Marcus wrote:I did pick up quite a few times how he was achieving his "ability". For example when getting the lady to draw pictures in the other room - he was implanting the suggestion in her head. "Now, I want you to draw another picture, don't go overboard and try and keep it simple". He then tells her she drew water with something traveling on it. What she drew was a boat on the sea.
Of course he implanted the suggestion..."Don't go overboard..."
With the guy that fell backwards - again he implanted the suggestion. Using words intermixed with normal conversation; "trust me", "catch you" etc.
Derren seems to be highly aware of body language, vocal tone and word usage in others. He is also highly adapt at controlling these himself...if you watch him closely you can see him using his facial expressions and tone to lead conversations exactly where he wants them to go.
I haven't been able to watch the Derren shows, (will try to later when I get home...) but it all sounds fascinating. It sounds like he's really mastered linguistic programming and the art of body language.
Regarding this:
Marcus wrote:In many situation because the people are so dull and asleep they miss all the obvious and some less subtle programming.
This is very true. I'm no Derren, nor do I strive to be, but, I have good body language / voice recognition / speech pattern analysis. Not sure necessarily where it came from, but it has enabled me to nail many people down regarding many things, to some people's amazement. It's something related to this topic I think, because if I wanted I could try to trick people and make them believe "Oh, I'm reading minds here!" when really I'm using the powers of observation. It stems from having an interest in people and really watching them and really listening to the things they say. It's all a matter of simply being alert, and paying attention, but like you say, so many people are dull and asleep. They're not even interested in themselves, let alone anybody else, so really, how can they "read" anybody?
A good example of this, which was purely based on analyzing bodily cues:
- Was standing in the waitress station at one restaurant I worked at in California, listening to my fellow server mumbling about this one jerk guy at one of her tables. I looked over the small divider wall and scanned all her tables, and all the people sitting in her station. Then I asked her, "Is it table (___whatever table # it was) The guy leaning back with arms across the back of the booth?" Her eyes got big and she said "Yeah...how did you know that??" Then I said, "Does he have a New York sounding accent? You know, something from the Northeast?" Her eyes got REALLY big and she said "YEAH....HOW DID YOU *KNOW* THAT??"
It was easy. His body language gave it all away. People from California are vastly different from Northeasters. Californians are quiet, mellow, laid back, unobtrusive. Their body language reflects this. Northeasters are aggressive, domineering, loud, and their body language conveys this too. When I scanned the people sitting in her station, there was only one guy leaning back, full of bravado and confidence, with arms splayed out on the back of the booth; everybody else's limbs were kept close to their bodies, unobtrusively. So I knew that A) Out of everybody there it had to be him that was rubbing her the wrong way because it was a case of "One of these things is not like the other!..."
and B) he was probably not from Cali, more like the northeast, based on that body language and the fact that he was rubbing her, a native Californian, the wrong way. And I was right!
I could have just messed with her and told her I was psychic. Which I partly am, but I think a good deal of "intuition" comes from subtle body language and vocal clues. Some people are more sensitive to others and pick up on this stuff better because they just have better observational skills in general. It's why I can spot a con artist a mile away, how I sense when people are insincere and fake, or true and genuine. It's not reading their minds per se, it's reading their faces, voices, and body. Even words, when it's via an email. I don't have control over it, it just happens. I just do it, with everybody I encounter. It's very handy.
But if a person grasps the ability to read body / facial / vocal language and understands the workings of subtle linguistic cues, it opens up endless possibilities for what some would consider "black magic" abilities. Black magic, because it involves manipulating unknowing asleep people for your own amusement or benefit. I'm not putting judgment on it, just explaining why it would be considered this. It's an EXTREMELY powerful tool.
On a related note there's a guy who's got these books out about how know if anybody is lying to you. Some here may know what I'm talking about....? His books are at any book store. He's got reading people down to an absolute science, and I imagine it's what expertly trained detectives and such do when they're investigating and interrogating, which is all good. But I think he's got a follow up book, if I remember correctly.............................about how to make anybody do what you want. !! I found the premise of that one pretty disturbing, but I'd have to take a look at it, see what he's actually proposing.
All I can offer as a neutral sort of warning is, Be aware that there are people out there who do study this stuff, with the intention of misusing it. So it's all the more reason to be alert and awake, and to really pay attention to yourself, and others, so you're on top of things in the event that you do cross paths with a manipulator who wants to misuse these abiltiies.
"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!" - Anonymous
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