Faith Healing - Derren Brown

Did anyone watch it?

I found it very informative and insightful..

Yes, I knew it was all a con, but it was interesting to see the actual techniques used to convince the gullible.

I think it is dreadful that people make money out of other people's despair, but then those people also have some responsibility...........

Whilst I believe in God, and I go to church, true miracles are far fewer and have to stand up to scrutiny.

I was amazed to see how many people had been outed yet they still continued to do the ceremonies - if you can call them that and still make money from it..

My husband watched it and was deeply saddened. Very sad to con people like this in the name of God/faith.

I am a christian and believe people can be healed and miracles do happen, but not on demand and certainly not if you give so much money to x person! They are just exploiting people and it is wrong.

It is awful that any kind of healer cons people but Derran Brown doesn't have all the answers.

Healing of any kind is difficult to quantify, sometimes it works because the person is being payed attention and becomes more positive.

Certainly spirit or psychic readings (two different things) can be done with no contact with the sitter so no chance of any clues being given.

There are a lot of con artists in psychic type activities and there are also a lot of wonderful caring and talented people.

Bit like dog training really!

rune