User:Robert Cassidy

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Born 1949, Kearny, New Jersey.

Professional stage mentalist, magician, speaker and author of several books widely regarded as classics in the field. They include The Art of Mentalism (1983), The Principia Mentalia (1994), and The Artful Mentalism of Bob Cassidy (2004). In 1978, with fellow mentalists Tony Raven, ScottGordon, Mary Lynn, and Dian Buelmeier, co-founded the Psychic Entertainers Association (P.E.A.), which has since become mentalism's primary international professional society.

Editor of Vibrations, newsletter of the P.E.A., from 1978 - 1981, and 1984.

Performance credits include Holland America Cruises, Hollywood's Magic Castle, network television, talk radio, comedy clubs, nightclubs and theaters throughout the United States.

Areas of interest: The history of mentalism and magic as performing arts, parapsychology, philosophy,

game theory and, currently, cellular automata.

BA 1975 Montclair State University, Montclair, N.J.

JD 1978 Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, N.J.