Derren Brown: The Events ‘How to be a psychic spy’
In the 1960s, in response to a leaked KGB video, the CIA spent millions of dollars researching psychic abilities and, in particular, the possibility of ‘remote viewing’ – having the ability to see and describe an object that is hidden from view.
For this show’s Event, Derren will perform a unique psychic experiment live, with viewers across the nation to see if they can intuit the hidden content of a covered drawing that has been hanging in The Science Museum since August. Remember to have a pen and paper to hand…
@ Rev. Lymm DeLellis
Brace yourself…
Agreed, Rev DeLillis. This kind of stuff serves only as a kind of evolutionary retardant…may provide a great spectacle but ultimately deterring the audience from personal exploration, hooking them up instead to the great media drip-feed. I’m a bona fide athiest but years of experimentation with remote viewing (done under double blind protocol and with clear, qualitative feedback and sober assessment) have taught me that we as human beings are much more than the current scientific paradigm would have us believe.
May I recommend to Mr Brown that he learns how to remote view (check out the original military manual at http://www.crvmanual.com) and then REALLY astonishes his audience by being the first to demonstrate it live (in protocol) to a huge audience. Now THAT would make great television.
Oh I like this! It’s hotting up nicely!
Although I was looking to see if I could make ‘Phillis Dorris’ from ‘Rev. Lymm DeLellis’ somehow – thought I could smell Phillis’s hand in all this. Won’t tell you what it smelled of…
I drew a(n anthropomorphic) mouse. If it turns out to be wrong, I’ll be convinced that you simply changed the picture.
Now – It’s DB Day for Remote Viewers.
Next – Wikipedia publicise more misinformation on RV from Derren Brown. Curse his spinning spoofs!
With best intent
Loraine Connon
http://twitter.com/InSightRV
i drew a football type thng with swirls on in front of a giant net
I drew a wheel a bridge and a star
I really hope its not the concentric circles!!
Has anyone got a copy of todays Guardian G2 Supplement??
Holy Crap Wayne Carr you muppet.
Yes Carr is a remote viewing trainer but a ‘leading world expert’ in the field? Give me a break. His remote viewing session was absolutely abysmal btw. As a hobbyist remote viewer myself (yes, mock away mofos) I concur that what he described could have been just about anything.
Then again, that was a real poor choice of target; too much going on that COULD match, rendering analysis fraught with difficulty.
Had that session been submitted to an analyst under the usual protocols that would have been discarded as a MISS. To conclude that Remote Viewing is a nonsense based on that demo alone is like watching someone dropping a load of balls and then claiming that juggling is an impossibility. The guy was just CACK, that’s all. Yah boo to him. : /
Marv
Really disappointed. It’s the same trick Uri Geller did about ten years ago when he projected the image of Stonehenge into the audiences’ mind. Stonehenge? Ye’ old mystical, magical monument Stonehenge, wounder why that was on people’s minds, was on mind about 1 week before this programme aired.
Also concentric circles? What the same shapes that you were making with your hands throughout the whole show, the same shape her eyes were when you told everyone to focus on them, the same shapes next to the covered artwork (on the left), the same shapes as on the railings, the first ‘simple shape’ that comes into the mind when people say, think of a simple shape.
You’ve got to do better than this, Derren, your beginning to let your seams show, and you are loosing a fan, quickly.
Listen to yourselves, if you were alive a few hundred years ago you would be telling us all the world is flat and that we need to burn Derren brown at the stake as oon as possible.
How any of you can even try to have reasoned debate about this is crazy.
And Marv Juggling is possible. Even contemplating the though that you can look into someone elses mind is not, but hey I am guessing that the majority of you belive David Blaine, Copperfield etc can fly.
That was pretty awesome, I watched it, didnt think nothing would come of my picture, thought it was a load of bollocks really. Before I saw the girls eyes, I drew a target sign, (concentric circles), dont know why, my first choice was a bird by the way. Whent the picture was reveled, I squealed, it freaked me out. Then when he said that he told about the newspapers, I was gutted, but then my bf remined me I had not left the house that day, nor read any newspapers. Wish I could predict the lottery…..
@Jaime
Remote Viewing does not involve ‘looking into someone’s mind’ and so I don’t really get the point you’re trying to make. That whole bit about looking into the stooge’s eyes and trying to read her thoughts had NOTHING to do with remote viewing. Likewise her trying to ‘project’ her image into the minds of the audience had NOTHING to do with remote viewing. That was pure stagemanship on Brown’s part.
Incidentally I find it rather amusing that you mock past skeptics for believing that the world was flat whilst at the same time spouting views that in a few more hundred years’ time will most probably be lumped in the same regressive bucket.
‘Look into someone else’s mind’ – what the hell does that mean anyway? How can you ‘look’ into a mind?
Marv
have to say im quite offended at derren’s conclusion. i hadn’t read any of the papers, not even
on the web, and was only half watching the programme trying to configure my notebook so how
come i got it? I’m as psychic as a gnat.. even drew a pillar at an angle from above?
– You were “offended” by the conclusion? Did he swear all the way through? – Phillis 😉