This is the very reason I created this blog. Who knows how many ideas and concepts I’ve come up with in the past that are forever lost on hard-drives of computers past. Here is a very odd concept that I wrote about 3 years ago and just stumbled across today as I was cleaning up my computer. It was inspired by several different sources but the two main sources are Bob Cassidy (Riding the Web from Artful Mentalism) and Docc Hilford (Mountains of Madness):
What if I were to tell you that your thoughts are not private? Would that shock you? Disturb you? Make you lie awake at night? Nature abhors a vacuum. Every thought you make, every dream you have, every image you imagine, is not ensnared in your mind but is part of a vast unseen network of thoughts that all intertwine with one another. If one was so trained, they could tap into this network. However, without extreme mental abilities, it would take eons for a person to single out just one thought and from whence it came.
Ah, yes, from whence it came. The existence of the thoughts in this network are not limited by the here and now. Once a conscious thought is made, it will forever exist, endlessly riding throughout this vast network for all eternity.
Even more disquieting is the fact that not all of the thoughts come from this world. Alternate worlds (or dimensions if you wish) exist in parallel with our own. While the worlds exist separately from one another, this vast network of thought does not. Imprints of all thoughts from the beginning of time from each one of these worlds exist upon the network. It may surprise one to find out that quite a bit (if not all) of what we perceive as fictional literature is indeed not fictional at all. It is merely the works of a sensitive individual who has been subconsciously influenced by the network. It is perhaps nature’s way of allowing individuals who have been through tremendous circumstances to leave an impression of their lives after they pass; even if it is not in the world that they knew.
This opens up a tremendous new avenue of thought. Imagine your favorite fictional worlds and characters actually existing…
Admittedly, this is an unpolished and unfinished concept, but damn is it cool!
Tags: Mentalism Theory
I received some great input from Dr. Todd at the Mentalist Sanctum. He mentioned Carl Jung and his work on the collective unconscious:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious
This adds more fuel to develop this idea further!
Another idea I came up with for this is using a Ouija board to contact other parallel universes as opposed to spirits. Could you imagine the thrill of using the board as a means to contact somebody’s favorite fictional character?
Fred Zimmerman from the Mentalist Sanctum has started me out thinking more about the dramatic presentation of this as an entire act as opposed to just one or two routines.
Fred and I both agree that this would be a bit heavy to present to an audience too early in an act. You would have to structure the act so that you perform a few routines based on this concept and then as a finale you present this as the methodology used before going into your final routine that utilizes what you have explored so far.
Big thanks to Fred who can be found over at:
http://www.fredzimmerman.com/