I'm slowly starting to doubt Derren Brown. I think his ego is starting to get the better of him. But this doesn't surprise me much since having the ability to influence people is quite a powerful thing, so that it should inflate his ego doesn't surprise me.
I recently saw the new, 'how to be a psychic spy'. People didn't see in their minds the picture behind the covered canvass, they were simply 'told' what it was through subliminal suggestion, one of Derren's few tricks.
If you looked to the left of the covered canvass when the camera showed it, you would have seen paintings in the background that had a circular theme. It is this that would have led people to draw pictures with a spiral/s. As for the stone henge bit, well, that I'm not so certain, but I believe that that may have had something to do with the wall formation behind Derren's head.
The other 'remote viewing' task Derren had someone do, the one where the professional courtroom artist had to 'see' details and features of people was also subliminal suggestion. She was allowed to see the people as she walked into the room, which would have exposed her to the fact that they were wearing cream sacs on their head, had their hands behind their back etc. So, when Derren asked her whether the person behind her had her hair tied back, she would have said yes simply because she would have made the connection between peoples hands behind their back and peoples hair tied back. And when Derren asked about whether the person behind the 'remote viewer' had dark or light hair, she would have said the latter simply because the image of the brightly coloured sacs on the peoples heads would have been in her unconscious.
Derren Brown strikes me as a fraud.
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