Messiah was a Derren Brown special shown on Channel 4 on 7 January 2005 at 21:00. Brown traveled to the United States to try to convince five leading figures that he had powers in their particular field of expertise: Christian evangelism, alien abduction, psychic powers, New Age theories and contacting the dead.
Using a false name each time, he succeeded in convincing all "experts" that he had powers, and four openly endorsed him as a true practitioner. The fifth expert, the Christian evangelist Curt Nordheilm, whilst impressed by Brown's performance, asked to meet him again before giving a public endorsement. The concept of the show was to highlight the power of suggestion with regard to beliefs and people's abilities, and failure to question them. Brown made it quite clear with each experiment that if any of the subjects accused him of trickery he would immediately come clean about the whole thing, a rule similar to one of the self-imposed rules of the perpetrators of the Project Alpha hoax. His conclusion was that people tend to hear only things that support their own ideas and ignore contradictory evidence; this is known in psychology as confirmation bias.
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33 comments:
i watched it a couple of years ago, he's awesome, and he's gay lol.
Make it stooooooopppp ='(
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nice post,supportin':)
derren is the coolest ginge
seriously make it stop pls =/
Haha, so the whole thing was a psychological experiment? In my psych class, evidence showed that hypnosis was fiction or atleast impossible in this current day and age. People that were "affected" by hypnosis had to just truly believe they were so they act in favor of the hypnosis. Interesting stuff.
insightful stuff friend. returned!
bookmarking this for later watching!
I've always been afraid of aliens, dont know why. Not like scifi aliens though, like alien "home videos" from windows and all that junk. >_>
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:O wow.
Look at the people he's doing this too, they all seem like they'd be swayed more easily than others. Where's the control subject?
Derren Brown has some amazing skills.
Interesting discovery..
theres this illusionist called derrin brown, hes really good at what he does at least, love the vids too~
Wow, that's a LOT of videos, still watching them, the first half are awesome already.
interesting how the mind can be manipulated
O SUGGESTION YOU MAKE ME LOL
Derren Brown is pretty awesome!
His new shows just don't feel as interesting as the past ones, hopefully the next one will blow everyone away again =)
yer always in herr
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thanx man <3
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I actually believe in hypnotism
Think to much:)) keep going :))
totally going to watch this
I think it only works on the weak minded
actually, according to the books that i've read, the more intelligent a person is, the more susceptible they are to hypnosis.
Derren Brown's always intrigued me.
Very interesting post!
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great post keep em coming ! <3
Absolutely brilliant. I have to watch the rest as soon as possible.
Just finished watching all the videos. If someone could explain how he did any of these and leave me a comment about it on my blog I'd really appreciate that.
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