Derren Brown: Archive
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From: Blue Chip
Date: Sat Dec 28, 2002 9:13am
Subject: Re: Course
>
> > I guess many of you may already know that much of what Derren Brown
> > does is taught on a course by www.mckenna_breen.com specifically
> > their DHE course. Some of what he does is also taught in some
> > spiritualist churches throught Britain, tho not blatantly
>advertised
> > AS such! Fascinating!!
>
>Er...no it isn't!
>
>Derren's view on NLP (and presumably DHE given that it is the same
>thing but in new Bandlerised packaging)are set out in, amongst other
>places, "Pure Effect" when he says of NLP that it is "...a mixture of
>sensible and appealing methods for dealing with low-level pathologies
>such as phobias and fears on the one hand, and sheer daft nonsense
>and massive rhetoric on the other".
>
>Derren has appeared on forums like this before to correct misguided
>posters...where is he now when we need him??
Yes, but it doesn't stop him using presuppositional logic such as "is the
pain the tooth or in the gum?" What are you talking about? At best, it is
all in the mind! In reality there is NO pain.
...and I'd like to see how far a hypnotists act would get without a similar
understanding of it all.
