Viva Brighton Issue #58 December 2017

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MIND READER ...................... Luke Jermay ‘It’s hard to know where the show will go’ Mine’s an atypical story, with nice closure. I grew up in a home where people believed in spiritualism, tarot cards and divination, not in a crazy weird way, but these things were accepted, so I went along to spiritualist churches and palmists when I was growing up. As a teenager I rebelled, I wanted to debunk the whole thing, and I discovered the work of people like James Randi, and Penn & Teller, who wanted to expose frauds. That ignited a passion in me for traditional conjuring tricks, pulling a rabbit out of a hat, that sort of thing. Then in my early twenties, I looped back to tarot and palmistry, but this time with a rational frame. I began to see divination more as a process of introspection than some pixie magic-dust thing. Intuition is the key here: we’re constantly assessing the world with a speed far quicker than conscious cognitions, and you can often think ‘how on earth can I possibly have known that?!’ To tune into the intuitive side of the brain and free yourself from your own thinking, to let something inside you guide you, is so useful, and it’s very much linked to the idea of empathy: what is the other person’s experience? Multiple times in every show, I’m as shocked as the audience at what emerges. Not long ago there was a very slim woman onstage, and I said ‘You’re pregnant, aren’t you?’ and it was true, and she hadn’t told her boyfriend who was there in the front row! Culturally it was a risk to say it, but it just came up and I did. It’s hard to know where the show will go: obviously I have a plan, but there’s no way of knowing. I want people to drown in the mystery, to be engulfed in it. That’s my higher goal, the creation of mystery, producing feelings of uncertainty. We live in a world of confirmation bias, we can be very closed off to the unknown, and it can drive some people nuts, that feeling of genuinely not knowing how something has happened. The point is, the world isn’t as linear as we might think. Experts have their views, and they have models relating to how they think things happen, and it can make sense up to a point, but no one really has a clue how it works! The intimate close connection with the audience is crucial for me. I wrote the last Dynamo arena show [he’s also been a consultant for Derren Brown], but for me once there are more than about 300 people in the audience it’s too big and we lose connection. We’re in an increasingly disconnected world anyway: couples lie in bed next to each other, each of them on their phones, so what I want to do is connect with the people who’ve come along. And there’s a 70% chance you’ll be involved if you attend one of the shows… As told to Andy Darling Sixth Sense, The Old Market, 3rd <strong>December</strong>, 7.30pm ....49....
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