So the Yes/No Trick Launched recently – there has been great feedback from purchasers and I really think that it is one of the cleanest, most direct and easiest mentalism effects that has ever been seen.
It goes a bit like this – you show two cards, one with the word “yes” and one with the word “no”. You mix them about a bit and place one of them down on the table. You ask the spectator which card they think you put down. By manipulating your spectator, reading their body language and thought patterns you are able to make them ALWAYS guess incorrectly. You can do this as many times as you like. Then you can swap positions – this time the spectator has the cards and you do the guessing. Only this time – you can get it right 100% of the time.
It really doesn’t get any cleaner than that and the principle can be adapted to any 50:50 choice – you can use Love/Hate, Up/Down, True/False and so on.
Just this week video instructions have been added to the ebook so its the perfect time for you to grab a copy. Check out the Yes/No Trick here.
This new Derren Brown “Miracles for Sale” special airs Easter Monday, 9pm Channel 4. In it, Derren Brown will try to teach a member of public how to be a fake faith healer. He’ll reveal the secrets to the art to this person and then present them as the real deal to a Texas church.
The show is set to expose the lack of evidence faith healers have in support of them. The truth is that there isn’t a single shred of evidence to suggest that such faith healing works. In every case there is a rational explanation for the supposed miracle that has occurred. It’s nothing more than a psychological magic trick – only with dangerous consequences. James Randi has already done a lot of work exposing faith healers – check out this little video clip:
It shows the faith healer’s wife transmitting him information about members of the audience – this lets the faith healer pretend he is delivering messages from God. What’s more, the members of the audience actually fill out prayer cards as they come in – this way the messages the faith healer transmits are a perfect match to the audience! Ingenious, but the people in that video are clearly very vulnerable – they shouldn’t be exploited in this way.
It will be interesting to see how well Derren’s volunteer can take on the role of faith healing. Although unethical, it is a tough thing to do convincingly. It’s going to require the full range of magic, mentalism, cold reading, NLP and mind reading tricks to pull off the effect both on the person being healed and the audience.
Derren is also set to expose the money that changes hands within the faith-healing industry. I’ve always thought it to be big business, but it will be interesting to see how much money these charlatans are really bringing in.
We are going to update this blog post on Monday, so come back then and we’ll reveal some of the techniques and methods Derren Brown and the faith healers utilise. In the mean time – leave a comment about the show below!
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