The (Experi)Mentalist

My Mom and Brian saw the Experimentalist last weekend, and he totally blew them away. Brian described how a known sceptic in the audience was asked to think of a word, and then the Experimentalist guessed what it was ("newspaper"). I asked him "on the first try?!?" and he said "yeah!...well, no, actually he asked questions like 'does the word start with the letter N', etc.". Immediately I thought of psychology and the power of visual cues and other means of subliminal influence. When I went to his website, the thing that caught my eye in his About section was that he had "an advanced degree in Psychology". Now, I have no explanation for the physical supernatural acts that he demonstrated, such as suspending a glass in mid-air and flipping my Mom's key card over in her hand without touching it or even being near it, but as far as the mind-magic, I think he is probably a master of deception of the psychological kind, and I would love to see his show!