ESP - mentalism routine Have you ever heard about ESP? it's means Extrasensory perception. The term was adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy, clairaudience, and clairvoyance. ESP is also sometimes casually referred to as a sixth sense, gut instinct or hunch. A simple set of cards was developed, originally called Zener cards, I have a set of them here, They bear the symbols circle, square, wavy lines, cross, and star. ( showing cards with those symbols ) Five red cards for you, we will see their faces later, and five blue cards for me. We are going to do a little test in ESP, There are going to be two phases, the first one should tell me about the way you are thinking and I hope the second will be amazing. Please just think, in your mind only, about one of this shapes ... Are you thinking about the star? Really? great! This simple shapes are containing a lot of psychological Information about human behavior, you cal tell about somebody that "he is a square" ; down to earth and sometimes even a nerd, some people always wants to be the stars or to be in somewhere else, far away. some people are easygoing like the wavy lines, some are living in a loop of life or they are just round people - Sociable and nice. the cross can represent faith or positive thinking... Please shuffle your cards without seeing their faces. ( we are shuffling the cards ) And deal them in a row on the table. Now I know a little bit about you ( I put one blue card on top of the red row ) I have committed to one symbol, please choose one card of yours, which one do you want to give me? ( the spectator gives me one red card ) I gave you the star, let's check yours ... also the star! brilliant, you have the ESP! But I know what you are thinking, I never let you to see the faces of your cards, maybe all of them are the star ... right? you can check them ( the spectator flips all the cards and find out written on them that says : " Please choose the star! " ) Thanks you, you did a wonderful job!