0 Derren Brown And Nlp Never Trust A Magician

You have to admire a person who can create the kind of publicity that Derren Brown has. Links to his Racetrack scam/Russian scam and BMX Present stunt have swamped inboxes like only the best viral marketing can do. But let's stop for a moment. Can we really trust a magician?WHAT IS MISDIRECTIONMisdirection is a stock tool of the magician. The magician draws your attention to one thing whilst manipulating another out of the view of the audience. FOOLING THE EXPERTSI had to hold in my laughter as I listened to a recording of a teleconference with so called experts in covert hypnosis discussing the "BMX" trick. In his show "Trick of The Mind", Derren appears to create a false memory in the subject which makes the guy think that he always wanted a BMX rather than a leather jacket. Without giving a line by line explanation of everything that happened in the skit (I highly recommend you watch it), ANYONE with any real covert hypnosis/NLP skills would know that what Derren does in the clip is INSUFFICIENT to induce a false memory! A mild trance induction caused by a handshake interrupt and a quick "false memory story" laced with embedded bicycle references won't work. At the end of the show, Derren directs our attention to the embedded commands used. Brilliant misdirection! There are a ton of other ways this trick could have been done (any one them far more probable). Please be wary of anyone using Derrens clips as evidence of the proof that NLP and Covert Hypnosis work.Derren, you are a genius!Oh what the hell....here it is if you have never seen it....