methods, it can be disappointing.
- The extent to which we don’t see reality is the key to stage magic.
- Our minds filter out most information.
- We see what we value and believe. And we see what matches our belief set.
- Magic tricks and mentalism tap into fundamental deep human needs.
- Today the cultural human need is to be connected. We are now very disconnected on a deeper level.
- We can all size people up and read them when we first meet them.
- Jonathan thinks we are all tuned in like a radio signal and connected in a fundamental way.
- He does not think psychic mediums are genuine.
- He has not read Dr. Julie Beischel’s research or about Loyd Auerbach.
- He also does Tarot Reading as a performer.
- He considers himself the “Secular Shaman.”
- He thinks we don’t survive bodily death.
- He teaches what he calls the “forbidden skills” which help you recognise if someone is manipulating you.
- Is manipulation ever justified?
- There is a difference between coercion and manipulation vs influence and persuasion.
- His books direct people to persuade themselves to accomplish what they want.
- He shares on his site how to do a fun card trick called the Key Card. The secret really is in the presentation. The actual trick itself is really simple.
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