Derren Brown
January 31, 2008 by DG
Filed under Featured Videos
I have watched several videos with Derren Brown lately. This guy is incredible. He is a magician, psychological illusionist, mentalist, and skeptic of paranormal phenomena. He uses NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and other techniques to accomplish amazing things. Here is one video. Â If you want to understand some of the principles used to take the gentleman’s wallet, take a look at this video. AKPC_IDS += "23,";SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Derren Brown", url: "http://www.drewgriffin.com/2008/01/31/derren-brown/"... [Read more]
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