Magic & Mind - An New & Interactive Event With A Psychic and A Psychologist

Magic & Mind is an all-new interactive experience from Joe Diamond, “The Midwest Mystic” — hailed as “America’s Greatest Mind Reader” and seen on Penn & Teller: Fool Us — and Dr. Anthony Barnhart, PhD, a Carthage College cognitive scientist who studies attention, perception, belief, and the science of magic.

If you saw Mesmerized at The White Lilac, this new show takes you even deeper down the rabbit hole of the human psyche. This time, a psychic entertainer and a psychologist share the stage to blur the line between mystery, suggestion, intuition, memory, misdirection, and the strange little tricks our own minds play on us.

Joe brings the wonder, mystery, humor, and impossible “how the hell?” moments of a working mind reader. Dr. Barnhart brings the science — the real machinery of attention, perception, and belief — from someone who has spent his career studying how magic exposes the cracks in what we think we know.

Together, they create a night that is smart, funny, weird, intimate, and genuinely hard to explain.

This is not a big flashy magic show from a distance. It is built for a close room, where the audience is part of the experiment and every reaction matters.

A little magic. A little science. A lot of “Wait… how did they do that?”