What if you could spot deception instantly and see through people like Sherlock Holmes? After having been raised by professional psychic readers, Joe Riggs left all that behind to become the internationally acclaimed Mentalist, Psychological Performer and Consultant that he is today. In this brief yet extremely powerful book, Joe Riggs will not only teach you the hidden methods employed by psychic readers everywhere; he will also teach you some of the most powerful techniques in the art of Mentalism. Joe Riggs has been repeatedly hailed by the press as "The Man Who Knows Too Much" as well as "The Real Sherlock Holmes." His uncanny ability to gather a literal wealth of information from a person in seconds is legendary. Get ready to see everyone and everything in a way you never thought possible. These skills and techniques will catapult you into the world of literal mind reading and mental acuity.
For the past 10 years, Joe Riggs has been dazzling audiences with his own unique style of cutting edge, mind-altering, psychological entertainment. In fact, he has staked out his own space: The World of Joe Riggs. At only thirty-two years old, Joe is already an internationally acclaimed Mentalist, Hypnotist, Lecturer, and Consultant; currently based in the West Palm Beach area. Whether he’s performing for entertainment, motivational, or educational purposes; Joe’s singularly exclusive brand of Mentalism entails his adept use of: Advanced Hypnosis, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), suggestion, as well as his highly developed mental acuity and eidetic [ahy-det-ik] memory. Having mastered the combination of these and a plethora of other higher-order thinking skills, Joe possesses an absolutely uncanny skillset of deductive, as well as intuitive, powers. To say this riveting performer is unique would be a drastic understatement. Despite his noble humility, he truly appears to be omniscient, perhaps even omnipotent. Then again, that is his job.
For the past 10 years, Joe Riggs has been dazzling audiences with his own unique style of cutting edge, mind-altering, psychological entertainment. In fact, he has staked out his own space: The World of Joe Riggs. At only thirty-three years old, Joe is already an internationally acclaimed Mentalist, Psychological Entertainer, Deductive reasoning specialist and Consultant; currently based in the Indianapolis area. Whether he's performing for entertainment, motivational, or educational purposes; Joe's singularly exclusive brand of Mentalism entails his adept use of: Advanced Hypnosis, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), suggestion, as well as his highly developed mental acuity and eidetic [ahy-det-ik] memory. Having mastered the combination of these and a plethora of other higher-order thinking skills, Joe possesses an absolutely uncanny skillset of deductive, as well as intuitive, powers. To say this riveting performer is unique would be a drastic understatement. Despite his noble humility, he truly appears to be omniscient, perhaps even omnipotent. Then again, that is his job. Let's take a peek down the rabbit hole that is his life, and begin to shed some light on the enigmatic world of Joe Riggs.
The Child Who Knew Too Much Joe began this life-long obsession at a very early age; perhaps even earlier than he realizes. He was born on April Fools Day, a day which has significant implications to those who soon were to watch Joe's skills unfold. Joe Riggs was raised in an exclusive metaphysical community, by a psychic, tarot-card-reading mother, and surrounded by people exhibiting any number of metaphysical 'talents;' Joe mastered each and every one of them. From reading tarot cards, to rune stones, to graphology (handwriting analysis) to psychometry (a type of psychic energy-reading done on one's personal belongings); Joe was known early to be the child prodigy of this community. Having mastered the methods of the psychics of his community at an early age, it wasn't long before this brilliant boy had seen through their superstitious belief systems. Joe was already exhibiting powerful skills of observation and deduction, and soon realized he'd mastered specific methods that said 'psychics' employ, even if the psychics, themselves, never claimed to employ any scientific methodology at all.
Rather, psychics give credit for their predictions and proclamations to a special connection with the spiritual realm, and prey on the weak and the grieving; which is something that never sat well with a young man of such character and mental prowess. Joe was as frighteningly good at displaying the arts - and the sciences - of any of these metaphysical 'gifts' as any of the psychics, but he understood the science and the methods behind what he was doing. Having an eidetic memory didn't hurt his early mastery, either. Though he denies all existence of 'psychic power,' he does believe in the quantum universal connections to which our minds all have access, and in other aspects of the noetic sciences, but audiences of thousands continue to protest, otherwise, and claim he's in denial of his 'real' psychic powers!
"The Real Sherlock Holmes" If you ask Joe, he'll tell you it was his lifelong obsession with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, which gave him the inspiration to become the closest thing to the beloved fictional character, in existence. Joe spent a good part of his life mastering, among his vast array of other skills, the art of advanced deduction, and has the ability to gain a wealth of information about a person with what seems like just a glance. He has, in fact, been repeatedly dubbed, "The Real Sherlock Holmes."
