Mentalist shows his magic tricks of the mind at the TSC
Mind power was demonstrated in the Sunburst Lounge as mentalist Craig Karges took the stage.
Karges awed the crowd as he figured out thoughts and objects from the student audience.
Karges said he uses the power of ESP, or extrasensory perception.
“I do believe brainpower is definitely there,” said Emily Mueller, a sophomore studying speech communication.
Karges, the author of the books “Ignite Your Intuition” and “The Wizard’s Legacy,” managed to guess selected hidden objects including a little bell, the word grape, Holly Hacket’s student ID card and Brazil currency with not only being blindfolded, but also two half-dollars covering his eyes, held in place by five pieces of tape, and then topped with a black blindfold.
“I enjoyed it, but I thought it was a little weird,” Mueller said.
Karges said he does not claim to be a psychic, but that he does believe in the power of the mind. He said that his performance, however, is exaggerated for entertainment purposes.
He was able to knock over a wooden block while standing approximately 15 feet away and elevate a table with only his fingertips on a black cloth placed on the table.
“I don’t know how he does it,” Tara Bradshaw, a business major, said, “It’s creepy and it’s weird, but it’s fun at the same time.”
With more than 40 TV appearances already under his belt, Karges also managed to link together three students’ rings, guess that a drawing was of snow- capped mountains and guess the word “newspaper” out of a book with approximately 90,000 words in it.
He also challenged the students to think of a two- digit number over 50 with both numbers being even, and when he said the number 68, half of the crowd admitted to thinking of that number. Karges said to have half the audience think of the number he said is clearly against mathematical odds.
Karges said he has been doing this type of entertainment for about 25 years. He ended up in Logan because someone from the Student Activities Board saw him preform in Reno.
“You can be skeptical, but when it comes down to it, how did he do it?” Bradshaw said, who had seen him preform before in Boise.
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