Mentalist Cody Tan, unlocks the mind’s mysteries

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One of the few stage hypnotists in Malaysia, Cody Tan began his journey as an entertainer from Batu Pahat, Johor.    Written & presented by: Theevya Ragu Shot by: Fauzi Yunus & Muhaimin Marwan Edited by: Aisha Husaini   Read More: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisure/2024/03/02/mentalist-cody-tan-unlocks-the-mysteries-of-the-mind/   Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5 Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download FMT News App: Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46 App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP  #FMTLifestyle #Mentalist #CodyTan #Magician #Hypnosis

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:02 - Hemostatic is not as scary as you think.

00:04 You're not actually sleeping.

00:08 Open your mind.

00:12 Imagination.

00:18 Deeper and deeper.

00:27 Meet Cody Tan, an ordinary man with an extraordinary talent,

00:32 mind magic.

00:34 With more than 15 years of experience as an entertainer,

00:38 Tan is one of the few stage hypnotists in the country.

00:43 It all began in the small town of Batupahat in Johor,

00:47 where Tan, then age 17, found himself fascinated

00:51 by a friend's simple magic trick.

00:55 He went on to work part-time at a small magic shop, which

00:58 was the starting point for him eventually becoming

01:01 a full-time magician at a resort in Selangor.

01:05 It was only many years later, however,

01:07 that he discovered mentalism.

01:10 - It's got to be somewhere around there, 2015, 2016,

01:12 I started to be very interested with a particular category

01:18 of magic tricks, or should I say a field,

01:22 a particular field of magic, which is known as mentalism.

01:26 So that's more mind magic.

01:29 - Broadly speaking, mentalism is a performing art

01:32 in which its practitioners, known as mentalists,

01:35 appear to demonstrate highly developed

01:38 mental or intuitive abilities, and are seemingly

01:41 able to influence the perceptions of others.

01:45 - I got very interested with mind magic

01:47 because it seems like real magic to me.

01:51 - This sparked the birth of his career as a stage hypnotist.

01:55 Now 32 and having performed in various countries

01:58 in front of large crowds, Tan has countless memorable stories.

02:04 - This mom who came for the show,

02:07 apparently she brought her kids.

02:08 Her kids are all like probably 20s or something.

02:11 She went up, and very quickly she was hypnotized.

02:13 And then there's this part where I asked her to imagine

02:16 she's an alien.

02:17 And then she opened her eyes, and she

02:19 started to just jibble and just talking nonsense.

02:22 And she's like entertaining herself.

02:24 The louder she goes, the more weird the way

02:27 she talk and all that.

02:28 There were the other parts where I

02:30 got the whole stage of people to visualize

02:32 that everybody from the audience,

02:34 there were about 100 plus of them, they were all naked.

02:38 So of course they were not naked,

02:40 but they thought they were naked.

02:42 So people opened their eyes, and they got shy,

02:44 and they closed their eyes.

02:46 - For Tan, the appeal of magic is rather straightforward.

02:51 - I love the idea that magic does

02:53 questions people's common belief.

02:55 One of the greatest magicians once said that the reason

02:58 that you feel that magic is amazing

03:00 is because it brings you back to a childhood moment.

03:04 - And despite his experience, Tan

03:06 says he still contemplates the true nature of hypnosis.

03:11 Is it actual mind control, or is it purely psychological?

03:15 Whatever the case, he hopes that his mind magic

03:17 will continue to captivate audiences,

03:20 just as he too was once entranced as a young man

03:23 from a small town in Johor.

03:26 Divya Raghu, FMC Lifestyle.

03:29 (music fades)

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