The truth is that the mixed mastery of his innumerable skills combined to create the closest thing to a mind-reader that actually exists. In addition, his brief dive into powerful magic also taught him the art of deception, and its effects on the mind. Joe even spent his career as a close-up Magician secretly studying people and their behavior. Magic came with the opportunity to enter people's voids. While table-hopping, he was still performing, but more importantly; studying and practicing the skills in which he was actually the most interested. After all, studying people, deduction, and having a personal history that includes learning the methods of the psychics, could only serve to make his magic more powerful.
Next, Joe dove deeper into his more academic studies in psychology. He mastered Neuro Linguistic Programming (and is literally a Certified Master, several times, over), as well as the powers of suggestion, multiple forms of Rapid Induction Hypnosis, and the art of persuasion, to name a few. Joe was quickly moving into the field most commonly known as Mentalism, yet the term is almost a misnomer for Joe.
Usually, a Mentalist is a performer who simply displays the illusion of the talents with which Joe has been unusually gifted. He soon realized he had developed his skills to the point that he could actually do what most Mentalists only pretended to be able to do! Recognizing his unlimited mental potential, Joe focused his energy on creating his unique brand of Mentalism; which incorporates powerful aspects of Neuro Linguistic Programming, instant induction hypnosis, deductive reasoning, the 'reading' of physical and linguistic cues, a deep knowledge of human behavior, and the use of advanced suggestion to create a captivating, jaw-dropping, performance art. You can't even find this incredible skill set in a Sherlock Holmes novel!
On a Mission, With a Purpose Prior to moving to Dallas, to debut his unique brand of entertainment, Joe's personal world was put to the ultimate test. During one, short, two-week period, Joe lost all of his possessions in a devastating fire and was involved in a horrific accident in which his car was struck twice by a tractor-trailer truck and he slammed into a guard rail at 70 mph. Miraculously, Joe walked away, without a scratch, from a totally decimated car. His life, focus, determination, and purpose were forever altered, once again.
A Phoenix Rises Instantly, Joe knew his mission was to bring his mesmerizing Mentalism and mind-altering gifts to the masses; to dazzle the sensibilities, to reprogram the way people think, to break down their barriers, and to education others about the extraordinary potential of the mind. He does this, and everything else, with his inspiring, captivating charisma and contagious spirit. He is highly advanced in a very sophisticated, and little-known, style of rapid-induction hypnosis, which he has used to help many people over the years to overcome seemingly insurmountable hardships, and to discover - or rediscover - their own human potential, and their personal talents and abilities. He also consults on a variety of topics, for an array of audiences from the most humble to the most elite. He truly is:
"The Man Who Knows Too Much" Joe's ground-breaking performances have captivated the minds and imaginations of millions! His face has graced the covers of major newspapers, and his displays of this incredible array of 'mystical' talents prompted his selection as the keynote speaker at the 2009 ComParaCon paranormal convention, as well as to become a resident Mind Power Expert at SelfGrowth.com, the largest self-improvement website on the internet. And no; no one will ever forget his unbelievable psychokinetic feat on a Dallas radio show, when he caused metal to bend in people's homes, simultaneously, all across the country.
Then, a world-famous Texas institution called Joe for a private performance. For once, the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders were on the other end of awe! Several videos of Joe using his uncanny, instant-induction hypnotic techniques and NLP have been honored in the Top 100 Most Viewed Videos of the Day on YouTube in multiple countries, including: the United States, Israel, France, Italy, England, Korea, Australia and Japan. Major corporations such as: Caesars, Hitachi, and Omni Hotels have all sought out, and retained, his remarkable talents. Whether he's running seminars, consulting, teaching, training, or performing; there is always something you want this man to do for you, your friends, or your business.
After a recent performance, two wide-eyed spectators and converts were reliving their amazing night. The first said, "Before my very eyes, he levitated two pairs of eyeglasses and reached into people's brains to pull out names and places they had stored there, in private." The other responded, "Yeah, I didn't know whether to shout out with amazement or run for the exit!" Typical? Doubtful! But, this is just scratching the surface of the irresistible, magnetic attraction of a Joe Riggs performance.
Oh, and did we happen to mention that he's an incredibly talented, multi-faceted musician, who can play anything with a string, and beautifully? He is also rather adept at a little something called "spot reading;" which means that he can read and play a piece of music, simultaneously, at first sight, flawlessly. Perhaps we'll delve more into that rare talent in Episode II of "Inside the World of Joe Riggs."
