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probably isn’t invited to dinner parties very often. He also probably gets kicked out of a lot of restaurants. See, he has this little problem of bending spoons, tilting tables, and making things levitate with his mind. Karges calls himself an “extraordinist,” because the word psychic is used too freely and cheaply these days. He doesn’t run a call-in hotline to tell people if their partner is cheating on them; he performs his tricks of intuition, gets the audience’s attention, and then tells them how to build their intuition to make life easier.
For example, Karges teaches how to use a pendulum to solve daily problems. The other day he used it to find his lost car keys. He asked his pendulum if he left the keys in someone else’s car, and it swung a certain way, which means yes. And Shazam! There they were. The pendulum can also answer questions such as “Did I close the garage door?” and “Did I remember to unplug the iron?” With a pendulum, no one will ever have to drive home to check again. Think of it as a cure-all for the obsessive-compulsive among us.
The big show-stopper, however, is the so-called “car trick,” during which four audience members choose the make, color, license plate number, and price of a car. A fifth person takes a sealed envelope from Karges’ pocket and opens it to find the same description of a car on a piece of paper — written the night before by Karges.
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While this may not make life easier, it gets the audience’s attention and trust, which is the real point of such stunts. They’re just the means to an end, as is his new book Ignite Your Intuition: Improve Your Memory, Make Better Decisions, Be More Creative and Achieve Your Full Potential. His goal is to show that learning how to use the whole brain, not just 10 to 20 percent, will indeed make life better. Ignite Your Intuition discusses psychometry, mediation, interpreting dreams, using visuals to increase memory, and how intuition drives creativity. There is also a chapter teaching the “mind games” Karges uses in his shows. If nothing else, the tricks will impress friends and family.
— Shannon Sutlief
