George Parker — born George Struijker Boudier (Rotterdam, 12 October 1960) — is a Dutch illusionist and mentalist who approached his entire life as a creative process. For decades he experimented with perception, intention and the question of how we shape our reality.
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A life as a laboratory
At the age of five George became convinced that almost everything around us had been 'introduced into reality' by people. Years later that idea took on a scientific charge when, at grammar school, he studied the famous double-slit experiment, in which the outcome changes under the influence of observation.
At that moment he decided to approach his life as a creative process and to use it as a laboratory to discover how we create and change our reality.
From psychology to mentalism
Instead of a science degree he chose developmental psychology and education at Utrecht University. There he learned that perception is more than what the senses register: consciousness, attitude and emotional state also determine how we see the world.
He reinvented himself again and again across wildly different careers — from therapist and programmer to coach and consultant — and finally as an illusionist and mentalist. That last role taught him how to influence the conscious and unconscious thinking of others in an ethical way.
The LectureShows and the Three Laws of Perception
George recorded his insights in books and developed his own LectureShow, in which he lets audiences experience ideas about creating and transforming reality through illusion, mentalism, comedy and interaction. With thousands of keynotes in dozens of countries he proved that the principles are universal.
He summarised them in his Three Laws of Perception: focus creates your reality, perspective creates your focus, and you can always change perspective.
Writer and thinker
Alongside his performances George is a prolific author. He wrote, among others, 'The Great Book of Creativity', 'Performing Magic with Impact' and 'Creatief Transformeren', in which he approaches transformation as a creative production process.
This makes George Parker far more than a stage performer: he is a thinker who uses illusion to make people look differently at their own reality.
George Parker shows that illusion and mentalism are powerful tools for awakening both wonder and insight. That same conviction — that magic should make the audience truly experience something — also drives Sudesh Roman.