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us. It was Peter Turner, a world-famous mentalist, a form of magic categorized by mind reading and other impossible psychological effects. A gregarious and audacious guy, he is also a skilled hypnotist. It’s rumored that he once went into the Grosvenor, a casino in London, hypnotized the roulette dealer, and made off with £40,000 in five minutes.
Ian Frisch • Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians
She peered at men in the grocery store and wondered if they were undercover cops who knew that she lived with the man who had started the Silk Road.
Nick Bilton • American Kingpin: Catching the Billion-Dollar Baron of the Dark Web
Qu'était un banquier, un ministre, un chef d'entreprise par rapport à un acteur de cinéma ou à une rock star ? Financièrement, sexuellement et à tous points de vue un zéro.
Michel Houellebecq • Les particules élémentaires (French Edition)
Still more fortuitous, this psychologist, whose name was Bill Richards, probably has more experience guiding psychedelic journeys in the 1960s and 1970s than anyone alive, with the possible exception of Stan Grof (with whom he had once worked). In fact, Bill Richards administered the very last legal dose of psilocybin to an American, at the
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
