Atlas - International Mentalist

"Atlas's unique style of mind reading mixes psychology and body language inference with his quick and ready wit to entertain audiences as he does the impossible: reaches into their minds to reveal their thoughts. He might have some of your guests think of old friends who are then - impossibly - perfectly named and described, while others draw secret pictures that he then duplicates perfectly, while yet others focus on memories which are accurately relayed back to them. He'll play games where your friends can choose to lie or tell the truth and act as a human lie detector, breaking down their tells and showing the group how to duplicate his results. He will play games of chance, beating the odds repeatedly and showing your guests how to do likewise. He'll hand someone a shuffled deck of cards and they'll sort them - impossibly and without looking - correctly into piles of red and black cards. When Atlas performs, there are always screams and laughter and the cameras are out all night. In short, Atlas does all the stuff you see on television and walk away thinking that it was a camera trick or that paid actors were involved. His goal is to provide you with a fun and uniquely personal experience that your guests will talk about in the months and years to come.

Atlas comes highly recommended by reputable companies like GlaxoSmithKline, Lloyd's Bank, Mini Cooper, and British Petroleum PLC, has performed in St. James Palace, Sheffield Arena and similar venues, and has consulted for performers across the industry."

Though new to GigSalad, Atlas is a VERY busy entertainer, typically working all over the States and Western Europe - While you should feel free to send him an inquiry, if you're giving less than six weeks notice, it is quite likely that he is already booked for the date you are looking for. Therefore, advanced booking is recommended to avoid disappointment!

The son of a psychologist and a computer programmer, as a child, international mentalist Atlas Brookings voraciously read anything that he could get his hands on. In what he now recognizes was a desire to better relate to his parents, he would read the books in their personal libraries, including countless books on varying topics in the field psychology as well as technical manuals on different programming languages. By the age of eight, he had written numerous computer programs and read and understood books with complicated-sounding titles, like "The Peter Pan Syndrome".

Atlas quickly realized that the input-output system used to relay information to computers was very similar to the five senses that the human brain uses to obtain, weigh, and process data. He began to see the human mind as a computer that could be programmed. Over time, he began to experiment with this idea, and soon married the disciplines of the psychologist and computer programmer. The result was that he became adept at predicting what people would do when subjected to certain stimuli, earning him a reputation as a mind reader.

Technical requirements will depend on the venue and type of event and will be arranged with the Client prior to finalizing the booking.