As Joe often says, and in the words of his favorite fictional mentor, Sherlock Holmes: "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
If Sherlock Holmes wrote a book (other than The Whole Art of Detection and The Practical Handbook of Bee Culture), it might be something like Joe Riggs' Psychic Lies & Mental Spies.
In fact, Holmes did write some of it in the sense that quintessential quotes from the Master are spread throughout this little book. Riggs, a mentalist, psychological performer, and consultant, has been called "the real Sherlock Holmes" for his ability to read people. A Sherlockian, he wears the label proudly.
In the first part of the book, Riggs calls upon his upbringing as the child of psychics to expose the tricks of the trade. He discusses the seven subjects that are on people's minds all the time, cold reading (no preparation), hot reading (advance work needed), something called the Forer/Barnum effect, and how psychics cover up when they go wrong. He names names.
Part II is perhaps more practical for most of us. Here, Riggs offers advice on how to develop a supermemory, how to read body language, and how to detect lies. "Much like Sherlock Holmes," he writes, "an adept Mentalist can gather a wealth of information from a person or place within minutes, or even seconds. Sherlock may be fictional, but his tools and powers are not. Let's develop them."
That's hard to do with a 30-page book as your guide. I would have loved a much longer volume exploring these subjects in greater depth. Perhaps a sequel would be good.
Wow. Honestly, it was as enlightening as disheartening to learn what fodder I'd been for the types of charlatans described in the first part of this remarkable book. Yet, my true exhilaration came when I realized that I was learning the secrets to ensure that it would NEVER happen again! I can even unabashedly assure you, that if you so choose; it WILL NOT happen to you either, after reading this book and knowing what I now know.
As for the second part of the book, it's a kaleidoscope of information and techniques regarding how to guard, foster, and enhance one's mind. It's an absolutely thrilling whirlwind of learning about nonverbal cues and detecting deception (reminiscent of Joe Navarro's "What Every Body is Saying"), as well as applying the "Method of Loci"/Memory Palace techniques in a vast number of ways, and studying as much what a person really 'says' with their linguistic cues as their actual words. It is an almost dizzying rollercoaster of information that I look forward to reading, over and over. I've read books ten times this size, without a fraction of the information I gleaned from this one.
Lastly, as an educator and a linguist, I can envision the endless classroom applications afforded by the techniques offered in this brief powerhouse of a book! Enhancing memory is a topic that concerns parents, teachers, and students alike; not to mention, our older citizens who want nothing more than to stay sharp in their golden years. Gaining mental acuity and respect from your peers for your powerful skills of observation and logical deduction? Well, who doesn't want that?
Psychic Lies & Mental Spies will be an excellent resource for years, to come, and I look forward to learning more from Mr. Riggs. This is clearly not a man for whom the title of "Mentalist" even begins to cover his skill set. Bravo. Highly recommended.
The human brain. The most powerful tool in the universe. Humans have used it to create beautiful art, incredibly destructive weapons and technologies that would stun the most advanced minds of a generation ago. In your mind you have created fantastic worlds and solved all the problems on the planet. Your brain--your mind--stores and nurtures your hopes and dreams. And, unfortunately, some have chosen to use their mind to prey on those same hopes and dreams you possess. Whether they be scammers, "psychics" or simply overly aggressive sales people, some people have developed skills that allow them to be seemingly a step ahead all the time, or to claim to have the power to speak with the dead or even control your mind.
You may even know, inside, that their claims are nonsense. But the question remains: How do they do that? In this book, Joe Riggs invites you behind the scenes, to no longer ignore that man behind the curtain and to take back your power from those who would take advantage of your inherent goodness. In two separate sections, Riggs shows us what "they" think. And, importantly, how "they" think. Learn the secrets of T.H.E. S.C.A.M. Discover the secrets behind having a superhuman memory. Learn to interpret, with chilling accuracy, the body language, facial tics and word choices that charlatans observe in us that gives them such seemingly impressive "powers". Know when someone is lying to you, without asking them a single question. Detect sincere emotional responses from those designed simply to elicit a response in you. Discover how neuro-linguistic programming can be used to guide the choices you seemingly make of your own free will. These skills are not just for the Derren Browns of this world.
Yes, skills. Not special gifts or anointings. They haven't been blessed with any gifts, other than a lack of conscience. Joe Riggs has chosen to shine a light where several people probably wish he wouldn't. Knowledge is power, and it is there for you to take it, if you want it. Your mind need not be a source of amusement or profit for scoundrels. Your mind is a sacred place, the repository for all that is good about you. It is worth defending from those who wish to mislead you.
