The Heaviside Symposium is proud to announce that mind reader Jonathan W. Pritchard will be Master of Ceremonies at The Heaviside Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama, January 17-18, 2027. In addition, he will provide the after-dinner entertainment at the conference banquet with a show he has dubbed “Mental Telegraphy: The Science That Almost Was.”
Before radio was proven and telepathy was dismissed, they were the same question. In Oliver Heaviside’s day, respectable physicists (Lodge, Crookes, the Society for Psychical Research) chased “mental telegraphy” as seriously as wireless, convinced that the mind might transmit through the same ether that carried a signal across the Atlantic.
They were wrong, but for one evening, we’ll pretend they were right.
Mentalist Jonathan Pritchard (thirty years and fifteen thousand performances spent reading how people think) revives that lost Victorian science to open the conference.
Part history, part demonstration, part impossible: minds tuned like receivers, thoughts sent across the room, predictions sealed before a word is spoken. A playful, uncanny kickoff to an evening among the ghosts of the signal age.
Jonathan W. Pritchard is a professional mentalist, author, keynote speaker, and consultant who helps companies, founders, and ambitious experts understand the psychology behind trust, attention, influence, and decision-making.
For more than 20 years, Jonathan has toured the world as a mentalist, performing in Vegas, on television, for colleges, conferences, corporations, and private audiences.
After more than 15,000 live shows, he translated the psychology of live audience engagement into practical tools for communication, leadership, sales, positioning, and performance.
His work has been trusted by organizations including BP, State Farm, United Airlines, Discovery, and 1871, Chicago’s top tech incubator.
Today, Jonathan teaches people how to read the room, shape better conversations, and create more valuable outcomes in the moments that matter. He is the author of several books on mentalism, applied psychology, persuasion, and memory, including Think Like a Mind Reader, Learn Like a Mind Reader, and Perfect Recall, which draw on lessons from his career as a professional mentalist and speaker.
Think Like A Mind Reader: Improve your business, strengthen your relationships, and solve your problems is “Think & Grow Rich” for the 21st Century, if it were written by an honest-to-goodness mind reader. The ideas & principles included within these pages are the exact approaches the author has used to create a custom-fit life that has allowed him to travel the world and be paid very well for it.
If you're interested in breaking out of the standard social narrative, this is the book for you. You'll learn a lot about yourself, others, and how we all tick. (There's even a magic trick built into the book that you'll get to perform with your friends!). Think Like A Mind Reader: Improve your business, strengthen your relationships, and solve your problems is available on Amazon.
How many times have you been introduced to someone and their name immediately evaporates? Ever torn up your living room looking for your keys? Forget your sweetie’s birthday? Want to spend less time studying? Been at the grocery store, your phone dies, and now you have no clue what’s on your list? Learning to play a new instrument or other skill?
Want to: Improve your relationships? Your business? Your studying habits? Make people feel important? Get better at public speaking? Reduce your dependence on your smartphone?
If you said yes to any of these, then this book is for you.
If you said no, you’re not human.
Hi there, my name is Jonathan Pritchard and for the past 10 years I’ve traveled the world as a Mentalist and entertainer. These techniques are the exact same skills I’ve used to help my relationships, business, and all others of my life.
I want you to reach your potential, and nothing would make me happier to help you do that.
Buy this book, use the information, and let me know how it goes!
PERFECT RECALL: Increase your confidence, learn faster, be more productive, and be memorable is also on Amazon.
Whether you want to learn a new language, professional skill, or hobby, the techniques inside these pages will help you change your thinking and your life.
We go deep inside your mind to unlock the secrets of how you recognize, retain, and recall information to help you minimize your learning curve.
No matter if you're in high school, college, or a full-blown professional expert you're going to find something useful.
You'll learn how to improve your memory, eliminate procrastination, think more effectively, and more.
These are lessons learned by world traveling mentalist, speaker, coach, and author Jonathan Pritchard. He has entertained the troops stationed overseas, consulted for Criss Angel, works with entrepreneurs to make more money using psychology, and it all started when he learned how to juggle fire at age 13.
These are his secrets, and now they're yours.
Learn Like a Mind Reader: Strategies for learning anything at the speed of thought. Earn more money, defeat procrastination, strengthen your relationships, improve your memory, and more is also available on Amazon.
The Heaviside Symposium will bring together historians, engineers, physicists, mathematicians, and independent scholars over Martin Luther King, Jr. Day weekend (January 17-18, 2027) for two days devoted to exploring Heaviside’s life, work, and enduring influence. Hosted in the “Rocket City,” Huntsville, Alabama at Signals: The Museum of the Information Explosion, participants will meet in an extraordinary venue surrounded by one of the world’s premier collections of historic communications technology, providing an ideal setting for examining the ideas that shaped the modern information age. A Call for Papers is available, and the opportunity to signup and purchase advanced tickets will be available, soon!
Call For Papers: The Heaviside Symposium
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MLK Day Weekend January 17-18, 2027; Hosted by, Signals: The Museum of the Information Explosion in Huntsville, Alabama. Want to present a paper? Email your title and a 150-200 word abstract at the link in this post. The abstract deadline is October 1, 2026. Registration details coming soon.
That’s all for now. Remember always to keep calm, and make physics great again.
More soon,
Hans
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