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Originally Posted by Brutha  Yeah someone who says that he uses tricks to get his effects is obviously lying, he has to use psychic stuff...
That you aren't able to understand his effects just shows that he is a good magician but it is no "strong evidence" that Derren is lying and is using psychic effects. |
I have had the pleasure of working both, as a magician and later in life as a hypnotist. For me, Derren's Genius is that he took Slydini's approach to misdirection, amplified it, and became who he is today. Mind you, he does use hypnosis as some effects, but in general, he keeps stacking the deck in his favour. So even if it is the simplest of magic tricks (see pulse stopping in "something wicked this way comes) he sells it as if it were mind magic...indeed, he is magician, and a very good one at that. But don't look to him for psychic skills or fancy stuff like that...