General Session

Gerry McCambridge performs on
FOX's "The Vegas Show".

You won’t want to miss the special presentation during the C&E general session on Monday, June 7, starting at 1:00 pm. Gerry McCambridge, better known as “The Mentalist” will be performing. He’s amazing and word has it that he’s one of the hottest up-and-coming shows in Las Vegas. McCambridge is also the creator and executive producer of the hit prime-time network television show “The Mentalist”.

About Gerry McCambridge
One man opens doors to the hearts, emotions, and spirits of people using entertainment weapons that far surpass the need for a stage crew: his mind and the minds of those he encounters.

Gerry McCambridge, better known as "The Mentalist", has the undeniable ability to get into the heads of any and everybody. So much so that his 20-year cerebral career journey has taken him from celebrity events to a major NBC television series to his own full-blown show in Las Vegas. This man knows what is going on in the head of any person at any given time, facts ranging from their specific idiosyncratic personal habits to the exact name of their very first crush...and he is freakishly accurate.

But Gerry himself is only a freak in how thoroughly and meticulously he refined his gift. Intuition alone wouldn't cut it. He studied the mind to no end along with psychology, hypnosis, and liguistics (just to name a few); watched how people communicate with one another; observed body language, eye movement, and tone of voice; he even worked in a psychiatric hospital and learned facts about how the brain worked. And lucky for Las Vegas, he's sharing the whole psychological sha-bang.

Audience participation makes up the entire experience. People in the audience pick other audience members for his readings (again eliminating space for skepticism) and he proceeds with things such as their full name to if they're married with children, how many children; event to mentioning the exact spot they may be planning to move. The reaction of the person at his mental mercy says it all. "Anything in your head I have access to. Be afraid, be very afraid."

Blindfolded, Gerry also demonstrates that he can tell what a material item is without touching it. Randomly, 3 purse items are picked from the audience and The Mentalist can tell exactly what they are; personal items as bizarre as guitar picks or travel bibles. His method for this is of a basic principle - the whole audience is focused on the item, feeding him the information he needs. Go ahead and try to be a skeptic now.

This is only a small sample of Gerry McCambridge's maddening display of what most want to deem impossible. Faith in his remarkable, highly-tuned abilities lies simply seeing him perform this earth-stopping trade. Could it just be categorized as plain magic? No, his only magic lies in making people believe in the unbelievable.